AIBU to hope the greens do very well today?

Well maybe we would be better with the Reform councillors who think Nigerians should be melted down and put in pot holes or the ones who think ethnic minorities should be shot or the one that battered his gf black and blue or the one who has been banned from every football ground in the UK. All elected yesterday. Plus one who said that a refugee got raped deserved it. It's all over twitter.

Another one has been removed from reform because he's a Holocaust denier.

Apparently, official policy says sex work involving consenting adults 'should be decriminalised' and restrictions and censorship of sexually explicit material "should be ended", with exceptions made for those protecting children.

Oh yeah, I've missed this, what does the tit whisperer think about pornography?

Hello. Hope you had a good day.

As I said previously, there is not so much we can do about the demand level from older patients.

We haven’t managed to eradicate cancer.

But there are clearly avoidable costs that we should be dealing with:

Type 2 diabetes - as you say this is a huge cost and needs to be addressed either education and support.
Alcohol related harm - ditto
We need a means of stopping the free flow of people into our country who are carrying infectious diseases
We need to ban first cousin marriage and have a wide programme of education and limitations on immigration bringing severely disabled people into the country. Australia refuses immigration visas to people with poor health and everyone seems to accept that without thinking they are evil.
We spend £millions on translators and treating people ineligible for the NHS but don’t charge them and many other areas of horrifying waste.

Each element may (or may not) be relatively small but all the waste adds up and prevents British citizens and taxpayers getting adequate care.

To name a view

wealth tax
Defending the human rights act
Drug legalisation
Public ownership of water, energy and transport
replacing first past the post with PR

Yes, and correct.

What a fantastic contribution to the conversation

Hello. Hope you had a good day.

As I said previously, there is not so much we can do about the demand level from older patients.

We haven’t managed to eradicate cancer.

But there are clearly avoidable costs that we should be dealing with:

Type 2 diabetes - as you say this is a huge cost and needs to be addressed either education and support.
Alcohol related harm - ditto
We need a means of stopping the free flow of people into our country who are carrying infectious diseases
We need to ban first cousin marriage and have a wide programme of education and limitations on immigration bringing severely disabled people into the country. Australia refuses immigration visas to people with poor health and everyone seems to accept that without thinking they are evil.
We spend £millions on translators and treating people ineligible for the NHS but don’t charge them and many other areas of horrifying waste.

Each element may (or may not) be relatively small but all the waste adds up and prevents British citizens and taxpayers getting adequate care.

Increasing alcohol duties would be a guaranteed election loser.

The left would criticise it as another attack on the ordinary honest working class and the right would criticise it as unnecessary nanny state interference and people should have the right to cause permanent health damage if they want to.

Agree which political party has rhat on their mamifesto ?

Interestingly alcohol duties raise £11 billion per year. The cost to the country of alcohol is £27 billion in lost productivity and healthcare.

Solution is to raise alcohol duties on supermarket sales so that prices are the same whether you drink in a pub or at home.

Hello. Hope you had a good day.

As I said previously, there is not so much we can do about the demand level from older patients.

We haven’t managed to eradicate cancer.

But there are clearly avoidable costs that we should be dealing with:

Type 2 diabetes - as you say this is a huge cost and needs to be addressed either education and support.
Alcohol related harm - ditto
We need a means of stopping the free flow of people into our country who are carrying infectious diseases
We need to ban first cousin marriage and have a wide programme of education and limitations on immigration bringing severely disabled people into the country. Australia refuses immigration visas to people with poor health and everyone seems to accept that without thinking they are evil.
We spend £millions on translators and treating people ineligible for the NHS but don’t charge them and many other areas of horrifying waste.

Each element may (or may not) be relatively small but all the waste adds up and prevents British citizens and taxpayers getting adequate care.

Sorry have been at work today. But average age of user of the NHS is 74.

TB is a red herring- easy ro diagnose, easy to treat ( nearly always as an outpatient) and with effective vaccination.

Things that cost the NHS a fortune are:
Type 2 diabetes
Cancer care
Frailty of old age
Alcohol related harm of various kinds

Infectious disease come a very long way down the list.

The near collapse of the NHS is due to the aging population not immigrants who generally speaking are young and healthy.

Do you have evidence for that as I’m seeing a rise in terrible diseases like TB and approx 80% of those are from immigrants. There is also a significant additional load in some areas from the increased rate of birth defects and severe disabilities caused by repeated guest cousin marriage - highly prevalent in immigrants from countries like Pakistan.

Similarly most immigrants want to work and pay taxes frequently much harder and in jobs which white British people can't or won't do

Well that’s a rather sweeping negative generalisation about people based on the colour of their skin. It sounds like the Daily Mail circa 20 years ago. Try reversing the colour of skin and see if you still think it sounds ok. Can you show what evidence you have for that?

There is, however, evidence of white (especially men) being discriminated against for recruitment into organisations like the NHS, Armed Forces etc (who knows how far it goes). The ‘Rooney Rule’ (automatic shortlisting for minorities) and using race as a tie breaker in the NHS for starters. So the state makes it harder for white people to get the jobs yet you blame them for not wanting to work.

So are not the main cause of the increased benefits bill

I didn’t say that immigration is the main cause of the vast benefits bill but the huge and continually increasing numbers around immigration are exacerbating it. Something has to change. Any government that tries to make it harder to claim disability benefits meets enormous resistance from the Left so immigration is something we should have control over.

I agree we have a housing shortage and high unemployment.

Cool. So bringing in more people that need housing and benefits is not helpful.

See - for this is creeping in. Birmingham have what 4 MP’s voted in on one issue Gaza.

Can you imagine any other country having MP’s talking about an issue outside of that country. We need to be very careful about what is happening here.

See - for this is creeping in. Birmingham have what 4 MP’s voted in on one issue Gaza.

Can you imagine any other country having MP’s talking about an issue outside of that country. We need to be very careful about what is happening here.

The new mayor for Lewisham had to mention Gaza and its 'genocide' in his manifesto.

See - for this is creeping in. Birmingham have what 4 MP’s voted in on one issue Gaza.

Can you imagine any other country having MP’s talking about an issue outside of that country. We need to be very careful about what is happening here.

According to the BBC as of now Reform has the highest number of council seats in England:
949 in total with Lib Dems at 642, Labour at 613, Conservatives 526,
Green 300, Independents 109. Only 93 of 136 councils have completed their counts but if the pattern continues Reform comes out on top and can cause havoc even if they don't have complete control.😡
The Greens have won two mayoralties in London ... 😡

No you've completely mischaracterised what I've suggested. I'm going to bow out now as this isn't the first time you've mischaracterised (purposefully or not) what I've said, and then argued with that, rather than what I actually said. Honestly I saw you were arguing in bad faith when you asked if I wanted the government to buy drugs from criminals as if it was some kind of gotcha, and ignored the part of the research that didn't support what you were saying, but I thought I'd give you the benefit of the doubt. At some point one has to stop arguing with people who only hear what they want to hear.