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It's not a sinkhole though is it?

^ given the patch repair I rode over tonight, it definitely was not a sinkhole.

Yeah, we were looking at disease counts in lambeth with someone. They took their carer hat off, put on their CCG hat and asked "which of these people are lambeth residents. They're the ones we pay for"./ of as harsh as that, but words to that.

I didn't say it was.

I said "local news site does local news".

It sensationalises, but show me a journalist that doesn't.

I don't remember seeing this in the Tory manifesto...

it's right there. just after his promise not to cut tax credits for the working poor.

vote tory? you're a cunt lol.

Lots of Grauniad articles on this general topic area.

Ken Loach, still the best contemporary film director:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/23/ken-loach-benefit-sanctions-jeremy-corbyn-food-banks

Also:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/23/austerity-robbing-poor-george-osborne

sadly comments section is distilled telegraph.

Did Ken ever wonder why 'food banks' never existed before the working classes chose to waste their money on mobile phones, tattoos, credit cards, etc. That's where their food money is going.

I didn't say I had a problem with local news sites doing local news (I don't! Local news is important). Actually all I did was post the link but...

I could show you quite a lot of journalists who don't sensationalise but my point was more that it's a big stretch calling it a sinkhole and they did a live blog on a pothole, which I found amusing.

This is a sinkhole!

fuck me. that's a portal to heck.

I just got a similar comment from someone after I noted I gave food to a food bank.

I stayed polite but really I hope his car disintegrates in his driveway and his sport team loses.

I thought it was photoshopped at first but it appeared in Guatemala City in May 2010 and was 30m deep apparently.

Maybe a giant sinkhole could appear in his driveway and swallow his car up.

"Commissioning" is so much bullshit and patient confidentialty/Caldicott seems to obstruct patients who clearly really need help/intervention being flagged as such.

I've seen records suggesting there are individual patients with 100's of A&E attendances in a year who seem to be using it as a hostel/accommodation and never does a CCG actually have enough info to query the £1000's of cost they are paying for or put them in the place they need to be.

Maybe YOUR a giant sinkhole! #etc

:)

I pointed out of still give him but, just throw the tins at his head ;)

fuck me. that's a portal to heck.

hippy opened his parachute only a couple of seconds late.

Specialised commissioning and new services with new techniques and new medicine seems like a big round of who knows who from med school.

More money being announced for NHS today, but less than the 4% per year the NHS needs to stand still, so in reality it's going backwards. By 2020 funding will be <8% of GDP (France, Germany, Holland spend >11%)

Cyclists being killed, invest in safer roads. As it should be.

Teenagers stabbing each other to death, cut funding for youth services.

Eh?

In The Netherlands cover is slowly going down too though, my parents complain about it.

But the standard is still quite high. Waiting lists aren't extreme either from what I hear.

And not even the attempt to hide that cuts are being made in Public Health.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/nhs-five-year-forward-view-web-version/5yfv-exec-sum/

The first argument we make in this Forward View is that the future health of millions of children, the sustainability of the NHS, and the economic prosperity of Britain all now depend on a radical upgrade in prevention and public health. Twelve years ago Derek Wanless’ health review warned that unless the country took prevention seriously we would be faced with a sharply rising burden of avoidable illness. That warning has not been heeded – and the NHS is on the hook for the consequences.

The NHS will therefore now back hard-hitting national action on obesity, smoking, alcohol and other major health risks. We will help develop and support new workplace incentives to promote employee health and cut sickness-related unemployment. And we will advocate for stronger public health-related powers for local government and elected mayors.

But haven't the govt already announced they're making £200 million cuts to local government public health as well?

World War III, here we come!

Oh shiiit....

Just because you've got your ute, your cozie, and your mad max dog....

that's not good.