os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 7hHow us it that many other developed countries can do it with little extra cost to tax payers. Low earners in the UK pay little or no tax yet receive free healthcare at half the cost to the government per head that the USA pays. 200
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 9hDufus, the patients don't pay per treatment. Everyone pays as part of their tax burden and that payment will be very much less than current health insurance premiums, and there will be no co pay. 300
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 12hPerhaps do some research before posting nonsense. A study on Sanders' plan estimated initial savings of £350 billion per year, with no extra taxation on low income people required. Purely by removing the private insurance sector and hospital/General Practitioners billing costs. 100
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 12hWhat a bunch of sad buggers, how about they try being an actual political party with real polices rather than a front for racists. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 14hBeing intoxicated should never be an excuse for committing crime. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 18hThe Tories loved Thatcher because she kept them in power, not because she did good things for the country. 020
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Time for Americans to wake up and stop dreaming. You have the geography and geology and population to be the greatest nation, but you have a banana republic political system. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It seems he is out of step with his leader. Perhaps he is thinking of jumping ship. 110
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What did you expect? She was part of the 14 year omnishambles. Did you expect her to grow a brain, or discover honesty or self respect? 100
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The last sentence was entirely written in doublespeak. To suggest that the USA is leading in anything other than decline is ridiculous. 020
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think she has the Truss virus. Symptoms- Confusing what you want to be true with what is actually true. Blaming 'others' Thinking that only wealthy people matter Accelerating drop in IQ Lack of empathy. 100
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I am old enough to remember when Catholic nuns worked as nurses in the NHS, they wore the full outfit and covered their hair, you going to complain about that? 2122
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Precisely. But how is it that in the age of the Internet Americans don't just check the statistics from other countries. Are they simply too lazy to look up actual data, or is it that they are so deep into "America is best at everything" they cannot comprehend that their system is crap. 241
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Going to a single payer system will save vast amounts of money. It is no coincidence that America has a business based healthcare model and pays almost twice as much per head as government run systems for worse outcomes. 120
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Israeli government propagandists have done a very good job in categorising groups against the current government of Israel as being anti semitic. Shit like this happens when you allow overtly religious groups to masquerade as political parties. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 06/10/20261 )It would have been better for the greens to have simply condemned the current Israeli government for its genocide in Palestine and allowing illegal Jewish settlements, rather than condemning the Zionist movement which is not responsible for the actions of the current government. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Surely the campus police are basically security, crimes should be reported to the actual police. Is there an actual college regulation that crimes must be reported to college police? 110
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've always said I'm a satanist. That seems to work. 020
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dear God what next open the coal mines, under 11's to be employed as chimney sweeps. Workhouses. 020
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There is little in UK curriculum about alcohol or drugs. In science they are labelled recreational drugs and there is something about toxicity. Nothing about the effects on behaviour or about intoxication not being a defence against prosecution for offences committed while under the influence. 020
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems a reasonable sentence, it was only by luck that he didn't kill or maim several people. 1243
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It really is stupid of them having dug themselves into a hole they just keep a digging. 010
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It was a success for Tory donors and supporters. 010
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You're typing in upper case, no one believes anyone typing all upper case. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They could have delivered on their promises they chose not to, they prioritised libertarian economics and enriching the rich at the expense of everyone else. 110
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Lhuggs maybe you should have learned to read and think about what you're reading, before tying to post. You clearly have no idea that every post replying to me suggested that you support rapists. 100
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No it isn't you are simply giving them a different name. Capitalism has to be regulated and the basics that are needed for society to work have to be provided by the state. 100
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Moron, women should not have to save themselves from rapists, no one should even be able to imagine your last sentence. YOUR attitude is a symptom of the disease. As long as people try to think of how women can avoid rape , rather than how can men be brought up not to be rapists there will be rapes. 110
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not even close to what I was saying, Biden supported libertarian economics aka laissez faire economics as has every POTUS since Regan. This is what is destroying America. 010
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you're a democrat who believes in libertarian economics, you might just as well admit to being a republican. 300
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026raventerp displaying the usual lack of education among right wingers. Plenty of left wingers espouse the ultimate goal of workers owning the means of production, while at the same time realising it will never happen. Except what are bonuses paid as shares in the company- communist or not. 700
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The correlation of Witch and Socialism is especially apt given the preponderance of evangelical "Christians" among the uneducated trumpists. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Especially as they are doing such a bad job. In China whatever we might think of the methods and human rights abuses at least the majority of the population has a better standard of living than before. You certainly can't say that about America. 021
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not a plan an ambition. The victim was not drunk she was given Ketamine. Education should apply to all, every child should be taught how to control themselves and look after their friends if they seem to be losing control, this is not outlawing fun or youthful joyfulness it is outlawing excess. 100
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have no objection to women who take up martial arts as a sport or interest or just for fitness, but it won't solve the problem of predatory men. For a woman to overpower a 200 lb man it would require at least 2 hours a week training plus gym time building up strength. 100
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's not just fit young women who get raped. Years ago I lived near an elderly lady (89 I think), who was attacked by a man who broke into her flat and tried to rape her. She was stabbed, but made enough noise to cause him to run away. Kids, adults young or old should not have to defend themselves. 100
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This needs to be shoved in the face of any idiot who falls for the antivax propaganda. 030
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026However well trained a woman might become it won't protect her from spiked drinks. It won't protect her as a child or an elderly person or disabled. But why should a woman have to give her life over to martial arts because men have not been brought up to respect women as equals. 110
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If a man can't control himself when he has consumed alcohol he should be grown up enough to NOT drink. 210
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No he won't he'll just pretend that Brexit had nothing to do with him. Something like "it would have worked if they'd negotiated it properly". 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My thoughts on PR. One of the big problems with FPTP is when certain constituencies have built-in majorities. This must be recognised as a problem, why would anyone favouring a party that will not ever win bother to vote? Any new system must allow for much larger constituencies with multiple MP'S. 020
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I too was around in the 70's and largely agree with you, although racism was much worse then. As to the IMF "bailout", see Richard Murphy's youtube video. 030
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The "National recovery" of the 80s was a result of policies that have bankrupted the present. Selling off infrastructure to give tax cuts to the already wealthy, skewing the economy away from productive industry towards the city of London. Reducing investment in education and infrastructure. 093
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 30/09/2026American chains in Europe have to follow European wage and conditions laws yet they must make money from them or they'd all close down. You do have to wonder just how much profit is raked off to pay middle and senior management. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do your utmost best to make the rest of their lives a total misery. 000
os155.bsky.social @os155.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No they just think they didn't cut benefits and taxes on the wealthy enough. The right will not be happy until they can have corpse wagons going round picking up winter casualties and the wealthy are eating off gold plates. They don't realise that the end result of unbridled capitalism is feudalism. 040
