davidwhitewood.bsky.social
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Sailors say "it sucks before it blows."
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@shashj.bsky.social dangerous precedent. China Taiwan next🫣
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The N Sea is relatively shallow with a short fetch. Not an expert but not really tsunami territory or wave heights.
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Enough said
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As a benchmark High Street opticians net profit margins are between 30 and 40%
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Companies that supply the NHS make profit - get over it!
30% is in line with what good companies should make.
An alternative measure is are they better/more efficient than could be delivered by an NHS provisioned alternative? If it is then it is great value.
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Not to mention the blinding brightness from screens on unlit roads. SAAB had an ingenious Night Panel feature that turned off any unnecessary distracting light. youtu.be/Xgh2zbifn7E?...
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So you are saying no private contractors in the NHS. No builders, plumbers, electricians, medical gas service engineers, contract cleaners. No outsourced IT/cyber security. No outsourced car parking operation...
Idealism doesn't cut waiting lists.
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Apologise. Or I report and you can go back to the other place.
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"a profit margin of 32%".. Is not profiteering. It is a fair margin for tooling and resourcing up to deliver such services.
Disclosure: I have no interest in private medical services and use the NHS, not private healthcare. I am interested in increased efficiency in the NHS
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Lots of suppliers make profit from supplying products and services to the NHS
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Business balances buy Vs build decisions. Can we afford the time to tool up and hire or buy a ready to go service? Should the patients continue on a waiting list?
Market forces dictate what a fair price is to buy. NHS buyers should know what is a fair price.
Profit is not a dirty word.
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Profit less than 1% of NHS budget.
How much would need to be invested to bring in house?
How long would it take and what do you tell the peeps on the waiting list?
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Take your insults to the other place.
Q. Does the NHS have the capacity and resources to do the work?
Should the patients wait on a list until they do?
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Small sums to get stuff done.
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Maybe he had been touched by God and will adopt Pope Francis values and respect to homeless, refugees and those less forrtunate
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Wish they did it in the UK to stop the endless Chinese junk being fast fashion, cheap tools and gadgets that is not fit for purpose.
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Overdue.
Being built 500 new homes a care home, a retirement living complex in Dartmouth with NO solar panels.
Several solar farms in the area!!!
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Although I am quite taken with the potential of electrochemical hydrogen.
The challenge will be ratcheted by the data center power reqs
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Need both for security when the wind doesn't blow or the sun is obscured by major volcanic event
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Please spare us...
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Thanks for this. Total savings across water, power, mail, pfi, less than £1 /day . Water less than 50p/ day. I am not convinced that the reward offsets the associates risks. Also is this where we should be spending time reorganising. Is it a priority.
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I just read and still don't get the answer I am looking for. The water co's massive dividends are not so massive going forward. UK plc would have to borrow at a similar rate, albeit we would own the heavily mortgaged infrastructure, which we kind of do anyways. You can hardly repossess.
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Of course it's relevant. It's the same for Water. I love the idea of public ownership. Show me the economics.
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What is 3.5bn over 10 yrs ROC (return on capital). What would it cost the taxpayer to borrow and what's the upside
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If Typhoo Put the T back into BriTain who put the...... into S*****thorpe
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A blow to UK exporters with contracts in US$.
A tariff offset if you a selling finished goods from scotch whiskey to cars
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Amazing. Love train travel but hang on to your bags in Paris else thieves will have them away.
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In Bosnia the dealer buys your used tyre. It is then sold as fuel for cement factories/steel production. Why do we transport to India.
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In Bosnia you SELL your old tyres Vs pay for recycling. They are used for fuel in cement and steel plants🔥 or recycled into heavy fuel oil.
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Drill baby drill but you should buy one of Elon's Tesla's 🤣
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Skanking!
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Long haired layabouts 🤣
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Radio6 Music has a Depeche Mode special all day 👍
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T saying to the EU "I call the shots - I am in control."
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Anyone remember Animal House 1978
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Don't forget Iraq
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It's the Native American Indian clearances all over again.
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Come into my parlour said the spider to the fly
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Read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Understand how the American First Nation was constantly cheated and cleared by settlers and business.
It's happening again in another land.
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So what would you do with the rubbish @premnsikka.bsky.social
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They were happy (as was I) with the amount they signed for. They weren't ripped off. The compensation would be a windfall for the customer and a massive pay day for the lawyers.
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Food service in schools, uni, workplace is a great place to introduce new sources of protein and fibre
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With a weak £ "Tourism" is a growth opportunity. Don't need stupid barriers
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Harry we need impact NOW. Is this a big deal in the scale of things.
If you have a better idea then please put your hand up and engage
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So what. Are they making an impact..do they bridge a gap and improve outocomes
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No it's not. The NHS doesn't design build coffee machines, scanners, X ray machines. There is a role for the private and 3rd sectors
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How quickly can nature adapt?
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Chat with a local estate agent:
"Stamp duty on 2nd home more than £500k killing the market"
But they can spaf it on depreciating assets like car happy to pay car tax + 20% Vat or just VAY handbags, watches, jewelry, depreciating assets like a motor yacht (+ mooring and maintenance £30k per year)!
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Nope. They are financially immune.