centrist-millenial.bsky.social
Tired of a lack of compromise
Healthcare background but interest in everything political
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I’m no expert on this but which bit is disinformation?
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I think this could be ok. It really depends what they do with the algorithm. That is what has really killed twitter. The promotion of pages that are clearly spouting nonsense over reasonable discourse.
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Thank you for calling this out. What a lot of rubbish
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Surprised this is on a BBC show! Good effort by Robinson.
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Both can be true. Until there is a plan to reform the lords you have to make use of the current system - which is by political appointee.
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Have a happy Christmas and new year!
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I hope you can succeed with this. Broadly I believe your ethos is correct. The one bit that is missing so far is looking at reform of the health economics of the NHS. Recently even Paul Johnson of the IFS said he couldn’t understand it. This makes it rife for inefficiency and corruption.
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‘What do you want!?’
‘Sovereignty, democracy and freedom of speech!’
‘We’ve had a peaceful transfer of power voted for by the people of this country this year’
‘We don’t want that, try again!’
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If it’s already council debt aren’t taxpayers already footing it via council tax?
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No jingles and now this!
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I agree with the RCEM that it just is not safe in A&E, there are too many unknowns. However for young and independent inpatients/day cases it can be safe or even beneficial.
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Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social I’m unfortunately always about a day behind! Just catching up on corridor care. I have been on both sides of this as a doctor and family member of a patient. It is very contextual and depends on what your definition of “safe” is.
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Seeing double…
“All these hands all over the place! You were like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra."
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Maybe it is labours plan to re-allocate workforce to care/construction and reduce the need for immigration? 🫠
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“Reform party welcome foreign interference in UK political system and elections”
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“UK government pursues better trading relationship with its biggest and nearest trading partner that will will remove regulatory boundaries for business” - is that what you meant?
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For regular migration, at present we have a need for skills in a number of sectors. We are trying to reduce this need with our policies on skills/careers/productivity/getting people back to work.
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For example - yes regular migration is too high, as is illegal migration. We are working with our partners across the channel etc to reduce the boats crossing. As well as working on reducing the backlog to reduce hotel costs.
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@lewisgoodall.com Brutal put down of your interview with Eagle. It is a shame as there are some signs of good things labour are doing but there was just no confidence coming through in this. They could even make it all tie together but they seem unwilling to do so.
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What do you mean?
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He is still an MP and whilst I agree he is far less relevant than he used to be it’s still an interesting and consequential part of labour/uk political history
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In what way?
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Thought this was a great piece. Hopefully this kind of work can move us back towards more constructive discussion and disagreement
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Not totally unreasonable. He has pulled off a historic political comeback
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On a personal level this would be a bit like asking your dentist to do your plumbing. Or your electrician to give you medical advice. This is clearly a ridiculous position to hold but for some reason it does not seem to register in a lot of news outlets
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We have these bodies and many others to make decisions about complex issues on our behalf. However some seem much happier to listen to a politician or commentators view, despite them having no expertise in an area.
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As for NIMBYs. These are the same people who complain the local shop or pub is closing. I agree infrastructure needs to come with it. But we should be saying - yes in my backyard to improve the areas we live.
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How much control do labour have over what is built? As you say - this is a supply side reform. The government are not building the houses. They are greasing the wheels to allow others to do so.
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The rapid turnover of content and click bait has massively sped up this process but it is not the cause.
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I do not think it is that. It is a combination of a large number of people understanding his motivation (healthcare in the US is broken) and having no hope that it will improve through traditional means. It is a progression of the same forces that have created trump/brexit.
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I think I’m more surprised at how many greens support communism than how many reformers support feminism
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Would he count that as ‘foreign interference’ in UK elections?
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Agreed. Totally unnecessary commitment that provides almost no political gain and will cause significant problems in future.
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Not exactly thorough journalism. Can’t even see where their ‘research’ comes from. Why have they chosen 11 days? What has happened on previous budgets? Doesn’t explain any causal link between the two.
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Overall a balanced piece from channel 4. Reeves’ speech was decent but they are continuing to box themselves in for future budgets.
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Great challenging interview with Liz Kendall. I don’t know if you ran out of time but there was no response to some of Kevin Hollinrake’s statements and claims towards the end of his interview
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3) the religious argument. This doesn’t hold any water in the same way it didn’t for abortion or gay marriage. The legislation does not bind religious people to take up the option, but it gives non religious people the opportunity to do so
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Further - what are they being coerced for? Money? Guilt? These people by definition are already facing a difficult death in the next 6 months. Anyone who seeks to benefit from death already will.
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2) people can be coerced - yes this is true but doctors, especially geriatricians/palliative care doctors are professionals who as part of their adult safeguarding practice are trained to look for this.