RE: The Lib Dems claim that the Windfall Profits tax isn't affecting the UKCS, but......28 Sep 2025 21:19
Nik - Yes our Dept to GDP is in fact ~135% when the NHS and other public pension labilities are factored in, its a bomb ! I have know many NHS workers and one of my ex GFs was a nurse, on £50k 8 years ago and could have added to that with some add on specializations to £70k, but she didn't want to, she had that luxury. An awful lot are overpaid and on 25% pensions a year, its just not sustainable, but they can hold us all to ransom and of course they all vote Labour, they have been a thorn in the side of the UK for decades. They also have "private practice" which is affectively moonlighting, myself and friends have jumped queues and ended up on a ward with cash in an envelope paid (no joke), we did get receipts and I do believe they pay the NHS a fee for using some the equipment, but I would guess there is huge abuse with the tax and fees. We jumped 12 months queues with cash for the Dr. Anecdote, don't think so.
I had an insurance claim because of an eye injury due to wrong eye protection supplied when I was grinding out a Weld prep you could fit your fist in on a wind turbine (another scam). They had taken out 18 flakes of steel 2 months before and I was healed, it was just a check for an insurance company, for the claim. I walked in fine, saw little children with eyes patches on, old grannies and grandads and some you could see blood on their eye patches etc, struggling. Yet I walked in, was seen before all of them, no issues with sight at that point. I felt awful then and I fell awful now about that, it was 10am and on NHS time, I was the least person that needed the Dr.
It needs a complete re-think in this country ! No more operations and BS if you are fat without a medical issue, get exercise and sort your diet, think you are woman when you clearly are not, do one. Alot needs to be stripped out, NHS used to treat broken legs, arms and the usual stuff, now its a woke arm of the left and its killing us and its corrupt. £15k Titanian hip in a 90yo ffs, Boob jobs etc, crazy !