Risk_or_Chance

Risk_or_Chance

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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Cummings 2) The Church... · 1 reply · +1 points

What does church going have to do with believe in Jesus as your Saviour?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Cummings 2) The Church... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think you are talking about the Church of England.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Murrison: Why w... · 0 replies · +1 points

It looks like the PHE was following the W.H.O. guidelines, with pandemics being only in third place in importance, and Climate Change at the top! (And the NHS still recruiting Climate Change personnel in the middle of this pandemic! :) )

And then they relied on computer models that gave them results that were pretty obvious, apart from the exact numbers. But those were poor as we had so little data to start with! It's not that dissimilar to the expensive Climate Alarmism disaster!

PHE need to focus on British needs, not a W.H.O. agenda.

This problem isn't a Health Problem: it's a Business Problem, because everyone is dependent on businesses to deliver goods and services.

The Business Problem includes the Public Health Problem. It also includes the supply of medical equipment and services (like dentistry and cancer diagnosis and treatments). There's water, electricity and food supplies, good communications, you know the rest! It's current news.

So instead of just the NHS running the show, we need people from Business playing a major part. It does sound like a path to a planned economy, but it is still better than the NHS telling businesses what to do, which is really what is happening now! It will also encourage businesses to plan with pandemics in mind, like securing supplies close to home.

And an effective risk management plan is part of Management!

Added: I can remember when the risk of fire was dealt with by being sensible and calling the fire brigade when there was a fire. Now we have fire alarms in homes, fire inspections and training, etc.

I think, now that pandemics have been seen to be so good as a bioweapon, that the threat has become much greater.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Murrison: Why w... · 0 replies · +1 points

"Exercise Cygnus was a simulation exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Cygnus

I can't remember the PM at the time. :)

"The Daily Telegraph reported one government source as saying that the results of the simulation were "too terrifying" to be revealed."

Oh dear! Was anything done to improve matters?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Cummings. The Prime Mi... · 1 reply · +1 points

Diminished instinctive loyalty to the leader occurred in 1990.

Dominic Grieve, David Gauke, Alistair Burt, Nicholas Soames have gone because they were disloyal to the Party, when they were available.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Cummings 1) Rolling li... · 1 reply · +1 points

There are more criteria than 'available' when it comes to your own children, especially aged four.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Cummings 1) Rolling li... · 0 replies · +1 points

Not compared to William Hague! :)

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Cummings 1) At a strok... · 0 replies · +1 points

The warming that ended the Ice Age started a long time before the Industrial Revolution, as did the cooling of the tropical climate to temperate climate, so Climate can vary naturally, without Mankind's intervention, and usually over periods greater than 200 years.
If only the Press and BBC et al would inform the Public of that, instead of spreading the Al Gore Agenda.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Green: Easing o... · 0 replies · +1 points

The Conservative, small government, way would be to keep civil servants away where possible.
I would expect wages will not rise in the short to medium future, they might even reduce, so the current level of Minimum Wage should be sufficient.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Green: Easing o... · 1 reply · +1 points

Much of the problem is taxation. If two neighbours decided to decorate each others houses for £100, as an incremental cost they would be losing 25% of their net pay as income tax (£20 on £80 received) and then VAT (which would put the price up to £120), so one third of the total price goes to the Government, and then there is NI on top.
No wonder it is so difficult for lower wealth creating jobs, even if valuable in other ways, to be created.

Will Boris do something about it?
Will he even think about it?