CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
With all due respect to the report private hospitals wearen't supposed to be dealing with Covid patients. They were supposed be dealing with general surgery cases and helping with waiting lists.
I have lots of reservations about private and wish my wife would just go and work in the Nash, but on a 'per list' basis, they get through a lot more patients than an NHS list in a day. She spent a bit more than a year treating nothing but NHS patients.
I'd wager NHS hospitals could get through quite a few more patients a day were they properly funded and able to pick & choose what ailments to treat based on how efficiently and profitably they can be treated.
Maybe, generally the NHS theatre will have more people in it, and generally be better equipped, but they aren't allowed to work 14 hour shifts with short breaks and run up to 22 cases in a day (depending on speciality).
NHS general theatre runs around 5 cases in a day.
All of the private surgeons are NHS surgeons, same surgeon, up to double the cases in a day (the moonlighting is what irks me about private).
Private theatre nurses go back to the Nash to slow down a bit later in career's.
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Chancellor said to be planning to slash corporation tax surcharge from 8% to 3% from April 2023
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The government could raise an extra £16bn a year if the low tax rates on profits from shares and property were increased and brought back into line with taxes on salaries.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/26/uk-shares-property-capital-gains-tax
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Last week, for example, the public accounts committee revealed official estimates that the state is unlikely to recoup up to £21bn of Covid business loans in “an unacceptable level of mistakes, waste, loss and openings for fraudsters”. That sum is so enormous it’s beyond counting in the usual currency of nurses, teachers or police officers, but think what damage it could repair. Cuts to due diligence on monitoring contracts is the worst possible value for money, as Rutter warns that reports of unchecked fraud undermine trust in HMRC, when the whole tax edifice relies on people’s willing compliance.
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In fact, Johnson’s £155,376 salary puts him in the top 1% of UK earners. His housing, transport and a large part of his living costs are covered by the taxpayer.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/11/boris-johnson-stands-make-millions-after-no-10
Doesn't he still get a quarter of a million pa for his torrent of lies column in the Torygraph, or did he stop that when he became PM?
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Kavanagh’s story is insane. A few years earlier he had been standing on a windswept solar farm in Swindon pitching an investment opportunity to councils desperate for a new source of income. Now he owns a solar empire bought and paid for in large part by the taxpayer and was living the sort of life most of us can only imagine. As well as flying the world in a corporate private jet, he had a 200-acre country estate and a fleet of supercars.
This journey, as Kavanagh calls it, was only possible thanks to a series of secretive deals involving more than half a billion pounds of public money and a council in Essex. It poses serious questions for every level of government.
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Now – alongside the broader crypto market – the appetite for NFTs is so diminished that a specialized market has sprung up for collectors looking to sell off their once-valuable “digital collectibles” as tax losses to offset their income tax bills.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/29/unsellable-worthless-nfts-tax-write-off
Any spare cash I have at the moment, which it is fair to say is not all that much at the moment is buying crypto.
Also, the world of cycling and decentralisation has now come together, sure there is an NFT collection as well you can purchase from...
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Breaking Our #FOI to @TranScotland shows repairs to the M8 Woodside Viaducts are predicted to cost upwards of £100million & last until the end of 2024 Why did they not consult Glaswegians to see if we'd rather use funds to @ReplacetheM8 instead?
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https://mobile.twitter.com/carfreeglasgow/status/1628812178856857600
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Government quietly awards travel firm £1.6bn contract for asylum barges and accommodation
Exclusive: Fury over astonishing sum to operate barges and run services to house asylum seekers in Britain
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/barge-australia-asylum-contract-travel-b2354578.html
Probably the finest paragraph of Scottish political commentary I have ever read:
"That sends responsibility to a local authority which takes the whole thing into the network of consultants, advisers, agencies and contracts which are at the heart of why Scotland is like a graveyard of governmental projects. It is so difficult to tell the difference between facilitator and leech in this sector it is probably best to assume that everyone is draining more than they should out of the process and into their bank accounts."
https://robinmcalpine.org/the-trams-scandal-is-scotlands-future-unless-we-act/
In his "solution" though, he has a rather panglossian view of the moral rectitude, logic capability and attention span of your average Scottish punter off the street, I feel...
Panglossian is now my word of the day!
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, amir!
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