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(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
Up to 5,000 NHS nurses have been lost since 2010 because Tory chancellor George Osborne reckons the UK can’t afford them:
25,000 NHS jobs go in three years
We can, however, apparently afford to fly countless RAF Tornado missions in Iraq, which cost the taxpayer at least £35,000 per hour:
How Much Will Airstrikes Cost Taxpayer?
A case of selective austerity perhaps?
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we already own them and pay for the pilots and support crews.Are you serious’y saying that we should let thousands be brutally murdered rather than help them?
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Reblogged this on Britain Isn't Eating and commented:
I wonder too just how many more sanctions will be meted out to benefit claimants in the hope that they, the tory led coalition, can save some expenditure to help pay for this new bombing campaign against ISiL
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Ah, but what good do nurses do? Do they ensure reserves of oil? Well?!
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You miss the point. If I think we CAN afford Tornado missions in Iraq I must also say we can afford nurses in Britain. And likewise, if I think we CAN’T afford Tornado missions in Iraq I can also say we can’t afford nurses in the UK. But the government is saying we CAN afford Tornados in Iraq but we CAN’T afford nurses in the UK. That’s just nonsense.
Think for yourself Mike, think!
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how is bombing the shit out of them helping them exactly.
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Well Mike it looks suspictious to me this Warmonger did not go to war till after he scared the elderly Scots about their pensions bus passes etc and stole the vote in the referendum to make sure he had got back OUR OIL which gave him plenty money to stand side by side in our special relatiomship.with the other war mongers of this world. Scotland will never build a special fund when these bastards go to war with other p[eoples money. the run in the banks and shops came about because England without Scotlands oil is feckin SKINT and this is why they winna let us go. Nae the shite they came up fae England,to speak he never even met ootside wie his Lackeys And as fer oor great Hero Hen BROON HE SELT CHAPE GOLD FIN HE WIS IN POWER, And 4 flips Dawlin’ he assisted in the biggest bank collapse in history n’ them hand n hand wie their parliamentry opposition hardy souls managed to keep us tied to the apron skirts
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Fortune of war….
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Cameron et al prefer nursing their money. To hell with the electorate’s needs.
There’s that marvellous money spinner called war profiteering. Let’s go boys…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_profiteering
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hey Mike, many would argue that disabled people in Britain are being brutally murdered by the tory government and I don’t see you arguing about that!!!
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actually this is not funny as the labour Party are supporting the tories in this – what does that make the labour party??? they are dead in the water now – Miliband is cameron’s poodle
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It’s called ‘priorities’ Tom
For goodness sake 🙂
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I like this..
“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction” – William Osler (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)
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Thought you might like to read this Tom…might cheer you up 🙂
Syria, the Latest Crusade http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39796.htm#.VCagm5Zpn4A.twitter
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This will cheer you up!
Well,I think it’s funny…..maybe Fink Furst will smile?
What are you, Broken Garfield Sex Banana? WHAT ARE YOU? http://usvsth3m.com/post/98457639608/what-are-you-broken-garfield-sex-banana-what-are-you via @UsVsTh3m
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Perhaps the nurses out of a job could be retrained as Tornado pilots, under IDS’s Welfare To Work scheme?
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Can anyone translate this into English?? 🙂
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Meanwhile back at the ranch!
Patients neglected at privately-run NHS hospital, watchdog finds http://gu.com/p/42vg8/tw
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So we are now at war with ISIS because they kidnapped and brutally murdered two men and are promising to kill more of their captives? They are terrorists spread thinly across a wide area but bombing will stop them? Up until the result of the Scottish Refererendum neither the Coalition nor Opposition knew of this potential threat, upon the end of the Referendum Campaign the Coalition discovered a viper’s nest of people who were “not a danger to the public” and arrested them in connection to terrorist activities! Quick action was taken, parliament recalled and a debate on whether to start a long term war against a shadowy organisation. The ‘debate’ was, with only the odd exception, lacklustre and only covered technicalities of the parameters of what the vote was on and whether there would be further votes required. David Cameron informed us that upon agreement, it would begin within 24hours. Some cynics would argue that they have been softening public opinion for months using the Christians who were besieged after being forced out of their town, the suddenly publicised hostages (been in captivity over a year with no news reports) and ensuring that the videos were played ad nauseum on TV news and almost glorifying these brutal beheadings. The repeated, panicked reporting, the constant polling on public opinion on this matter, the advanced planning where British and American troops were put in place in existing bases and new bases in Cyprus and Saudi Arabia – rumour had been this was due to an upcoming op in Somalia. NB some of those in Cyprus are said to be ‘special forces’ but I only hear this as a rumour. All this done in silence so as not to affect the Referendum result. Would the Scots have voted NO if they’d known there’d be a war the following week? So, immediately after breaking the first of their Referendum ‘Vows’ the process kicked in, helping to distract from the slow but sure confirmation of all the lies of Better Together over the two year campaign. News reports ratchet up the fear, arrests in Australia and London, a young man with a knife on Tony Abbots official residence premises shot dead, continuous news reports of illegal immigrants crawling into lorries in Calais, again raising the ‘little old lady’ story of an illegal hiding on the backseat. So the recall, fake debate and bombing follows. Distraction from domestic woes, an actual cause of what now will be a genuine terrorist movement, boost for the defence industry, keep the alert status high, restrict reporting and certain political/protesting rights, national security outweighing the rule of law and preventing progress into enquiries into child abuse, expenses fiddling, voter fraud etc etc. On the other hand you may believe all this caught the government by surprise unconnected to last years attempt to start war in Syria. You may believe ISIS to be a single organisation separate from all others not backed by Saudi Arabia, never backed by USA and that John McCain never met with their leadership nor was photographed with them. You may believe it was not kept quiet to ensure victory in the referendum and is not a useful distraction behind which paedophiles and fraudsters can escape justice. You may believe that the Labour Party know nothing more than we do and yet decided to take the opposite action this year from last year. You may not be curious as to why only a few renegades spoke against and voted against intervention. You won’t wonder why Iain McKenzie MP’s stance lead to his sacking, not resignation, from his post as a junior MoD minister. I don’t know what of the above is true or untrue. I am curious and I have doubts and worries. But why are there so few dissenting voices? Why are well known politicians meekly accepting what they are given? Have they forgotten the mantra for these situation? “Accept nothing, question everything”. These are strange times indeed…
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I agree Mike but must say there will be additional costs for fuel, servicing, support structure weaponry etc etc. At the end of the day, governments make choices and set priorities. This government has set this war as being of higher priority than many other things but then this is the traditional way of Tory government. The point is that the additional spend of £3bn can be found so ‘easily’ when so many NHS hospitals in England are considered to be failing and closed/merged due to funding problems – ie the Coalition’s priorities are not the same as the man in the street. Austerity for the poor, loopholes for the wealthy and constant spending on ‘war’ rather than health…
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Maybe ‘they’ know something we do not.
In any event it was prepared in advance.
Remember David Kelly.
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I recently re-read 1984. Part of the theme was that the population was repressed and the economy sustained by continual war between the three global powers. Over time alliances changed so that you might find yourself allies with a former enemy and fighting a former ally. The wars took place in a distant part of the world so that ordinary people never actually saw their enemy, the only contact was through the TV and occasional parading of prisoners. The whole thing was a fiction designed to keep the ruling class in power. I can’t help but wonder
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What complete and utter bollocks. All of it. As in every last word.
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Saudi is awash with oil and money why do they not get involved financially and pay for the UK and US trying to sort out the mess in the middle east.
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Don’t they need nurses for the casualties of war then?
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Sunday morning live vote – “Do you think it is morally justifiable to bomb terrorist organizations?”
As discussion on this topic brought up the subject of renegades and terrorists acting as they do because they have a genuine grievance about what is happening in the middle east, some concluded that bombing them out of recognition does not solve grievances just tries to eliminate the aggrieved.
In any war, there are body counts, but perhaps we should be thinking of trying to capture the terrorists alive to find out just why they are waging war on their own people?
Many of the terrorists apparantly have been trained in warfare in the USA.
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So true – most people now seem intent on having ‘fun’ rather than straining their minds to grasp the nasty implications of what politicians do.
And any way, the 2 Tornadoes used so far comes to £70,000 which equates to about 5,500 nurses which we can surely spare now the Gov has recently increased their number (or so they say, allegedly).
What interesting times we inhabit!
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That will be next week. The first Tornadoes got back safely from their sorties, so no need for nurses today.
God! isn’t it easy to think like a moron?
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There are dissenting voices but they get bottled up or ignored by media – e.g. Which? has publicly supported TTIP yet the membership were not consulted and there was considerable opposition once members were aware that Which? had published its comment.
Which? also belongs to BEUC – the EU Consumer Associations group – which has concerns about the impolications of TTIP, while across Europe, there are some 240+ NGOs (including Green Party, FOE, 38 Degrees, War on Want, Unison, among others in UK) collaborating in opposition to TTIP. Yet BBC publicises the Which? support (R4 “Today” last Thurs) with no reference to the considerable opposition voiced by its members.
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OH YES! none of the above!
What a glorious fantasy we live in.
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Ask the middle easterners that are commissioning the west that question!
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Just dandy!
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