keg Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Could not agree more. Not sure why the whole drink thing seems to have got worse since my teenage years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Could not agree more. Not sure why the whole drink thing seems to have got worse since my teenage years. escapism? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Could not agree more. Not sure why the whole drink thing seems to have got worse since my teenage years. Change in licensing laws and cheap booze from newsagents/supermarkets and the like. The demise of the traditional local boozer and the move to large impersonal drinking establishments have played a large part too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 escapism? Unlikely and from what? I left in 1983, worked on a farm and then the infamous "YTS" schemes. Unemployment was heading past 3 million but i was only out of work for 3 months one summer. I think it's a selfish" i'll do what i want and someone else can sort the mess out. We also have a change in society from pubs to clubs and longer opening hours- brought in by Blair, cafe society i think he called it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil82 Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 lots of ways of looking at this, most ways of improving things are covered by currant legislation, want to cut down on drunks, close down the pubs that get them so ******, law covers serving someone already drunk, no one enforces it any more, people using a&e instead of gp`s, train more people to be gp`s to reduce the workload on the ones we have, nurses shortage, do away with fees for people doing nursing degrees, better still bring back on the job training for nurses and turn out people who can do the job rather than some of the currant mob who regard a lot of their tasks as being below them( I`m not wiping an ****, I`ve got a degree, this happens too often), abolish the bull**** of a&e targets so they can get people out of the ambulances without worrying out being able to hit some target set by a penpusher who has never done the job, stop cutting back on ambulance numbers and relying on so called `geographical cover`, does nothing but means that some crews may do 200 miles a shift in this part of ruralwales and never see a casualty, lots of things wrong with the currant system but as long as things are left to the people who only have paper qualifications and no idea of the job and MP`s who have even less of an idea we will still be left with a health system that's going down hill, and all you who think that going private will cure all ills, how many will die before it becomes a standard way of life here to have your own health insurance( and do you think the ******** will reduce NATIONAL HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS to reflect this), plenty of ways to improve what we have, just need people with the conviction to implement it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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