Sure. A bit of ceiling fell down in the staff room. They lost a big telly on wheels and the VCR but a large tin of Nescafé Gold Blend has been recovered.
2010 and the tozzas take power. Almost immediately what do they do?
Similar thing happened decades before.
David Owen had been advised of the risks posed to NHS patients by the purchase of blood products from the US. He therefore instituted a plan to make the UK self-sufficient in blood products.
Then the Tories came in and Ken Clarke terminated the plan.
As a consequence, I was infected with Hepatitis C, which wrecked my personal life - including the loss of my marriage - for 40 years, until an American drug company produced a treatment that could destroy the virus.
It's not just the people who died from HIV and Hep C. FYI.
(I must have been hella unlucky; all of the period during which I could have been infected I was registered at the Cambridge Haemophilia Centre, which got all its Factor VIII from the BPL in Elstree. But I was treated in a few other places and it must have been one of those that caused the infection. I have been told, can't confirm, that the Newcastle Haemophilia Centre got all its Factor VIII from the US and every one of its patients contracted a HIV or Hep C as a consequence.)
well, it looks like they voted for them last time cause they liked Boris and Corbyn was absolutely dire in all respects
they weren't big on the May government and they didn't get asked about Truss or Sunak
when Sunak does get to an election it's going to be interesting to see his described as tthe man who slashes the budget to repair crumbling state schools by half
But donated £100k of his own money to his old private school and a further $3m to a US college that now has a lab named after him and his wife.
Work Experience literally believes different laws apply to him and his family. This breathtaking arrogance should be punished at the ballot box and in the courts.
I didn't find out about this until very recently when the information came to light because of the black blood enquiry.
I believed that the NHS would be doing its best to prevent infection via blood products and when I learned that I'd been infected I thought it was the luck of the draw. My ex-wife used to go into another room when I injected myself with factor VIII - I was 'home treating' in those days - and later she told me that she used to cry because of the risk of infection. Goodness knows what went through her mind when she found out I was infected after all - even if it was hep C and not HIV.
After decades of prevarication, UK Gov is finally getting around to paying compensation.
I never really was bothered, as set out above, about compensation because I thought it was just a matter of statistics. But since I found out about Mr Clarke's decision, I changed my mind.
You may have read last year about people who were infected through infusions of blood products all getting £100,000 as an interim payment. That was very useful and paid off my mortgage.
But, you know, a lot of kids have lost a parent or spouses lost a partner while all this prevaricating has been going on. In many cases the compensation would have been extremely helpful where the... victim, I suppose... was terminally ill and could have had, along with his (mostly, or her) family, a much less stressful final months or years. Now it's just going to go into the bank account of a widow or widower and be more of an insult than a comfort.
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Sure. A bit of ceiling fell down in the staff room. They lost a big telly on wheels and the VCR but a large tin of Nescafé Gold Blend has been recovered.
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Large swathes of the public estate at risk of literally crumbling to dust feels a bit on the nose
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Meanwhile the government is planning to force public sector workers back into their death trap offices 🤣
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BUT WILL SIR BEER TAKE RESPONSIBILITY?!?
I WON’T HOLD MY BREATH!!
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/02/uk-concrete-crisis-ra…
BREEZEBERG
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2010 and the tozzas take power. Almost immediately what do they do?
Cancel a £55bn school infra project.
Khuntz
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yup
but it saved billions!!! apparemtly!
because that’s what running a country is about - saving billions!!!!
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Fuuuuck cameron and osborne
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Similar thing happened decades before.
David Owen had been advised of the risks posed to NHS patients by the purchase of blood products from the US. He therefore instituted a plan to make the UK self-sufficient in blood products.
Then the Tories came in and Ken Clarke terminated the plan.
As a consequence, I was infected with Hepatitis C, which wrecked my personal life - including the loss of my marriage - for 40 years, until an American drug company produced a treatment that could destroy the virus.
It's not just the people who died from HIV and Hep C. FYI.
(I must have been hella unlucky; all of the period during which I could have been infected I was registered at the Cambridge Haemophilia Centre, which got all its Factor VIII from the BPL in Elstree. But I was treated in a few other places and it must have been one of those that caused the infection. I have been told, can't confirm, that the Newcastle Haemophilia Centre got all its Factor VIII from the US and every one of its patients contracted a HIV or Hep C as a consequence.)
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God almighty
how did you stop yourself from trying to murder someone for that, benj?
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and why do people keep voting for the party that despises British people?
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Rhamnousia04 Sep 23 11:12
and why do people keep voting for the party that despises British people?
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well, it looks like they voted for them last time cause they liked Boris and Corbyn was absolutely dire in all respects
they weren't big on the May government and they didn't get asked about Truss or Sunak
when Sunak does get to an election it's going to be interesting to see his described as tthe man who slashes the budget to repair crumbling state schools by half
But donated £100k of his own money to his old private school and a further $3m to a US college that now has a lab named after him and his wife.
should play well with the "red wall"
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Christ, Benji. Shitty end of a very shitty stick.
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Work Experience literally believes different laws apply to him and his family. This breathtaking arrogance should be punished at the ballot box and in the courts.
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Ken Clarke was the one who ruined the guy up-post's life
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one of the "reasonable" Tories
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I didn't find out about this until very recently when the information came to light because of the black blood enquiry.
I believed that the NHS would be doing its best to prevent infection via blood products and when I learned that I'd been infected I thought it was the luck of the draw. My ex-wife used to go into another room when I injected myself with factor VIII - I was 'home treating' in those days - and later she told me that she used to cry because of the risk of infection. Goodness knows what went through her mind when she found out I was infected after all - even if it was hep C and not HIV.
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will there be any compensation? (not that anything could compensate, really)
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The court estate in this country is a fvcking disgrace
but muuuuuh cut costs improve efficiency
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https://twitter.com/KatiePennick/status/1698412656183345228
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Arggggggg arg arg arg why is everything so SHIT
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Rhamnousia04 Sep 23 12:43
Arggggggg arg arg arg why is everything so SHIT
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because the Tories wanted first to reduce the size of the state and then to brexit
they haven't really managed to achieve either but they have lumped us with the consequences of them
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Horrific Benj. Deepest sympathies for what happened to you.
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Thanks for kind words, everyone.
After decades of prevarication, UK Gov is finally getting around to paying compensation.
I never really was bothered, as set out above, about compensation because I thought it was just a matter of statistics. But since I found out about Mr Clarke's decision, I changed my mind.
You may have read last year about people who were infected through infusions of blood products all getting £100,000 as an interim payment. That was very useful and paid off my mortgage.
But, you know, a lot of kids have lost a parent or spouses lost a partner while all this prevaricating has been going on. In many cases the compensation would have been extremely helpful where the... victim, I suppose... was terminally ill and could have had, along with his (mostly, or her) family, a much less stressful final months or years. Now it's just going to go into the bank account of a widow or widower and be more of an insult than a comfort.
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