UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

Coolio55 · Oct 5, 2024

SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Welcome to reform. Ginsters pasties and hobgoblin ale ore to your right.

Oh boy! I can't wait to vote for that tearaway new party that's begging and pleading to anyone that'll listen that it's completely identical to the establishment and no really we'll bus in *MORE* monkeys than that clueless shit Kier.

Whoopsie Daisy · Oct 5, 2024

FedPostalService said:
I can’t see the angle but I’m guessing consultants with press and political connections? I can’t look too much into it as I know I’ll get a Facebook retard level of rage and go down a dark rabbit hole that would be hard for me to escape from.

My take/the gist IMO is:

Letby is a social outcast who didn't fit in on the ward, probably had very poor training and is a blond-haired white girl. I don't doubt the possibility that some fuck ups, poor decision making or crap training led to kids dying. I do entirely doubt that she was a baby-killing monster and that the narrative was easier to create, with help from other, equally as incompetent nurses, that Letby was just that.
After the Staffordshire hospital malarky, wards get shut down quick-time when a couple of infants kick the bucket, regardless of reason.

Another report dropped on the BBC last week again calling for another inquiry and a retrial, stating the evidence presented was incorrect and the truth as to what happened, how and - if Letby did kill those kids, what lessons are learned to prevent it happening in the future. The trial and story surrounding letby, even if she is a murderer, has been ended so quickly that no viable lessons have been learned other than "Letby bad".

The question that should be asked, which is not and is brushed over or deflected when approached is; "Why did the managers of the ward and the managers of the staff not immediately step in after 1, 2 or 3 dead kids? Why did this persist for four years before anyone could pretend to even be arsed to care enough?"
One of the potential deaths of one of the kids could have been a serious contagious infection/MRSA and nothing was done.

The biggest "that shit ain't right" part for me is how everyone involved with the Letby story was programmed to believe she was guilty, she definitely murdered those babies and anyone questioning that was a cold-hearted, brainless, child-hating maniac. Those sorts of emotionally charged reactionary tactics, based on no evidence, were used with Sandy Hook, COVID; Masks, jabs, social distancing, the was on Iraq and Afghanistan, 9/11, The Vegas Shooting, Saville accusations and many, many more.

/austism.

anklyscr · Oct 5, 2024

Chaotic Pizzaparty said:
Well technically we are all organ donors now and need to opt out but they sneakily introduced that.

As the days pass it feels like we are living in a shitty 40k novel.

Opt’d out during Covid when they started pulling the need to be vaccinated shit.

My pureblood organs weren’t good enough during the worst virus evar, they aren’t good enough now.

FedPostalService · Oct 5, 2024

Bog-standard Poster said:
The trial and story surrounding letby, even if she is a murderer, has been ended so quickly that no viable lessons have been learned other than "Letby bad".

If they had to look too hard they’d need to dismantled our state religion, the NHS, and talking bad about it is heresy.

Some of the worst people I’ve worked with have been former NHS office staff. They’ll cry about how bad it was and all the bullying that went on but at the same time want to import dumb and outdated systems whilst playing dumb political games, only to stab everyone who fell for their bullshit in the back and leave.

isalaide · Oct 5, 2024

anklyscr said:
Opt’d out during Covid when they started pulling the need to be vaccinated shit.

My pureblood organs weren’t good enough during the worst virus evar, they aren’t good enough now.

Opt out anyway. It's one of the few completely legal ways you have to kill a stranger.

ResignedCustodes · Oct 5, 2024

Chaotic Pizzaparty said:
Well technically we are all organ donors now and need to opt out but they sneakily introduced that.

As the days pass it feels like we are living in a shitty 40k novel.

I opted out ages ago due to Kevin Gibes alloderm tweet.

No fucking way, now no one gets any of the organs.

FedPostalService · Oct 5, 2024

I’m an organ donor but that’s because I want to haunt whoever takes my destroyed liver.

Otterly · Oct 5, 2024

Chaotic Pizzaparty said:
think you will see some animal farm level shit where employees who love to kill will be viewed as psychotic from their peers

This is a very interesting thing to hear and i hope it’s true. The people I know who worked with the dying and dead haven’t lasted long doing it and one killed himself. That article portrays 400 ‘euthanised’ (killed, the word is killed ffs) as something almost flippant and trivial. I can’t imagine accepting that as true, it cannot be trivial, it cannot be accepted as trivial. She should be shunned, and it would be very interesting to see what her colleagues think of her.
I said a while back this was going to come up - you could see the media push start to ramp up and then there were all those Esther Rantzen articles. It’s been astroturfed in the press quite heavily the last year or so

FedPostalService · Oct 5, 2024

Otterly said:
This is a very interesting thing to hear and i hope it’s true. The people I know who worked with the dying and dead haven’t lasted long doing it and one killed himself. That article portrays 400 ‘euthanised’ (killed, the word is killed ffs) as something almost flippant and trivial. I can’t imagine accepting that as true, it cannot be trivial, it cannot be accepted as trivial. She should be shunned, and it would be very interesting to see what her colleagues think of her.
I said a while back this was going to come up - you could see the media push start to ramp up and then there were all those Esther Rantzen articles. It’s been astroturfed in the press quite heavily the last year or so

Isn’t this why care homes for the elderly have a few dedicated and professional staff whilst the rest are 70 iq foreigners or local retards hoping it’s a pathway into an NHS job as discovering corpses all the time isn’t a thing a modern functioning human being can usually cope with?

Otterly · Oct 5, 2024

FedPostalService said:
Isn’t this why care homes for the elderly have a few dedicated and professional staff whilst the rest are 70 iq foreigners or local retards hoping it’s a pathway into an NHS job as discovering corpses all the time isn’t a thing a modern functioning human being can usually cope with?

Maybe but the cynic in me says it’s cost. There’s money in elderly care but only if you stack them high and employ minimum wage

Morethanabitfoolish · Oct 5, 2024

https://archive.ph/KO7eI

Telegraph source so the bias is well known, if the figures are accurate then still pretty bad.

One in 50 Albanians in the UK is in jail, according to analysis revealing the first league table of criminality by nationality.
More than 1,200 Albanians have been sent to prison from a migrant population of nearly 53,000 Albanians living in the UK who do not have UK citizenship, according to a Telegraph analysis of official data.
They top a table of more than 130 nationalities ranked on the number of prisoners per 10,000 of the population in the UK from their countries. Albanians are followed by Kosovans, Vietnamese, Algerians, Jamaicans, Eritreans, Iraqis and Somalis.
The analysis suggests that the overall imprisonment rate of foreign nationals is 27 per cent higher than for British citizens. It shows 18.2 inmates per 10,000 migrants compared with the UK’s 14 per 10,000. German, Italian, Indian, Greek, US, Sri Lankan, French and Chinese nationals are the least likely to be jailed.

It is the first time such an analysis has been carried out amid claims that there has been an “institutional cover-up” over the publication of migrant crime rates.
Senior Tory MPs have urged both the Conservative and Labour governments to publish data like Denmark and some US states that would enable league tables of the crime rates of each nation’s migrants to be compiled.
While data on nationalities among the prison population reveals the scale of serious crimes committed by non-UK nationals, information about offences committed by migrants for which they are not jailed is not published.
A backbench amendment to Rishi Sunak’s Sentencing Bill would have required the Government each year to present a report to Parliament detailing the nationality, visa and asylum status of every offender convicted in English and Welsh courts in the previous 12 months. The Bill was ditched due to the election.
Supporters including Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick and former minister Neil O’Brien argue such data would enable the Home Office to toughen up visa and deportation policies for nationalities linked to higher rates of crime in the UK.

Mr O’Brien said it was a “fascinating” analysis by The Telegraph which revealed “enormous variations” between nationalities.
“It is shameful that the Government refuses to publish so much of the information which it holds about this subject. It should be available to the public so we can have an informed debate,” he said.
“The Home Office knows the immigration status of prisoners and whether they were here legally or illegally, but it does not publish this. It knows about the offending history of overseas nationals in our prisons and whether they are committing multiple offences but it does not publish this.
“Across the board, the migration debate is hampered by a lack of data which the Government could easily publish but chooses not to on things like the impact on public services and spending. The data the Government is refusing to disclose on criminal justice is a particularly bad example of this.”
Mr Jenrick said: “This analysis confirms what the public will have sensed for a long time: some nationalities are more likely to go on to commit serious crimes than others. It once again points to the need for a far more tightly controlled immigration system, including more rigorous security checks for nationalities linked to criminality in the UK.”

The Telegraph compiled the league table by taking data from the Ministry of Justice which shows there are 10,435 foreign nationals in jails in England and Wales compared with 76,866 British nationals. Nations with fewer than 20 people in UK jails were excluded because of the low sample size.
This was cross-referenced with Office for National Statistics 2021 census data, from which was extracted the number of foreign nationals from each country who have not got a UK passport. There may be some margin for error as some foreign nationals could have been granted citizenship but not applied for a passport.
The Albanian imprisonment rate was 232.33 per 10,000 people – or one in 50. This was calculated based on the census data showing 68,672 foreign-born Albanians lived in the UK. Excluding the 15,860 without a UK passport leaves some 52,000. With 1,227 in jail, it equates to two per cent of Albanians.
The analysis is likely to have underestimated the size of the Albanian population as it does not take into account illegal migrants including more than 12,000 who reached the UK in small boats across the Channel in 2022. Some estimates have put it as high as 140,000, which would make it just under one in 100 in jail.
At the time the census was conducted in 2021, there were 300 more Albanians in prison than there are now, meaning the proportion would be even higher than current estimates.
The Albanians are followed by Kosovans with an imprisonment rate of 150.23 per 10,000, Vietnamese (148.8, Algerians (124.41), Jamaicans (110.77), Eritreans (110.7), Iraqis (104.43) and Somalis (100.37). All have more than one in 100 of their respective populations in jail.
They are at least 25 times more likely to be in jail than foreign nationals with the lowest rates of imprisonment and at least seven times the rate of British citizens at 14.27 per 100,000 of the population.
Germany had the fewest, at 4.68 per 10,000 (one in 2,000), followed by Italy (4.96), India (6.24), Greece (6.36), US (7.27), Sri Lanka (8.17), France (8.64) and China (9.39).
A government spokesman said: “This Government is committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will pursue their deportation.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/05/labour-plans-u-turn-on-investment-tax-crackdown/

Mao Hao Hao · Oct 5, 2024

FedPostalService said:
Isn’t this why care homes for the elderly have a few dedicated and professional staff whilst the rest are 70 iq foreigners or local retards hoping it’s a pathway into an NHS job as discovering corpses all the time isn’t a thing a modern functioning human being can usually cope with?

The hospital I work in has a whole floor solely for the elderly, and going on those wards is like spot the white staff member. Majority are Indian or African, and they are just the most unemotional people, and also won't really respond quickly to anyone calling for a nurse or for help. I deal with machines and medical supplies all day, I'm no nurse, but I'll still try and at least find someone who gives a fuck and tell them.
It's funny, the vast majority of the porters, cleaners and other staff are still white, and they dislike many of the immigrant staff, so there is a lot more pushback in those departments when slackers happen or shoddy work is done. Too bad it doesn't extend to the healthcare people.

SirCliveSinclairdabbing · Oct 5, 2024

anklyscr said:
Opt’d out during Covid when they started pulling the need to be vaccinated shit.

My pureblood organs weren’t good enough during the worst virus evar, they aren’t good enough now.

You need to be opted out in Wales separately. (Dunno bout scotland)

Morethanabitfoolish · Oct 5, 2024

In lighter news, because we need it, Sadiq has more fun plans for London.

https://archive.ph/JVERb

Everyone agrees that a pedestrianised Oxford Street would offer a vastly more pleasant visitor experience (The Guardian view on Oxford Street: a pedestrianisation project with legs, 22 September). But Sadiq Khan’s scheme needs to resolve the same obstacle that has defeated all of the numerous previous attempts.

General traffic is already banned from Oxford Street, so the problem is the presence of buses and taxis. The taxis could be required – no doubt under protest – to pick up and set down in the numerous side streets, but there is no obvious alternative for the 16 bus routes that now use it.

These routes convey more than 200,000 passengers to, from or via Oxford Street every day – many of whom, before they board or after they alight, are exactly the same individuals as the pedestrians whose interests everyone is rightly keen to promote.

London has no central bus station, so the stops along Oxford Street fufill this function. If they were in a bus station, it would be the busiest in Europe, and possibly the world. There is no parallel road running the length of Oxford Street on to which they could be diverted, and no vacant land that could be used as a terminus.

Creating a mayoral development corporation will shift the locus of political responsibility, but it cannot readily reconfigure the urban geography of central London, which lies at the heart of this perennial dilemma.
John Cartledge
Former head of research, London TravelWatch

Your editorial on the need to consult carefully over the plan to pedestrianise Oxford Street is right and timely. But there is no mention of the needs of bus users. Those of us who live in north-west London who cannot use the tube because of lack of disabled access (West Hampstead is a particularly striking example) rely entirely on the 139 route to get to Oxford Circus, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden or Waterloo (South Bank). We need to know precisely how the bus access currently provided from north to south of Oxford Street is to be maintained or replaced.
Martin and Barbara Harris
London

https://archive.ph/MsbKy

Cyclists will not be allowed to access London’s Oxford Street as part of Sadiq Khan’s pedestrianisation plans, with the Mayor’s office confirming to road.cc that it’s working to provide “alternative routes and enhanced provision” for cyclists, with a potential for opening it to be used by cyclists at night.
In an announcement that even “blindsided” Westminster City Council — responsible for the central London high street — Mayor Sadiq Khan’s office said this morning that a 0.7 mile stretch between Oxford Circus and Marble Arch will become a traffic-free road, with the potential for further changes towards Tottenham Court Road.
The pedestrianisation initiative, aimed at creating a “beautiful public space”, comes as part of the mayor’s “urgent actions” to transform and revitalise the street that was affected by a shift to online shopping and the Covid-19 pandemic, so that it can “once again become the leading retail destination in the world.”
road.cc reached out to the Mayor of London’s office to ask whether cyclists will be allowed to be a part of this ‘beautiful public space’ and were told: “We will be working with the community and stakeholders to finalise specific plans, but the concept for Oxford Street is as a pedestrianised area.

“We will be working to provide alternative routes for cyclists, enhanced cycling provision and potential cyclist access at night.”
It’s not clear how cyclists will be barred entry from the high street, and if cyclists found riding on the road will penalised or not, but more details about the plan are expected to emerge later.
> Proposed Oxford Street cycling ban a “disaster for cycling in London,” says Andrew Gilligan
The pedestrianisation plans formed part of Khan’s election manifesto in the 2016 London mayoral elections. He previously tried to implement major changes to Oxford Street, but was blocked from implementing his plans primarily by Westminster City Council, led by Tories at the time.

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This time, his plan has been backed by the new UK Government, aimed at delivering a “much-improved experience for shoppers, residents, workers and tourists visiting Oxford Street and the surrounding area” and compete with other international high street destinations, such as Times Square in New York, the Champs-Elysees in Paris and Las Ramblas in Barcelona.
The Mayor said: “Oxford Street was once the jewel in the crown of Britain’s retail sector, but there’s no doubt that it has suffered hugely over the last decade. Urgent action is needed to give the nation’s most famous high street a new lease of life.
“I am excited to be working with the new Government, and local retailers and businesses, on these plans - that will help to restore this famous part of the capital to its former glory, while creating new jobs and economic prosperity for the capital and the country.
“I want Oxford Street to once again become the leading retail destination in the world. The transformation of Oxford Street will be a leading example of how working together – City Hall and the new Government – we can build a better London for everyone.”

Angela Rayner, Deputy Prime Minister said that the plan to revitalise Oxford Street will “drive growth by creating new jobs, generating economic activity, and giving a much-needed boost to London’s night-time economy.”
However, Westminster City Council, now led by Labour, said that they weren’t made aware of this announcement and only found out about the details less than a week ago. However, it said that it would “work constructively” with the mayor.
Stuart Love, Chief Executive of Westminster City Council said: “Westminster City Council has spent the last two years working closely with businesses and resident groups to develop detailed proposals to redesign and improve Oxford Street.
“These plans are shovel ready, have had the support of retailers and the local community and were intended to deliver significant economic growth whilst also securing a successful future for our thriving neighbourhoods in the West End.
“It will be important to receive further details about what is planned, including how long it could take to be delivered and how the concerns of local residents and users of the street will be addressed.
“We will want to know how they will benefit from any proposals, particularly given the practical challenges pedestrianisation may have for the wider area. As a custodian of the West End, our role will be to ensure that local voices are heard loud and clear.”
> Banning cyclists and pedestrians from Britain's "most expensive street" slammed "a selfish and spiteful act" by Labour candidate standing for election in the area
In 2017, London’s cycling and walking commissioner Will Norman had conceded that cyclists could be banned from Oxford Street once it gets pedestrianised, saying: “In Oxford Street in the morning peak there are about 200 cyclists per hour. In Wigmore Street, slightly to the north, there are about the same number per hour, and again on New Cavendish Street and George Street.
“As a combination, they begin to add up, so it’s very important we do look at the cycling facilities in that area as part of that scheme. Whether they go down Oxford Street or alternative routes, that is why we do need to do a consultation and understand what the needs are of local residents and other stakeholders.”
In the same year, Andrew Gilligan, London’s former cycling commissioner under Boris Johnson, claimed that banning cyclists from Oxford Street represented “an unqualified disaster for cycling in London.”
He warned that the lack of suitable parallel routes for safe infrastructure for bike riders means an Oxford Street cycling ban would be ignored by many, and that the road will become “London’s biggest unofficial example of the notorious failure that is shared space.”
“That won’t be good for pedestrians, or for the image of cycling. There will be near-misses or worse, arrests, fines, stories in the Daily Mail,” he wrote in a Guardian blog. “For the avoidance of doubt, I do not approve of anyone disobeying the rules. But it’s what happens when you make proposals for a road that totally ignore one of its main user groups.”
Previously, Kensington Palace Gardens, a half-mile-long tree-lined avenue dubbed Britian’s most expensive street and ‘Billionaires Row’ thanks to its £35 million average house price, had come under fire for its decision to ban cyclists along with pedestrians back in June.
The move was slammed as “a selfish and spiteful act” by Joe Powell, the Labour parliamentary candidate in Kensington & Bayswayer, who even launched a petition calling for the “crucial, safe connection between Notting Hill Gate and Kensington High Street” used by thousands of pedestrians and cyclists every day to be reopened.

So for those keeping track Sadiq doesn't want people to be easily or cheaply able to drive, use public transport or use bikes on Oxford Road. He wants it as a tourist destination, for visitors to walk around. Which is going to backfire hard when the first wealthy tourist is wiped out by an Uber Eats cyclist.

Luckily it seems that London's housing targets are to be torn up. Of course it is phrased as the complete opposite while also granting more money towards targets that will not be met.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/deputy-prime-minister-withdraws-london-plan-review

https://archive.ph/NBy5M

A review of the London Plan for housing ordered by the last government has been withdrawn by the Deputy Prime Minister to kickstart a new “partnership approach” aimed at boosting housebuilding in the capital.

In March, the previous Secretary of State directed London Mayor Sadiq Khan to partially review parts of the London Plan – which sets out the strategy as to how the city will develop and grow.

The Deputy Prime Minister has now withdrawn that mandated review, but has also set out that action is needed to deliver the homes London needs.

In a letter to the Mayor, the Deputy Prime Minister said she recognises the issues London faces and will work with the mayor to ensure he takes all possible steps to boost housing delivery and deliver the homes London needs. Withdrawing the direction will allow the government and Greater London Authority to take “a new partnership approach” to tackle the housing crisis.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said:

I know Mayor Sadiq Khan shares my commitment to tackle the housing crisis and boost economic growth to deliver real opportunities for Londoners.
Our new approach will take more fundamental action and focus on a partnership approach to build the housing that London needs and unlock the city’s economic potential.

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Under proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework, London needs to build around 80,000 new homes per year – a record and ambitious number for the city at over double the current average number of homes built a year in the capital.

The government and the Mayor are committed to working together to take all possible steps to deliver these homes, including through proposed changes to housing targets and other reforms to the planning system.

In addition to this, the New Homes Accelerator will see the Ministry of Housing work with Homes England to further speed up housing delivery, and money will also be available for London through the £150 million Brownfield, Infrastructure and Land Fund.

This is part of a wider push to build 1.5 million homes over the next five years by overhauling the planning system and restoring mandatory local housing targets across the country.

And for real fun remember how Humza said he was not trying to use his office to get his family out of Gaza?

https://archive.ph/5yNfv

Humza Yousaf’s relatives were put on a “priority list” for Gaza evacuations after his office lobbied the Foreign Office to secure their release, official documents reveal.
Last October, the former first minister’s parents-in-law were among hundreds of Britons trapped in Gaza when controls were imposed on the Rafah crossing in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
At the time, Mr Yousaf was vocal about the plight of his mother and father-in-law who were trying to obtain safe passage out of the warzone via Egypt.
Now he has been accused of breaking the ministerial code by attempting to use his office to get his family moved “nearer the front of the queue for evacuation”.

A tranche of documents, published under freedom of information laws, reveal the extent to which his private office lobbied senior foreign office officials as well as ministers over his relatives’ release.
The former first minister secured a personal phone call with the then foreign secretary on Nov 1 in which he was told that his parents-in-law had been added to the “priority list” of British nationals trying to flee Gaza, according to the documents.
Just two days after the call, Mr Yousaf’s mother-in-law and father-in-law were given safe passage out of Gaza via the Rafah crossing.

The cache of correspondence, seen by The Telegraph, reveals the extent to which members of Mr Yousaf’s private office assisted him in lobbying for his relatives’ release.
Their efforts resulted in Mr Yousaf securing an “urgent” call with Lord Ahmed, the then Middle East minister, on Oct 10 “to discuss the ongoing situation in Israel/Gaza, specifically with regards to his parents-in-law”, the documents show.
Four days later on Oct 10, Mr Yousaf spoke to the Consular Director, one of the most senior Foreign Office officials in charge of co-ordinating the evacuation of British nationals from Gaza.

As well as emails, the correspondence includes WhatsApp messages sent between Mr Yousaf and his officials.
In one of these messages, an official advises Mr Yousaf that “the most senior consular officer on duty” has offered to “support” him in his efforts to secure the release of his relatives.
Stephen Kerr, a Conservative MSP and former member of Scotland’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee, said: “Which of us, in Humza Yousaf’s desperate position, would not have mentioned family members trapped in Gaza at such a dangerous time to the Foreign Secretary, if we had the chance?
“We shouldn’t question his motives but as a public servant, we have every right to question his methods. The rules are very clear.”

Mr Kerr went on to say that the Nolan Principles, which those in public office are expected to abide by, state that nobody in public office should ever use their office to advantage their family or friends.
He said the Scottish government should launch a review into an examination of “any ministerial code violations that may have taken place as a result of these communications”.
Mr Kerr said: “And we must also put ourselves in the position of other families in Scotland worried about relatives trapped in Gaza, who were not able to have a word in the Foreign Secretary’s ear and get their family moved nearer the front of the queue for evacuation.”
Earlier this year, it emerged that Mr Yousaf faces a review into a series of donations the Scottish government made to a Gaza aid agency while members of his family were trapped in the warzone.
It came after The Telegraph revealed that he overrode officials to give £250,000 to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
A Scottish Government spokesman said that the suggestion Mr Yousaf secured preferential treatment for his relatives is “completely untrue”.
They said: “The former first minister consistently sought assurances that the UK Government was doing everything it could to ensure the safety of all British citizens in Gaza.
“The former first minister made the Permanent Secretary aware of the situation with his family immediately that it arose. It was also widely and publicly known.”
An FCDO spokesman said: “No preferential treatment was given to the former first minister or his family. FCDO Ministers spoke with him at the time to update him on the conflict in the Middle East. As part of these wider conversations, they discussed his family’s personal circumstances”.
They added that consular support was provided to all British nationals seeking to leave Gaza at the time, and that priority was given to the vulnerable, including the elderly.

Kufungisisa · Oct 5, 2024

Mao Hao Hao said:
Majority are Indian or African, and they are just the most unemotional people, and also won't really respond quickly to anyone calling for a nurse or for help.

It's just the same in social care: completely uncaring, uninterested people who seem to despise the people they are 'caring' for.

The care that could be provided was bad before (cuts mean low pay which creates a situation where abuse is inevitable- high turnover, lack of training, staff who just aren't able to learn and don't care). But this really is something else.

Older adults who only see a person for 15 minutes a day in which time they have to have a basic wash, sandwich medication: previously at least it would be someone who would speak to them, now people who barely know English and have no interest in talking just grunt a couple of times.

Adults and children with learning disabilities and autism being dragged about by people who don't speak to them at all, if you keep your eyes out you'll see them all over the place.

The people who need care are now needing more care because inevitably bad things happen.
Individuals who were easily managed by one person are now needing two carers or more. The extra carers are of course immigrants who shit it up more but now have a mate to help them neglect and abuse the people.

These are people coming from countries that don't have social care, healthcare is for the super rich and the only understanding they have of disabilities is demon possession and curses (we are hearing more stories or people being 'prayed over' and full on exorcisms). The people who come to work these jobs don't even know what they are coming to do.

I'm not up to date on how this is effecting the NHS but anytime a persons social care breaks down it ends up stuck at their door in some fashion.

The NHS were making a small dent in the number of people with learning disabilities stuck in hospitals for years, I cannot see any way it isn't climbing past where it was (and hospital care costs a fucking fortune).

Elderly and physically disabled people left with simple illnesses left to progress, in piss, unwashed, risking falls and miserable are probably increasing in hospitals but currently understood to be other factors.

Whoopsie Daisy · Oct 5, 2024

Morethanabitfoolish said:
So for those keeping track Sadiq doesn't want people to be easily or cheaply able to drive, use public transport or use bikes on Oxford Road. He wants it as a tourist destination, for visitors to walk around. Which is going to backfire hard when the first wealthy tourist is wiped out by an Uber Eats cyclist.

They don't want you travelling. They want you locked in to your 15 minute cities and if you don't agree peacefully, they will make life as miserable as possible while achieving their goal.

I don't know, or care, if it's completed yet, but Leeds was/is going through a massive change in the loop-road around the city centre. Most of it is becoming blocked off with the idea to make the centre pedestrianised. However, part of the plans blocked off access for taxis and buses and walled up the entrance where people could walk out and get a taxi. When complete, you will have to leave the train station and walk 5 minutes to a taxi, which upon picking you up will have to U-turn and drive the long way around the city. Source : Abdul the friendly taxi driver.

I wouldn't be shocked if London goes the same route. You know, for the environment, or something. Good luck getting an ambulance when the first stabbing or bombing of peace happens.

Kier Starmer · Oct 6, 2024

@FedPostalService No offense taken at all mate, I am bias but the road to fix muh NHS is hard and there are dozens of hometruths that we all have to address to the public and politically. Your posts crack me up always.

@Kufungisisa don't man, you're making me feel things. So I am super passionate about LDs and Autism. It's a fascinating conditions and no person is the same and it also caters to me because of person centered planning (PCP). PCP has known results in the care for LDs and sadly I left it just when the Castlebeck case was happening, I whistleblew on my workplace (still open btw but threatened closure dozens of times) bcause the abuse of residents but also staff. We were dominated by migrant agency too who fucking CONSTANTLY fucked up careplans. I am unfortunate to live at a place I used to bank at and some of the residents are carted around 2 to 1 by foreigners when those guys only need 1 to 1. This is why the assisted dying stuff horrifies me though because these guys will be culled purely being born different and they do have loving families in place. Some of the families I have worked with have been so loving and vistied their kids if not adults every other day, it's just at home they could not cope 24/7.

A previous poster stated about migrants in the NHS and I will happily weigh in my observations. So currently the NHS has a division problem and that is mixed race or non-white get lumped in with migrants and that is not fair. I work with some incredible nurses of different origins but they are all brilliant. The difference though between migrant learners and them is horrifying though. The hospital I am at is really digging their heels in with migrant nurses and saying you either work accordingly or fuck off. The thing is too the non-whites will distance themselves from the migrants too because they do not want to be associated with them and I cannot blame them. The other day in class I had a masters student bother me about how to access the terminal and I was incredibly blunt with them and said look I am here as a PhD and if you are struggling with even logging in get out. The lecturers I notice too are being a lot more brutal now which I think is waranted as the stuff we do in just academics is intense and we should not slow down. Now I am going to be blunt dead ass its mostly Africans. I have worked a lot with Filipino nurses and Indians and they are exceptional at their jobs. At my place if a lecturer or employee hears you speak foreign, you will be yanked out publicly and reprimanded publicly. My head did it the other day and I was really surprised.

I will hands down say I think to be a nurse you should have a degree for it, the difference between a degree nurse and an access course nurse is night and day and the problem is the migrants are trying to get in in access and make access nurses look even worse. Personally I am working on a bunch of systems to streamline Eatings disorders and improve triage for Learning disability patients. A constant barrier is that migrant employees will not be able to do it just because its complex but also the different in generational migrants is very stark too.

FedPostalService · Oct 6, 2024

Morethanabitfoolish said:
And for real fun remember how Humza said he was not trying to use his office to get his family out of Gaza?
https://archive.ph/5yNfv

So Humza’s parents-in-law fled a country wracked with centuries of religious strife, poverty and violence for the safety of Gaza?

I thought they weren’t Scottish and were Palestinians? Or are the only British when it’s time to collect benefits or need the Foreign Office to save their arses?

Rusty Metal Skull Gun · Oct 6, 2024

Chaotic Pizzaparty said:
So I am super passionate about LDs and Autism.

I initially read LDs as meaning Liberal Democrats.

"So he's passionate about Lib Dems and autism? Yeah, I can see how those two things are linked."

Whoopsie Daisy · Oct 6, 2024

Sue gray has quit.

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