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The rightwing loons who said they would never watch the NFL again over the ‘taking a knee’ are the exact same people complaining that their viewing of the NFL has been disturbed by Taylor Swift being seen at the game.
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I’ve ridden this route on three occasions, always on a road bike, not panniers or bags. The route is demanding, but if you are a regular cyclist it’s not going to be extreme for you. The climbs are around 7-8% with one section at 11%. The road surface is very good and you needn’t worry about the animals, though keep them in mind when going down hill at speed. The one risk is wet weather, if it’s raining the road surface in places turns into a river. Enjoy your ride.
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Biden Widens Lead over Trump in New Poll, Gender Gap Widens
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Exactly the powers Trump refused to enact when the mob he directed to the Capitol rioted and attempted to overthrow the election result.- 296 replies
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Biden Widens Lead over Trump in New Poll, Gender Gap Widens
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
More than a few Trump supporters don’t agree with election results when their guy loses, they are hardly going to believe a poll.- 296 replies
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I was absolutely aware Khan is responsible for policing in London. But he wasn’t when Theresa May decimated the police force and wiped out community policing. Khan has responsible for reversing much of that patently idiotic policy. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/theresa-may-knife-crime-austerity-police-federation-stabbings-a8849486.html
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Florida Bill Threatens to Out and Endanger Transgender People
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I don’t in anyway dispute your personal experience, the higher numbers of immigrant staff in London is not surprising. I spent most of last year in the UK, in weekly and often daily contact with the NHS; local GP surgery, regional hospital and a university hospital, none of which were in London. My observations over that period were in line with the NHS data I linked. But things have changed, EU staff are now almost entirely replaced with Asian and African immigrants and the use of agency staff has been stepped up, refer link below. Furthermore, the numbers of nurses in training has not been stepped up, despite the shortages and despite the predictable loss of EU staff. Count yourself lucky you aren’t nursing in the UK, pots and pans were banged on door steps in recognition of the sacrifices and hard work of NHS Staff but it’s not been followed up with pay and improved service conditions. These days doctors and nurses don’t even get free parking at the hospital were they work. Nobody could ever accuse the current UK Government of not wanting to pay agency rates, the usual reasons are widely reported: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/uk-32bn-agency-spend-could-have-paid-salaries-of-31000-nurses-051223#:~:text=Findings from a Freedom of,shortages to keep wards open.
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Florida Bill Threatens to Out and Endanger Transgender People
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
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Florida Bill Threatens to Out and Endanger Transgender People
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
This being locked in a jail cell with a transgender person, it’s an odd leap to make from Drivers License data, is it something you wish to discuss? -
Small boat arrivals are a tiny fraction of immigrants and if the Government enacted the existing laws, cleared genuine asylum seekers and deported bogus asylum seekers, they’d be an even smaller fraction of immigrants. I have provided a link to data doctors, nurses and other health professionals above. Refer comment above regarding bogus asylum seekers. Why would doctors and nurses build houses for anyone, other immigrants are doing that in large numbers: “Construction was the most common industry for those born in the EU2 countries and non-EU European countries Of adults born in EU2 (Romania and Bulgaria), 17.6% were employed in construction and of those born in non-EU European countries, 14.8% worked in this sector.” https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/migrationandthelabourmarketenglandandwales/census2021#professional-occupations-were-the-most-common-occupations-for-several-country-of-birth-groups These people are known as ‘British Citizens’. Maybe knife crime has something to do with taking police officers of the streets, the Tories were warned by the Police Federation of the inevitable consequences of doing so.
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In response to your broad negative generalizations and misinformed nonsense: Here’s some facts: ”The reported nationality of NHS staff varies substantially between staff groups. Overall, 18.7% of staff report a nationality other than British. For doctors this figure is 35.0%, and for nurses it is 27.2%.” https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7783/CBP-7783.pdf Do you speak for all the good folks of Chicago, New York and Denver or just those whose opinions you imagine?