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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Shifting health policy... · 0 replies · +1 points

If the state block buys, then that can happen, but if your GP sends you where you want to go, it's unlikely to.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Shifting health policy... · 4 replies · +1 points

This would be a mistake.

One of the factors in Germany's success in dealing with the pandemic was the way it used its private sector partners to deliver much more healthcare and cope with the excess demand the pandemic created.

An OECD report confirmed that the UK's public health sector was comparable in size and funding to most other countries but our private sector was woefully inadequate i

It is the excess capacity that the private sector has that gives you the buffer for times like this.

As Germany shows, funding patienrs and allowing them and their doctors to choose where they get treated irrespective of whether that is a public or private business is a better way of reducing and even eliminating waiting in the health system.

We should restore tax relief on private medical insurance and absolutely keep the option for referral to private health providers by NHS GPS.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Plea for phone canvass... · 1 reply · +1 points

The people who do the annoying Pizza menus and other fliers. We pay £60/1000. for individual delivery, £24 where they deliver more than one thing.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Plea for phone canvass... · 3 replies · +1 points

Labour in London are using paid delivery services, but the Party insist we only use Royal Mail or Whistl. This is costing 3-10x the cost of paid delivery (depending what you are doing).

Either the Labour Party need to be challenged or, as paid delivery services are allowed to operate, we should be allowed to use them as well.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Baron: Torching q... · 0 replies · +1 points

Rather than scrap cash to tackle the "black market", simply reduce or scrap VAT on those things in it. Building work on existing homes would be my preference.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Tony Devenish: Conserv... · 0 replies · +1 points

The cycling lobby, who also tend to be anti-car, frame a lot of their arguments about pollution air quality and congestion but a forward-looking politician would look to technological advances in battery and hydrogen powered electric vehicles and automated driving to solve these issues and as such negate these arguments.

If we can all dial-up an autonomous trike on our smartphone to take us to work the gym shopping etc why shouldn't we live in a house in a village in the countryside and commute 30 to 50 miles on the days we're not working from home (or even 5 miles to the local train station), avoiding other vehicles automatically whizzing across junctions which no longer need traffic lights whilst not polluting at all?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andy Cook: To help red... · 0 replies · +1 points

Separate the housing benefit element from UC. Pay this as a direct payment to landlords and set it at the Local Housing Allowance rate. Scrap "social rent" entirely and give Housing Associations (like Councils) 50 year, low interest loans to build.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why Ministers shouldn'... · 2 replies · +1 points

There is a wider concern. Vaccines have been incredibly effective at reducing infectious diseases. So much so that few people living can remember what happened before they became a normal part of the health protection policy of most developed nations.

That's why one I'll-founded scare story led to a significant fall in vaccination rates and the return of measles and mumps over the past 10-15 years.

Vaccines are a modern, medical miracle. We need to support their use.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - As housing day opens a... · 1 reply · +1 points

London's outer suburbs are hammered by the suggested housing numbers.

Expect two and three storey suburban homes to be demolished in favour of tower blocks by Labour run Councils keen to finish Morrison's work and drive every last Conservative MP and Councillor out of London.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Alliance for Unity, th... · 4 replies · +1 points

The separatists are split. United only by their hatred of the English.

They turn a blind eye to Sturgeon and the SNP's awful record in government across all areas and blame "the tooories" for everything despite getting record funding.

The unionists need to attack that record. Undermine Sturgeon and the whole house of cards will collapse.

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