Brexit, for once some facts.
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Thanks. My current car can take a tow ball one but not a hatch mounted one. :-(
That’s true, but I don’t need anything that a city has to offer. I lead quite a simple life these days, running, walking, cycling, swimming and volunteering fills most of my days. I’ve seen enough action and excitement to fill several lifetimes over.
The biggest disadvantage that I face compared to you will be emergency medical assistance. I guess you would have help within minutes, whereas I’d be cold by the time an ambulance reached me. Maybe when I get older, I will need to attach more weight to this factor and move nearer to a populated area.
We live quite close to a hospital with A&E (and a helipad). If it took ten minutes, that would be because they were driving slowly.
But, the local health board are proposing to close it. The replacement has not yet been decided - not the location nor anything else. Just that this is the plan.
Expected location would be about 17 miles/26 minutes (normal driving) away. But for those in the north and west of the county, and in the south west, the distance would be even further. And there really is only one road from this area so if anything happens on that road, it could be much longer.
Further, the expected location isn't much more than fields right now - certainly not a substantial town. Goodness knows how they will get staff and how those staff will commute.
Moving to be near a hospital might appear to make sense, but I have a horrible feeling that all too many hospitals will be closed or relocated.
Not what you'd imagine, London Ambulance Service claim average response times of 7 minutes for category one emergencies, 18 minutes for category two. But I've witnessed 45 minutes and they never seem to get anywhere near their targets around here.
I recently watched a series about the Greater Manchester Service, where hours of delay were all too often the norm, even for old people collapsed to the floor and unable to move. And they were attending many evening emergency calls the next day!
The main advantages of my city location are in other services and retail. For example if I place an online order with Sainsburys, it's guaranteed to be delivered to my door within the hour. Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons, Asda and Iceland do similar. The density of deliveries means courier service delivery time indications are usually very precise. DPD's daily delivery schedule for example is typically 90 or more drops, but none more the three miles from me. It's a very concentrated route all within two adjacent estates.
And the bus services are cheap and frequent with full London coverage, plus a bus-tram interchange nearby.
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My nearest town has a community hospital which is about 15 years old. They are planning to build 6500 new houses in the town over the next ten years whilst simultaneously closing an entire ward at the hospital.We live quite close to a hospital with A&E (and a helipad). If it took ten minutes, that would be because they were driving slowly.
But, the local health board are proposing to close it. The replacement has not yet been decided - not the location nor anything else. Just that this is the plan.
Expected location would be about 17 miles/26 minutes (normal driving) away. But for those in the north and west of the county, and in the south west, the distance would be even further. And there really is only one road from this area so if anything happens on that road, it could be much longer.
Further, the expected location isn't much more than fields right now - certainly not a substantial town. Goodness knows how they will get staff and how those staff will commute.
Moving to be near a hospital might appear to make sense, but I have a horrible feeling that all too many hospitals will be closed or relocated.
This mornings Ebike ride destination
Still actually in the city if you include the outlying villages, it's about 8 miles away and you can ride across free of charge on your Ebike too.
What is it?My car has blacked out windows too. No need for a bike rack, I just open the back door and slide it in. 55 mpg so far for the first 2000 miles.
Quite right! my converted Brompton usually rides in the boot and can ride on the Towball too!
Before or after anyone eventually gets to see the Russian Report...
Like a Hypothetical Elephant the internet never forgets
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To repeat: as International Trade Secretary Truss is now in charge of negotiating these insufficient, post-Brexit trade deals, that she said would be weaker than our current arrangements.
And it seems that 2016 Liz Truss was not wrong. The UK has so far only negotiated 20 post-Brexit trade deals, representing just 8% of overall UK trade. This is despite the fact we were promised 40 would have been negotiated by now.
As you can see, Truss was a Remainer before the referendum, but has now rapidly changed her political allegiance, for the benefit of her career. She’s a credit to our democracy.
Or someone else's more like
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To repeat: as International Trade Secretary Truss is now in charge of negotiating these insufficient, post-Brexit trade deals, that she said would be weaker than our current arrangements.
And it seems that 2016 Liz Truss was not wrong. The UK has so far only negotiated 20 post-Brexit trade deals, representing just 8% of overall UK trade. This is despite the fact we were promised 40 would have been negotiated by now.
As you can see, Truss was a Remainer before the referendum, but has now rapidly changed her political allegiance, for the benefit of her career. She’s a credit to our democracy.
Or someone else's more like
I can’t remember the exact details but this creature either Co-authored or put her name to a book which describes British workers as the laziest and least productive in the world. Like she’s done a proper days work.Like a Hypothetical Elephant the internet never forgets
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To repeat: as International Trade Secretary Truss is now in charge of negotiating these insufficient, post-Brexit trade deals, that she said would be weaker than our current arrangements.
And it seems that 2016 Liz Truss was not wrong. The UK has so far only negotiated 20 post-Brexit trade deals, representing just 8% of overall UK trade. This is despite the fact we were promised 40 would have been negotiated by now.
As you can see, Truss was a Remainer before the referendum, but has now rapidly changed her political allegiance, for the benefit of her career. She’s a credit to our democracy.
Or someone else's more like
2019 Peugeot Partner. It's brilliant. I got the top of the range one for less than the price of the basic one. Always go in around the last week in July if ever you want to buy a new car. You can virtually name your price.
What kind of conversion is it? I've a brompton I want to convert, but need exercise and want a torque sensor and all available conversions seem movement sensored
It‘s worrying that we have the infrastructure to get a tin of beans to our doorstep within an hour of ordering, but if we need urgent medical attention, it can take many times longer. I don‘t call this progress, something has gone wrong.
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All too often, when something bad happens round here, we see that the injured person has been taken by air ambulance to Swansea or Cardiff. And I am very happy for that to be so. But be a little less badly hurt and you might have to wait ages to get to A&E, and then further in the queue at A&E. (Obviously, it isn't so much of an issue, more annoying and tedious, for the truly lesser injuries.)