EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Very well said.

1:12 is that @Ramsaye

It's nonsense that Labour and Conservative are even remotely similar.

Even if they said and went for the exact same things in their manifestos the method they took to get there would yield wildly different realities.

The Tories are instituitionally cruel.

I agree that if you are an ex-Nissan worker in Sunderland in 2022 then you are better off with a Labour government attempting to look after you than a Tory one.

But you're still unemployed due to Nissan pulling out because the government pursued the hardest possible Brexit at all costs - and there Labour and the Tories interchange.

I would imagine that the Sunderland resident in question would prefer to be employed, rather than testing the welfare state of whichever government put them on the dole in the first place.

This sums up why we should never hold a referendum on anything.

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Ha - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47128398

Hah! I'm flying back from Milan on the 29th of March, what could possibly go wrong?

Plane tickets are very cheap around that date, I can't think why.

this is what the nation voted for

#brexitbenefits

Labour can't do anything with Brexit if they want to win a GE anytime soon. The only chance to defeat the brainwashed hordes is to leave the Tories drown in this mess.
Of course the honest thing would be opposing all of this, but the only difference it would make will be that the media would pin the blame on Corbyn, everything would be going forward anyways and Tories will win by a landslide.

The Tories would win a GE now, so the strategy of Labour is not working.

Or, it doesn't matter because the media is so against them. In that case they may as well go all out and say it like David Lammy (blame Westminster, blame us, not the EU)

Be careful. They're far better defended than you might expect.

I would imagine that the Sunderland resident in question would prefer to be employed, rather than testing the welfare state of whichever government put them on the dole in the first place.

That goes without saying. But even if you want to argue both parties are the same on whether these people keep their job or not, they will still definitely be better off under Labour policies once they are unemployed, regarding benefits etc.

Hah! I'm flying back from Milan on the 29th of March, what could possibly go wrong?

I'm taking an extra two days holiday too make sure I'm out of the country on the 29th.

I'm managing the installation of all of the large-format advertising for a Cupertino-based computer manufacturer, throughout the EU and Scandinavia. Launch day is the 29th......
'S gonna be fun.

I'm taking an extra two days holiday too make sure I'm out of the country on the 29th.

I have to be in Dubai on the 30th.

Book a flight from Milan to Dubai?

Our intern has been let loose this week in an attempt to capture the depth of feeling among millennials who fear that their freedom to move to Europe at their parents' expense may soon be lost.

will you be doing limited edition signed prints?

Does he sign off as @MillWelling irl?

We're going live with a full hospital electronic health record system at UCLH on 30th, replacing 30 separate legacy systems with one.

^^ Who am I? Jeff Koons? Tracey Emin? This is important research, not some shoddy art con for social climbers.

£50 per print, £350 for the full set. PayPal gift. Offer ends 31st March.

What could possibly go wrong....

https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1092740115716362241

winces

"An Epic electronic health record system costing £200 million was installed at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in October 2014, the first installation of an Epic system in the UK.[22][23]

After 2.1 million records were transferred to it, it developed serious problems and the system became unstable.[24] Ambulances were diverted to other hospitals for five hours and hospital consultants noted issues with blood transfusion and pathology services.[25] Other problems included delays to emergency care and appointments, and problems with discharge letters, clinical letters and pathology test results.[23] Chief information officer, Afzal Chaudhry, said "well over 90% of implementation proceeded successfully".[22]

In July 2015, the BBC reported that the hospital's finances were being investigated.[26] In September 2015, both the CEO and CFO of the hospital resigned.[27] Problems with the clinical-records system, which were said to have compromised the "ability to report, highlight and take action on data" and to prescribe medication properly, were held to be contributory factors in the organization's sudden failure.[28] In February 2016, digitalhealth.net reported that Clare Marx, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and member of the NHS National Information Board, found that at the time of implementation, "staff, patients and management rapidly and catastrophically lost confidence in the system. That took months and a huge amount of effort to rebuild."[29]

A bit.