Yeah because that's how a mirror works?

So let's simplify this a bit as it's getting a bit wordy.

Alison isn't a royalist or believes in the notion of a government. Well then I'm an anarchist too.

Oh, yeah, and probably skip the inbreeding...

Whickwithy said:

You've got it.  The people running the government wax and wane between slightly above the intelligence of a duck to dumber than a bag of hammers.  I actually would pick a Monarchy over any other form of government, as long as you could oust the occasional lunatic.  At least those people are trained to the position from birth to rule with manners, courtesy, etc.  It's just that lunatic in too much of a narcissistic position that causes problem.  Geez, awful verbose lately... but, yeah, government sucks.

You still need government

Whickwithy said:

LuDux said:

Whickwithy said:

You still need government

Sad, isn't it?

One day, no one will desire to be a led or be a leader.

You still need someone to pave roads, run schools and hospitals, etc

Do you not believe in education then WW?

The NHS is not failing Sen, it is being failed by Government. Since 2010, funding into the NHS has been squeezed ( as it has in virtually every other state run body such as schools, Police, Fire Service and Community Care) despite the story being spun by MP's. They will tell you that funding for all of these is at a record level, which is true as, overall, funding has not gone down, but what they cover up is that in the NHS for example, funding has to increase by 4% a year to offset a rising population, an increasingly ageing population (more Octogenarians, Nanogenarians and Centarians than ever before) and the cost of providing new drugs that are being discovered (leading in part to the increasing life span) and inflation on existing drugs. Instead, the funding into the NHS has only risen since 2010 by an average of 1.5%, which has left a huge gap in finances. Add to that the fact that the Tories took away the nursing bursary, which was a financial incentive for young people to start nurse training, and a total pay freeze on NHS salaries between 2011 and 2015 and then just 1% per year to date and you now see why the NHS has 1 in 10 vacancies and is missing approx. 100,000 people from its optimum staffing level. Then add Brexit, and the fear that people from abroad will no longer be able to come and work in the NHS, and even these people who make up about 10 - 15% of clinical staff, and you can see why it is in a mess.
I know because I worked there for many years in a role that controlled budgets. Every year since 2010, we were asked to provide CIP savings (cost improvement) of 3% per year, year after year. It got to a point where there were no more savings or 'efficiencies' that we could offer and the only way to achieve our budgets was to cut services. We do not have enough beds for people who need them and community care has been decimated under this administration, so a lot of people with mental health issues are suffering and the incidence of suicide in this group is on the rise, having previously been falling.
The NHS is s great place to work, it just needs Government to fund it properly. Perhaps start with that £1billion 'bribe' that they gave the DUP so they could stay in power. This week, they voted to remove free school meals from the poorest kids. The DUP backed them on the agreement that it would not happen in Northern Ireland.
Corrupt or what?