Hi Jan - back to your OP, check out this graph on government spending for the NHS ...
The NHS isn't gonna go anywhere. It's just Labour using fear-mongering as a stick to beat the Tories with.
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Johnson and the NHS
by jhine inwe brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .
another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .
what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .
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Johnson and the NHS
by jhine inwe brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .
another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .
what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .
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"The will of the British People" is trotted out as though it is a static thing - ok, the will of the British people isn't a static thing.
But here's the thing - Brexit hasn't been implemented.
Brexit had the highest turnout of any democratic exercise in UK history, and it hasn't been carried out. Even if Johnson gets a majority this election, our 'honourable' MPs will keep fighting it.
The UK voting public are free to change their minds but that doesn't mean a democratic vote can be overturned - it's never happened before.
Remember the 1975 vote on membership of the EEC? No second referendum three years later on that occasion.
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I’m Really Digging The Queen!
by minimus inat 95 , queen elizabeth is one sharp lady.
she lauded those people that helped break up a terrorist attack.
she didn’t take any crap from prince andrew and told him to take a hike.
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The Beatles had a little ditty about Queen Elizabeth at the end of Abbey Road, after the medley ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh1hKt5kQ_4
Apparently, Paul McCartney wrote the song because he used to have a crush on her when he was a young boy.
Yeah, I kinda get where he's coming from - Her Maj was quite attractive when she was a young woman in the late 40s/early 50s.
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Johnson and the NHS
by jhine inwe brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .
another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .
what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .
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What do people think about the left's claims that Boris would sell off the NHS - no, not likely.
Since the NHS came into existence, the Tories have been in power more than Labour, and the NHS is still going. If the Tories wanted to get rid of it, they'd have done so decades ago.
Plus, Trump has said recently that he doesn't want to get involved in our NHS.
It all amounts to typical Labour scaremongering - 'get the tories out and save our NHS!', etc.
(Tony Blair on the eve of the 1997 general election: 'we have 24 hours to save the NHS!') - Er, yeah, nice one Tone.
Don't get me wrong, the Tories sometimes don't care about the NHS or underfund it, etc. but they don't want to get rid of it.
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Make Shunning A Hate Crime
by Lost in the fog inthe humanist organisation in the uk wants to protect non-religious people who leave their church/religion from being punished for doing so.
they want the religious hate crime legislation in the uk to be extended to people who are not religious.
i hope they will succeed.
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Yeah, I like Dubstepped's point.
Shunning shouldn't be a crime at all but it should lose Watchtower its charity status.
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I’m Really Digging The Queen!
by minimus inat 95 , queen elizabeth is one sharp lady.
she lauded those people that helped break up a terrorist attack.
she didn’t take any crap from prince andrew and told him to take a hike.
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As for the Privileged English who want to get rid of the monarchy; it's not just your decision, but the collective decision of the Royal Realms of the Commonwealth - no.
Commonwealth countries can individually decide to leave the Commonwealth and cut their ties with the British Royal family so that Queen Elizabeth would no longer be their Queen; what they can't do is abolish the British Royal family.
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I’m Really Digging The Queen!
by minimus inat 95 , queen elizabeth is one sharp lady.
she lauded those people that helped break up a terrorist attack.
she didn’t take any crap from prince andrew and told him to take a hike.
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I've never felt strongly one way or the other - I'm not an ardent royalist but I'm not an ardent republican either.
I'm kinda happy to just go along with it and accept that we have a royal family.
As Cofty points out, Queen Elizabeth does take her royal duties very seriously.
I quite like her, TBH.
I also like Harry and William. I'm not so keen on Charles (next in line). I wish William would become King on Queen Elizabeth's eventual death - it would be could if we could skip Charles altogether. XD
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Do You Think “Higher Education “Is All That??
by minimus inas jehovah’s witnesses, we were regularly told how awful a college education is.
i’m no longer associated with the religion but i am not so pro university.
it’s not because i think you are better off without a degree.
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This left-wing stuff Minimus is concerned about hasn't infested all uni subjects.
The traditional sciences are still relatively unscathed. I studied Biology and it wasn't a cess-pit of Communism, it didn't turn me into a socialist.
It's a big issue in the Arts, I believe.
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What REALLY defines a person as being anti-Semitic?
by The Fall Guy indoes criticism or opposition to the israeli government's zionist agenda legitimately constitute someone being branded as an anti-semite?.
is it this definition which is actually being targetted at certain members of the labour party?
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Do we know if Corbin has actually denied the Holocaust ? - No, he hasn't done that. Corbyn accepts that the Holocaust happened and that it was a bad thing.
But there are still the issues of his manifest double standards and his claim to be for peace.
I've already covered his double standards to a reasonable degree, so now it's worth talking about his claims that he is and always has been 'for peace'.
So, in the name of peace, Corbyn had a close association with Deir Yassin ... who, being Holocaust deniers, are anti-Semitic. Recall, too, that he attended a ceremony in Tunisia which celebrated and commemorated the lives of a couple of dead Palestinian terrorists. He also is on video calling Hamas and Hezbollah his 'friends' (but he's never called the Israeli government 'friends'). In fairness to Corbyn, he apparently now does regret using the term 'friends' when referring to Hamas and Hezbollah.
And now for a quick aside, but one that's relevant to the point I'm trying to make ...
Corbyn claims that his whole stance on Northern Ireland was 'for peace', too. My memory isn't 100% on this, but at the height of The Troubles, he apparently invited leaders either from Sinn Fein or the IRA to Parliament. Corbyn likes to revise history and claim he was neutral and for peace, but his view at the time was for a united Ireland. That's the same view as the IRA, incidentally. So that's his claim for neutrality out the window.
In that full interview I posted above, Andrew Neil put to him this hypothetical scenario:
Our Special Forces have got the next ISIS leader cornered and are awaiting instructions. Would you give the order to take him out?
And Corbyn couldn't say 'yes'.
Have you noticed a pattern emerging?
Well, I have - the pattern is that Corbyn sides with the UK's enemies. In short, he is either outright anti-UK or his idea for Britain is so radical, so batsh*t crazy that it goes completely against the vast majority of the UK electorate's wishes.
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What REALLY defines a person as being anti-Semitic?
by The Fall Guy indoes criticism or opposition to the israeli government's zionist agenda legitimately constitute someone being branded as an anti-semite?.
is it this definition which is actually being targetted at certain members of the labour party?
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Here's the full interview ...