Brexit, for once some facts.

[wheeler]

This time next week, it is highly likely that Boris Johnson will be Prime Minister of the UK – even after his prediction that nobody would ever "elect a prat who gets stuck on a zipwire".

One of our readers went on that same zipwire the day after that little photo opportunity. In the course of making small talk while she was being fastened into her harness, our reader made a passing joke to the two operators that she hoped she wouldn’t get stuck like Boris had – which caused the operators to roll their eyes.

They then explained that if Johnson really had got 'accidentally' stuck, then they would have had to shut the ride down immediately as it wouldn't have been safe. Confused, she asked why it had happened if it wasn't an accident, and they told her "because he asked us to do it".

She didn't get a chance to ask if it was Boris or someone from Boris's team who made the request before her descent – but she made it down the line without getting left to dangle. As did everybody else that day.

Every thought I have of that balloon as the UK's prime minister is accompanied in my head by that image of him on the zip wire.
I wouldn't be surprised if every one of the EU's Brexit negotiating team has that image on their phone, just to remind them of what they are dealing with.

 

[oldgroaner]

What an excellent idea. So many people would be willing to pay extra for that (me for one). Get the algorithm right (to balance out resource implications) and this could inject a whole new revenue stream for the NHS.

Of course the 'they're going to wreck our NHS' gang will scream blue murder because they have no ability to recognise the NHS has serious issues and no way to think outside their one-size-fits-all-central-funded-top-down-model - but then we'd expect nothing else from them would we?

As always seeking personal advantage unavailable to the less well off.
Tory through and through, and making excuses that the NHS can't be run properly.
If that is so, why should the the private sector be any better?

Is there some moral imperative that an oganisation only works when there is a profit to be made?
Nonsense!

 

[oldgroaner]

The NHS is broken and money won’t fix it. Done right, this video link GP could have potential.

The video link will simply be an additional tool

 

[oldgroaner]

Every thought I have of that balloon as the UK's prime minister is accompanied in my head by that image of him on the zip wire.
I wouldn't be surprised if every one of the EU's Brexit negotiating team has that image on their phone, just to remind them of what they are dealing with.

They probably have it printed on the toilet paper to annoy the BNp

sorry I really must start referring to them as the BXP not the BNP

 

[oldgroaner]

One small step for sanity. What I cannot understand is why any of the 274 would be prepared to vote themselves out of relevance ..if even for a month. If they are so hell bent on Brexiting ,the door is always open to do so..Even if it means stuffing the agenda or order paper with unimportant or un urgent prattle.

At least Boris has achieved something no other prime minister to be has ever achieved.
A parliamentary defeat before being elected!

 

[gray198]

Every thought I have of that balloon as the UK's prime minister is accompanied in my head by that image of him on the zip wire.
I wouldn't be surprised if every one of the EU's Brexit negotiating team has that image on their phone, just to remind them of what they are dealing with.

could be worse. Could have been caught running through a field of wheat

 

[Fingers]

"Our readers?" freudian slip there fingers?
Or have you simply forgotten to attribute the quote?
Do tell us more, just curious, agree with you by the way

It's lifted from popbitch. Nothing sinister Mr the moon landings were fake.

So is this.

Did you hear about the mathematician who was afraid of negative numbers?
He'd stop at nothing to avoid them.


It's not like we have a million people viewing this thread so we have to declare sources. Sorry to burst your bubble skeptical grandpa but it's only about 12 of us in here contrary to what you believe.

 

[oldgroaner]

Interesting thread on the BXP
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1151861648124194816.html
The thread notes this.
what valid reason would the Brexit Party have to move their website to ASCENSION ISLAND an off shore Tax Haven with opaque law.
Can anyone confirm or deny this info?

 

[oldgroaner]

It's lifted from popbitch. Nothing sinister Mr the moon landings were fake.

So is this.

Did you hear about the mathematician who was afraid of negative numbers?
He'd stop at nothing to avoid them.


It's not like we have a million people viewing this thread so we have to declare sources. Sorry to burst your bubble skeptical grandpa but it's only about 12 of us in here contrary to what you believe.

Fingers you were the one who suggested a million people viewing this thread.
Are those falls on your head from the belfry damaging your memory?
And again I have not mentioned the numbers of people viewing this thread, but you and Zlatan both have.
I have never expressed a belief in the numbers viewing this thread either.

You really are a strange person aren't you?
Anything your imagination passes to the family brain cell gets attributed to someone else and posted on here in the hope of conning people

You're a fake, fingers , but then faking is your trade.

 

[Fingers]

Fingers you were the one who suggested a million people viewing this thread.
Are those falls on your head from the belfry damaging your memory?
And again I have not mentioned the numbers of people viewing this thread, but you and Zlatan both have.
I have never expressed a belief in the numbers viewing this thread either.

You really are a strange person aren't you?
Anything your imagination passes to the family brain cell gets attributed to someone else and posted on here in the hope of conning people

You're a fake, fingers , but then faking is your trade.

Nerve touched?

Don't take on so. It was genuinely funny and endearing that you thought thread views were actual people checking in on your pearls of cutting and pasting and insults.

Wear it with pride. It was funny.

 

[flecc]

it's only about 12 of us in here contrary to what you believe.

There were 17 alone in this little thread back in May 2018 moaning about the Brexit thread, so they must have read it at least once.
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[Fingers]

There were 17 alone in this little thread back in May 2018 moaning about the Brexit thread, so they must have read it at least once.
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Only 999000083 to go then!

Getting closer Gerald!

 

[oldgroaner]

Nerve touched?

Don't take on so. It was genuinely funny and endearing that you thought thread views were actual people checking in on your pearls of cutting and pasting and insults.

Wear it with pride. It was funny.

My statement was this and only this

The thread counter has recorded a million hits.

You created this childish response

"It was genuinely funny and endearing that you thought thread views were actual people checking in on your pearls of cutting and pasting and insults."

From that simple statement? did you manage that all on your own?

And here you are trying to start more nonsense

"It's lifted from popbitch. Nothing sinister Mr the moon landings were fake. "

Lets see now, so now you are saying the moon landings were fake?
No one else on here has ever mentioned that nonsense on here before
Congratulations
I shall use that
fingers is Mr the moon landings were fake

 

[oyster]

At last! Do you think he'll go on a cruise holiday - with a cruise company that has no ships?

Exit Failing Grayling: the £3bn master of disaster bows out
The future ex-transport secretary will not thank his deputy for saying his ‘track record speaks for itself’

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. A low threnody emanated from the Commons benches as MPs gathered for transport questions to say goodbye to one of their finest. This was to be Chris Grayling’s final appearance as a minister – not even his closest friends expect him to continue to fail upwards in a Boris Johnson government – and the mourners were out in force to pay their respects.


If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. There will never be another Failing Grayling. At least one seriously hopes not. He is the failure’s failure. A parliamentary museum piece who has yet to find a job he can’t do badly. No other minister has wasted quite so much money while justice and transport secretary.


At the latest count he has cost the country £3bn in the past five years. That means we could have paid him £1bn to stay at home, doing nothing but watch TV and mowing the lawn, and still have been £2bn better off. Just by diligently turning up to work each day, Grayling has prevented two hospitals from being built.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/18/exit-failing-grayling-the-3bn-master-of-disaster-bows-out

 

[oldgroaner]

Only 999000083 to go then!

Getting closer Gerald!

Ae you saying we will reach the million reader figure you proposed?
don't be silly only an idiot would suggest that
Oh, you did, didn't you
fingers is Mr the moon landings were fake.

 

[oyster]

A little bit more of the insidious privatisation and reduction of care of the health service. Like many for some while I've booked prescriptions and GP appointments online, this service being delivered by a private company, EMIS Health, on behalf of many GPs.

Now they've added the following:

As you will be aware, Patient Access enables you to access certain GP services online, including booking appointments and ordering repeat prescriptions. We have now extended the appointment booking feature of Patient Access into pharmacies. Certain services which patients would typically book with their GP practice, such as treatment for sore throat or hay fever, can also be delivered via pharmacies. Other services, such as hair loss treatment and antimalarial medicines, are not available to most, or to any patients on the NHS. By enabling users to book appointments in pharmacies (as well as their GP practice) within Patient Access, you are able to access a greater choice of appointments. This also helps to alleviate pressure on GP practices. Pharmacies are private businesses of course. .​

If you get some medicine supplied, for example, an antihistamine for hayfever, I assume you will be charged? Whereas through a GP, it would be on prescription. Which for many of us (those not in England, over 60, or exempt for some other reason) might be without charge. Given that some pharmacies are expert at selling branded medicines at high prices, this could impact the poorest negatively. And it might also reduce the income to the NHS from prescription charges!

(You can get some antihistamines in supermarkets at much lower prices. To me, they are just as effective. Not necessarily true of all medicines.)

 

[oyster]

The problems just seem to keep growing:

Revenue chief who received death threats over Brexit steps down
Jon Thompson is set for new role in Whitehall as head of Financial Reporting Council

 

[Fingers]

My statement was this and only this

The thread counter has recorded a million hits.

You created this childish response

"It was genuinely funny and endearing that you thought thread views were actual people checking in on your pearls of cutting and pasting and insults."

From that simple statement? did you manage that all on your own?

And here you are trying to start more nonsense

"It's lifted from popbitch. Nothing sinister Mr the moon landings were fake. "

Lets see now, so now you are saying the moon landings were fake?
No one else on here has ever mentioned that nonsense on here before
Congratulations
I shall use that
fingers is Mr the moon landings were fake

Methinks the man doth protesteth too mucheth.

Priceless.

Never change Gerald. (As if you could)

But seriously. Thank you.

 

[flecc]

Only 999000083 to go then!

Getting closer Gerald!

Three too many 0s for one million, you've shown more than 17 short of one billion, 999,900 short in fact.
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[flecc]

If you get some medicine supplied, for example, an antihistamine for hayfever, I assume you will be charged?

Yes, everything prescribed by an independent GP or pharmacist is charged to the patient.
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