Sunday 30 January 2022

Labour won't get into power for the next 2 or 3 General Elections.

Doesn't matter how much Labour try to slag the Government down with their little schemes, Labour won't get into power for the next 2 or 3 General Elections.


Hopefully, because by then Tories really will have no excuse for their incompetence and we can check how much bankrupt Britain (Their words not mine) owes by then.

They always seem to have something that comes along and saves them. Thatcher it was the Falklands (By design or incompetence? another argument) The Cameron, May & Johnson, run its been covid. We won't bring Brexit into it because everything was going to be so much better, so it can only be covid.

There's one gamble that did pay off.... the Vaccinations.  Although Johnson is like the gambler that plays the fruit machines puts in £900 wins £400 and claims he's won.

The rest of the gamble/incompetence has cost fortunes, the one pays for the rest, although we are not seeing any financial evidence of that yet.

Upping NI to "Fund the NHS" just means that those with money pay less, normal for the tories.
I'm all for funding the NHS but everyone should pay the same percentage and not when the Tories are spunking our money up the wall ...to coin a phrase.

And let's not forget we would not have the NHS if it wasn't for William Beveridge (Beveridge Report 1942) who was Liberal and the Labour government who put it in place although Bevin couldn't get all measures through which is why doctors surgeries are privately owned to this day amongst other things.

The NHS was put in place when the UK really was bankrupt after the war. Would the Tories have done the same?

I'm sure you have availed yourself of NHS services over the years?

What would your circumstances be had you had to rely on the insurance-based model that was in place before the war that few could afford?

Your treatments and drugs over the years would have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and it's unlikely you would still be covered on insurance.  Unless you're lucky enough to have not needed it in which case what a relief to know that it's always there as a safety blanket for that unlucky moment.





LINKS
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Monday 3 January 2022

Tony Blair Knighted

 Tony Blair Knighted

Apparently, Tony Blair got Knighted or Anthony Charles Lynton Blair if the media is to be believed and there's already a petition ....
https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-minister-tony-blair-to-have-his-knight-companion-of-the-most-noble-order-of-the-garter-rescinded?

Now I've checked on the Gov website new years honours list and even downloaded the spreadsheet.
Tony Blair or Anthony Charles Lynton Blair doesn't appear

Which is somewhat strange

Obviously, I'm looking in the wrong place

I only started looking because the first mention of this, I saw, was on a Laura Kuenssberg spoof site on Twitter.
BREAKING: Tony Blair has been given a knighthood for killing a million innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan
 
Since then it's all over but I've still not found it on the Honours list unless the queen has a separate one.

But it's amazing how many people, judging from their comments, think the 
Laura Kuenssberg Translator
 on Twitter is the real Laura Kuenssberg.

Sunday 2 January 2022

COVID ~ Pinged and PCR Test Saga

Finally got the PCR test back 12 days after being pinged for close proximity. Bearing in mind Xmas was in the way.

Timeline ....

Tues 21st pinged on app close proximity of someone who tested positive.

Gov website says all I need to do is 5 days of LFTs no isolation.

I work in care homes, work says I need a PCR test and do LFTs every day till I get the result of PCR.
 
Trying to get a PCR test is a nightmare as although there is a selection for NHS and care workers on 1st page of the PCR ordering page, all routes lead to the answer "You don't need to do a PCR test"

Wrong... I do because NHS and care home staff do need one it says so on the Gov website.

Also, work says I can't work till I get the PCR test result

Anyway, long story short finally managed to get around the system and order the PCR test.

Sent PCR test back the next day on 24th, got it on 23rd but didn't arrive till late in the afternoon so missed all post.

Got a negative email back at 04:05 this morning 02/01/22

The test was done on 29th Dec (I can see from the email)

That's 12 days after being pinged

Which would appear to be a pretty pointless exercise.

LFTs I believe are pretty accurate if they give you a positive there is a high chance it's correct.

LFTs I believe are not so accurate on false negatives so you might get a series of negatives but you actually have it and do not have symptoms.

If the latter then for 12 days I could have been spreading it around

By the time I got the PCR test back, I was out of the isolation period anyway.

We've all got to catch this and all varients albeit in a controlled way.

Keep calm and carry on