Matt
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An additional £7bn per year is going to be spent on defence by 2024 when there is little to no threat to UK civilian lives from invasion.
If one pot increases, then unless taxation is ramped up massively then funding into other pots decreases.
43,000 civilians were killed during the blitz and 126,000 have been killed by the Covid pandemic so far. It’s not difficult to see where is the best place to allocate resources in this current peace time climate.
Boris and his Brexiteers promised £350m every week on the side of a bus to the NHS if we left the EU. He didn’t say let’s go spend more money on nukes so we can play Little Islander empire fantasies looking back through rose tinted glasses.
In my personal opinion £7bn per year boost would be much better spent on paying for the training of and salaries of more doctors and nurses, an increase in available hospital beds and an increase in top of the range lifesaving medical equipment and drugs. Covid showed us we have been caught short on NHS healthcare provision. I can’t think of a time recently when we were caught short because we didn’t have enough nukes and warships.
It’s just basic common sense in the 21st century – the years of jingoistic military expansion are over and only tinpot dictators living in North Korea think this is the most sensible way to go. We’re going to have an ever increasing ageing population who live longer and will need more healthcare that the NHS won’t be able to sustain, so let’s fund that and not a stupid military industrial complex.
Sarah Atherton wants billions spent on nuclear arsenals and navies to protect landlocked Wrexham constituents. She considers this to be a far better use of taxpayer’s money and the ever increasing national debt, than to pour the money into something sensible that would actually save lives, such as funding the NHS across the 4 home nations.
Are the country park car parks all still closed? It’s not clear from the council website.
I mean we’re now in stay local rules, rather than stay at home, so surely people are now allowed to drive to one and park up.
The travellers looks like they’ve taken advantage of it, so when does it open up for everyone else to drive there?
Captain, well at least Welsh voters will be able to deliver their verdict on Drakeford in a few months time, whereas Johnson is effectively unnacountable to the public until May 2024. Plenty more time for a wrecking ball in a China shop to swing.
I don’t care where health workers come from, they could come from Mars for all I care – as long as they know how to look after the welfare of the local population and save lives, they are okay in my books.
Surely a TV programme about nurses emigrating to Australia is just showing a small fraction of a percentage of British trained nurses leaving the country to work elsewhere. There are hardly planeloads (especially now) leaving everyday for some all year beach BBQ & tongue wagging with Harold and Madge Bishop.
Reality TV shows very rarely reflect the reality of the vast majority of things or people it is meant to portray – rather a lens on the glamorous and extraordinary that others aspire to.
The bulk of nurses who train locally probably cannot wait to get stuck in at a local hospital as it is close to friends and family who they would most likely then do proud working for the NHS.
The Chief Officer Darren Williams completely dismissed out of hand the new JCB machine that fixes potholes in 8 minutes and can increase road repairs by up to 700% quicker.
These machines can be leased for only £600 a week! Out of a budget of £1m for extra repair, spending some money leasing 4 of them for a period of 10 weeks or something during the summer when the weather is best would help absolutely blitz them. That’s a cost of just £24,000.
If you are getting them repaired that much quicker then money is saved in per hour labour wages on average required to fix each hole. No brainer to me. A slowly fixed hole is an expensively and inefficiently fixed hole.
Can anyone explain to me why Sarah Atherton has signed this? She has nothing to do with being in charge of Betsi or being part of the WAG responsible for administering vaccinations across NHS Wales.
https://twitter.com/AthertonNWales/status/1357293991625170945?s=19
Totally bizarre. I might start signing my name to things I have nothing to do with and take credit to make me look good.
A junction coming off the bypass that bypasses the junction coming off the bypass into Wrexham!
That’s 4 new connections to and from the road effectively going straight into a car park positioned about 200 yards before one of the busiest junctions on the A483. Sounds like gridlocks all round.
Just proves one thing that there is way too much overdevelopment in that one area. Costa already built on car park space and now McDonald’s want to build on car park space in the Argos/Range area where it is already difficult to get a space during busy times.
Is there nowhere else they can build stuff in Wrexham? It’s getting ridiculous. Perhaps we need a proper ring-road so everything doesn’t need to be forced to be built down one vertical corridor for convenience and mostly concentrated around the 2 main junctions into Wrexham.
