Vince Green

Boris has more than honoured the promise on the bus Funding for health services in England comes from the Department for Health and Social Care's budget. Planned spending for the Department of Health and Social Care in England was £212.1 billion in 2020/21, up from £150.4 billion in 2019/20.24 Mar 2021 And this week he has just pledged another £34 billion

Yes some are pretty poor, and the services are very basic to keep down costs. It is a price sensitive industry. We were actively looking for somewhere for my mum earlier this year and we looked into and spoke to quite a few. Highest price was over £2000 per week and average was around £1400. This was Oxfordshire/ Wiltshire. Unfortunately she got an infection and died before we could move her The other thing is if you live in one of the London Boroughs and the council have to put you in a home its likely to be somewhere like rural Lincolnshire. Its all driven by price, the council is required by law to seek the best price it can get. So effectively its like a Dutch Auction

Shakespeare, whoever he really was, crafted the language rather than told stories. Its hard to understand how a fairly uneducated country bumpkin could have had the historical depth of knowledge to write many of his plays with such insight. We will never know

thats one of the reasons why all our houses are owned by a limited company

The French are paid to do extra patrols its true they do. However there is no performance clause in the agreement so figure it out for yourself. Typical agreement made by Civil Servants

Who is gump?

I got way more part ex on my last car than I ever would have got selling it privately. but coming back to the OP, its going to be hard to sell any old petrol car now the E10 petrol has arrived

Brexit has been a great success, you are not still banging that old drum are you?

The official figure for care homes is 18% Built largely on the fact they pay **** wages to staff and cut corners with food, and almost everything else you can think of

I used to shoot with a man, he was a friend of a friend. Huge house in very posh suburb of London. Flash cars, kids privately educated, Never seemed to be unavailable for leisure activities like golf or shooting, Turned out he owned a couple of care homes. There are still lots of private care homes round here in converted big old houses. Many seem poorly run and poorly maintained, Run on a shoe string but still charging well over £1000 a week, And I absolutely Know they have to pay backhanders to council officials for referrals because this friend of mine said so openly in a slightly ungarded moment. The investors guides suggest you should expect to get around 18% ROI from a care home .

you ask your GP to refer you

Its wrong to generalise but ten rounds in quick succession will most probably shift the point of impact progressively on any sporting barrel as it heats up. Most people don't realise how slowly a serious target rifle shoots his 10+2 rounds. Half an hour or more at least. Unlike you who was probably rattling off three or four shots a minute You may interpret that as opening up the group or it could just be your rifle doesnt like the 55gr load you are using as much as it likes the 40gr load. If anything it should be the other way, the 55g should be easier and less fussy to load than the 40g. Lighter bullets and higher velocity usually make rifles more fussy to load for. Its quite normal for a different weight of bullet, or even a different brand of the same weight to move the POI I think you just need to do a bit more load tweaking

Tuesday night coming home from the rifle club, so about 10pm. On a poorly lit stretch of road with verges on both sides a young girl (mid teens?) riding an electric scooter on the road with no lights and she was flying along. I came up behind her and she pulled in to the left slightly to let me go past Its not that uncommon these days

My Mother in law this week quoted £235 a night for an overnight carer to do nothing more than come and sleep the night and be "on call" doesn't get her up, wash dress her or give her breakfast. thats extra. Similarly doesnt get her ready for bed at night. Just turns out the lights and ensure the house is secure How do they charge this? because they can, because if you don't like it step aside there are plenty more behind you

Absolutely right Gordon, The whole benefits system lacks even the most basic safeguards, and bored Civil Servants who have learned years ago not to query the claims they are processing just rubber stamp them through. To do otherwise would incur the wrath of the several layers of management above them who do absolutely FA for their money and like it that way, Many earning £75k up to £125K for slightly less than nothing. They are the apple cart that needs tipping over

My uncle always decoyed pigeons with a .22LR. Exactly like you do but not headshot. He always said a pigeon wasn't worth the price of a 12bore cartridge and a 22 doesnt scare everything else away. It brought back memories, thanks

Those days are gone Steve and they are not going to be coming back ever (probably) Its pay or wait. My cousin had her knee operation cancelled two or three times on the actual days. She was in hospital, in the gown, starved prepped and waiting to go down but was pushed out each time by somebody more urgent. Hernias and knees are on the back list. thats something else to consider

I have known somebody who would not seek medical help because it would affect their PSV licence. Sometimes you just have to do the right thing even if you fear the consequences. Well done and good luck to you

My mate is in much the same position with his back. When I suggested he went private he was indignant "Why should I have to pay?" OK don't then, it was just a suggestion. If he is prepared to spend £40,000 plus on his car and doesn't mind spending the next three years in what he himself describes as absolute agony who am I to argue? You have done the right thing Steve good luck

My friend's Dad came from Trinidad in the 1950s, thats about as much as was known about him until recently. However, a lot of people of Carribean decent are now using Ancestry DNA website to register and it will match you to people who have close family links. Through that he has identified two half sisters and they know of other siblings. His Dad died years ago but he was an "interesting" character by all accounts

True, much more should be done to track down the absentee fathers but it would be an uphill struggle. Perhaps today the DNA databases could be used but it would need a change in the law. Some of these blokes are serial offenders.

I don't think he said anything about forcibly did he? Do you think its acceptable to use a baby as a meal ticket for life? For many young girls/couples with no qualifications they have absolutely no prospect of ever earning enough to rent or buy a place of their own. So a baby is the only way they can beat the system and get housed by the council. There are examples of it in my extended family. And once they are on "the social" there is virtually no way they will ever get off again, the bar is set too high The system almost pushes them into it

Absolutely right Gordon The big question is, where did the assumption come from that I have to fund care for people I have never even met? BECAUSE I DONT HAVE TO Or benefits for people I don't know? BECAUSE I DONT HAVE TO If they are genuinely needy the church would provide in most countries and we would give money to the church to keep our card stamped in case we need care in the future ourselves. But its hard to pull a flanker on the parish priest the idea of state run scheme is just faceless big government. Might as well drive down the High St throwing money out of the window

The thing that is so much more worrying is his lack of awareness. Even when it was so obviously going badly wrong he just didn't get it, he wasn't even on the page.

No I think its institutional inefficiency. Two paths for the immigration The first path, if we start checking we are going to generate lots of work and paperwork. We will get crucified by all the do gooders and nobody will support us when the going gets tough The second path, do nothing, sit back and keep your head down. Go through the motions