Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org

@ChrisMayLA6

The last thing the tory scum want is a well educated populace. Nobody who is educated and has finely honed critical thinking skills is going to vote for the bucket of venal shit that is the tory party!

Don't be ridiculous!

Cheap beer, more crisp flavours and a return to page 3 in The Sun is what the plebs want, not more education!

@ChrisMayLA6

Given how many NHS staff before 2016 were from EU countries and how effectively the racist scum in the UK population and in the ranks of the tory party have made them feel unwelcome, I don't think there is going to be a shortcut route for Labour or anyone else to 'improve' on the quality of care due to lack of qualified personnel!

Well I guess they'd OK as coat hooks...but otherwise it could nasty nasty if one forgot to lower one's trousers and underwear

@CelloMomOnCars

Yes well, the extreme right wing government in the UK would accept any toxic shit just to get the prices in the supermarkets down a bit. They care neither for the health of the nation (especially not that of the nation's poor) nor for the consequences for Britain's farmers of the importation of cheap meat from the USA!

It's no coincidence that life expectancy in the USA is falling significantly whereas in the EU it's still rising, albeit with a bit of a blip caused by Covid. Americans generally seem to have an utterly appalling diet and 'endure' levels of obesity that will inevitably lead, for many people, to chronic illness and to premature death.

@CelloMomOnCars

It's a very interesting picture as most American meat is banned from the EU and rightly so as the standards of animal husbandry are way lower in the USA than in the EU. Many harmful substances used in US agriculture are outright banned in the EU and surprise, surprise - there is no consumer pressure on the EU administration to allow cheap US meat onto the shelves of supermarkets in the EU, in fact the diametric opposite; consumer pressure is to continue or tighten the current restrictions on unhealthy animal husbandry practices both at home and in the countries from which meat is imported into the EU.

@CarolineLucas

I should probably add to that the percentage levied on earnings should be absolutely without an upper limit and in my view it should be levied on unearned income as well as earned income!

@harriettmb @DoubleTreble

Good dental health and hygiene is essential to good overall heath! Chronic infections in the mouth such as gingivitis and periodontal disease can cause heart disease and all sorts of other health issues!

The idiot tories with their usual brain dead stupidity, don't grasp that! So short term savings by making NHS dentistry unavailable to the bulk of people will result in massive costs to the NHS further down the line!

However, you can't tell tory morons that they only understand money grabbing short-termism!

@CarolineLucas

I know that such measures are very unpopular with politicians as they like to be able to conceal their spending decisions as far as possible from the general public but I would suggest that there should be an absolutely ring-fenced fund created specifically to finance the NHS and healthcare in general in the UK and that each person's contribution to that fund should be a percentage of earnings and that it should be listed separately and explicitly on salary advice slips.

I would also suggest that the government should be removed from the decision making process in the NHS as they seem incapable of getting it right no matter how hard they try.