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[Samilktray]

11 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

For some of us who work for the NHS our future's look uncertain. Been with the NHS 8 years now, but my current role is a fixed time contract, it was due to end in September 2025 but got extended to May 2026. So beyond May 2026 looks very bleak. Time to start looking for jobs else where to prepare for the worse, shame as I keen to hit a landmark with 10 years with NHS.

Unless you work for NHS England I don’t think you have much to worry about at the moment 

[Leicesterpool]

8 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Unless you work for NHS England I don’t think you have much to worry about at the moment 

I don't know the full scale but my next meeting will be interesting.

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgw118nlkeo

 

First Minister John Swinney has met US President Donald Trump's son Eric at Bute House in Edinburgh.

Eric Trump is a senior executive in his father's business - the Trump Organization - which owns golf resorts in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire.

The meeting took place over tea and biscuits, is understood to have lasted about 50 minutes and solely focused on Trump's golf resorts, according to his son.

It comes after the first minister said he did not think it would be appropriate for Donald Trump to be offered a second state visit to the UK.

 

Jr coming over to bitch about someone redecorating his dad's ego courses, how lovely.

[urban.spaceman]

16 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgw118nlkeo

 

First Minister John Swinney has met US President Donald Trump's son Eric at Bute House in Edinburgh.

Eric Trump is a senior executive in his father's business - the Trump Organization - which owns golf resorts in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire.

The meeting took place over tea and biscuits, is understood to have lasted about 50 minutes and solely focused on Trump's golf resorts, according to his son.

It comes after the first minister said he did not think it would be appropriate for Donald Trump to be offered a second state visit to the UK.

 

Jr coming over to bitch about someone redecorating his dad's ego courses, how lovely.

Would be a shame if someone did it again.

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Would be a shame if someone did it again.

It would be, wouldn't it.

[Lionator]

Trump sr is mental. Just openly saying he’s going to annex Greenland in front of the head of nato. The maddest geopolitical moment since Bin Salman said he was going to make Qatar an island.

[kenny]

34 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Trump sr is mental. Just openly saying he’s going to annex Greenland in front of the head of nato. The maddest geopolitical moment since Bin Salman said he was going to make Qatar an island.

And Canada. It's going to be the best American state and it keeps it's own anthem.

[Sly]

Trump is just a weirdo. 

[Dahnsouff]

Seeing any official treat their office with such a selfish disregard is quite something.

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Sly said:

Trump is just a weirdo. 

 

Just now, Dahnsouff said:

Seeing any official treat their office with such a selfish disregard is quite something.

Pretty much, yes.

 

It would be hilarious if the consequences for so many people weren't so incredibly dire.

[foxes1988]

2 hours ago, Tommy G said:

It is not efficient at all hence the reform requirements. In the majority of cases large businesses are efficient, when it comes to shareholders at least as they have a share price and returns to investors to maintain. In most cases if either underperform changes are made and quickly. 

I didn't say it was efficient.  I said it was one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world which it is.  It's the 7th largest organisation in the whole world for crying out loud of course there's going to nonsense and fluff and bloat in it that doesn't mean the whole thing is inefficient.

 

I think you are falling for some of the tabloids rhetoric here tbh.  Its 'full of middle management' and all that kind of rubbish.

 

In my opinion, if private business is so efficient there wouldn't be an NHS in the first place.

[fox_favourite]

2 hours ago, Sly said:

Trump is just a weirdo. 

He is supposed to be a "successful business man" I'm yet to be convinced by that in any shape. 

 

The world has now in a era of just sheer bonkers-ness, if that was ever a word. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Someone in the office the other day said "Trump gets things done", and I read or heard something today that suggested New York cab drivers like him also "because he gets things done", and I was reminded of a particularly depressing Christmas do I was at in 2019 where some bore was telling me that the newly elected Boris Johnson was going to be brilliant because he "gets things done" and it feels like maybe there's a bit of a pattern here

[urban.spaceman]

Had to double check that the wasn't a Little Britain character

 

[urban.spaceman]

That is a ****ing STUNNING moustache though

[urban.spaceman]

This is absolutely spot on IMO.

 

 

[Sly]

Is Trump trying to create an enemy of Europe here? 
 

If we keep slapping import taxes on each other, then we may as well come up with a long term plan of insourcing some of the technology and prepare for a good war with the USA. 
 

We’ll be sandwiched between them and the Russian States if we’re not careful. 

[Zear0]

5 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Had to double check that the wasn't a Little Britain character

 

I'm a scatman! 

[fox_up_north]

37 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

I'm a scatman! 

It's Scatman's World and we're all just living in it

[Lionator]

4 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

This is absolutely spot on IMO.

 

 

It is but we still have to see what comes next. Commissioning in the nhs was a terrible idea and you get situations for example (from personal experience) that drug and alcohol services will doctor their figures, rush people through and give poor quality support, just to win a contract. So it’s all about keeping those commissioned alive. 

[leicsmac]

10 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

He is supposed to be a "successful business man" I'm yet to be convinced by that in any shape. 

 

The world has now in a era of just sheer bonkers-ness, if that was ever a word. 

 

9 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Someone in the office the other day said "Trump gets things done", and I read or heard something today that suggested New York cab drivers like him also "because he gets things done", and I was reminded of a particularly depressing Christmas do I was at in 2019 where some bore was telling me that the newly elected Boris Johnson was going to be brilliant because he "gets things done" and it feels like maybe there's a bit of a pattern here

We are living in a time where the advance of tech has made it viable enough for style to surpass substance much more often than not.

 

The truly depressing thing is knowing what that valuing of con artistry and short-termism over competence inevitably leads to. I wish that I didn't.

[leicsmac]

On the above, this was posted almost 6 years ago now but is becoming more pertinent than ever.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20190109-the-perils-of-short-termism-civilisations-greatest-threat

[Jattdogg]

He keeps this up then corporate America will find a way to deal with him 

[bovril]

Like Brexit his supporters will just blame shady neoliberal elites and claim real Trumpism has never been tried.

[kenny]

9 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

He keeps this up then corporate America will find a way to deal with him 

I have said before that if he is a threat to national security then the CIA will sort it.