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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