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There's some good debate here, but sadly this forum can become quite polarised and the title of the thread doesn't work. It's useful to look back on how we got in this mess. Blair had the benefit of a massive feel good factor, and his personality, but he did some dodgy things even before the war crime of Iraq, such as the Formula One fiasco. He will be looked at, no doubt, as both a moderniser, war criminal and the person responsible for much of the pain resulting from on line gambling. The BBC documentaries on both Thatcher and Blair were excellent, and reinforced many of my opinions. I wonder what a similar documentary will say about Cameron. Which brings me on my thought for the day. Somewhere in the mid tens the world became more fractious. And many became less interested understanding politics getting their information from less reliable and more biased sources. A far more divided country and world. Not sure how much of the coalition government contributed to this, it was benign in some respects, with LD blunting perhaps some of the more extreme policies of their Tory partners, but of course we know what happened to the LDs at the next election. The early stage of blaming civil servants was not very helpful (and followed by successive governments including Starmer, in part. Austerity definitely contributed to decimation of the public services and perhaps an even more alienated group of 'have nots'. Then Labour missed the open goal of the 2015 election, the Tories played it very savvy in their campaign and of course the LDs were routed. I fully expect that Brexit will be seen by historians as the turning point/watershed. I'm still scared 8 years later, and have lost 'friends' and still have some awkwardness with family members. How much Brexit begat Farage begat Trump I don't know. I expect the tide was turning across the west, but the UK helped accelerate this. Many were already turning away from conventional sources of information - I remember before Brexit seeing a 25 year olds news feed and it was all one lines echoing the Daily Mail, we are all 'going to hell in a handcart'. The failure to invest by more recent Tory governments when lending was cheap, the continued mess of Brexit (and the negative impact on our economy), then the relative unavailability of Covid and Ukraine, and here we are now. The elephant in the room is managed migration, I'm being served by Indian students in bars in London, rather than French or Eastern Europeans. No issue for me. Students have always worked in bars. But there is an enormous gig/minimum wage job sector out there that relies on foreign workers which I can't get my head around. Looking forward to you sorting out this mess PM. I think there have been some poor handling and timing issues, and some decisions not made that would have peed many off (anything to do with cars!) which were a missed opportunity with such a large majority. Diluting commitments on nationalisation of the rail network/operators being another prime example. I don't run with the more extreme and somewhat viral view of its a catastrophe. Yet. Just a very much first school term report as should have done much better. -
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I've been absolutely inundated with emails from various places connected with the NHS telling me I am eligible and inviting me to go for these jabs. I had them both ages ago. Surely there is some central database showing who has already had them?
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