i suspect actually they were intended to be dying rooms
Yes.
tjagain
Full MemberI am far from convinced as there were no staff for them. already short of staff in the NHS – where were the staff coming from for the nightingales?
Again, lifeboats- they wouldn't be fully equipped or adequately staffed, but they're not supposed to be an alternative to your ship, they're just an alternative to being in the sea (and to having A&Es paralysed, ambulances unable to unload, etc etc- all the ways having 101% of capacity is massively worse than 100%). Not to explain healthcare to you of course! But it'd not be the sort of healthcare you're used to.
(The name was really pretty apt tbh, I suspect whoever came up with it had a good sense of history and a very dark sense of humour)
Calling them hospitals at all was a stretch, but "warehouses for the likely to die" isn't catchy. Of course there was tons of PR and fluff and deception involved in the project but... tbf that was probably essential if it were ever to work. As previous tory governments have proved, you can kill people by creating fear of hospitals, the Hunt Effect, here you need the opposite- please come to "hospital", it'll be fine. Lifeboats are totally safe and comfortable you'll be rescued quickly and definitely not die of dehydration or freeze to death or get eaten by sharks.
On the whole, maybe life vests is a better metaphor
Cardiff Council are blaming reduced garden waste collections on the HGV driver shortage:
Local Aldi has no milk!!!
So the blood tube shortage the NHS is facing, seeing as BDLF has UK manufacturing plants (and other bits in the Irish Republic) - is it another BREXIT WIN or global supply chain issues.
Who knows, eh?
Klunk
Free MemberLocal Aldi has no milk!!!
Local big tesco selling emergency locally sourced lettuces sellotaped into sandwich bags, nothing else except the more random pre-bagged ones. Which no doubt means that somewhere else in the supply chain places just can't get any lettuces because Tesco vacuumed up their source.
There are packaging problems. I bought tile adhesive in a brown paper bag inside a plastic one with a note saying that due to supply problems they couldn't get hold of the usual tubs.
Are you sure it wasn't hummus?
I bought tile adhesive in a brown paper bag
Perfect for huffing!
Local big tesco selling emergency locally sourced lettuces sellotaped into sandwich bags, nothing else except the more random pre-bagged ones. Which no doubt means that somewhere else in the supply chain places just can’t get any lettuces because Tesco vacuumed up their source.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg
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Shit just got real
https://www.mkfm.com/news/local-news/nandos-restaurants-in-milton-keynes-forced-to-shut-today/?
Meanwhile Ireland still can't believe they got the deal they asked for on day 1
Johnsons capitulation is in complete contrast the how our press portrayed his deal at the time
how our press portrayed his deal at the time
They're just playing to their audience. Many of them will still believe it too.
Next to no squash in Asda today. Big bare section.
Any tennis?
No but then there generally isn't much tennis being played in Asda.
have you tried pumpkin instead?
No but then there generally isn’t much tennis being played in Asda.
I know. Terrible service.
It's not just Asda having tennis shortages, the whole supply chain is at break point
Good work northwind!
Thanks leavers, just made my ews100 entry more expensive
Also I got a lace on ews100 woop!
Your phone is at 4% you have more urgent problems😱
I like to live on the edge
Its 1% now 😳
Thanks leavers, just made my ews100 entry more expensive
Is it not the other way round? EWS is a British thing I presume (as Chris B is Scotland based) and since leaving the EU there's probably some way it's not VAT-able as it's a service sold overseas... Maybe.
Anyway we'll be there be good to see you! Been a while.
I was looking for different wheels for my car on eBay. There's a great eBay shop in Germany with exactly what I want. Ok so shipping is 100 € but apparently I also have to pay VAT even if they are used... how fantastic.
More 'levelling up'....
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/21/ocado-drivers-paid-less-than-5-an-hour
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I was looking for different wheels for my car on eBay. There’s a great eBay shop in Germany with exactly what I want. Ok so shipping is 100 € but apparently I also have to pay VAT even if they are used… how fantastic.
Same with some Hope levers I was looking at in Germany a while back. Brilliant innit?
More ‘levelling up’….
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/21/ocado-drivers-paid-less-than-5-an-hour
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Yep good innit,
ahh but they the get the flexibility to work the hours that fit their lifestyle requirements.
I think these gig apps are fine for students and people after some part time work but once it goes to the full time employment it’s just a slick way to exploit people and blur a full time employee so they have fewer employment rights.
(It may be Hanlons razor thou)
More ‘levelling up’….
It was the whole point of Brexit. Ultimately they want to be free to tear up workers rights until we're all working for a fiver an hour, with no entitlement to any benefits
it’s just a slick way to exploit people and blur a full time employee so they have fewer employment rights
Which is exactly the intention of the Britannia Unchained mob. They don't like educated workforces. They want a steady stream of school Leavers at 16 to form an insecure, poorly paid, no rights workforce in the food and tat processing/distribution game.
The delicious irony from their point of view is that they got the idiots to vote for it themselves.
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The drivers in that article all have foreign sounding names, so the obvious response to their employer paying them such criminally low wages is to drive them out of the country.
[ obviously I don’t think that, just trying on the Brexit apologist specs to see how they work ]
Gig jobs are fine for some.and we need some, but when everything's like that the people who need steady jobs can't get them.
Gig job workers should still be paid properly.
RE: the Ocado story.
It's scary when looking at driving jobs just how many companies are trying to force people to take the self-employed/gig setup and just pay a day rate with expenses to be deducted for the van etc. I thought it would have reduced after a few legal rulings (eg the Uber one) but it doesn't seem to have made a difference. A few have job adverts with two options: PAYE at a stupidly low hourly rate or self-employed at a decent looking day rate but when you delve into it the deductions make it just as bad.
Sadly I think it will have to get worse before things come to a head and have to improve. Expect the extra costs to then be loaded onto your bills at the tills.
Expect the extra costs to then be loaded onto your bills at the tills.
Well it certainly won't come out of dividends or exec pay...
Is this an unintended side effect of the well meaning tax credits brought in in the mid 00s? I remember articles in the Guardian from 6 or so years ago raising the issue of low pay effectively subsidising businesses.
Tax credits were designed to work with minimum wage laws. What needs to happen is the so called “living wage” needs to be a real living wage, and laws and regulations need updating to take account of all the modern wheezes increasingly used to avoid them.
laws and regulations need updating to take account of all the modern wheezes increasingly used to avoid them
Funnily enough the motivation behind the 'Britannia Unchained' strand of Brexshitdom is the exact opposite.
Turkeys.....Christmas.....etc
Blame benefits, regulations and foreigners for low wages. For now. Once all three have been done away with, then return to blaming an allegedly workshy UK workforce… “We’ve cut benefits, slashed regulations, and sent those Europeans home… now do any job we give you, work any hours we want you to, at any rate we say.”
Rule Britannia.
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More 'levelling up'.
Expect more gob, razor blades and glass in yer pasties and steak bakes....
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Goodger said that last week he had contacted HMP Hollesley Bay in Suffolk, but the rehabilitation officer said there was such a big demand for inmates “we’ve reached our quota and we are not allowed to let any more out to go to work”.
We need more prisoners to plug the gaps in the labour market!
I see where they are going with this.
Even the Express seems to have woken up…
“Small and medium-sized exporters have found themselves consumed in an avalanche of red tape and blockaded by disruption, to the degree that many have simply been forced to cease selling to EU-based customers altogether.”
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Yeah, but who are they blaming....
'Blockade' is a predictable use of language by the Volkische Beobachter.
We need more prisoners to plug the gaps in the labour market!
I see where they are going with this.
It's better than that. This current bunch of strokers (with geniuses like Liz Truss to the fore) will probably be looking at ways to reverse progress in electronic messaging, just to create a demand for mailbags to be sewn by prisoners to be seen to be being 'tough on crime'.
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