Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
Please PLEASE i NEED 'CREDIBILITY' ON THIS BOARD!
How will one ever survive!?!?!
I feel like Boris Johnson or LIz Truss!!
FORGIVE ME GATEBOY!!
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!
Oh dear GOD give me SSSSSSSSSSSSSTRENGTH.
You lot are nuttier than a walnut loaf for crying out loud.
I'm certain there are many happy with the buyback long but the fact remains that the UK is not perceived as the best place to place your money these days. Lloyds seem to be in a very healthy position yet the SP is stagnant and has been for years. The SP has not reached the level it was at in 2016 even with the buybacks.
I have no love for Branson and his stance on the EU aside he is only saying what many an investor is thinking.
The UK is not the place to invest. Why do you think the likes of LLOY SP is going nowhere? A UK bank is percieved by many to not be a sound investment and you can thank your Brexit and the Tory Party for that state of affairs. If you're too DAFT to realise that is the case so be it.
Is that the same 'dysfunctional institution' that had it's waiting lists magically reduced to 18 weeks the moment we had a LABOUR government?
You OLD Tory BIGOTS really ought to remember it is YOU that is most likely to be in need of medical care.
The report pinpoints Cameron’s decision to reduce the NHS’s annual budget increases from Labour’s 3.6% to an average of just 1.5% as the key reason for the service’s loss of capacity. The service’s performance against a number of waiting time targets that Labour introduced began spiralling downwards in 2015 and has worsened every year since.
The report comes days after the latest official figures showed that the waiting list in England for non-urgent care in hospital had reached a new record high of 7.2 million people.
DON'T GET ILL IN TORY BRITAIN. THEY'VE DELIBERATELY WRECKED THE NHS.
FACT.
..pinpoints budget squeeze as key reason for National Health Service's loss of capacity.
A “DECADE OF NEGLECT” BY SUCCESSIVE CONSERVATIVE ADMINISTRATIONS has weakened the NHS to the point that it will not be able to tackle the 7 million-strong backlog of care, a government-commissioned report has concluded.
The paper by the King’s Fund health thinktank says years of denying funding to the health service and failing to address its growing workforce crisis has left it with too few staff, too little equipment and too many outdated buildings to perform the amount of surgery needed.
The UK’s poor public finances, health service staff suffering from exhaustion, and a wave of NHS strikes this winter will also lead to ministers being unable to deliver key pledges on eradicating routinely long waits, the thinktank says.
The findings are ESPECIALLY EMBARASSING FOR CONSERVATIVES because the report was ordered by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) late last year. They are critical of the impact on the NHS of the austerity programme initiated by David Cameron in 2010 and continued by his successor, Theresa May.
The report draws an unfavourable contrast with the tactics used by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s Labour governments in the 2000s to address the horrendously long waits for care they inherited in 1997.TH
“Though Covid certainly exacerbated the crisis in the NHS and social care, we are ultimately paying the price for a decade of neglect,” said the King’s Fund chief executive, Richard Murray.
“The sporadic injections of cash during the austerity years after 2010 were at best meant to cover [the service’s] day-to-day running costs. This dearth of long-term investment has led to a health and care system hamstrung by a lack of staff and equipment and crumbling buildings. These critical challenges have been obvious for years.
“The NHS in 2022 faces many of the same challenges it faced in 2000: unacceptably long waiting times and a service hobbled by staff shortages. To that is now added a cost of living crisis, industrial action by staff and a backdrop of a weak economy and weak public finances.”
The report is based on the first in-depth academic research undertaken in the UK into what measures ministers and NHS bosses can deploy to tackle situations such as those prevailing today, where massive numbers of patients are again facing long delays to access planned hospital care.
Its findings are based on a review of evidence around waiting times and, in particular, interviews with 14 experts, including many of the key figures IN LABOUR's SUCCESSFUL ERADICATION OF LONG WAITING LISTS.
“We have essentially had TEN YEARS OF MANAGED DECLINE (NO ****!) . THIS IS NOT A COVID PROBLEM. THIS IS AN AUSTERITY PROBLEM.”