I can look out of my living room window and see on my phone why my neighbours car failed it's MOT in 2016, yet my surgeon has to get his secretary to write to another hospital to get my records!!! We've had computer linked banking since the 1970's for Christ's sake... It's absolutely pathetic quite...

The whole thing is structured incorrectly. Look at the link you posted, take Australia and UK, looking at OECD figures Aus is spending 16% more on healthcare per head than we are. So more but not an unreasonable difference, about $879 per head. They have 424% more MRIs and CT machines than the NHS,...

The whole thing is structured incorrectly. Look at the link you posted, take Australia and UK, looking at OECD figures Aus is spending 16% more on healthcare per head than we are. So more but not an unreasonable difference, about $879 per head. They have 424% more MRIs and CT machines than the NHS,...

tomuk wrote: ↑16 Apr 2024, 18:29 Yes the NHS needs reform before anymore cash.

That's not how reform works.

"The NHS is internationally recognised as being one of the most cost efficient health care systems in the world." Noone can say you don't have a sense of humour.... It's just reality. Perhaps you could join us here sometime? https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blogs/comparin...

You think 182 billion is affordable in the long term and apparently it's 'critically' underfunded! ... We are currently spending more than we earn as a country every year and going deeper and deeper into debt, just how long can we afford to keep pouring hundreds of billions into a broken health car...

Ok lets go with your view that the NHS is the best thing since sliced bread and can do no wrong and any issues it does have would magically disappear with a bit more cash. How much more money does it need? £5bn\year, £10bn\year, £100bn\year? I've said nothing of the sort. You clearly believe that t...

mrclark303 wrote: ↑16 Apr 2024, 14:44 And you don't seem to understand the difference an additional 7/8 billion would mean...

To social housing? To energy infrastructure? To policing?

Oh dear, I'll take a wild guess that you work in the NHS in an administrative capacity, as viewing that slow motion car crash from inside out, is the only possible way you could consider it well run...... Nope, try again. You've in total denial if you think it's just dandy, I've claimed nothing of ...

I have but you clearly don't understand it. The link you posted shows the spending in 'real terms' i.e. inflation is accounted for. It confirms on average NHS spending has increased 3.6% a year after inflation. That's after economic inflation (as basket of goods), that's not the inflation that the ...

2.5% is a relitivly low level, it's only returning us to 2010 % levels. That makes zero sense. Relative to what? If in 2010 we paid 2.47% of GDPR, and less since, then that makes 2.5% relatively high. As high as 2000, too. 2.5% would make us 6th highest in NATO. So relative to what is 2.5% low? It'...

NHS funding had gone up by 50% since 2010! Err yeah, that's not surprising when you consider heslthcare inflation and population health. The NHS is poorly run, it's vast administrative arm is something akin to the Soviet Union, where different General hospitals have a small army of administrators, ...

"It's been stated time and time again." They haven't stated anything at all, it's all political hot air and absolutely zero substance.... I suppose all Starmer has to do is carry on waffling about vague this and vague that and hope most don't realise that Labour haven't god a bloody clue,...

NHS funding isn't in disarray it is higher than it has ever been, and that includes billions added by the Tories. Most cuts in government spending in the 14 years have been LAs, who are responsible for social care and the roads. That's such a false representation. The NHS is under increasing pressu...

14 years of Tory austerity and "there's a lot of money that could be moved around". Are you aware of the state of local authorities going bankrupt? The NHS is funding disarray? Schools falling apart? The state of the roads? The lack of big infrastructure projects? Tell me about about Labo...

NHS funding isn't in disarray it is higher than it has ever been, and that includes billions added by the Tories. Most cuts in government spending in the 14 years have been LAs, who are responsible for social care and the roads. That's such a false representation. The NHS is under increasing pressu...

Because the public accounts are FUBAR….. It’s not that simple. HMG has little fiscal headroom because it is choosing not to reallocate funding to different priority areas. UK GDP is now more than £2.2Trillion. Government spending equates to around 45% of that figure. That’s a lot of money that coul...

LMAO. So the Tory fiscal policy is to lose the election by making unfunded promises they can't afford, so that Labour then have to make cuts, which in 5 years might influence an election. That's your joke, right? Really pleased I gave you a laugh but it’s no joke. Why would a policy to increase def...

mrclark303 wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024, 17:54 2.5% is a relitivly low level, it's only returning us to 2010 % levels.

That makes zero sense. Relative to what? If in 2010 we paid 2.47% of GDPR, and less since, then that makes 2.5% relatively high.

As high as 2000, too.

2.5% would make us 6th highest in NATO.

So relative to what is 2.5% low?

Because they can't fund it…. They don’t need to fund it long term, they just need to make it policy at the next fiscal event which will be just before the election. If the first thing a new Labour administration has to do is cut defence spending from 3% of GDP to 2.2% of GDP it will be a disastrous...

They refuse to commit to the relitivly low level of 2.5% on defence. How is a 25% increase, and more than most other NATO nations, a relatively low level? The part I can’t understand is why the Conservatives aren’t raising defence spending at the eleventh hour to set up a fiscal straitjacket for La...

tomuk wrote: ↑14 Apr 2024, 17:15 But sticking 155mm Howitzer on Boxer is feasible?

Different transport concept, clearly.

If any additional armaments shall be considered, it shall better be "optional". In other words, keep the hull system itself simple enough to handle fishery protection and EEZ patrol. No, managing a fleet within a fleet is stupid. If we have a ship go technical at the last moment we've sho...

If any additional armaments shall be considered, it shall better be "optional". In other words, keep the hull system itself simple enough to handle fishery protection and EEZ patrol. No, managing a fleet within a fleet is stupid. If we have a ship go technical at the last moment we've sho...

I'm not suggesting massive changes to the River Class. An airbust capable cannon and lightweight missile system is sufficient.