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The real question is why the automatic assumption seems to be islamic terrorist rather than what appears to be the case - a christian with serious mental health issues

This is NOTHING like pleats team. You really have no idea. The MON team were on the verge of something and Taylor DID **** it up. Do you honestly think that the last 10 years is "normal"? Or that it can be sustained? Dream on. Blackburn? Leeds? Ipswich? Norwich? Florist have won 2 European cups you know. Villa have won it as well. The phrase "where were you when you were sh*t" applies to Man City, Newcastle & Chelsea It's not my mess to clear up now. Nor is it yours. I think you over estimate your value in all of this.

Still, a benefit of relegation is perhaps some of the entitled prats will bugger off elsewhere on saturday afternoons. Perhaps B&Q will give them a bit more of what they are looking for. In my 50 plus years of this, we've had our most successful period EVER! And all some want to do is bleat about relegation and "sack the board" Try watching Pleat's team. Try watching the shambles that was administration or perhaps relegation to the 3rd tier. We dont have to look too far to see what happens when you have owners that are not up to it. Derby? Cov? Yes, it IS disappointing. Maybe we over reached. Maybe we shouldnt have built Seagrave Maybe if King Power hadnt lost 2 years of their entire business revenue. It is after all very hard to sell duty free when no one is travelling and half the world is in lockdown. Maybe if the manager hadnt thrown everyone - players, board and fans under the bus. Maybe if the football world had beaten a path to our door last summer with big money offers for the players now out of contract. Maybe Rudkin should have had a "fire sale" last summer and let Youri, Cags etc go for next to nothing Maybe we'd still be in this mess anyway Been here before, we will be here again. And so my friends, "go back in there, chill them *people* out and wait for the Wolf, who will be coming directly"

From Govt website Emergency Alerts is a UK government service that will warn you if there’s a danger to life nearby. I think there is an assumption is that "danger to life" ends as soon as an incident has happened. Buncefield - One fuel tank exploded, others didnt but could have done. Crowd crushes as people escape what ever the initial incident was? Prevention of people moving towards danger rather than away from it. Wouldnt have helped in the Bradford fire, but most of the deaths were caused due to the fans "going the wrong way" ie going for the exits they were familiar with (that were locked) rather than going on to the pitch. People do not behave rationally in stressful situations. They will often follow others or follow what they know. Plane crashes - given an alert can be sent from a single tower, an alert telling people what they should do might be quite useful. The threat to life doesnt end once a plane has crashed. Driving at 70mph into a fuselage on the motorway is going to ruin your evening. Floods do happen slowly, until flood defences are breached and then they happen very, very quickly. Cheltenham floods 2007. On Saturday 21st July 2007, 4500 properties flooded and 810 residential properties were evacuated. 10,000 people were stranded on the M5, M50 and A40 and hundreds of cars were abandoned on county roads. In addition, the railway network failed. 2500 people were placed in rest centres. Not sure what you mean by "Local tannoy" - megaphone? That'll work on a racecourse, but not really over a wider area. The alert system is just another tool that is available to the emergency services. Aiming it car drivers like the Kegworth crash would probably be a bad idea, but hey it's not beyond the wit of man to make a phone read an emergency alert out loud.

Really? Hillsborough, Buncefield, 7/7, '97 Grand National, York and Carlisle floods, Kegworth air crash would all have possibly benefited from an alert. I suppose the city power cut 6 years ago, if it had been worse might have triggered an alert.

There are a few blue badge holders that park on Coriander Road (nr Statue of Liberty). It's residents permit holders only. Im not sure what the rules are.

One for the kids there....

Mostly from Football Manager - believe it or not. That said, the researchers on FM work really hard to try and verify players wages, But they are based on educated guesses form players statements, agents statements, overall payroll figures in accounts (accounts dont give a breakdown by player)

Redundancy rules are 1 months pay for every year worked EXCEPT the NHS doesnt generally make people redundant, it's too expensive. They try to redeploy or retire staff (that's worked well) or they privatise the service under "any qualified provider" and then the "new" provider makes the "adjustments" to the service. AQPs arent something most people know about but for example, Virgin Health is an AQP. Consultants (indeed all doctors) pensions are very different. Most Doctors (GPs) are self employed. Consultants, well it's complicated. There are changes to the rules for consultants being proposed to remove the lifetime allowance "issue" https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8626/ not sure what this has done as it doesnt affect me. The rest of us... see above. And we have no chance of hitting the lifetime allowance. All pension contributions NHS and private can be offset against tax. NHS pension provision is unheard of?! Until 2015 we got 1/80th of our final salary for every year worked, Most private final salary schemes worked on 1/60th for every year. Since 2015 it is based on 1/54ths, but is now career average and not final salary. Final salary scheme was closed somewhere between 2015 and 2022 depending on circumstances (again - it's complicated). The employer contribution is 14.3% (or 20.6%). There seems to be some confusion over who pays waht - but at the moment 14.3 %

Just for comparison https://equiniti.com/uk/news-and-views/news-releases/private-sector-pension-contributions-double-over-last-decade/ "This increase probably represents the impact of the increased minimum contribution rates, rising to 5% in April 2018 and then stepping up again to 8% in April 2019." NHS Employee pension contributions are 1 £0 to £13,246.99 5.1% 2 £13,247.00 to £16,831.99 5.7% 3 £16,832.00 to £22,878.99 6.1% 4 £22,879.00 to £23,948.99 6.8% 5 £23,949.00 to £28,223.99 7.7% 6 £28,224.00 to £29,179.99 8.8% 7 £29,180.00 to £43,805.99 9.8% Figure the government claims is "average nurse pay" 8 £43,806.00 to £49,245.99 10% 9 £49,246.00 to £56,163.99 11.6% 10 £56,164.00 to £72,030.99 12.5% 11 £72,031 and above 13.5% So it appears the NHS pay more for our "fat pensions" than the private sector do. Yep seems about right.

Haha the "fat" pension that I have to pay a significant part of my salary for. And if you cant afford it, erm you dont get one! Job security - really? Where? Constant threats of privatisation - have a quick look at AQP. One perk is learning the TUPE rules backwards.

As a public sector worker, what is this "bonus" you speak of? Are they like the "perks" we also hear the private sector speak of?

Bottom line - right hand corner of my NHS payslip - my take home pay. The bit that really matters. In 10 years has risen 5% - not 5% per year but 5% total 10 years of "low inflation", inflation amounts to 27%. I'm 22% worse off. If the nurses (I'm not one) got 20% (they wont, they know they wont, it's called a negotiating position) they'd still be 2% worse off than 10 years ago. So you're saying we could have had a decent pay rise during the "good times" then? when was that? A wednesday afternoon in 2016? Anyway, we all preferred it when you clapped on the doorsteps whilst our peers and colleagues risked their lives and died.

Youre right imdb says In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements. Not sure what that says about you - for knowing, and me for looking it up :-)

This isnt new. (the app bit is..) I was forced off the buses and into my car when buses where deregulated (privatised, traffic commissioner abolished etc etc) in erm.. the mid eighties. It was one of Mrs T's big policies - private is best. There hasnt been any attempt at integrating transport since (and precious little before).

Im not particular fan of Soulsby, but what have bus fares got to do with the City council. AFAIK the bus companies are privately owned.

The Rough Gas storage field (off Hull) was decommissioned in 2017. They are trying to bring it back online. At its peak it held about 9 days worth of gas. It allowed us to buy cheap summer gas and burn it in the winter, when it is expensive. The dash for gas started in the 80's under Mrs T. To get away from coal and the miners. They had a strike about that... While I'm here https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ is fascinating for those with their own anorak and bobble hat. Domestic gas wont be switched off/reduce pressure due to the faff of trying to switch it back on. If you think about it, every appliance would need to be switched off, otherwise houses start to go bang within a few minutes of the gas coming back on! Electricity is much easier to cut off and restore. Supermarkets/hospitals/telecoms and other essentials are generator backed with 5 days fuel. 3 hour outages are about the maximum they can safely do before food in freezers starts to thaw. The only real need for power cuts is if gas is shut off from russia AND the weather is especially cold across europe AND there is no wind. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/cold-realities-wind-farms-wont-work-when-it-snows-1987981

This is at Glenfield. Always struck me as harsh that anyone with a congenital heart problem HAS to use the stairs and isnt allowed int he lifts.

oh absolutely. if they left us alone long enough to make the last lot of reforms be implemented before they change it again. I worked with a radiographer that claimed same office, same desk, same white lab coat, 7 different employers. I was employed by 3 different organisations in 12 months doing the same job in the same office with the same boss. Still bring on ICBs (must admit my mind still goes straight to intercontinental ballistic missiles every time someone says ICB)

Some are some arent. However there's all sorts of issues around airflow, recirculation of air etc. Aerosol generating procedures have nothing to do with deodorants!

UHL is erm...a bit different. My two pence worth. From personal rather than professional experience... Glenfield is second to none. Staff wise and patient care. The General is old and tired. They've been trying to shut it for as long as anyone can remember. LRI - difficult to get to, no parking, some staff are brilliant but some staff have an "attitude" - patients are an inconvenience. I think everyone recognises your point but its very difficult. LRI A&E serves 1 million people. Kettering a lot less. That said QMC in Notts serves a similar if not bigger area.

Study after study show the NHS to be as effiecient as any other healthcare system around the world. we're miles better in some areas, worse in others but overall quiote good really

***Sigh*** To run the NHS 24/7 needs a LOT of people. More than there actually are. It isnt "beds" or "wards" or "operating theatres" that are the problem. It's staff. Not just Drs and nurses but physios, OTs, DNs, the whole lot. There are 1.3 million of us (yep, I'm one) that run the show 9-5 m-f plus emergencies evening and weekends. Imagine how many it would take to run it 24/7. The subject of fridays/weekends. Some surgeons (stress the some) leave the difficult patients to then end of the week, thursday/friday. They know they'll probably have to go "back in" and so leave them to the end of the week, knowing that they have all weekend to operate if needed. It's actually much more efficient that cancelling other patients mid week.

None of National Insurance goes to the NHS. NHS is paid for out of general taxation. NI pays for benefits https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/what-national-insurance-is-for

At the risk of confusing the issue (please ignore me if it does) Almost everything is available online. bbc iplayer/ITV Player/4OD/My5 plus the chargeables like Disney/Netflix/AmazonPrime However live tv - football etc is often a little behind realtime due to the "lag" on the internet. Few seconds to some minutes depending... And so you'll get closer to realtime either through an aerial - freeview or cable tv - virgin or sat dish sky - if you're paying, freesat is erm... free! (no sky though) All of these need a set top box - Sky Q, Virgin Media, Freeview, Freesat (some tellys have them built in but lets ignore that for now). Some (most) set top boxes feature "extras" - recording, access to online tv services bbc iplayer/ITV Player/4OD/My5 plus the chargeables like Disney/Netflix/AmazonPrime and other bells and whistles but you'll need broadband as well as a dish/aerial/cable Then there are specific online streaming devices like Amazon firesticks and NOWTv boxes which are really just a set top box for specific online chargables. Just to be confusing I have freesat and broadband and freeview built into my telly. I can watch BBC 1HD on tv via freeview, freesat, Iplayer on freesat box, Iplayer on amazon firestick, iplayer on Nintendo WII on my phone, tablet laptop. And theres STILL nothing on!!! All in all its convinience and what and how you want to watch that counts.