Vince Green

Not being liked by Cummings is a massive plus for him in my opinion

I believe he is an honest bloke genuinely trying to do the best he can in what has turned into the nightmare job from hell. There are people who hate him and BoJo just because they have posh accents and went to good schools. Pretty much the same people who hate us for what we are. With their background and education they could be earning a lot more money for a lot less hassle and personal attacks.in other industries. He only earns as much as a middle manager (not a senior manager) in most NHS trusts that report to him. Head of trusts earn five times what he does yet he is their boss. Who would want the name calling, the continual criticism and allegations of incompetence and corruption, the intense scrutiny of every word you utter? Plus having to work 24/7 and having the press spying on you? Great job! who would want it?

Everybody in sport has to recognise when the time has come to call it a day. I think Stanley Matthews was still playing top level football in his 40s but he was exceptional. You have to know when to go, and then go gracefully Maybe he should sit down with Andy Murray and Harry Kane and compare notes

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All towing vehicles in USA are auto box. Trucks, vans and cars. But auto or manual, towing your max weight is a strain on the gearbox, Really you don't want to tow more than two thirds of your max Coming up the M3 this afternoon I saw a Ford Focus sized vehicle towing a really big caravan. It might have been legal (just!) on paper but his gearbox oil would be boiling and he would have been working very hard. All right on the motorway but he was going to hit the stop start traffic on the M25 about 5pm on a Friday. Good luck with that!

Oh yes they are complete anarchists. They don't go to pubs and restaurants to socialise they gather at each other's houses on the weekend and drink heavily. Then they drive home. The lockdown hasn't done anything to modify this behaviour.. My mum's carer has been here four years at least, she still drives on her Hungarian driving licence and I guess most of the others do too.. good luck to them

Can't say I'm particularly bothered, except to say what a plonker for getting caught like that "so you are back here again Fletcher, what are you in here for this time?" "Getting caught Mr Mackay" rule 1) Don't get caught

On what basis would you be applying for a green card? its very hard to get these days but I wouldn't swap here for life over there.

My mother's home help and her Husband are Hungarian and we know them and their family and friends pretty well by now. They are younger of course but do not seem to have taken lockdown seriously throughout this pandemic

We were looking into getting my mother into a nursing home. A couple make a point of telling you on their websites that all their staff are fully vaccinated. We were reassured by that. I think that's the reason behind this story. They can use it as a marketing positive, it is after all a private hospital like all hospitals in America.

If you are in the forces you have to have all your jabs, or you did in my day

Employers contracts always say they can change the terms of your employment if they want to, and you sign it when you join

Exactly the same as a clean driving licence requirement or a CRB check. If you don't like it dont apply anway employment contracts virtually always say the employer has the right to change what ever they like

COVID-19: More than 150 Houston hospital workers lose their jobs after refusing to get vaccine in Houston | US News | Sky News good for them I say

It really disgusts me that we seem to accept as politicians people of such a low grade and ability for such big jobs when it is clear they are beyond incompetent. I wouldn't employ Bercow to run a chip shop in a run down seaside resort.

If thats a poison line running up your leg you need to see doc asap. Had one about 30 years ago and it turned really nasty, don't mind admitting it scared me

The Satnav often bleeps at me, the trouble with modern cars is that you hardly know you are moving and we really need something like this to keep us focussed.

British spec .22 barrels were bigger diameter than European .22 barrels BSA Martini target rifles were really .23 and Eley target ammo was made to suit this diameter

Shooting for entertainment is ££££ and the farmers aren't shy. I know a loose group of friends, six to maybe ten at my North London club who venture out thinking nothing of £200 each for a day out on pigeons. £3-400 for wildfowling or thousands for stalking in Scotland. Geese in Denmark, Boar in Germany, machine guns in Bulgaria. All acompanied by boozy nights in the hotels and a few ladies of the night. Frankly I'm just jealous

I'm absolutely sure that the death toll from undiagnosed "other conditions" will far and away exceed covid deaths. But there is the crunch If they had got people into covid infected hospitals for tests and treatment they too would have contracted covid and died anyway. And the BBC and the Guardian etc would have been howling incompetence from the roof tops. Damned if they do, damned if they dont Many people contracted covid from routine hospital appointments. A friend and neighbour of mine was one such example. He had a heart condition, I had no impression it was considered serious but a few day after a routine outpatients appointment he developed symptoms and within a few days he was gone. But then people were starting to say that people like him didn't really count because he had "underlying conditions". The implication being he was on the way out anyway but that was so very far from my impression of his condition. He was mid 60s and to my mind fit as a fiddle. Now there is a very serious backlog and to my mind there are other questions that need to be answered. A lot of GPs flat out refused to see or refer patients. Wise precaution or professional negligence? If you are paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year (as many are) to treat patients that is their job. you surely can't refuse????

All the usual trouble makers who turn out for every march irrespective of what its for will be there. If you are really lucky Jeremy Corbyn will turn up and make a speech about how its all Israel's fault

Only worry about the things you can change, I learned that a long time ago. As for the rest get on with it. Why should it bother you in the slightest what a woman chooses to do while out walking her dog?

Up to the time I was about 30 i had never heard of a fox being shot with anything except a 22LR. During that time my uncle and his cronies must have shot about 90? My uncle didn't even use hollow points as the ammo was mostly Eley Club. The larger calibres only came into the picture when .223 varmint rifles started appearing in the gun shops and people started looking for uses for them. It also coincided with night vision and the decline in the market for shot rabbits. Since more people are killed in America with a .22 than probably the next three calibres added together its lethality is not in doubt However the techniques are very different, close up is essencial, and front on shots to the heart are whats needed. Side on shots to the heart don't work reliably, you may find there is quite a big front leg bone in your way. Head shots are OK, if you know where to place them. Right at the very base of the ear. I've been laughed at for saying the next bit on here before but I will say it again because its what i learned as a boy and I have always believed its true. A foxes forehead slopes like a ramp and when they walk they often hold their head low to the ground. A .22 bullet can be deflected by the shallow angle of the skull if shot from the front and the shot goes a bit high. If the shot goes a bit low from a frontal shot it goes into the snout and causes a non fatal but very cruel injury So front on shots are to be avoided unless you are really sure

I don't really care to be honest, it doesn't affect me in the slightest one way or the other. Another month is fine by me

They won't get struck down with Covid, we aren't that lucky