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[hunkermunker]

Does anyone believe a word Michael Howard says?

Or Tony Bliar for that matter?

Hunker - hello twin

He's dripping sweat...

our Dr system is brill

we can either book an appointment days/weeks ahead

or book one day for next morning or morning for afternoon

We think it is brill

You're lucky then Kanga, most people have to ring up on the morning they want to go, unless you want an appointemtn 3 weeks ahead. I could not ring up tomorrow for an appointment on Monday or Tuesday, it wouldn't be allowed.

Deffo brill!

Ours has a telephone triage system too - we can ring on the morning and a doctor rings us back, then if s/he feels we need to come in, they set aside a block of appointments that morning for people to see the doctor who's run the telephone clinic that morning. Deffo brill too

which policies do you disagree with JulieF?

Last year dd had a problenm with her nose, when I rung up I was asked if it was an emergency, so I said no. I was offered an appointment for 2 weeks later. Turned out she had an object stuck up it which was infected and she should have been seen within a few days. She had to have an op the next day.

DH had an appointment in evening 2 days ago and rang up for the telephone surgery

{between 10-10.30 you can ring and your GP will talk to you,}

anyway GP talked to DH and then decided that it was too serious to wait til evening and so came out to see him at home after lunch.

Our GP surgery is DEFFO BRILL

Perhaps its just a Stoke thing Julie? - our GP is the same as yours. Plus I can only currently get repeat prescriptions with a months supply - despite dd being on the same meds for 10 years now.

LibDems? The 50% tax rate as I think it will hit businesses. People like my parents for example may feel it is not worth it to make their business grow so the 20 people who work for them will not be emplyed.

Agree with the scrapping of the child bonus thing though and I like how upfront they are.

Not sure about the local income tax thing either as it will hit people who haven't budgeted for the change, it would need to be brought in very very slowly or it will give some families huge problems.

hm - on your original post - yes, me.

Blair looks knackered and as usual got an easy ride. great last question from Dimbleby - why wouldn't Blair have an open debate - it would have been for more interesting.

JT it would on one way but they would have just slagged each other off

I do actually like our local (labour) MP though. Have met her severakl times and she has supported a group I am involved with.

I like the new surgery system too - you know where you are.

I find it odd that Blair doesn't state more FACTS about Labour's achievements, because lots of them are impressive, e.g. waiting time reductions, staff numbers in the NHS etc. You'd think he'd cite the figures more instead of being so vague about improvements.

Also he's good when he's combatting Howard's 'ideas' by saying things like "That's the sort of priviliged policy that I don't want for Britain" - sounds more like a leader.

Bit of a worry how much the public seem to hate him though - especially as Howard would have made all the same key decisions.

And he WAS sweaty. I still fancy him a bit though.

Howard - I agree, scary church warden, children-catcher.

Kennedy - he's so good, definitely underrated, especially as he's probably not slept for a month.

perhaps the chair was very sweaty

I liked the fact that they had colour coded water glasses

Yes I liked the glasses too

(only a woman would notice that!!)

be honest - he's crap

It is worrying though, listening to that rabble, you think 'Who the feck are they are planning on voting for then?'

the one at the front in the green seemed to have an argument with everyone!

Oh yes Blair's lost that spark

And I had an erotic dream about Gordon Brown lately - my love is waning

Yes I thought that they were going to chuck him out!

The bullying bloke

he spoke to blair at end too

Aw I liked the bullying bloke

He obviously had the crap beaten out of him when he was a young 'un

(FGS yes Blair's comment about women giving up work to start a family WAS dumb wasn't it? You'd think he was married to a matronly housewife.)

no kanga the one in the green t-shirt that nearly blobbed MH!