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The classic "even a stopped c:rolleyes:lock's correct twice a day" scenario. Let that be a lesson to you, C'mon. An effective point made once in awhile has more impact if it's not lost amongst deluges of drivel. If you had any sense, you'd learn a lesson from that, but sadly... :rolleyes:

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Cashy will tell you....'you can't put sense where there is none'.

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He often does, Margaret!

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well well another prediction comes true. welcome to poverty britain the tories and their mates have it stitched up BBC News - Benefits risk to jobseekers refusing zero-hours contracts

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When you become a Johnny foreigner will you still harp on about politics in the remains of the United Kingdom?

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Shouldn't think so, he'll be having to watch out for the SNP & Wee Eck's juggling of the Jockland economy, all those promises to keep with less dosh, should be interesting. ;)

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i will always be british;) the original Britons came from strathclyde . hence the name Strathclyde Britons. anyway back on topic Fury as Tory party donors are handed NHS contracts worth £1.5BILLION under health reforms - Mirror Online

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MP's can't even be trusted to follow the law as Ed Balls has proven with his several driving offences like using a mobile phone while driving, speeding, running a red light and now hitting a park car and not stopping How Ed Balls hit a car and 'didn't notice': Police probe over 'failure to stop' | Mail Online

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there is an election coming up so watch out for the dirty press making more nonsense stories up;) but the cuts in the nhs are costing lives. anybody who can't notice the nhs improved and was better under labour are in cloud cuckoo land. at least they had an agenda to bring waiting times down . the tories just want to privatize it and when its gone its gone.

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I heard there is to be a vote to start charging for doctors appointments.

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the tories purely mental ideology . creating Apartheid in the uk divide and rule.
Michael Gove is taking £400million from needy children to support his struggling free schools, reports the Sunday People.
The Education Secretary is raiding his Basic Need budget – which is meant to provide extra school places or build new schools – to fill a likely *£800million black hole in spending on free schools by 2016.
A Whitehall source said: “The Tories are putting the needs of their pet projects ahead of the requirements of 24,000 other schools in the country.”
Mr Gove is now at war with his Lib Dem deputy David Laws who *furiously opposes cutting Basic Need from £2.75billion to £2.35billion over three years.
The missing cash could provide 30,000 more school places.
It comes as a Sunday People probe reveals that free schools are failing THREE TIMES more often than normal schools.
Of 45 checked by the schools’ watchdog Ofsted since the start of last year, five have been condemned as “inadequate” and 10 told they need improvement.
Website Watchsted - Home say schools’ failure rate is nearly 11% compared to just three per cent in regular schools.
In the latest damning report inspectors said *lessons at Hawthorne’s Free School, a secondary in Bootle, Merseyside were so bad even teachers spelled words wrongly.
Ofsted also found falling *attendance, low maths scores and that poorer children were doing worse than others.
Two of the failed free schools have closed – Discovery, a primary in Crawley, West Sussex, and Al-Madinah, an Islamic secondary in Derby.
In another blow to Mr Gove, half the new free primaries open this year failed to fill their places despite high *national demand.
It’s a “damning indictment” that of 26 due to open in September, 13 have unfilled places, say Labour.
The Public Accounts Committee also backs Labour’s claim that free schools are opening in the wrong locations.
More than 40 have launched in areas with no place shortage but none are planned in half the areas with high or severe need.
Now one of the free school programme’s sponsors has *blasted the way they are run.
Ronda Fogel, executive *director of the Constable Educational Trust, which stopped sponsoring two free schools *before poor Ofsted reports came out, told the TES education magazone of too little “joined-up thinking” and a lack of good teachers.
In free schools 13% of teachers are untrained compared to 3.8% in the system as a whole.
Free schools were launched by the Tories in 2010 and 170 have been opened by firms, charities, sponsors and parent groups.
They are not run by councils but still get state cash. yes cut and paste saves you a job going into a link.

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Not really mate, you've just filled up a page with blah, blah blah, that will be equally ignored! ;)

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Not your own work....where did you cut and paste this from?
It is courtesy to give attributions if you use something pasted from somewhere else.

As Dave says it is all Blah-blah-blah.....but then that is your trademark.

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I'm afraid that turned out to be "smoking mirrors"; for instance the waiting time for hip replacements was approximately two years until Labour's apparent success in bringing the waiting time down to a few months. All the statistics showed the new system was working.

Unfortunately, what actually happened was that every department was making sure it met deadlines by unnecessarily passing patients from one consultant to another consultant. and in the case of hip replacements, I have one relative (and heard of others) who lived in excruciating pain for two years being passed along the departments until his hip operation.

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Think you're mixing your metaphors there Luce - 'Smoking Gun' or 'Smoke AND Mirrors'.