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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, the current announced budget is designed to make pretty much everyone in the country much poorer by 2030

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtKbjtIp4s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One doctor said that they had seen patients with two Victorian skin diseases, erysipelas and scabies, over the past three months.

My brother had scabies three decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was during the other Victorian era, in the 1990s, named after "Posh Spice" Victoria Adams/Beckham from the Spice Girls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Ah, Queen Victoria the Second.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So in the 90's, after Thatcher made the UK great again with conservatism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's the one - although I think the rot set in when she snatched our milk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah like MPs will ever listen to doctors.

The whole move to PIP was about removing the ability for a patients doctor to certify disability.

Amd 15 years of the cost increasing followed by a change in government. MPs still refuse to listen to doctors.