Posts by LoveUniHateExams

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Looking back at the people I knew in the Jobos.....

by punkofnice in

...there are very few if any, that i would have willingly associated with.. my 'worldly(tm)' friends are all brilliant people.

they are nothing like the weirdos i had to put up with in the congregations.. what is your take on the people in the jobos as opposed to your associates now?.

LoveUniHateExams

I don't think it's fair to say all JWs are weirdoes. I had some decent friends.

But I agree, my 'worldly' friends I left behind are much better.

I've since friended 11 of them on FaceBook. Some of them, I asked, some of them asked me to be friends.

One woman who's the same age as me, asked to be my friend on FB ... she was my friend from age 12 to 15 - we hadn't spoken in 24 years!

But not one of my JW friends have hit me up on FB.

Not one, and I did a gentle fade, I didn't become an Evil Apostate TM. That says something.

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Johnson and the NHS

by jhine in

we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

LoveUniHateExams

Conservatives consistently underfund the NHS when they are in power - yes, I mentioned this in an earlier post. I said the Tories may usually underfund it. But Jhine's OP asked whether the tories would sell it off. All available evidence says no, they won't do that.

The Scottish NHS performs better and the Conservatives don’t control the NHS in Scotland - that may well be a factor but it doesn't cover the state of the NHS elsewhere, outside of Scotland.

The reality is that immigration levels shot up in the late 90s under Labour, and that this has an effect, and the tories haven't properly sorted it out, either.

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Johnson and the NHS

by jhine in

we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

LoveUniHateExams

The NHS has gotten worse over time, under the fag end of the last Labour government, under the coalition government, and under the Tory governments since 2015.

Unmanaged immigration - legal and illegal - puts pressure on public services, including the NHS. That is just a fact that cannot be swept under the carpet.

A good proportion of those who will depend on the NHS in coming years will figure this out and vote accordingly.

And please withdraw your accusation of me blaming immigrants - I did no such thing.

I actually blamed the UK's high population density plus the immigration policies of successive UK governments, not the immigrants themselves.

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Johnson and the NHS

by jhine in

we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

LoveUniHateExams

Hospital waiting times at worst-ever level [title of the linked BBC article] - yeah, that happens when you have dodgy immigration policies.

Our politicians - particularly left-wing politicians - don't do joined up thinking at all.

To start with, the UK is quite crowded - there are many people per square km.

Then, we need to consider Labour throwing open our borders from the late 1990s onwards. The Tories haven't done immigration well, either.

We don't know how many illegal immigrants are in the UK. We don't know how many illegal immigrants use our NHS and clog up the system.

Obviously, the NHS budget should be spent wisely to bring down waiting times but we must have sensible policies across the board, including immigration policies.

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105 yrs.of Jesus Christ Rule is About To End ....What has Been accomplished ?

by smiddy3 in

at this pace its going to take more than a thousand years to make earth a paradise .by my reckoning.. what have the g.b.

been saying about his kingdom reign now that its gone over 100 years ?

and what he has accomplished ?.

LoveUniHateExams

So if Jesus's thousand year reign doesn't begin until after Armageddon but his rule began in 1914, what has he been doing for 105 years? XD

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Johnson and the NHS

by jhine in

we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

LoveUniHateExams

Hi Jan - back to your OP, check out this graph on government spending for the NHS ...

The NHS isn't gonna go anywhere. It's just Labour using fear-mongering as a stick to beat the Tories with.

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Johnson and the NHS

by jhine in

we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

LoveUniHateExams

"The will of the British People" is trotted out as though it is a static thing - ok, the will of the British people isn't a static thing.

But here's the thing - Brexit hasn't been implemented.

Brexit had the highest turnout of any democratic exercise in UK history, and it hasn't been carried out. Even if Johnson gets a majority this election, our 'honourable' MPs will keep fighting it.

The UK voting public are free to change their minds but that doesn't mean a democratic vote can be overturned - it's never happened before.

Remember the 1975 vote on membership of the EEC? No second referendum three years later on that occasion.

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I’m Really Digging The Queen!

by minimus in

jw
friends

at 95 , queen elizabeth is one sharp lady.

she lauded those people that helped break up a terrorist attack.

she didn’t take any crap from prince andrew and told him to take a hike.

LoveUniHateExams

The Beatles had a little ditty about Queen Elizabeth at the end of Abbey Road, after the medley ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh1hKt5kQ_4

Apparently, Paul McCartney wrote the song because he used to have a crush on her when he was a young boy.

Yeah, I kinda get where he's coming from - Her Maj was quite attractive when she was a young woman in the late 40s/early 50s.

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Johnson and the NHS

by jhine in

we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

LoveUniHateExams

What do people think about the left's claims that Boris would sell off the NHS - no, not likely.

Since the NHS came into existence, the Tories have been in power more than Labour, and the NHS is still going. If the Tories wanted to get rid of it, they'd have done so decades ago.

Plus, Trump has said recently that he doesn't want to get involved in our NHS.

It all amounts to typical Labour scaremongering - 'get the tories out and save our NHS!', etc.

(Tony Blair on the eve of the 1997 general election: 'we have 24 hours to save the NHS!') - Er, yeah, nice one Tone.

Don't get me wrong, the Tories sometimes don't care about the NHS or underfund it, etc. but they don't want to get rid of it.

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Make Shunning A Hate Crime

by Lost in the fog in

the humanist organisation in the uk wants to protect non-religious people who leave their church/religion from being punished for doing so.

they want the religious hate crime legislation in the uk to be extended to people who are not religious.

i hope they will succeed.

LoveUniHateExams

Yeah, I like Dubstepped's point.

Shunning shouldn't be a crime at all but it should lose Watchtower its charity status.