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Cont: General UK Politics V Suella Strikes Back

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Mogg for PM?
The deceitful slimy bastard is virtually a dead cert to lose his seat come the next general election. These Mogg cultists Re deranged.
 
Matthew Best said:
Sorry I only have a Twitter link for this, perhaps someone will find a non-Twitter one for those who refuse to use it.

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1755138416075825379

It's a bit of a car crash interview with the Secretary of State for Health attempting to explain why cutting the NHS dentistry budget is actually increasing it. And failing.
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I blame labour. What have they done over the last 14 years to increase funding?


Her interview on R4 wasn't great either. It seems her tactic is to talk as fast as possible without taking a breath hoping that no further questions, or the original one that she ignored, will be asked.
This morning it was not clear whether the shortfall in the £3bn was more or less than the extra funds now provided and whether the shortfall would be rolled over and added to the next year or would it go back into government coffers.

As I understand the shortfall:- the Government provides a £3 bn budget for dentistry. Where you pay £25 for your check up on the NHS the dentist claims another £25 out of the £3bn pot ( numbers made up but you get the idea). The problem is dentists don't think the £50 total covers costs so many are simply not doing NHS work meaning that not all the £3bn gets claimed.
 
Matthew Best said:
Sorry I only have a Twitter link for this, perhaps someone will find a non-Twitter one for those who refuse to use it.

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1755138416075825379

It's a bit of a car crash interview with the Secretary of State for Health attempting to explain why cutting the NHS dentistry budget is actually increasing it. And failing.
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It's akin to crowing about how they've increased the police forces by 20,000, forgetting to mention that had previously cut 20,000 employees.
 
Mojo said:
Why?
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Sunak not only did not mitigate risk by hedging his bet with Piers Morgan he didn't - and this is the 'gambling' element for a hedge funder - he made no attempt to profit from the aforesaid risk mitigation. This profiteering comes via the margins i.e., changes in movements in the derivatives used to mitigate risk and usually expressed in terms of interest rates, f/x spot rates, yields, etc, etc. 'Gambling' because it seeks to (a) forecast the future, (b) profit from it (not just mitigate it) and (c) for all of the sophisticated means of assessing market trends and measuring market volatility, there still remains the risk of (i) not making a gain and (ii) even making a loss. This is because the future is uncertain.

All Sunak did was make a stupid bet and compounded it by claiming he was 'taken by surprise' and in any case, that he 'never bet' which he obviously once did as a professional paid to do so, see above.
 
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A dentist friend wants to know where the extra dentists will come from. Plus, the 20k being talked about is to go to the practice owners not the individual practitioners.

He asks where is the incentive for him to cram in extra patients or longer hours when he won't see any of the money.
 
Andy_Ross said:
A dentist friend wants to know where the extra dentists will come from. Plus, the 20k being talked about is to go to the practice owners not the individual practitioners.

He asks where is the incentive for him to cram in extra patients or longer hours when he won't see any of the money.
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Meh all dentists are miserable. They are always looking down in the mouth.



I'll get my coat.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Mogg for PM?
The deceitful slimy bastard is virtually a dead cert to lose his seat come the next general election. These Mogg cultists Re deranged.
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Did you see his brief interview with Lewis Goodall, Mogg claimed that the Tories couldn't do anything because we were in the EU, and that they were bound by all the things Tony Blair had done... While we were in the EU...
 
Meanwhile Sunak demonstrates the Conservative Party's nasty side yet again by weaponising transgender issues.

Rishi Sunak is facing calls to apologise for a jibe about Sir Keir Starmer's position on trans people at Prime Minister's Questions.

The prime minister ridiculed the Labour leader for U-turning on the "definition of a woman".
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68229785

Of course, as usual, it demonstrated a tin ear and was ill-judged.

Sir Keir was visibly furious, saying: "Of all the weeks to say that when Brianna's mother is in this chamber."
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Vixen said:
Sunak not only did not mitigate risk by hedging his bet with Piers Morgan he didn't - and this is the 'gambling' element for a hedge funder - he made no attempt to profit from the aforesaid risk mitigation. This profiteering comes via the margins i.e., changes in movements in the derivatives used to mitigate risk and usually expressed in terms of interest rates, f/x spot rates, yields, etc, etc. 'Gambling' because it seeks to (a) forecast the future, (b) profit from it (not just mitigate it) and (c) for all of the sophisticated means of assessing market trends and measuring market volatility, there still remains the risk of (i) not making a gain and (ii) even making a loss. This is because the future is uncertain.

All Sunak did was make a stupid bet and compounded it by claiming he was 'taken by surprise' and in any case, that he 'never bet' which he obviously once did as a professional paid to do so, see above.
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No, why did you point it out? Nobody said he had.
 
Lothian said:
Meh all dentists are miserable. They are always looking down in the mouth.



I'll get my coat.
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Appointment at 2:30,?

He wants to know what the money can be used for? It's not enough to pay for an extra dentist at a practice to do NHS work.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-not-benefit-financially-from-ppe-firm-medpro

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. It appears that the absolutely scrupulously honest and in no way deceitful or lying Michelle Mone just plain forget her connection to MedPro and that she would actually benefit financially from it when talking to civil servants absolutely ages before she told the meejah (and by extension all the rest of us) and it should not at all be inferred or implied or suggested or hinted that she deliberately told falsehoods to all who asked about how much profit she and Dougie were going to rake in via tax havens.

Anyone suggesting anything at all in any way untoward must be mistaken (which I often am, apparently).
 
The Don said:
Meanwhile Sunak demonstrates the Conservative Party's nasty side yet again by weaponising transgender issues.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68229785

Of course, as usual, it demonstrated a tin ear and was ill-judged.
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I followed the Brianna Ghey trial and I was absolutely sickened by Sunak's callous jibe, with the Health Secretary (?) laughing behind him sycophantically. Of course, PMQ's has long been little more than theatrical pre-rehearsed banter with 'jokes' written in advance by spads but nonetheless this was a real low point. Poor Brianna was too timid to go out much and when she thought she had found a friend, this young woman spitefully led her to her death with her teenage friend supplying his hunter's knife and who had never even met Brianna before. The 'hate' of these two 'thrill killers' came from their perception of transgender people as being figures of fun and because of this dehumanization - the youth calling Brianna 'it' - led directly or indirectly to Brianna being marked as a victim and a vehicle for hate as purveyed through social media and mass media. Therefore, Sunak perpetuating the idea that people with identity struggles can be dismissed with a sneering laugh is utterly horrifying, given Brianna's brave and courageous mother took the trouble to attend in the public gallery. So much for the idea that you can buy manners, a sense of decency and fair play if you send your kid to Winchester or Eton. Scrape the thin veneer of respectability and you find a baying ruffian underneath. So hatred of transgender people remains acceptable as per the horrible example set by the British Prime Minister.

Then we have Kemi Badenoch coming out with a tweet that 'All murders are tragic.' Give me a break! Echoes of 'All live matter' in response to the George Lloyd killing, just brush it off as a non sequitur. Then she immediately turns it round and says Keir Starmer is to blame for - wait for it - objecting to Sunak's remark, claiming he was making capital out of it. This is the same woman who stuck labels on toilet doors spelling out 'Women Only' in her rampant bigotry against transgender people. Of course people are entitled to their opinion but whatever happened to empathy and sensitivity in the presence of a lovely kind lady who lost her dear beloved child to a hate crime.
 
Apologies for the somewhat belated question (I'm playing catch-up withh this thread), but what is the highlighted referring to? Did I miss some kind of scandalous shenanigans?

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What a horrid little man. Making a depraved bet that he can and will make vulnerable frightened people suffer and then canoodling with the Sinn Fein bod, not long after being seen getting close up and personal with Meloni of Italy at a far right rally.
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