The thing with me is I'm honest, a bit too honest if I'm being honest - which I am of course.
Anyway, if I don't understand something I'll say 'I don't understand that'. What I don't do is pull out the old 'not even going to dignify this with an answer' card which I consider to always be a very, very poor response.
Let me explain, we can expect around 1% of healthcare employees to die in service every year. Covid appears to have claimed 0.017% of them so far. It's barely making a difference.
The methadone generation will qualify for the new old age pension which next April will be £175 per week whilst anyone who has a company pension will not qualify for this higher rate because they paid a ‘contracted out’ national insurance rate. People who have never worked a day in their life qualify for the new higher rate old age pension which is hardly fair.
Politics is one of my specialist subjects along with health and incompetent politicians from Community Council level up to the House of Lords.
Here is something for you to mull over.
My late brother who was a solicitor and PFI expert told me that if the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood had been built under a PFI scheme costing £40 Million (the original cost) it would have cost £40 Million which would have also included maintenance and any repairs throughout the length of the PFI contract.
In the event the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood cost £420 Million as a result of the MSPs continually changing the design of the building. Since it opened millions of pounds has been spent on repairs and maintenance..
What a waste of money. The MSPs should have used the former Royal High School building which was the original choice for the Scottish Parliament or rented the Church of Scotland building at the Mound which is used once a year for the General Assembly.
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You seem to be an expert on politics. If so why are you not an MP at Westminster. For all we know you might be a SNP MP such as Chris Law or Stewart Hosie hiding behind your username.
How would you have dealt with the huge deficit which the outgoing Labour Government with Gordon Brown as Prime Minister left in April 2010.
Would you have done the usual Labour policy or raising taxes on beer, baccy and petrol including diesel. Alternatively would you have printed money so that the pound in your pocket was devalued thanks rising prices which would have hit the OAPs whose savings would soon fall thanks to rising prices.
Of course you are not interested in the OAPs so printing money would probably be your preferred choice to deal with the deficit even if the U.K. pound became worthless.
I look forward to reading your detailed proposals that the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government should have put in place in May 2010.