More than a lot of lack of warm, minimal amounts of
atmospheric movement, minus amounts of skywater and missing solar stuff at the
Castle this morn.
Allegedly Pippa’s
sister has been banged up by some tall bald bloke and is in ‘Orspital with
a touch of morning sickness, that’ll teach em.
Doctors are earning £1,200 for a single day’s work due to
high demand for out-of-hours GPs.
Some are even being paid bonuses for going out and visiting
patients rather than dealing with them over the phone according to the Daily
Turdygraph
Younger GPs are shunning the traditional route of working
their way up in a practice, they say, in favour of locuming which enables them
to earn up to £20,000 a month.
Carmen Marshall, who runs The Locum GP Consultancy in Luton
Beds said hourly rates, had risen in the past five years because of a paucity of GPs.
She said the £1,200 figures tended to be for 12-hour shifts
on bank holidays.
A spokesman for the British Medical Association said locums
were in general paid less than partner GPs. He added: “Locums have always been
part of the workforce.”
No wonder the NHS is going tits up...
And alien reptile in disguise George (I have an IQ lower
than a turd) Osborne is to announce a new generation of PFI schemes, but allegedly
he will introduce safeguards to ensure the taxpayer shares in any profits.
Companies involved in the private finance projects will also
be forced to disclose their profits following fears that unjustified
“windfalls” have been made at the expense of taxpayers because of poorly
designed schemes.
In his Autumn Statement tomorrow, the Chancellor will
announce a programme called PF2, to replace the original scheme. It will be
used to finance a new generation of hospitals, schools, roads and other
taxpayer-funded projects.
“Mr” Osborne will also disclose that he will save
£2.5 billion by helping Whitehall departments and local authorities to
renegotiate their current PFI deals.
The Government is committed to paying £229 billion in the
coming decades for PFI schemes that were agreed by previous administrations to
build public services. The schemes have been undermined by allegations that
taxpayers are forced to pay hundreds of pounds for basic maintenance such as
changing a light bulb.
More than 20 NHS trusts are facing serious financial
instability and resultant problems with paying for medical services because of
the costs of the schemes.
The first PF2 project is expected to be a £1.7 billion scheme to rebuild and
renovate 219 schools. Work is expected to begin in the spring. The “Chancellor” will also outline plans for an expansion in gas-generated power stations, with 30 plants to be providing electricity by 2030.
This marks a victory over the Liberal Democrats, who wished to move towards greener energy.
Oh good, can’t wait, mainly because I will be dead by
2030......
A 24-hour Tesco
store has resorted to closing late at night in order to evict a couple of
persistent visitors.
Two birds – a robin
and a
pigeon – have been making themselves at home at the Tesco Extra store
in Inshes, Inverness, defying repeated attempts by managers to bar them. The
pair has taken to circling the checkouts and loitering in the cafe window, searching for scraps of food
dropped by
customers.
Managers have now
been reduced to cutting the store’s opening hours in an attempt to deal with
the birds as effectively as possible, while keeping the inconvenience to
customers at a minimum.
An assistant at the
supermarket said: “We’ve had to start closing the store for a while at 11pm,
when it’s quiet. All the staff has to go to the staff room and wait while the
birds are chased out of the store.”
Morrisons has better fruit and veg.....
Amsterdam is to create "Scum villages" where
nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city and re-housed
in caravans or containers with "minimal services" under constant
police supervision.
Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show
an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and
homelessness.
Eberhard van der Laan, Amsterdam's Labour mayor, has tabled
the £810,000 plan to tackle 13,000 complaints of anti-social behaviour every
year. He complained that long-term harassment often leads to law abiding
tenants, rather than their nuisance neighbours, being driven out.
"This is the world turned upside down," the mayor
said at the weekend.
The project also involves setting up a special hotline and
system for victims to report their problems to the authorities.
The new punishment housing camps have been dubbed "scum
villages" because the plan echoes a proposal from Geert Wilders, the
leader of a populist Dutch Right-wing party, for special units to deal with
persistent troublemakers.
"Repeat offenders should be forcibly removed from their
neighbourhood and sent to a village for scum," he suggested last year.
"Put all the trash together."
There are already several small-scale trial projects in the
Netherlands, including in Amsterdam, where 10 shipping container homes have
been set aside for persistent offenders, living under 24-hour supervision from
social workers and police.
Under the new policy, from January next year, victims will
no longer have to move to escape their tormentors, who will be moved to the new
units.
A team of district "harassment directors" have
already been appointed to spot signals of problems and to gather reports of
nuisance tenants.
The Dutch Parool newspaper observed that the policy was not
a new one. In the 19th century, troublemakers were moved to special villages in
Drenthe and Overijssel outside Amsterdam. The villages were rarely successful,
becoming sink estates for the lawless.
"We have learned from the past," said the mayor's
spokesman. "A neighbourhood can deal with one problem family but if there
are more the situation escalates."
Take note Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition---"We have learned from the past,"
The formula for decorating the perfect Christmas tree has
been cracked.
Getting the correct ratio of lights and tinsel is also
crucial to lighting up your life, say students at Sheffield University's maths
society.
Their calculations suggest the tree-topping angel or star
should be precisely one tenth the size of the tree. The number of lights
required is found by multiplying the mathematical constant Pi (3.14) by the
height of the tree in centimetres.
For example, a 183cm (6ft) tree needs 574cm of lights (183 x
3.14) or 18ft 9in. But perfection is only obtainable with 37 baubles and 920cm
(30ft) of tinsel.
'The formulas took us about two hours to complete,' said
formula creators Nicole Wrightham and Alex Craig, both 20. 'We hope they'll
play a part in making Christmas a bit easier for everyone.'
The work was commissioned by department store Debenhams.
Christmas decorations buyer Sarah Theobold said: 'The
formula is so versatile it will work for a tree large enough for the Royal
Family at Balmoral but also on trees small enough for modest homes.'
Nah: the picture is what the perfect Crimbo tree looks like-still in the ground....
And finally:
An eight-year-old girl has had a lucky escape after a dolphin
she was feeding bit her at a US theme park.
Jillian Thomas was holding out fish to feed to dolphins at Orlando's
SeaWorld when she got an unexpected surprise.While she was feeding the usually friendly mammals, a dolphin lunged at her and nipped her hand.
The girl, whose parents posted the video on YouTube to make other people aware of the dangers, suffered three small puncture wounds.
Jillian's father, Jamie Thomas, told local media the family were angry at the theme park for not warning them of the dangers of dolphin feeding.
"We felt powerless," he said.
"We thought, look, we've got this video, let's make it public, and let's try to put some pressure on SeaWorld to make some changes."
How about realising that feeding a large mammal with teeth
by hand could be a bit chancy you twonk....but did it do it on Porpoise.....
That’s it: I’m orf to bung my flash
memory in the oven
And today’s thought:
One dahn one to go.
Angus
