Vince Green

How are they going to confirm his details if he doesn't produce some evidence to back it up? They are certainly not going to just take his word for it are they? Yes officer my name is Micky Mouse and I live at no 10 Downing Street

They are when you come to renew your FAC.

Not round here, the police set up a road block and divert random cars into a side road or car park where they check everything. They catch loads of people and impound many cars. They have one just down the road from here about every six months and it's very reassuring to me because I hear so many stories of people being involved in accidents with uninsured drivers. In North London it's anarchy now

So next time I am stopped I give your name address and postcode and that's OK is it ? One of the big problems the police have is actually determining who an individual really is when stopped. Its not that easy

Technically that's not correct, if requested by a police officer you have to able to produce sufficient proof of your details to satisfy him that what you are telling him is true. If he is not satisfied it is reasonable for him to seek further clarification including if necessary taking you in That clarification could be on your phone or credit card, work pass etc. Saying I haven't got any documents (in the way it was said) to a police officer in these days when behaving suspiciously late at night simply isn't going to work. The police officer would be at fault if he let you drive off in a vehicle that he wasn't completely satisfied was properly insured or that you had a licence. There are thousands of uninsured cars out there, many cloned, being driven by unlicensed drivers. Its an epidemic.

Generally you didn't unless you could get some charitable help. Although lots of basic local schemes grew up working on a penny a week community chest arrangements for workers. If you could afford the penny. One of the reasons for the rise in unions and various cooperative societies. As is still the case in America it was a good reason to belong to a church The key word being basic though

Used to be around about 40 years ago

To me it still comes down to why didn't the driver just get out of the car and produce identification and insurance documents when first stopped?

There is some truth in that because the hotels that are being used to house the migrants and refugees get ambulances called to them every day The people looking after the migrants are scared of any of them dying of anything, however trivial, on their shift. Duty of care and all that. Got to cover your tail. Much the same thing happened when my great aunt was in a nursing home. Every little chest or urinary infection and an ambulance was called and she would be packed off to hospital Everybody is so scared of being accused of negligence these days but it is the ambulance and A&E that get lumbered

And they are not declaring it all for tax I bet. Our window cleaner charges £20 and it only takes him about 15 mins, 20 at the most. He does quite a few in our street and the streets around.

I'm sitting today in Wallington Surrey where he was born. He went to the local school

I'm 100% on the side of the copper. The driver of the car was a gobby little twunk playing it for the camera

I hate them, they are too unbelievable

So go walk dogs - simple If you can get an electrician at any price you are lucky. People are paid what they are able to get other people to give them for their services. That's the basis of a market economy.

British nurses are the second highest paid nurses in Europe, second only to Denmark according to the salary comparison websites. They only just fail by a small amount to be the highest paid in Europe. In the past two years British nurses have received two pay increases, both above the (then) rate of inflation. Then they say they want a 19% pay increase claiming to be hard done by. It's politically motivated, part of the weaponisation of the NHS

Yes but many of the delays in discharging patients are just ridiculous work creation schemes by occupational health busy bodies. Customer of mine, a 40 year old keen cyclist broke his leg in an accident. He wasn't allowed to be sent home until his house had been 'inspected' to assess whether it was safe for him

Oh dear, that's bad news for the gloom and doom environmental lobby.

I just don't see what he it hoping to achieve. What's the end result that he is looking for? At the moment it looks like cause as much damage as you can at any price. However, I also absolutely believe that he is not making it up. I get the very clear impression that he totally believes what he is saying

The NHS's two biggest dead expenditures allegedly are pensions and paying off the PFI debt (which will never go away.)

My late father in law took very ill in 2018 but was taken to a different hospital from usual about 30 miles away. Presumably because his 'usual' hospital was full. He had a lot of things wrong with him, cancer, heart, kisneys, anemic, etc and had spent a lot of time in hospital Trouble was when he got there they had no idea of his history because they hadn't got access to his records and were reluctant to treat him How can that be so in the 21st century? And how much time and money (and lives) are wasted photocopying records and putting them in a taxi? It should be all available on a screen Simple stuff but so stupid.

It's not even down to that, there are things you just don't talk about in public and how many Taliban you have killed is definitely one of them. Now for the rest of his life he will be looking over his shoulder

You have to separate staff basic rates of pay from their actual take home pay which is far higher but it doesn't suit their agenda to mention that.

When senior managers say they can't manage they are incompetent. It should be taken as an admission of failure not used as an excuse A small story from about two years ago when my late mother was in hospital. This one morning a doctor came round to see her and told her that she could go home now. So she phoned me to come up and get her. That was a wasted journey. It took 24 hours for her discharge papers to be signed and a letter written to her GP. Then we had to wait nearly another day for her 'meds' to take home with her. The meds in question were simple antibiotics that they could have given me a prescription to drop in to our local chemist on the way home. This is fundamental inefficiency of the most basic kind. If every patient's discharge is delayed by two days across the whole country ??

To understand the present problems you have to go back to the origins of the NHS. In South Wales the mining families paid something like a penny a week into a community fund that provided a very basic but much needed form of care. Bevan merely took this simple idea and nationalised it. But like any nationalised industry it became a dinosaur. It still only provided basic care but layer upon layer of management went on the payroll. Then treatments and techniques improved but also became much more expensive and prolonged. The rest we all know. It is an anachronism a product of the 50s and 60s soft socialism.