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Post by althea on Apr 10, 2024 13:53:07 GMT
Everywhere you go and all the people you talk to, feel the same. We are all saying to each other ,who can we vote for? I suspect the answer is almost no one. Many of my friends say they won't vote. I feel I must. I owe such a debt of gratitude to the Suffragettes.
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Post by marispiper on Apr 10, 2024 16:06:13 GMT
I agree Althea. It's not only our right, but our duty as well 👍
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Post by hild1066 on Apr 10, 2024 18:07:53 GMT
Yes I think everyone should vote even if you choose an independent candidate who is campaigning on an issue you can support.
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Post by hild1066 on Apr 11, 2024 14:11:23 GMT
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Post by hild1066 on Apr 11, 2024 19:06:30 GMT
Couldn't resist, lol!
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Post by marispiper on Apr 30, 2024 11:23:04 GMT
Yousef has made an emotional farewell I see. I wonder what Scotland (traditionally and historically Labour) will favour this election? Surely this whole independence thing is dead in the water and as I see it, the SNP have made a pretty poor job of the day to day running 🤔
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Post by hild1066 on Apr 30, 2024 11:53:57 GMT
The trouble with the SNP is that they are made up of right wingers, centrists, left wingers and extremes at both end. The glue that kept them together was Independence and they are not getting another referendum any time soon. Pulling that team together took a more dictatorial style, that the likes of Salmond and Sturgeon were able to achieve. Without that there is no consensus, it's like herding cats.
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Post by ARENA on Apr 30, 2024 13:35:14 GMT
Yousef has made an emotional farewell I see. I wonder what Scotland (traditionally and historically Labour) will favour this election? Surely this whole independence thing is dead in the water and as I see it, the SNP have made a pretty poor job of the day to day running 🤔 I think you'll find the Scots have a lot of pluses the English would like. Money to support with disability, illness, children, caring, heating, housing, funerals, jobs, cost of living emergencies , free Uni, if you have a Scots parent etc.
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Post by hild1066 on Apr 30, 2024 16:44:37 GMT
Definitely lots of pluses but no country is without issues.
I think we're all suffering from the lack of quality MPs. I'm sure most decent people are put off political life because so many MPs are caught up in scandals.
Frankly I would like thought through policies. Not this soundbite stuff. Like Sunak saying there are too many people claiming DLA. Duh! Who'd have thought it. If it takes 2-3 years to see a psychiatrist after your breakdown then why would you imagine there wouldn't be. Similarly if you tell everyone they can't retire until they are 68 without exception, then obviously some people will become unfit for work.
But no, it's easier to suggest people are lazy and whingers than to look at the data and do something to fix it.
The same with suggesting there is too much pension fraud. Really, the data suggests it's very small. In fact the data suggests many pensioners don't even claim benefits they're entitled.
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Post by marispiper on May 1, 2024 8:45:04 GMT
Not forgetting the only reason the Scots can do this is because Westminster pours in £sd resulting in more spend per head of population down here. Westminster is a derogatory nomenclature, being a euphemism for 'the English" in Scotland🙄
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Post by marispiper on May 1, 2024 9:03:09 GMT
My eldest son has always been a hard worker. However, massive surgery 15 years back for tongue cancer (smoking ) and months of radio/chemo following, resulted in him losing his teeth bit by bit and skeletal problems so his mobility became extremely restricted. He was unable to do his job (Council) and asked for a desk job. Nothing. Therefore, he was retired with ill health at 54. The procedure to apply for PIP was very stringent including two home visits and reports requested from GP and two consultants. Fortunately he's been approved.
It's clear there are rising numbers of folk claiming PIP because of conditions that people just say they have - and hard to prove otherwise. However, all that needs to be done is to join up the dots and be more thorough when a claim is made. Sometimes, claimants aren't even seen..
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Post by hild1066 on May 1, 2024 11:10:57 GMT
As you describe getting PIP is not as easy as it sounds. However, some people have been moved off Job Seekers allowance to PIP as they are waiting years for hospital treatment/consultations. My nephew waited nearly 3 years to see a psychiatrist after having a break down at work. This was bad enough for one doctor to suggest he was sectioned, but the nearest bed from Sunderland was in Nottingham!! He has tried working from home, but was having terrible bouts of anxiety. He hasn't actually left the house in 3 years, apart from appointments, where he books a taxi with dark windows and wears sunglasses. He is seeing a doctor now and is hopeful, but that has taken 3 years out of his life and he was transferred to PIP at the recommendation of the Job Centre.
Until he got to see the psychiatrist it was only his GP (phone appts) and occasionally a Specialist Mental Health Nurse (phone appts) - she was phoning to check he wasn't suicidal about once every two months.
He wouldn't have had much evidence to show e.g. no diagnosis, just GP and Nurse appts via phone. However, he has been desperately ill and sometimes thinks he should have accepted the bed in Nottingham 3 years ago. I think as a family we all do, but at the time he felt it was so far away that nobody would be able to visit.
I think before we call people lazy and scroungers, we should be fixing the waiting lists so that people can move on in their lives. He could have been seen and treated and back on his feet within 3 months, now he's got progressively more reclusive and limited just waiting. It's going to be a long time fixing for him.
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Post by ARENA on May 1, 2024 14:20:43 GMT
Not forgetting the only reason the Scots can do this is because Westminster pours in £sd resulting in more spend per head of population down here. Westminster is a derogatory nomenclature, being a euphemism for 'the English" in Scotland🙄 Then why does Westminster refuse independence?
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Post by hild1066 on May 1, 2024 15:41:06 GMT
Because the people of Scotland voted against it. There's no reasonable expectation a vote now would be different. Polls don't tend to show the situation has changed.
There will be another vote in the future but I can't see that happening for some time. Didn't they suggest at the time that it would be about another 25 years.
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Post by hild1066 on May 2, 2024 20:39:37 GMT
You couldn't make it up could you. Johnson turned up to vote in South Oxfordshire without photo ID. Yes, the man who introduced photo ID into the UK didn't think it applied to him.
He did obviously come back later in the day with correct ID and vote but honestly how did he think Polling Centre staff would just let him in when they were checking everyone else.
I knew one of the women working in our Polling Centre but she still had to ask to see my photo ID.
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