HumanPenguin

Unfortunately. They need red ties now.

PIP was created by the Tories in 2010 entirely as an austrrity attempt to decimate DLA by removing working age claimants. And making it harder to claim.

It also resulted in 10 years of Tories losing court cases were a huge % of us claiming we're forced to take DWP to court over refusals. And won.

The Tories literally gave the task to private companies and financially advantaged them to reject claimants. Resulting in out right lies on huge numbers of investigation being submitted to DWP. While leading directly to 100s of disabled people commuting suicide. And the DWP hiding the reports proving this for a decade.

Labour is just trying a new method of what the Tories failed.

Heck they are even openly comparing to the highest tory rejection years Vs years were we won court cases years later. As the main dates for their claims the numbers have gone up.

Did you some how fail to read any news over the last 15 years?

The UK Tends to warn not ban travel.

We have levels of warning that equate to. You are all on your own if shit happens.

Down to the be very careful to follow rules level the US is currently under.

But proscription of travel only happens in a open we are at war setting. And rarely even then,

The US on the other hand will do it for political disagreements. Like Cuba.

I asked what they did to cause it. Not why it happened.

IE How did having the Tories in charge. Directly help building companies not build. That was not possible with labour in charge before 2010

As much as I hate to give any Tory the benefit of doubt on anything.

His main argument.

"Nobody has yet provided me with an alternative that was available at the time that would have saved more lives,"

Dose sound like a reasonable question to ask.

This was before the availability of fast testing. And before any nightingale hospitals had been build.

Hospitals were overloaded staff wise. Even with all non urgent care stopped.

Their was a well documented lack of PPE. So hardly possible for the gov to do more to help care homes keep residents more separated.

At the time. Their really dose seems like very little else he could have done.

BUT:

The NHS did have plans and resources for pandemics. plans the Tory party removed support for during austerity.

Not to mention the risk of a pandemic has been a well known one since the mid 1990s. Yet still the Tories considered shutting down the minimal support the NHS had. As a tax saving measure. (Because allowing the Tories to keep low corp and capital gains taxes was the real reason).

Yes the report and HandsonCock never considered this as a cause.

Given this is total house building. So basically how willing or able private construction companies are to build.

I'd be interested to know exactly what the Tories did to discourage private building.

Personally I'd rather blame the development companies who have been openly accused of limiting building numbers. To increase profits value of properties they do build.

and routinely fucked over Brit

Stop bragging. You will get blamed for your government funded sex life.

Honestly. I think the current gov is significantly to the right of Cameron on immigration, disability rights and equality in general.

Wow a potentially positive move for a change. Depending how it's funded. And how the huge staff shortages (enhanced by new NHS immigration rule). Limit it.

But for 40 year the NHS has had centralisation into big city hospitals. Increasing the cost difficulty and CO2 footprint of mobility limited travelers to get help.

Moving more specialist care into local community centers. Would be a huge positive.

people in the higher tax brackets

Translation: wage slaves.

Anyone in a income tax bracket is not the people the left is talking about. That is the effect of billionaires owned media distorting the conversation. And as a slave to that media High wage earners fall for it and distort the conversation every time.

Over the last 40 years. Post 79. The wealthy have taken a much larger % of GDP growth while paying much less often 0 tax.

They do this in many ways. But most often by running all their income through multiple corporations. Then taking money out as personal debt. Look at how musk funded his corporate purchases. They use the asset value of big corps. Tho gain such low interest. It is way lower then any tax bracket.

The media then argues fixing this prevents mum and pop businesses competing. While those very businesses are disappearing into debt scams like this. Purchasing the competition. Then pulling huge dept income from it before selling off all assets.

This is just insane. Since the Windrush. The NHS has had a high dependency on immigration. Mainly due to our own lower pay of staff. Many qualified British medical staff can get higher paying work elsewhere. Both foreign and non NHS UK jobs. This is why multiple governments from both parties haver always offered NHS training and employment as a way to encourage immigration from lower paying nations.

If the gov does not have the funding (wish to raise taxes). To pay NHS staff and UK care staff a wage that competes with higher paying jobs in the UK or aboard. This will directly lead to a collapse of the NHS. With ) benifit to the UK.

Except Maybe gaining privatisation of the NHS. Exactly like the Tories have been trying for decades.

Agreed. But not really practical for this task now.

Last mile has always been an issue. But hugely more so for any Public figure. Loved or hated. When you consider the density of traffic etc.