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Corbyn about to be sectioned methinks?
- Thread starter Tony Towner's Fridge
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drew
Drew
It probably wouldn't but with a very conservative estimate of £2b it would go a little way to helping.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/08/to-defend-the-nhs-stop-health-tourism/
drew
Drew
That may be the case but he will still likely to be unelectable as those in the middle will not vote for him.
W.C.
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- Oct 31, 2011
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glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
Try posting some evidence to support that assertion.
www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Nuclear-attack
very basic but gives you an idea
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BeardyChops
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- Jan 24, 2009
- 461
Yep, I just went for the worst case.
50,000kt reassuringly wipes out croydon but leaves Brighton clear.
I imagine the trains would be royally f'ked tho.
Hastings gull
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- Nov 23, 2013
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Are they? Where is your evidence for such an assertion? Or did you mean . . "amounts of insane young people" . .
Fitzcarraldo
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- Nov 12, 2010
- 961
Surely that is the point? We would still be in NATO protected by the US's atomic missiles. We're not leaving NATO. Don't the US maintain ours anyway? It's unlikely we will stop being a US's poodle anytime soon and I am fairly sure they would never disarm so what difference does it make if we have them or not? Do you think you sleep better at night knowing somewhere under the Atlantic there is a submarine stuffed full of nuclear warheads ready to be shot off whenever David Cameron decides?
Your point about point Putin is void as no one is talking about the French, the US and whoever else has them getting rid of their atomic bombs. We are talking about the UK.
I have read that article so to get a fair balance I suggest you read the guardian article at www.theguardian.com/politics/reality/health-tourists-costing-nhs-2bn
as always things are more complicated than you think and are spun to support a particular view. For myself I prefer the Guardian to the Spectator for my information.
drew
Drew
Link doesn't seem to work!
drew
Drew
Are you deliberately missing the point that was made earlier? What you have posted is about a nuclear war where there would be widespread attacks on mulitple targets. The scenario made previously was one bomb on London and the question was how much that would affect. Your response was that it would eventually kill everyone in the UK which is ill informed.
alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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This proves you don't know what you're talking about.
drew
Drew
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Think I've found the article. It's a fair point but it seems nigh on impossible to get a definitive cost. The article refers to people travelling abroad for treatment but the question that would need to be answered is whether that treatment is covered by the NHS, ie is it cosmetic for example. Does it include patients sent abroad but paid for by the NHS? Does it include dental work as I have heard of people going abroad for that. As we know, most work you get done by a dentist seems to be outside of cover from the NHS!!!!
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
OK lets say it just London then depending on the size of the warhead,you might survive the blast in Burgess Hill but the radiation will evetually get there, as will all those who survive the blast in London.
the radiation will be carried by them as well as in the water supply.
good luck with getting anyone to treat you in the hospitals or finding uncontaminated food
drew
Drew
Absolute rubbish.
I think The Conservative party are the Ministerial dept of the country's wealthiest citizens. They exist to protect the elite's interest. It's the entire reason they were established. Corbyn, for all his faults wants a government that protects everybody in society and recognise the most vulnerable. There is merit in that but the country as a whole, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to see it, as 2/3 of the last century have seen Tory rule.
- Apr 13, 2015
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You cannot win an election by connecting only to the young labour voters,...his suggested additional connection to returning labour voters is far outweighed by the middle ground rejecting his extreme left policies.... he is a lame duck, soon to be outed by the party.
I actually think it's clever, stick this extreme duffer in the top labour role, let him stir the pot for a couple of years, then just before the next election campaign gets going, boot him out and bring in a more acceptable candidate ( Miliband, D? )..... The swingometer will be going mad.....
I guess most of the country don't agree with your opinion on why the tory party exist or who they serve, otherwise they wouldn't get in power.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,105
It is human nature for people's first instinct to be acting in their own interest.
Corbyn's vision for our country under a Labour government is transparently a decent one. He would no more desire to swill champagne and shag a pig than he would be able to fly to the moon...