GregBowman

I think you will find everyone with a sane counter view to you agrees this would be a life and death situation and so excluded - typical soft left ****** I am afraid Maternity tourism was rife from the US in the sixties and today it seems https://www.refinery29.com/2016/08/120148/socialized-medicine-giving-birth-experience-uk?bucketed=true Thats an educated woman from the states - so of course your brothers and sisters from the third world wouldn’t do it ......

Firstly surely the quote was evidence at least of a way of thinking. But also agree with your point that its chicken feed. So lets get to to the nitty gritty: Get rid of the phony market Slash management Stop all selective surgery unless children (IVF obviously not required) Credit card or authenticated NI number at point of attendance unless life and death Charge for missed appointments Charged for fake 999 calls ie I have a hangover No prescriptions for over the counter medicines such as Asprin etc Introduce top up care charging so I can have private health care with money going to the NHS not an insurance company I am not talking about withdrawing care in a life or death scenario, its the low cost high volume incidents where money and is wasted.

What absolute ****** -sorry. Childish its not my problem attitude to money collection is endemic throughout the NHS and GP's. Refusing to police such policies. When in the real world you wouldn't take that behaviour from a 22nd year old service engineer if he let non contract customers off paying. 'Royal College of GPs chairwoman Dr Gerada said: "My first duty is to my patient - I don't ask where they're from or whether they've got a credit card or whether they can pay." Disgusting behaviour from a civil servant and as I say Endemic So go and Chillax as CCC says stop singing the Red Flag and step into the real world

So you want a clean car but kill the planet in the process - just two versions of suicide surely ? Pollution isn’t going to be a major problem but obese kids will be Re comment what’s bad for people only in your view - perhaps I take a longer view if we carry on ripping up our planet - smog will be the least of your worries

Where do the parents figure in this ? My children are fit as are my wife and I it’s probably an IQ, under educated thing. No excuse to have fat kids and certainly not a government thing

I am a petrol (fuel !) head so will generally support freedom to drive what you want but not where . Stationery vehicles create the most pollution and I would really get to grip with banning vehicles from city centres. Millions of low paid people depend on old vehicles in rural areas so blanket taxation is so regressive We also have the perfect solution to congestion in existing one person transport devices - motorcycles, scooters and trikes yet it feels we are actively discouraged Charlie Boorman has a campaign against that discrimination http://www.weridelondon.com/ He wants to extend it to all cities

The majority of the damage to the planet is caused when you build a car even an old one so keeping old cars on the road could be considered good ( and that is taking emissions into account) banning older cars or taxing them higher is no different to the other taxes you mention - it is for revenue not the environment

No they haven't but it can seem that way. Within reason the poor steal from the poor - you can't do me out of £50k unless I have £50k in the first place fool and their money and all that

Not really its a cultural thing and not convinced todays cannabis is any better than spirits

Or people are more feckless ?

My son is in AA and CA really went for it! Stopped drinking 4 years ago and having a good life in New York now We often speak frankly about stuff and part of the programme is definitely not avoiding bars and pubs otherwise you haven’t fixed anything have you ? But he says the reason he doesn’t do them is apart from the obvious is the absolute lack of choice on the non alcoholic front

Come up with a decent non alcoholic idea and get it accepted as a cool thing to drink in pubs and bars and you really would be a millionaire

I am second generation Lithuanian my father married Mum a Londoner. Re Spy Guys points - he learnt English in 8 weeks, of course like Mrs Spy Guy he was intelligent and hard working already speaking 3 languages so to add another one was achieved when required All immigrants are not the same and a large proportion activily drain our country and its resources - whilst a significant minority add tremendous value A simple points system, language tests and IQ tests would establish which group a potential new citizen belonged in - surely a non political statement that anyone can agree with ?

Probably created personally more jobs than most people in a real business.... From his experiences there, he saw an opportunity in publishing educational guide books for students who wanted to study abroad, and when he returned to the UK he set up Hotcourses. It now has more than 230 employees and is the UK’s largest publisher of guides and websites to help people find a course or college

As someone who has studied NLP I cannot understand why people dismiss the concept of understanding how the world markets to you and works with your emotions and thought patterns to influence you. Surely your best protection is understanding as far as possible how you are being influenced ? Sadly most people are sheeple and have no interest in learning how they are being manipulated

Many of us have had loads of debt and then none (often business owners like me) can't actually say I was more happier with money in the bank or not (you need some obviously) as you say not worth dying or killing over. Pure materialism seems to drive people bonkers. Sort of empty and vapid.

I presume precious metals what you looking at and how ?

and the bank QE's or crashes

Can see that now, just that thinking seems to be a contributor to the only thing worth investing in is property meme (not you obviously!)

I never quite get that thinking genuinely, if all other asset classes perform poorly where are people going to put their money?

Not so sure re little scrape - icebergs of any size strike fear into seamen, look at that sub surfacing last week. Presumably heavily armoured and yet I think I read max ice it can surface through is a few metres

Saw an intriguing documentary saying there was a fire in the coal stores that had been going since before sailing and hence weakened the hull on that side

I had to check and was fully expecting not to have been! But I have we stayed in Coral Bay once and drove over there and hired a boat (loads of fun, typical laid back Cypriot hand drawn map, no deposit - we lost the Anchor whilst going round Aphrodite's rock, little tense when we got back but all smiles in the end) Lovely area surrounded by the National Park in fact changed my view of Cyprus

But you do have to put up with all the boy racers ragging around Paphos in lowered old BMW 3 series with M badges all over them - might as well be back home in North London... it is warmer mind especially today !

Just looked up Haringey and a little less which was a surprise - mine was for a 3500 sq foot detached House with big garden 35 mins from the city by slow train So I think on reflection good value - but does show the council tax system is pretty unfair when you can be paying upwards of £1300 for a flat in many places