EternalOptimist
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The pool area is a big plus for Total Fitness, especially if you like swimming like myself. I work Mon-Fri, and for people like me, the swimming availability in the area is awful and has been since TF closed. I was going to join DW, but their pool is only 18m and is not really designed for lane swimming, with the steps in the middle. So that leaves me with Waterworld, at a fiver a swim, which has limited public swimming time in evening, and Gwyn Evans, which has 2 x 1 hour windows for public swimming in the week during the evenings, both of which are usually rammed busy. So even at £39.99, which admittedly would be expensive just for gym use, if you also swim a lot it’s not too bad, as at least I can swim whenever suits me, rather than paying a fiver to swim in a crammed pool with only a 1 hour window.
Back to more local stuff though, our GP practice is dire also. Tried to book an appointment for my son last week, and 9th Feb is the nearest appointment. I think that’s half of the problem with A&E departments being overrun. It’s all well saying only go to A&E for emergencies, but I think there are a whole range of conditions that fall in between, whereby you need really prompt medical attention, not life and death emergency, but certainly unable to wait 4 weeks for, so people feel they have no option but to go to A&E.
I agree in principle with the views above that change should be available via the ballot box.
Unfortunately, in reality change is not available via the ballot box. The main parties all have the same social, economic and foreign policies. For example, every party as far as I can see, supports the same system of fiat currency and fractional reserve banking, which is one of the root causes of many of our problems. They all have the same foreign policy.
Ultimately though, no matter who is voted in, it won’t make the slightest difference. How can it, when much larger forces, out of our control, are responsible for most of our (and the rest of the western world’s) problems. The root cause of most problems, is that of globalisation. It’s why most western countries have no more production, only retail jobs left, as production will always move to the cheapest, stable country. Which means less tax to support public services. Which is why the UK national debt is almost at WW2 levels and the government has to print money. This money printing benefits mainly the rich, by causing asset bubbles, namely stock markets and housing and commodities. It’s no coincidence that oil has dropped off a cliff now that the US has stopped printing money.
The concept of individual, sovereign nations is not compatible with globalisation. Currently the world is stuck in between, and has to go one way o the other.
Apologies for the long post, it may seem unrelated to the NHS, but I feel that not enough people look at the (much) bigger picture when it comes to the problems that we see at a local and national level. These are merely the symptoms, of much larger, international forces at work. Too many people IMO have a narrow, blinkered view, and just blame the politician with the red/blue badge, when it really matters not.
