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I guess that Starmer realised that the electorate don’t vote for socialism (especially the people in society that need it the most) and that you have to get elected before you can do anything. I personally, as a lifelong Labour voter, don’t have a problem with that. As for charisma in politics well, that gave us the buffoon that is Johnson didn’t it.
Starmer should have got rid of Morgan McSweeney and company ages ago, but he’s too stupid to do so.
There s no point in having a cabinet full of nodding dogs
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Gosh, who would have thought it, strike me down with a feather, guvnor.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/12/18/breaking-superflu-wave-goes-into-decline-early/
Given that scaremongering hasn’t worked, the government and the media will have to revert to the “Russia Is Going To Invade Any Day Now” story instead.
And we all know that the Daily Sceptic is a paragon of journalistic integrity.
Just because flu (there is no such thing as “super flu”, although much of the reporting has been superfluous) numbers appear to have stabilised for now, that doesn’t mean that there cannot be another surge in cases later this winter.
So why are you saying that warning people about flu is “scaremongering”?
If, by your own admission, it’s an inevitability every winter, shouldn’t be people be reminded to be prepared for it and to take all sensible precautions?
Yes – but that is not what has happened, is it? There was talk of “super flu” which is somehow worse and how the NHS is imminently going to collapse.
These stories about the NHS about to collapse happen every year, without fail. You can set your watch by them. It hasn’t happened before, it didn’t happen in 2020/21 and it won’t happen now.
Just because something hasn’t happened in the past doesn’t mean that it cannot happen in the future.
Interest rates coming down. And inflation should be 2% early next year ( earlier than expected). But I guess it won’t make the gutter press headlines will it….
Highest ever hospitalisation for flu ever for this time of year. It is flatlining which might possibly because the ‘ scaremongering’ has resulted in more people being vaccinated? I used to work for the NHS and I was one of very few office staff that had a flu jab every year. The doctors all had one and couldn’t understand why the staff refused them.
“Highest ever hospitalisation for flu ever for this time of year.”
Early December 2024 there were
1100 hospitalised with flu
Same period this year, 2025, 1700A 600 increase.
700 major hospitals in NHS England.
So, on average, each hospital has one, YES, ONE extra flu case, compared to Dec 2024.
Now, forgive me for being a cynic, or thinking there’s some kind of HMG/NHS scaremongering going on BUT……If a publicly funded, taxpayer funded healthcare system cant cope with that kind of….erm….increase then, well…..
Update now:An average of 3,140 flu patients were in hospital each day last week, up 18% from 2,660 the previous week. At this point last year, the number stood at 2,629 patients.
So, extra 500 compared to last year. Less than 1 extra per England NHS hospital.
As for the NHS peeps i’ve seen on tv over the last week, prattling on about getting vaccinated, well……1) Tell your own f***** staff to take the jab (only c40% NHS staff have had the jab) – practice what u preach comes to mind
2) There are NO jabs avail in the Bristol area right now (i had mine 2 months ago, paid privately, as not eligible for a freebie)Interest rates down , mortgages therefore down , inflation in check , Farage in hiding , Tories in the desert eating each other …. Life’s not to bad guys
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Interest rates reduced due to worsening economic conditions:
Alan Taylor, a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee who was one of those who voted for a cut, said there were ‘worrying trends’ that could point to a ‘sharper non-linear deterioration in activity and the labour market’.
The Bank’s monthly survey of business conditions showed the Chancellor’s tax raising Budget as well as Labour’s workers’ rights bill were deterring hiring.
It said ‘significant headcount reductions’ had already taken place while just over half of employers it surveyed planned ‘to decrease rather than increase headcount’ next year.
And conditions have been grim on the high street as consumers ‘remain cautiuous and keenly focused on value for money’, the survey found.
Oh, and someone in here mentioned, a few days ago, about rising FTSE 100 – go learn something.
Over 80% of FTSE 100 co.s are global and, subsequently, vast maj of their earnings come from abroad, NOT the UK – go figure OR learn OR better still, stick to the horses.
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