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Only knew as a friend was telling me about a (biggish) lunch out with a teacher friend, 20% discount and if I'm honest, I can't see why.

The Blue Light Card offers exclusive discounts for teachers and early years educators, which may include meals.

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What is wrong with these idiots

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Misinformation usually comes from ignorance but instead of learning and admitting they didn’t know they repeat it

Reform want to basically do away with the NHS as we have come to know it. But it'll be fine, because what they propose works in Europe. And they *love* Europe. Someone commented today on their experience with the French Healthcare system. What they described is completely normal for a Bismarck-style healthcare system. It is excellent care, often faster, often very humane, but it is not free at the point of use in the way people in the UK instinctively understand that phrase. It is paid for through a mix of compulsory social contributions and what is, in practice, near-mandatory top-up insurance. If you don’t pay into both layers, you are exposed. End of story.
The killer detail here isn’t “France is better than the NHS” (often true), it’s the personal price tag. Nearly €900 a month in health-related costs, on a decent pension. And this is not some exotic edge case.. it’s the structural reality. Crucially, the private “mutuelle” isn’t optional in any meaningful sense. It exists precisely because the state system deliberately doesn’t cover everything. That’s the design.
This is where Reform UK Ltd's assurances to their voters becomes dishonest.
A lot of people hear “French system” and imagine NHS care plus nicer waiting rooms and better cheese. What they don’t imagine is writing a four-figure cheque every month in retirement, regardless of how often they get sick, just to stand still. They especially don’t imagine that cost being flat-rated for insurance, not income-linked, so it hits ordinary retirees far harder than the wealthy.
And that’s before you even touch dentistry, optics, excess specialist fees, or the postcode lottery for GPs that somehow never gets mentioned in the Reform manifesto.
Sure, you absolutely can have a system like France. It delivers many things the NHS currently struggles to. But it requires a population that accepts higher, visible, personal healthcare costs as normal. Britain has never consented to that.. quite the opposite. The NHS was built precisely to remove that anxiety.
Which is why people like Nigel Farage leaning on “they do it in Europe” is so slippery. He gets to imply continental outcomes without ever admitting continental contributions. The bill is always left offstage, like a magician palming the coin.
So yes, my contributer's account is eye-opening, and frankly invaluable. Not because it says “France bad” or “NHS good”, but because it punctures the fantasy that you can quietly slide into a mixed insurance model without the public noticing the cost. People would notice. Very quickly. And many, especially Reform voters I suspect, would not be able to afford it.
Also, and importantly, The National Health Service consistently runs with freakishly low administrative costs of roughly 1.5–2 percent of total health spending. That figure includes commissioning, billing, management, HR, procurement, the lot. It’s low because the NHS is a single-payer, tax-funded system. No billing departments arguing with insurers, no parallel claims bureaucracy, no marketing and no profit extraction. One big pipe, money in, care out.
Depending on how narrowly you count it, France’s pure public insurance admin sits around 5-7 percent. But that’s only half the picture because when you include the mandatory private complementary insurers, claims processing, billing overhead in clinics, and the bureaucracy required to make all those moving parts talk to each other, most serious health-economics analyses put total administrative overhead in the 8–12 percent range. (Many put it higher.)
That still makes France more efficient than the US, which is a bureaucratic bonfire north of 25 percent. But it is nowhere near NHS efficiency.
The UK made the opposite historical trade-off. The NHS squeezes admin to the bone so money goes to care, not paperwork. That’s why it delivers universal coverage at lower per-capita cost than almost any comparable country. It’s also why it collapses so dramatically when underfunded.. there’s no slack. No insurance buffer, no spare bureaucracy to hide behind. And let's be clear, the reason the French Health service may be better in some areas that the UK, is that the NHS has been cronically underfunded for decades.
If we’re going to talk about reform (small R), it has to start with telling the truth about trade-offs, not selling imported dreams with the receipt hidden in the lining.
Reform UK manifestos shift tone and detail depending on audience and electoral pressure. The consistent pattern though is that explicit commitments get fuzzier the closer you look. That’s not an accident. It allows supporters to reassure themselves that “nothing radical is planned” while keeping the ideological door wide open. However, I have always been an advocate of "follow the money". Several prominent donors and backers associated with Reform have backgrounds in private healthcare, insurance or outsourcing. That does not require a conspiracy. It’s just incentives doing what incentives always do. People that bankroll movements tend to want something in return.
And Nigel Farage himself has been remarkably consistent over the years about this one thing, even when his party branding mutates like a fruit fly. He has repeatedly argued that the National Health Service model is “unsustainable” and that the UK should move toward an insurance-based or mixed funding system “like France” or “like Germany.” He often frames this as “free at the point of use,” but that phrase becomes extremely elastic once you introduce compulsory insurance, co-payments, and top-ups. Technically free, in the same way a car is free if you ignore the purchase price, fuel, insurance, MOT, and repairs.
But, let's be honest, even if Reform UK Ltd. ended up in government, the NHS would not vanish overnight. What would happen, based on Farage’s own long-standing comments and the “continental model” dog-whistle, is a gradual shift: more charging, more insurance, more “choice”, more things quietly pushed outside the core state offer. Think erosion, not explosion.
So I would advise anyone planning to vote Reform to also start planning to put an increasingly sizeable chunk of cash aside each month to cover their health costs.
I would advise everyone else to fight for what we have with every breath in your body to keep Farage away from our National Health Service. Vote for whoever is most likely to keep a Reform UK Ltd. candidate from getting a seat. Once the NHS is gone, it is NEVER coming back.

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The NHS have earmarked 73 million pounds in contract money to provide translation services for those who cannot read or speak English.
Initially I thought this would include BSL speakers, but reading the scope it doesnt
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/improvement-framework-community-language-translation-and-interpreting-services/

https://www.postalley.org/2026/01/06/dont-despair-this-land-is-still-our-land/

Worthy of your next five minutes.

When help is needed or an accident happens

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Awful cyber bullying

Ten found guilty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78v6z7597yo

Anyone ever used one of these. Reviews are very mixed (as usual)

https://ouvra.store/products/titanlock

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Interview


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I am sure he has had much abuse but it’s good that he has the guts to explain his feelings and choices. He isn’t asking anyone to join him just telling others how he came to that conclusion

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In idiots corner

https://youtu.be/2SVtkMn-nPk?si=5vxE9-l-lpOWoYYP

Guess who

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/29/third-of-reform-uk-council-leaders-express-vaccine-sceptic-views

Completely untrue and putting a photo of Keir Starmer alongside it is utter nonsense

It’s a minor change regarding health (particularly eye sight) that’s been updated by the DVLA

and other questions, to avoid cultural appropriation.
If certain woke people had their way, only Americans could work in burger places, only British in fish n chip shops, only Indians in curry houses, and of course only Turkish people and sell doner kebabs.
https://x.com/DailyMail/status/2004231518269444605

Instead of all the hatred

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https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/appeals/images-released-after-men-attacked-at-tube-station--london/

Even when there is full statistical evidence

It’s long but interesting and very telling of where and how the right wing get their information

https://youtu.be/VgRyTWs5ai4?si=cIpdh1bYSydOS6mJ

https://youtube.com/shorts/F8-8DzWuRLE?si=x8hwgnQNJdtsqqWP

My eyes 👀 started leaking 😢

Some of the comments are better than the call

https://youtube.com/shorts/XVBLQkLWX8I?si=DBP7GZheTdo_peiV

I was horrified to see this , hatred pouring onto our streets

https://humanists.uk/action/demand-action-extremism/

A petition - for what it’s worth

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But some are boycotting places

https://youtu.be/jnZ1xuuKqaU?si=bnH9NItSYhJLlb2I

Nigel Farage, Reform 2025 LTD, the Conservative Party, that seems to be defecting to Reform 2025 LTD en masse, all want the UK to leave the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights).

Why?

They are trying to tell everyone it’s to help stop asylum seekers and refugees getting help from it and to stop it overriding UK courts.

Some facts none of them want you to know:

The ECHR was created in 1950 after the Second World War to protect fundamental rights and freedoms across Europe.

Since 1980 the ECHR has heard only 29 immigration deportation cases and of which the UK won 16 of them. In comparison in 2024 8,164 asylum seekers were deported after they lost their claims.

Leaving the ECHR would have no bearing on immigration, refugees or asylum seekers in the UK so why are these people so keen for the UK to leave?

Let’s look at what rights are covered under the ECHR:
The right to life. Freedom from torture, slavery, discrimination and the right to a fair trial. Along with freedoms such as expression, assembly, religion and respect for private and family life.

So why would they want us to leave?

Because leaving would put everyone’s rights at risk, the ECHR is there to hold the state to account when it has abused citizens rights

We have already seen many cases where the right to peaceful protest is being clamped down on.

More critically and probably the main reason they want us to leave the ECHR also helps protect workers rights, such as the right to join a union that is currently protected under the right to freedom of association and such things as the right to strike.

Considering Farage and all of Reforn 2025 LTD voted AGAINST new laws strengthening workers rights then it’s not surprising they also want to get rid of the ECHR!

They are on the side of corporations and are looking to open up ways that YOU can be exploited by those very corporations. They tell you it’s about immigrants when in all reality it’s about making billionaires richer.

Look at who’s paying the piper, 75% of Reform 2025 LTD donations have come from just 3 wealthy men! The Conservatives biggest donors are from unincorporated associations meaning none are transparent.

They are telling you what you want to hear while doing what they want for their paymasters.

Wake up!

Oh no not Farage as well

Yes named eighteen times

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I found this text rather moving, and the photograph is beautiful https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/26/cheryle-st-onge-my-best-shot-dementia-mother-jack-russell

Boarding on Flight 2026 has been announced.

Please ensure your luggage carries only what truly mattered from 2025.
Moments that helped you grow.
Lessons that made you wiser.
Memories that warmed your heart.

The disappointments, regrets, and heavy days are best left behind.
They have served their purpose.
They do not need to travel further with you.

The duration of this journey will be twelve months.
Some days will feel smooth.
Some may bring turbulence.
Trust that every phase is part of the route.
Fasten your seat belt gently, not out of fear, but with readiness.

The scheduled stopovers include
Health
Clarity
Inner strength
Meaningful connections
Peace of mind
Quiet joy

During the flight, you will be served
Small moments of gratitude
Unexpected kindness
Strength you did not know you had
Good news arriving at the right time
Progress that feels slow but steady
Happiness that comes without loud announcements.

All accompanied by moments of laughter, reflection, and becoming.

Wishing you and your loved ones a safe, meaningful, and fulfilling journey through 2026.
May this year meet you with growth, grace, and faith, exactly when you need them.

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Is he suspended yet ?

Been sent this : really just shows how the excuses change once they are caught out .
No one integrates ? No because they are not allowed to.

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We call them Coypu

Starts filming straight away as usual

https://youtu.be/wIC3EFWZWmY?si=l2bZoDPSWFdU3TTP

Just think . It was a video but I have just copied the important part

Happy New Year everyone

The message my best friend has sent me

Without your headphones

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https://www.postalley.org/2025/12/31/ballrooms-on-water-some-potential-design-issues-with-trump-class-battleships/