The Politics Thread

What today’s IPPR report into health in the UK recommends:

  • Invest in services & community infrastructure
  • Focus on prevention
  • Free school meals for all primary schoolchildren
  • Scrap the two-child benefit limit
  • Restore Sure Start
  • Disincentivise insecure work & zero hours contracts
  • Better support for people on sickness benefits
  • ‘Polluter pays’: tax tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy food & gambling companies

What the BBC news headline says it recommends:

  • Lifestyle changes
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Sniggle

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When they start talking about the importance of birth rates, the people who’ve seen Nazis before have already left.

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Just so. And Kinder, Küche, Kirche reduces to its initials quite nicely for some Americans.

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Blimey, Joe…

Brain is frying nicely now.

Carinthia. xx

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Worryingly so dear Fish

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I :orange_heart: Bette Midler

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I :orange_heart: Bette Midler too. She says the bit you longed to, and says it aloud and proud.

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Damn.

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Tarnation. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Ferk.

Carinthia. xx

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Nice one.

Soo xx

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Can anyone show me an amerkin with common sensse?

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I know several and am related to quite a few, and I’d suggest that https://www.youtube.com/c/BeauoftheFifthColumn/videos is advertised as “The discussions of two southern people who are tired of a lack of common sense.” which suggests they do probably have some.

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Just to mention that I think Fortnum & Mason is absolutely beyond the pale and I shun it/them.

Soo xx

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https://www.itv.com/news/2024-11-09/fortnum-apologises-after-paralympians-not-invited-to-party-after-meeting-king
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I think they’ve gone the way of Harrods really, only with less excuse.

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Yes. Not good, in my eyes.

Soo xx

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Bloody disgraceful behaviour.

They have really shown themselves up.

Carinthia. xx

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They gave Diana Wynne Jones food poisoning at the tea-party/wake for Joan Aiken, having a] charged a lot and b] taken nearly 2 hours to bring tea and small cakes for twelve people who had booked in advance and were in good time for their booking. So they had already gone down the drain in Spring 2004.

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