Every day, we see another article about our Home Office and its total lack of compassion and lack of competence.
At this point, it needs reforming throughout. Give every person who has applied an extension to their stay and go through every single function and procedure until the department regains its humanity. Sack every heartless person there.
If the Tories do survive this election in any recognisable form, I wonder if they will come to embrace the benefits of preferential (ranked choice) voting?
Annoying to get blatant lies in our letterbox from the local #LibDems claiming they are the tactical vote! I definitely plan to vote tactically, but that means holding my nose and voting #Labour #UKPol
Rishi Sunak is a man who started his election campaign by saying he'd force all 18 year olds to do National Service.
Two weeks later he, at first, didn't want to attend a D-Day commemoration at all and then compromised by only going to the British bit before sodding off.
Morning all. Bit pissed off, because of something I read yesterday - that some stupid percentage of people apparently want fewer non-clinical staff in the NHS, in relation to the usual election bullshit about 'efficiency savings'.
I work for an ambulance service. Our ambulances see all kind of unpleasant things, so it's essential that they're kept clean.
But without non-clinical staff, we have nobody working in Cleaning, so infections spread.
And we can't have a plan to bring these infections under control, as we now have no Infection Control staff. What, you thought Infection Control was a clinical job? You probably thought everything was a clinical job, right? Guess what? Just because a role is in some way connected to medical things, doesn't mean it is classified as 'clinical'.
Also, we don't have anything with which to clean and stop infections, because no non-clinical staff means no Procurement staff out there buying what's needed.
Even if we could procure what we needed, how could we pay for it? We'll have nobody in Finance.
Perhaps, okay, we can have Finance staff, but who's going to do that job if we can't pay them? Because we can't pay anyone, if we have no Payroll staff.
And if we have someone doing Payroll, presumably they'll be using payroll software on the computer. Except, they can't do that, as we won't have any IT staff.
This is a bad idea, right? Let's bring back Cleaning, bring Infection Control, bring back Procurement, bring back Finance, bring back Payroll, bring back, IT. Except... actually we can't do that either, because no non-clinical staff means no Recruitment team.
Non-clinical support staff matter as much in the NHS as any other organisation. Without non-clinical support, there is no NHS.
This has been a public service announcement on behalf of Support Staff Who Are Already Overworked And Underpaid As It Is, And We're Really Fucking Tired.
"the small cabal of people who fund all our mainstream parties... don't particularly care which of those parties they back wins, because none of them will seek to bite the hand that feeds them.
Our politicians may be useless human beings, but they're excellent dogs. They'll do what they're told, come to heel when called, beg and whine for treats, and defend their owners loudly and fiercely from all perceived threats"
"the last thing party managers want is bolshy back benchers, They want a quiet life. They want a party which appears disciplined, and united. So they select for people who don't have strong opinions. They select for people who don't have strong principles, robust consciences. For people who are not deep thinkers. And, the thing is, they've (now) been doing this for generations"
"As the UK's General Election campaign stumbles uncertainly into its third week, one thing becomes abundantly clear: none of the leading politicians in any of Britain's mainstream political parties are any good at their jobs. Every one of them is mediocre at best, utterly incompetent at worst."
In Britain, former Conservative Member of Parliament Julian Knight, who was suspended from the party over allegations of sexual assault, has announced he will run in the election as an independent. Seems to me he could start and run for the Sexual Assault Party.
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An example of the shit Diane Abbott has to put up with in her long career as a Black Politician in racist Britain.
Of course, being a Black Woman who knows her own mind, her own party despises her as well, because that's how RACIST Britain is.
The biggest problem that the way the Second World War has been presented to people in the UK throughout my lifetime is that it was primarily a fight against the Germans, and not because it was a fight against fascism.
And that is how we have ended up with the two major parties espousing fascist policies, and the people who think they are the biggest patriots (cos they wave a Union flag) are the ones who most adhere to the ideology we were fighting against.