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%when the NHS in Scotland requires the help of the Red Cross then you can criticise ... the problem Scotland is having is due to recruitment ... you do realise our medical staff are better paid than down south the real problem is their has been a collapse in recruits coming from the EU due to Brexit and their is something 12% points difference between the Scottish NHS and the English NHS on waiting times and operations etc that is even with our recruitment problemsSadly, it's not. Empty slogans don't provide services, it's running on staff goodwill just like England.
BMA: Scotland's NHS is stretched to 'breaking point' - BBC News
Partnering with the DUP is theoretically a violation of the Good Friday agreement, and the Irish and UK Governments are supposed to take rigorous impartiality as part of that agreement. The partnering with the DUP has the potential to re-ignite troubles in Ireland and put the Good Friday agreement at risk. I could easily see a legal challenge being launched to stop the partnership and just as easily see another GE in a few months. Labour will vote down the Queen's speech and no doubt other parties will too, meaning May will not have a leg to stand on.
I don´t think anyone in either one of those parties wants to go down in history as the person who put Jeremy Corbyn in power.
I think you underestimate her unpopularity within her own party, and overestimate the mortality rate within Westminster. There were 10 by-elections between the 2015 and 2017 elections, so if there's that many between now and March 2019 and just 2/10 go against them, that's a vote of no confidence and a Corbyn premiership.
What do you think of a Bernie 3rd Party?Don't expect the GOP to splinter in our lifetimes. Now the DEMs, not even trump can help them mend their wounds .
What do you think of a Bernie 3rd Party?
There seems to be increasing calls from his supporters.
While I'd welcome a 3rd party, I think it would be a long haul to become a viable contender - several election cycles.Maybe that's a good idea. I still think we need to get some new blood in there.
While I'd welcome a 3rd party, I think it would be a long haul to become a viable contender - several election cycles.
The fast one-cycle method, I believe, is to coerce one of the viable parties as Trump did.
This is the problem.I can tell you that the Republicans would love the formation of such a third party, would be all but rescued from Trump's historically unpopular follies and thereafter domineer federal electoral politics for a long time.
Though I'm sure NIMBY would absolutely love it if Sanders ****ed off under normal circumstances, he and most of (believe me there are definite calls for getting Bernie to go among these people) his fellow establishment Dems know that this would be a death knell for their party, nevermind him starting up a spoiler third; this is why they're walking a precarious tightrope between attempting to limit and diminish his influence (so that they and theirs remain in charge) and letting him command DNC resources, and serve as party face (so that he and more importantly his followers/supporters stick around and add to the party base). There's a definite frenemies and love/hate undertone and tension between party brass and Bernie. Their obvious ideal is him continuing to bolster membership as an impotent figurehead/front man without resulting in a turn over of party leadership, or the implementation of his more ambitious and reformative ideas that would be costly to wealthy DNC donors.
The Dems appear to be in denial over their defeat, in very much the same way the right of the Labour Party in the UK was after their 2015 electoral defeat. They have it so ingrained in their consciousness that the third-way, centrist moderation of the likes of Clinton, Blair, Kerry etc is the only way a centre or centre-left party can appeal to a wide section of the electorate that they ignore the very deep and very fundamental level of disaffection that Bernie and Corbyn have tapped into, from a progressive and social democratic stand-point.
Until the Dems can actually offer something new, vital and untainted by the corruption of corporate capitalism they will continue to lose.
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