Park Life

reinstall firefox or something Parky theres obviously nothing stopping you on this end, your browser has went tits up I want a bus to the airport, a jet waiting and $10m in cash and LM released.

Working only on ie atm. I hate using ie. You're all fired!

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No one, but no one, thinks that the health and social care bill returning to parliament this week is any good. Nurses and doctors have lined up to denounce it – even GPs, whom the legislation claims to put in charge. Professional resistance can be dismissed as "producer interest", but not so the joint editorial published by three specialist periodicals, including the Health Service Journal. The journal is generally supportive of exposing medicine to competition, yet it damns the particular market-based reforms on offer as "unnecessary, poorly conceived, badly communicated" and "a dangerous distraction". Meanwhile, a committee dominated by coalition MPs has just concluded that the current upheaval "complicates" necessary cost-cutting, and displaces "truly effective" reforms. Even the health secretary cannot any longer really believe in the watered-down product he is saddled with punting. The one hope for the bill which Andrew Lansley had originally articulated intelligibly was removing politics from healthcare. But, after a year of amendments and grudging stand-offs with the Liberal Democrats, he has utterly failed in this – as is underlined by the latest concession, which explicitly reaffirms that he will retain full political responsibility to parliament. Having foolishly nodded the legislation through in the Commons, the Lib Dems blundered again by failing to kill the bill – as they could have done – when their members and peers revolted. Instead, they settled for fudge. The bill before parliament is littered with warm words such as "integrated", which mean entirely different things to advocates of planning and cheerleaders for restructured competition. It may well fall to the courts to determine what on earth whole passages mean. And yet – carried along only by the crack of the government whip – this unloved legislation rolls towards the statute book. The strongest remaining argument for passing it is that the hard-to-manage mess of half-disbanded care trusts could descend into uncontrollable chaos if new rules and structures of some sort, however flawed, are not agreed on soon. Mr Lansley's great error was to allow the charged words "Tory", "cuts", "health" and above all "privatisation" to combine to become the story of the bill. The technocrat imagined that he could quietly impose a new healthcare market, and that England would soon bow to its logic. He not only misread opinion, but also mistook a well-founded concern to restrain medical profiteering for socialistic superstition. Last month the Guardian revealed that millions were being diverted to the likes of KPMG and McKinsey to teach "business skills" to GPs. On Friday, it emerged that a cash-strapped health department was having to stump up £1.5bn to trusts that cannot afford repayments under the PFI – the last great brainwave for getting the private sector involved. Public fear of racketeering is not boneheadedness. The medical marketplace will never be one where consumers (or, as they were once known, patients) can be sovereign – the knowledge gap with "producers" is too great. David Cameron, like Mr Lansley, initially banked on voters being indifferent to health service structures so long as health service standards were maintained. He might have been right, too, were it not for the fact that the NHS is facing the sharpest spending squeeze in history. Seduced, perhaps, by his own comforting rhetoric about not cutting the service, the prime minister failed to see it coming. But with the queues for treatment lengthening – long waits are already up by 43% since the coalition came to power – the presumed indifference will soon give way to rage. Comments from elsewhere: "The pathologist, et al, has already carved up and shared out what they want of the NHS. The overseas vulture capitalists all ready and waiting to swoop, many of them waiting on the wings will have majority shareholders in our very own green and pleasant land, already set up and ready to go. When they implement their will on their ideologies, it will be the slab for the NHS. If you are unable to pay, you will simply remain ill and face a possibly miserable end, there are whispers of pain relief having to be paid for by the individual, be it out of their benefits if need be, to be deducted at source. May their souls rot in hell." Shortly after Southern Cross is revealed as an emphatic private sector failure in caring for the elderly the government states that all public services are now 'fair game' to be opened up to private corporations short of investment opportunities. Both Marx and David Harvey warn about the creative destruction which takes place during economic crises as private investors experience surplus capital absorption problems - with the structural problems in the British economy there simply aren't enough profitable opportunities for the vast swathes of private and financial capital to continue to grow at 3% PA. The role of national and local government is thus becoming staedily transformed away from providing municipal and socal services to facilitating further investment opportunities for private capital - look at the profits made by G4S and other large scale private providers through taking over services that were previously the responsibilty of the state. The Government has made it clear that they are determined to take on the public sector unions in one last great conflict with organised labour. This drive toward privatisation has also made clear by their refusal to negotiate with unions on the viability of public sector pensions in the education and health sectors and their point blank refusal to subject the fund to an independent audit to properly assess its economic viabilty. This is because the main obstacle to any private sector investment into health and education is that investors are completely unwilling to meet the financial obligations of present public sector pension arrangements. The aim is thus to radically restructure public sector employment - schools run by ex-armed forces personnel and owned by Carphone Warehouse and hospitals run by care assistants on short term, insecure private employment style contracts. That's why it is vitally important that we continue to undertake industrial action and that the trade unions stand firm and resist the destruction of our public services currently taking place through their costly and un-necessary privatisation plans. A leaked email by Lord Owen to the Labour party touts the possibility of a Lib Dem revolt and the possibility of combining with Milliband to try for a vote of 'no confidence' against the governments reforms. This appears to provide a potential opportunity to halt the NHS reforms: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9037011/Lord-Owens-plot-to-topple-the-Coalition.html Otherwise in years to come when private providers and insurance companies are sucking up billiions in public money, we will bitterly regret allowing these changes to happen so easily without putting up a serious fight to defend such hard won gains as the right to free health care." Wasn't in the Tory mandate iirc to mess with the NHS.

The Iron Lady. 7/10 I felt a little like Winston Smith watching it...

Escorted.

There are too many variables. ie spend doesn't guarantee anything (whereas good scouting might) and so on...The nature of the PL enviroment has changed so radically, past-present comparisons are ok for a bit of banter but really lack real meaning. /Sorted.

Dear Mods, I can't sing in with Firefox for some reason. I cleaned my cache the other day and deleted google tracking cookies. Is this the problem? What to do?

Good battling performance and class finishing the difference between the sides. Krul kept us in the game early on against Bent. Thought standout performances were from Santon and Guthrie. Guthrie just shading MOM for me. Ba2 just do what they do, finish chances. The finish by Papis was as good as any finish by Demba this season and is a calling card of things to come. :toon: nb Perch tidy and comfortable today and had a little peck at goal bless him.

Could really do with winning this. Won't be easy with our first choice midfield out. I'd love it if we started Ba2 and just went for it. There will be goals.

Nicked from Psb's BACK TO MINE. http:// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wj3fvs6kCk&feature=related

He was tracking back. Grafter.

The facts are that both Chelsea and ManC couldn't sutain themselves without oil money. Chelsea and ManC are running at loses of 100's millions a season. As recently as 2 years ago Abramovich had to lend them 200m (as a loan) to keep up their challenge.

I really think it's about 6/7 mate. If you're talking CL proper. To sustain a top 4 challege is really difficult as even Arsenal and Liv are finding and they have better squads/ we have 3 standout players who I'd rather have than theirs. Tiote, Ba and Collo. Then there is Santon and Hatem who once they play half a season or so solidly would also be good CL material...Neither has played much recently. Ideally they would come through as well of course. Look, Kranjar, Bassong and that right back (who'd all get into our side) can't even get into the Spurs first 11 and I think they're got about 12-13 true PL/CL players. They are a couple of seasons ahead of us. Think if we keep this side together and add in the summer then of course the picture changes. My gut feeling is that we aren't a million miles behind Liv and the spendthrift Wenger...I started a thead on the latters demise a couple of years ago if my positivity is being questioned It's in the GOLD SECTION ON NO.

Where and when? Deano prediccted 7th, i predicted 8th, dont remember you on the bandwagon of positivity last summer. Can't find the one on here, might have been a HF thread.. But on the other forum I agreed 7th was possible.. Parky Re: The Battle for 7th « Reply #141 on: Sunday 25 September 2011, 09:48:59 AM » Quote from: Dr Venkman on Sunday 25 September 2011, 09:34:52 AM With a bit of defensive cover and a top class striker we'd be shoe ins for 7th given our form so far. Bit of a shame,if defensive injuries hit we'll nose dive Agreed. Think the league is quite tame outside the top 3/4. http://www.newcastle...,89764.125.html

5/6 is the goal this year now and that is 2/3 places above what we were expecting at the start of the season. That would be a very solid season and I'd be happy with that. I predicted 7th at the start and truth be told I'd be a little dissapointed with that now. The squad isn't strong enough is the basic flaw and we've yet to really play any good football apart from in patches - many wins have been ground out. There is a good base to build on now and if we keep the core of the side together and add a couple of players in the summer a CL push next term is more of a reality, but even then to stay in the top 4 will require a tranche of investment that I don't think Ashley has the stomach for. To STAY in the top 4 requires 18 first team players that are interchangeble without a noticeable drop of quality, we have about 7 right now.

"Extra light"...Sacriledge!!

Fascinated to see your review/analysis of this book. Keep it coming.

Agreed.

Collo MOM for me. Good result as I think a lot of us were worried. Do or die stuff which has become a bit of a trademark this season which in itself isn't a bad thing. However it might be nice if we could keep the ball for more than 10 seconds.

Good goal, really well taken. Let's see more of it.

What apps are you using? Which synths, sequnecers and drums and so on? What are they like?

Should backdate that fella.

You think the club wouldn't have explored that option? It'll have been the Senegalese FA that have decided when they return. I really don't think they did. They don't think like that. It's why we have no back up CD either. Muppets. Senegalese FA would have stood aside if we had offered free footballs.