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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Green: What's t... · 0 replies · +1 points

+1
Except Teachers don't work 12+ hour shifts and cover 365 days a year like nurses -- I am not saying teaching is easy, but nursing is even harder -- that is why London is dependant on Philipino nurses who of course cant get here at the moment (or go home) at all easily

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Green: What's t... · 2 replies · +1 points

1. Many senior Nurses earn over £35,000 especially in London
2. London has the greatest shortages - currently many UK born nurses who were working in London have moved out as the high cost of living, long commutes, poor quality of rental property, the difficulty of getting on the housing ladder, and now the Covid19 workload & restrictions make London unattractive (my son is a nurse, I know this stuff)
3. We should be training many more nurses - the decision to eliminate the Bursary was a foolish mistake whose effects will live for for years to come. Competent ICU nurses take 3 years of nursing training, plus ward experience, plus a 6 month ICU specialist training course to become effective - they do not spring full formed out of thin air

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Angus Gillan and Jake ... · 0 replies · +1 points

agreed

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - James Frayne: Six ways... · 0 replies · +1 points

Reminder the Tories have been in power since 2010, they reduced police numbers so that is why you never see a police officer anymore - where are the 10,000 extra officers we were pomised
The Tories decided not to revalue the Council Tax system; many local councils have seen their central Govt support grants have been cut, and most of the council budget is tied up in social care and schools budgets, so they cut out every expense that was not a statutory requirement, so Library budgets were cut, Museums hours reduced etc
Regular inexpensive buses with tiny numbers of passengers cost a fortune in subsidies - where is the money coming from?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Montford: Hones... · 1 reply · +1 points

where do you get your costs of Covid19 from?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Montford: Hones... · 0 replies · +1 points

As the telecoms industry knows, its the last mile that is the expensive bit for fibre rolllout.
In the same way the Grid Interconnectors are important; but far more important is the buried distribution network from the last Transformer to the Meter - if that is not big enough for peak demand for electric heating & EV charging, these rollouts will fail; and 000's of km of fat copper cables cost far more to install than fibre to the home.
The electricity industry is saying nothing about this cost - and their miserable failure in rolling out Smart meters does not bode well.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Phoebe Arslanagić-Wak... · 0 replies · +1 points

Especially Tory donors

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Phoebe Arslanagić-Wak... · 0 replies · +1 points

Add to that the apparently voluntary nature of Driving Licence, Car Tax, MOT & Insurance - try following your local Police Force Road Policing Unit on Twitter - start with Thames Valley - @tvprp - Every day they pull motorists over with no tax, no insurance, no Driving Licence, duff Tyres etc. It is obvious that they can only be reaching the tip of the iceberg of crime here. I blame austerity!

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Robert Halfon: Who's u... · 1 reply · +1 points

True - I drove down to the tip of the heel of Italy from Brindisi this year - this is an agricultural area with a number of small coastal villages, some tourism, but less than Cornwall -- there is a proper dual carriageway road from Brindisi to Santa Maria di Leuca - proper junctions, no roundabouts, no traffic lights - the contrast with roads in the south-west was as usual marked - we are in thrall to a tiny minority of Greens (one MP!); get the UK road system sorted out - it is used every day unlike the rail system.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Robert Halfon: Who's u... · 1 reply · +1 points

It is ironic that Robert Halfon is an Essex MP - it never ceases to amaze me why the people of essex still vote Conservative when they have one of the worst roads in the Country - the A12 - joining Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Harwich, Colchester, Chelmsford to the M25 - it needs upgrading to motorway standard at least as far as Felixstowe - one of our major ports. This would do far more for Essex & Suffolk than the billions being wasted on HS2 will ever do.

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