Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[Woosh]

Even UAE can't make zero carbon nonsense work!

It's about 10 years before the right time, mainly because the personal cars are still needed and they are not all electric yet.

 

[guerney]

Only today commencing in service we had a new fleet of 20 advanced e-buses that don't even have to return to garage to recharge. LINK

I don't like how wide their A-pillars are. If they happen to be standing in the wrong configuration, I fear an entire tribe of ancient Celts could be hidden in that massive blind spot and be crushed, if too many of their number aren't riding bicycles pointed at the wrong angles.

 

[MikelBikel]

I liked some quotes from the protest.
Clarkson suggested: " how to cut public spending? ..walk into any of these buildings in Westminster, and if you can't understand what job they do, sack them!" Big savings, yes.

Another opined:
"Public sector work 4day week;
Private sector work 5day week;
Self employed work 6day week, and
Farmers work 7day week.
Why do 'socialists' hate workers so much?"

Chris Mason: Civil service is poor, pompous and arrogant, say two former bosses

Two former bosses claim the civil service is dysfunctional, despite the efforts of hard-working staff.

www.bbc.com

The False Appeal Of Socialism

Even in its new, fashionable, incarnation, socialism cannot fulfill people’s economic needs or their yearning for freedom.

www.hoover.org

 

[Woosh]

I liked some quotes from the protest.
Clarkson suggested: " how to cut public spending? ..walk into any of these buildings in Westminster, and if you can't understand what job they do, sack them!" Big savings, yes.

Another opined:
"Public sector work 4day week;
Private sector work 5day week;
Self employed work 6day week, and
Farmers work 7day week.
Why do 'socialists' hate workers so much?"

The role of civil servants is typically to ensure that their political bosses don't break the law and to prepare the facts and figures. I am talking about those who work for central government in Whitehall.
The graduate fast track system is very selective. Only the best will pass the entrance exam. They then work 4 years at more or less at minimum wage to train for a career in the civil service. Only after that, they can start climbing the ladder.
Clarkson went to private schools. What does he know about the work of those he criticises?

 

[Peter.Bridge]

Isn't that the wrong time period? The vaccine didn't really take off until 2021. When in 2021 does your data finish? I think you'll see a different story in 2022.

1-jan-2020 to 31-dec-2021

 

[Ghost1951]

Well the problem is if nobody pays tax you can wave a fond adieu to the nhs for starters. Where your recent little operation instead of being free gratis, would be in the £40,000 mark.

No benefits either, so you for one would be royally fked.

Nobody suggested that we pay no tax.

We should pay all tax that is due under the law - and that includes allowances and exemptions put in place by governments. People who don't do that are criminals.

You however are criticising people who pay according to the law.


As for the NHS - it is a hopeless behemoth.

It is currently under the last government receiving 10.9% of all the money made in the UK and its performance is rapidly getting worse. It only ever had a greater proportion of GDP during the pandemic.

It needs serious reform, not just boat loads of money. Even Wes Streeting is saying so, though I am much less inclined to take him seriously on the matter than notable people like Prof Sir John Bell who has spent a lifetime in medicine.

If you have an accident or a collapse, you will probably get timely assistance in most of the UK (not all), but if you are just ill, or in pain, you will have serious trouble seeing an actual doctor. THIS at a time when we have more doctors than ever. You will be fobbed off with a nurse or a pharmacist, or you will get an appointment in four weeks time. Oh - and don't expect to get anything sorted out when you do get seen.

We are spending £180 Billion a year of the NHS.

Cancer survival rates in the UK are poor by comparison with countries spending a broadly similar amount of GDP on health.

Doctors per 1000 people in the UK over time:

 

[Woosh]

As for the NHS - it is a hopeless behemoth.

it's like a train stuck on a line. You have to get people out of the train and get them to walk the line until they can join a road.
There is no other way to reverse the decline than reducing the queue of people waiting for treatment then you can start on a new path.
That needs a lot of money and good people wanting to work for the NHS. ATM, most consultants and senior nurses do some private work. That puts a lot of pressure on the NHS paying them even more money.
If you were a consultant in the NHS, the fewer hours you work on your NHS contract, the more you get paid NHS overtime and the more patients/customers willing to pay you directly.

 

[AndyBike]

It's gone up less than 1/2 a doctor in 7 years, so clearly we need more doctors.

But what can we expect with not only the last 14 years of underfunding, but every tory government has done the same.
The chart of waiting lists for labour and tory is a zigzag. Under conservative it rises to monumental heights, then labour take over and it falls to acceptable lows. Tories get back in and up the line soars to new record heights of waiting, then labour and back down it goes.

The tories have decimated the public purse and happily given it all to their donors and friends.