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How will you vote in the 2024 UK General Election?

  • Conservative Party

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Green Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Labour Party

    Votes: 14 48.3%
  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Other (Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland)

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Other Independents

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other Parties

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Spoiled Ballot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Will Not/Cannot Vote

    Votes: 8 27.6%

  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
Bots are everywhere - there is a sudden burst of Twitter accounts lamenting the shame of the UK giving up its control over the Chagos Islands. Some accounts like "Friends of British Overseas Territories" are genuine accounts but spread the myth that Chagossians don't want this and feel betrayed when actually they have campaigned for decades for the UK to give them their land back. However there are also so many accounts that only joined last month that are suddenly obsessed with the Chagos Islands. The Dead Internet hypothesis is alive and well.
 
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Now that Cleverly's been exposed as the author of the Chagos deal he blamed Labour for following up on he's done the honourable thing and blamed it all on Liz Truss.

and the Lettuce passes the buck onto the blonde buffoon

 

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In better news, sounds like HS2 might go all the way to Euston after all. At least they wouldn't have knocked down the Bree Louise for nothing.
 
May as well just give the job to Nigel if they're going that Farage-lite. Jenrick is a corrupt phony (which applies to most MPs I know, but he is near the head of the pack) and Badenoch is so incredibly unlikeable most of her fellow Tory MPs hate her. They'll be partying in Downing Street again tonight.
 
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Tough to find any positives even just in the continuing existence of the Conservative party, nevermind their leadership race, but I'm glad Cleverly is out. Of the three flavours of **** there was to choose from, he's the one who's wound me up the most in the past, just flat out, disingenuous gas lighting. I can't help but feel there might be an actual human somewhere inside Badenoch, despite being a Tory... and Jenrick is just scum, but at least he's not trying to hide it. Mel Stride was the only one that seemed to genuinely acknowledge at least some of the actual problems with the Conservatives at the moment.
 
I'm looking forward to this tonight. It will be on I Player if you miss it/don't get BBC 4.
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2 people I know have had them nicked in London in the space of a few months.
To be fair, I hate people who walk around with their head in the phone. They pay no attention to surroundings and what’s going on, the amount I see walk out into roads with traffic is crazy.

So the lads on bikes knocking phones out of their hands is an opportunity made too easy.
 
You'd think that after a few years of funding the NHS to the tune of £350 million a week, NHS England could afford a few spare wheelchairs.


If it's anything like here in Adelaide they run out of wheelchairs because people keep steeling them. When they take their sick family member back to their vehicle they just put the chair in the back of the car and simply drive off. It happens with pillows and blankets too.

I've even had nurses and patients ask to borrow my personal wheelchair... Yeah right, borrow my custom made 28k AUD wheelchair and leave me helpless? That ain't happening!
 
You'd think that after a few years of funding the NHS to the tune of £350 million a week, NHS England could afford a few spare wheelchairs.


They've got better ways to spend money. Like on ANPs who misdiagnose severe appendicitis and give....heartburn pills:


The advice I give my friends and family? Ask for a doctor.
 
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You'd think that after a few years of funding the NHS to the tune of £350 million a week, NHS England could afford a few spare wheelchairs.
I work at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and I'm sure we would never allow this but as Trusts have to make up the financial deficits Boris and his mates have left us with maybe King's College have no choice. Especially if their stock is being stolen or not returned.
 
I work at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and I'm sure we would never allow this but as Trusts have to make up the financial deficits Boris and his mates have left us with maybe King's College have no choice. Especially if their stock is being stolen or not returned.
Is a thing like this common:

I did a clinical fellow job after F2. When I applied it was advertised at 80%. Once I got the job they came to me and asked me if I'd be prepared to actually take it at 60% and work the other 20% as locum shifts...paid at locum rates...Because the substantive staff budget was overspent for the department but the locum budget was underspent.I literally outright said to them "So...you are going to pay me more money to do the same job for the same number of hours?""Yes".
Needs more money - but Streeting and Starmer are right, it drastically needs reform.
 
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:eek: Wow, that's a shock piece of news. I was never a supporter of the SNP, but Alex Salmond was an influential politician, and I had a grudging admiration for his passion for Scottish independence and his debating skills.
 
It's okay, everyone - there isn't a far-right presence in the UK. Not according to this big brain, anyway:

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Foreign posts may have convinced our rioters to chuck bricks and try to burn down a Travelodge with people inside, but they still did it.
 
I mean, neither of them are offering anything new to the contemporary conservative party are they? - so why try to pretend they are anything different?
 
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