Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[Woosh]

Unemployment rate (aged 16 and over, seasonally adjusted): % - Office for National Statistics

near 5 million on benefits and not even 1 million jobs to apply for dwp is not fit for purpose so there plan a, is as always sanction you to death via push of a button on the uc journal

and if you want to complain about it they will only except written reply's it is a total stich up job i seen coming 15 years ago

There are about 37 million jobs in the UK. Out of the 5 million claimants, 2.5 millions are sick or severely disabled,. Only 1.4 million are jobseekers like yourself. The rest are in work but don't earn enough.

 

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Figure 1: The estimated number of vacancies fell on the quarter to 934,000


and what about all the immigrants invading for the last 15 years there was never enough jobs for just even the jsa claimants.

i know for a fact most of those ppl that are on uc atm are not even from the uk and they dont ask them to look for work either.

because they cant talk English

6 million on uc since jan and everyone on esa will be on uc buy end of 25 so that will skyrocket.

Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 11 January 2024

www.gov.uk

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total employment ons

Employment in the UK - Office for National Statistics

Estimates of employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for the UK.

www.ons.gov.uk

computer says its all full of $hit it does not compute, because its not supposed to.

 

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those were icbm rods from god no warhead tho

 

[MikelBikel]

 

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anyone that works at a bank they should put on there cv there a bank robber, low level one

 

[Ghost1951]

Agreed, and of course I know all this. I was cynically commenting on the work to rule.

Here in London it's the worst of all, not just for GPs but for all medical staff from student nurses to consultants. With our very high cost of living and the severity of housing problems none of them want to work here, especially not the English.

The last English doctor I had here was an elderly alcoholic in the 1960s. A Spanish doctor took over the practice, nice chap with a great sense of humour, but a complete disaster as a doctor. How he survived through to 2018 and retirement to the golf course without getting struck off I'll never understand.

Then it became a group practice with half a dozen Indian doctors, probably Tamils from South India, judging from some of their patronymic names. I saw two of them in 2019 and one this October.
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I think one of the very bad aspects of nhs organisation is the imbalance of funding given to Primary Care - GPs in the main, but also district nurses etc where the vast majority of doctor / patient interactions take place, and hospital and specialist services. 90% of all patient practitioner contacts take place in Primary Care, while Primary Care only recieves only 8.4% of NHS funding. This has led to a grossly over stretched family doctor service, quite unable to cope with patient expectations because of poor recruitment. The number ofbpatients per GP is higher than at any time in the last eight years.

It is not government which sets the dispersal of nhs money within the service, it is the nhs bureurcracy itself.

 

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and thats why all the brand new faulty cladding they put on glos hospital has to come down just after all the scaffolding went, funny that.

it is ran like a absolute $hit hole no one gives a crap you cant feed ur self u will starve to death because none of the staff will help you.

they even put there tablets in there paper cup and if u dont download it in 20 mins its taken away.

well it is a trust after all

 

[MikelBikel]

"When all else fails, they take you to war"
Gerald Celente

Which Political Party Started The Most Wars? (12 Startling Finds) - The Hive Law

Which political party started the most wars? In this article, you’ll learn about which party started the most wars, the wars that they...

www.thehivelaw.com

Mmm, Maybe it is a Uniparty everywhere now. So forget the "politics", watch what they do, not what they say. And "Follow the Money"?

 

[Woosh]

Figure 1: The estimated number of vacancies fell on the quarter to 934,000


and what about all the immigrants invading for the last 15 years there was never enough jobs for just even the jsa claimants.

i know for a fact most of those ppl that are on uc atm are not even from the uk and they dont ask them to look for work either.

because they cant talk English

I think the key driver for both legal and illegal migrants is job availability. If Starmer can find a good way to reduce the pool of 1.4 million jsa claimants then we'll get result. Further down the road, Starmer can still reduce the pool of 2.5 million people who are too ill to work at the moment.

I think one of the very bad aspects of nhs organisation is the imbalance of funding given to Primary Care - GPs in the main, but also district nurses etc where the vast majority of doctor / patient interactions take place, and hospital and specialist services. 90% of all patient practitioner contacts take place in Primary Care, while Primary Care only recieves only 8.4% of NHS funding. This has led to a grossly over stretched family doctor service, quite unable to cope with patient expectations because of poor recruitment. The number ofbpatients per GP is higher than at any time in the last eight years.

It is not government which sets the dispersal of nhs money within the service, it is the nhs bureurcracy itself.

Failure at GPs level leads to more people need hospital treatment, delays in treatment aggravate the diseases, leading to more costs, put more people on pip and out of work, leads to higher immigration and worsening education etc and the spiral continues. We keep telling ourselves that we are the 6th richest country on earth, we must be more generous and have more advanced treatments. Meanwhile, people voted for low tax and Boris johnson.

 

[lenny]

Britain has closed its eyes to long Covid – which means it will ravage even more lives and livelihoods

Unlike the US, Canada and Australia, the UK is only giving free boosters to some. But the cost of restricting them could be huge

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/30/britain-long-covid-lives-us-boosters

 

[Ghost1951]

Ukraine war: After days of escalation, what will Russia's Putin do next?

BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg assesses the Russian leader's next move.

www.bbc.co.uk

What could Putin do next?

My guess is to covertly attack under-sea infrastructure.

We have a lot of vital pipework and data cabling, and power cables under sea.

Russia has highly developed submarine capability.

I have been saying since 2014 that this is very vulnerable infrastructure at an unstable time.

It is not only the UK which relies on under-sea infrastructure.

Of course - we have had a series of cable and pipeline incidents around the Baltic.

 

[Woosh]

What could Putin do next?

My guess is to covertly attack under-sea infrastructure.

it's time that dinosaur should take retirement.
Nobody wins traditional wars anymore.
Killing people is ineffictive, destroying infrastructures creates more migrations.
Inflation is going to hit ordinary Russians hard. They will eventually ask the question: is it worth it?

Calendar	GMT	Reference	Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2024-07-26	10:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision		18%	16%	18%	18.0%
2024-09-13	10:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision		19%	18%	18%	18%
2024-10-25	10:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision		21%	19%	20%	20.0%
2024-12-20	10:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision			21%	22%

 

[Ghost1951]

Well - yes - SHOULD would be good for all concerned. But he's not normal is he?

He has fiddled with the original post soviet constitution of the Russian Federation and SHOULD have been out of power since 2008. The law only allowed a President to be in power for two terms of four years. Yet here we are in 2024, a full sixteen years later. He has been in power for three times as long as the law allowed.

He has pretty much absolute power. No one is near him except those with slavish loyalty. He has amassed a vast fortune, though he is only paid a sub £100,000 salary. He has a sense of a greater Russia in his mind. He talks about it often in his long broadcasts on the totally Kremlin dominated media.

He is not going to resign, short of a total collapse of his health, which in spite of western media speculation early in the war, seems reasonable enough.

There was an interesting piece by Rosenberg of the BBC. He is an excellent correspondent. I trust what he says. The point I was especially interested in was Rosenberg's comment that Putin is driven by emotion. His attachment to the Greater Russia concept is an emotional one. The obsession with threat from NATO is an emotional one. There is no rationality in either position. NATO has no intention of attacking Russia, except as a response to Russian attack. It never was and never could have been a NATO plan. Putin surrounded by loyal yes men, has worked himself into a mad position. He has lost hundreds of thousands of Russian lives, if not dead, ruined by wounds. His GREAT army that he expected to walk right into Kiev has been shown as hopeless, sluggish and riddled with corruption and ineptitude. He is winning against his tiny opponent, but incredibly slowly, and only by throwing vast numbers of badly equipped, badly motivated men into a hideous meat grinder. Now he once again threatens nuclear strikes. He has received a 100,000 North Korean slave soldiers recently, paid for by vast transfers of Russian oil to his friend Kim in NK.

He is nowhere near ready to resign - if he did he would make himself vulnerable to his successor looking into his financial affairs and the price Russia paid because of his 'Special Military Operation'.

Ukraine war: After days of escalation, what will Russia's Putin do next?

BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg assesses the Russian leader's next move.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[flecc]

it's time that dinosaur should take retirement.
Nobody wins traditional wars anymore.
Killing people is ineffictive, destroying infrastructures creates more migrations.
Inflation is going to hit ordinary Russians hard. They will eventually ask the question: is it worth it?

Calendar	GMT	Reference	Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2024-07-26	10:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision		18%	16%	18%	18.0%
2024-09-13	10:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision		19%	18%	18%	18%
2024-10-25	10:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision		21%	19%	20%	20.0%
2024-12-20	10:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision			21%	22%

You'll remember me getting things absolutely right at th start of the war, even before it started, accurately showing with maps and photos exactly what ground Russia would take. I also insisted that Zelensky was a fool in being defiant and said it would all end in misery with Ukraine giving up and settling for peace.

That is what is happening now as the truth is being conceded, that increasing numbers of Ukrainians just want it to stop, unable to take the punishment any more and seeing ever more of their land inexorably lost as western support is really more words rather than actual action.

At the start the Ukrainians had the will and the enthusiasm for the war and defence, but the Russians had neither. Now that has reversed, the Ukrainians increasingly ready to give in but now the Russian population much more supportive of Putin and the war. Mainly due to the Ukrainian Kursk region intrusion being a big mistake as it shifts Russian popular opinion in favour of Putin's action.

The war will end by agreement, probably next year, the Russians keeping most of what they've taken with all their Azov and Black Sea coast lines while recovering Kursk. That would happen anyway, regardless of the Trump presidency.
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[Woosh]

The war will end by agreement, probably next year, the Russians keeping most of what they've taken with all their Azov and Black Sea coast lines while recovering Kursk. That would happen anyway, regardless of the Trump presidency.

when settlement arrives, I expect NATO troops will be given the task of policing the buffer zone.
If and when that happens, Putin has lost. Reconstruction of Ukraine will make Ukraine better than Putin's Russia, and one of the most advanced countries in Europe.

 

[Ghost1951]

Flecc's position seems to be that when threatened, we should hand over whatever is demanded. I don't share it. It invites attack by every despot, robber, thug and bully. If you are not prepared to fight to the death, you will lose all you have. History has a five thousand year record showing what happens to the vanquished. One need not turn many of the pages. Just look at what happened to civilians in the first week of the war in Ukraine. They were raped, robbed, tortured and murdered. So much for peace under Russian control.

 

[Ghost1951]

Words attributed to Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall:

" When negotiation and compromise fail, then your only course is to destroy your enemy.”

 

[flecc]

Just look at what happened to civilians in the first week of the war in Ukraine. They were raped, robbed, tortured and murdered. So much for peace under Russian control.

Now you are being very silly, that was after the war started so in what way was that peace under Russian control? If you think the Ukrainians are any better than the Russians in these respects, you are blind to what happened in the closing stages of WW2. The Ukrainians are Russians in all respects that matter, universally recognised post WW2 as the two most corrupt nations on earth.

After the iron curtain fell Ukraine had peace, and like all the Warsaw Pact countries were given the option of being independent, but like a few others chose to stay aligned to Russia so had a Russian biased government. They freely traded with the world but faced one restriction due to Russia, they could not join NATO.

And that is where your thinking is wrong in saying NATO would never attack Russia. This is not about being rational, as you rightly admitted, this is all about emotion, wars always are. It only matters that Russia sees NATO as their deadly enemy and therefore cannot and will not peacefully tolerate it being so close. That wish should be respected by everyone, especially by their closest neighbours like Georgia and Ukraine.

Ukraine only had to agree not to fall for the USA's bribery to join NATO to enjoy independence and peace with none of your imaginary threats of bullying. Bullying by waging wars where they have no business to be is what the USA does, helped by Britain, continuously from Korea in the 1950s through to the Middle East and North Africa today.
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[Ghost1951]

 

[Woosh]

@flecc You said look at Georgia. Who controls the media? Who won the last election? Georgia and Moldova are about to fall back into Putin's control.