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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • This is just insane. Since the Windrush. The NHS has had a high dependency on immigration. Mainly due to our own lower pay of staff. Many qualified British medical staff can get higher paying work elsewhere. Both foreign and non NHS UK jobs. This is why multiple governments from both parties haver always offered NHS training and employment as a way to encourage immigration from lower paying nations.

    If the gov does not have the funding (wish to raise taxes). To pay NHS staff and UK care staff a wage that competes with higher paying jobs in the UK or aboard. This will directly lead to a collapse of the NHS. With ) benifit to the UK.

    Except Maybe gaining privatisation of the NHS. Exactly like the Tories have been trying for decades.


  • Do you have confirmation

    Just a news article. Can’t even remember where I saw it. So yeah. You are likely correct.

    That said. If the US refused to support the UK. I find it hard to believe we would not quickly have difficulties maintaing f35s. And given how much they really on software to fly. I’d be more surprised if the US did not have a backdoor.

    I’d add that to anything the US sells that they would have reason to fear if turned against them.

    I really think is the EU and or the UK want to be independent of the US. Arming with modern US weapons is about as safe as. Well issuing Chinese smart phones to all our politicians.

    The US has never been entirely trust worthy when it comes to them Vs the world. Less so now.






  • Both companies question if the 2002 law applies. Saying they think the gov is wrong.

    Neither give a shit if they morally should be advertising a dangerous product. Let alone in front of children.

    Ain’t capitalism great.

    I mean I grew up with tobacco advertising. And below 10 my father sending me to the shop to buy him fags. The 70s were a very different time.

    But for all the evil tobacco companies did. They were trying to stay afloat. With a model that started before the health disadvantages were understood. Shitty greed was clearly a motive. But at least some element of survival instinct can be applied. To their desperation to fight the science.

    Sainsbury’s knew the harm from day one. Had no business to protect by trying to skirt the law. A law clearly intended to stop exactly what they planned to do. And openly supported by the waste majority of modern British citizens. Heck even my father’s age group tends to agree with the law.

    But openly decided to do harm purely to increase profits…


  • according to my neighbours, you can buy kittens, not do any of that and then just let them be feral around your neighbourhood

    Ignoreing the not having to care for them. And legally cats must be chipped now. But that is a very very recent rule change.

    This is very much a majority opinion in the UK that cats kept inside is cruelty to the cat. Your opinion that all cats are required to be inside creatures is the rare one. More common in the younger generation. But not one backed up by evidence.

    Bird deaths are the most common sighted evidence. But cats are not proven to be the cause of a change in total population. Cats have been in the UK at least since the Romans first arrival. So 2000+ years. And have been used as pest control on farms extensively since at least that period. Most UK bird species have come here via Europe where cats were for much longer. Urbanisation may mean more cats. But the expansion of humanity and removal of habitate is the real issue.


  • Well it’s sky so I’m not going to disagree with the intent.

    But it’s very open to interpretation. Many right wing readers may interpret it that way. But the tittle just questions the cost. Reading the article it seems more like a warning.

    “For elderly females that dogs may be a bad pet for them and the NHS.”

    I worry more that it makes no effort to compare the huge cost saving regular walking of dogs has on elderly heart and muscle health. And companionship has on mental health.

    But that’s less click baity. And really clicks is all they care about.