It’s a shame wages weren’t keeping pace.
It’s a shame wages weren’t keeping pace.
That’s one lucky alignment shot indeed.
Yes
It’s very rare that we watch broadcast TV or record anything to a PVR. It’s all streaming on Netflix/Amazon to TV or on my phone. Haven’t watched TV in the conventional sense for some years now.
It’s been happening before Brexit. The Tories hate the NHS and want to replace it, as you say, with a private healthcare system. However, saying so publicly would be political suicide so the NHS has been gradually privatised within by outsourcing backroom services to the private sector. Having said that Brexit has not helped the NHS.
Such privatisation has failed in a lot of cases.
Here’s a list of such services privatised.
The common phrase “The NHS will remain free at point of use” is used to side step accusations of privatising the NHS.
So that Zombie apocalypse could still happen.
Chip shops will go the same way as pubs.
I think this story will be around for a while.
Liz Truss makes for a better parody version of herself than the best comedian. She’s is so inept in public.
Pretty much sums up the UK since 2010.
One of the best drama series I’ve seen.
Hollow threats. Go.
Mmm Gerhard Schroeder and Russia rings a bell …
Why Gerhard Schröder won’t unfriend Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s pal Gerhard Schröder won’t be kicked out of Germany’s Social Democrats
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
40 lines here. Using Boost For Lemmy on Android phone. Nicely intentioned but it is somewhat intrusive in its layout.
Not a surprise. The quality has dropped, they’ve priced themselves out of the market so that ordinary cafes (diners) are cheaper.
I’ve heard these grandiose announcements over the last 15 years where it is already known that rural areas have rubbish broadband. Plans were announced, huge amounts of money were given to telcos , usually BT, and nothing happens in the rural areas but towns and cities get super fast fibre.
The telcos do not want to upgrade Comms infrastructure in rural areas as they are invariably sparsely populated so the profits don’t exist. But they’re happy to take the tax-payers money though.
With the onset of mobile phones, wired/fibre solutions become increasingly expensive and less likely in such areas and we’re still waiting for a decent signal.
And so it goes on.
Agreed.
Expensive products are far from any guarantee of good quality. Cookers are a good example. The expensive ones invariably have identical components to the cheaper models such as the energy regulators or thermocouples.