Yes, then we can sack half the social system employees including doctors, nurses and benefit office workers as they will have a lot less patients and need to not work in the general arena of people and invest the money in immigrant housing!
The nhs gets plenty of money; it just wastes it.
It’s coming up for budget review time. So what’s happening; a company close to me has had loads of quotes from let’s say nhs environments sent back and asked for the cost to be doubled then they are approved, so the budget isn’t affected for next year.
Absolute joke of a political football which needs radically altering to get more bang for the buck. Ffs we are paying for it!

Unfortunately, not just the NHS. It is rife everywhere. I work for a department that has just spent £36,000 each, for 5 vans. Who authorised that ?

I disengage, I turn the page.

As somebody who needs to shed weight, I actually think they have a point about this. Now of course I could throw up all kinds of opinions about the money that flows from the sugar industry into politics and what has happened to the West as a consequence, along with extolling the virtues of an almost carnivore diet as opposed to the utter catastrophe of a vegan diet on the people of Northern European descent but I won't because I even bore myself on this.

But where I work, I half-joke about the 'Diabetes Queens'. A culture, albeit well-meaning and from a genuine position of affection, where by the entire place is literally drowning in poor-quality calories, almost exclusively supplied by women, from almost the time we start to the time we finish.

I am a full-on refined sugar addict myself. I actually think the comparison with smoking is a perfectly valid one. A genuine problem I have to tackle as a quality of life issue much sooner than later

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

As another fellow sugar addict who now has no sugar in his tea or coffee (yuk) you have my good wishes.

I went near cold turkey and I get my sugar fix via low sugar protein bars these days.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I think you are allowed to bring in a cake, as long as it has 'support gay marriage' written on it.

On holiday one year I decided to take presents back for the workers from Cornwall. At the time St Austell Brewery (brewers of Proper Job) had its Small Batch Brewery in productive mode, and a few cases of various beers (one each) were very appreciated by my fellow workers. The pandemic has proved that we all need and appreciate interaction with other people. Cakes are one example of help in getting through life - as is alcohol (in moderation).