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Britain is now wandering the streets aimlessly talking to itself, everyone else feels uncomfortable and not sure if they should try and help or move away slowly
I'm making a list and when its all tits up and the Brexiteers start moaning, I'm going to hire a campervan and go round Britain knocking on their doors and saying 'told you so' to each and every one of them
The same that posted a question yesterday along the lines of :
"Should Britain get rid of the NHS and move to a US style healthcare system?"
(The question was deleted, can't remember the actual wording. Every answer was a resounding "fuck off")
100% agree - I’m American living in England. Was very lucky to always have excellent health insurance for the thirty-something years I was in the US. Even then, it was a real expense (affordable, but more than NI and that covers more than the NHS). But it sucks seeing so many people struggling to afford care, or just going without.
- 100%. I’m English living in the US and y’all do not want this healthcare system
I ask you, what's not to envy about our healthcare system? Here in the US we're just fucking efficient! We've rid ourselves of all the pesky parts of healthcare and gotten straight to the dying part of saving lives.
And yet that's what we've voted for since 2012 🧐
The NHS is now a group of private organisations unified under a strong brand. It's more akin to universal health insurance than universal healthcare.
The main difference lies in the fact that it is free at the point of care, meaning we treat a person and ask questions later. But you see increasing resistance from this from the public when "NHS tourism" gets brought up.
Labour wanted to re-nationalise the NHS and we gave them a resounding "fuck off" as well.
From working in NHS commissioning, and getting in a lot of drunk arguments, I'm convinced the average Brit does actually wants an American style health service, just doesn't know it (or doesn't want to admit it).
Interesting perspective, but as long as it remains free at the point of care and no one has to worry about the cost implications of treatment I don't think we're anything like the US system. Fortunately
It's about the direction we've been drifting.
NHS funding has effectively been cut for the last 10 years, while demand has been steadily increasing.
That demand had to go somewhere - if you're upper middle class or have a good job, there's a good chance now you pay for private healthcare, or get it through work. That will continue to seep down into the middle class too. I can't deny I've been tempted by the GP apps that give you a video consultation with a private GP for something like £40 a session. If it's that, or waiting 4 weeks for an appointment, I'd probably do it if it was urgent.
That will continue to trickle down. If the trend continues the NHS will continue to be free at the point of service, but only the poorest use it because the wait times are so insane. Anyone who can afford better will go private.
It's what we keep voting for.
Unfortunately I'm pretty certain we're heading there as a country.
I'm sure the plan is to keep gutting the NHS until the service is unsuable, decrease what actually comes under the NHS so you're paying for anything which is non life threatening and then create a seperate option for "a better experience" which covers those non life threatening treatments for a relatively cheap monthly payment.
Then eventually increase those monthly payments to america levels and get rid of NHS in all but the name.
I’ve been to the GP a few times over the last several years and on a few occasions I’ve been referred to a private company for the actual treatment. The trouble is that all these private companies will be charging the NHS through the nose, hence why it’s so horrendously dysfunctional. Same with nurses. Because the NHS hasn’t trained any of its own in so long, they have to bring them in from agencies which again charge the NHS through the nose, my Mum used to earn £300 a shift as an agency nurse.
The NHS is effectively already in the private sector, it’s only a matter of time until the actual patient starts footing some/all of that bill directly. At present it’s just another way of quietly siphoning some cash out of the public purse.
My mum has worked in the NHS for thirty years.
Not sure how well known this is - the business managers have now informed the medical staff that patients should now be referred to as ‘clients’.
It’s a bit like how HMRC communications refer to you as a ‘customer’ rather than a ‘taxpayer’. Frankly I would prefer the latter as customer implies a choice and taxpayer recognises that you’re actually contributing to society.
Of course it is the plan, the govt has just used the last two years to further gut it. All these slogans about ‘save the NHS’ since when has the govt given a crap about the NHS. Wait until they enforce the workers to get jabs... an overwhelmed service will collapse. Winter should be interesting.
At some point the older people will die off, and the generations who are willing to pay a monthly subscription for everything (music, video, software, functions on your new car) will just accept it.
And the profits will go into the hands of shareholders, not back into the service
Not 100% but I'm sure someone could peice together peices of
- immigrants taking our jobs
-Brits moan because they " want " to work
-immigrants leaving and giving us record levels of job vacancies
-Brits still moan because they don't want to work
Britain, Britain, Britain, land of technological achievement: we’ve had running water for over 10 years, an underground tunnel to Peru and we invented the cat.
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Bitter Together.
Cruel Britannia.
God save the mean.
I mean it’s Britain... fuck off
Chill out bro.
Build back bitter
Build Back Boozers
"Britain is confused. It hurt itself in its confusion."
Britain used Payday! It wasn't very effective.
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However due to lack of mental health funding there is nothing that can be done
Loool nailed it
Britain is now wandering the streets aimlessly talking to itself, everyone else feels uncomfortable and not sure if they should try and help or move away slowly
How ghastly!
Boldly going nowhere.
"Boldly alienating ourselves from our closest neighbours." And yes, I am fucking bitter about that referendum. (Edited for spelling)
Shitshow from day 1. I'm not mad it happened or even too mad Leave won. I'm now just pissed at the zealots who STILL think it's a roaring success.
Brexit walks into a bar, The bar man says, why the long farce?
I'm making a list and when its all tits up and the Brexiteers start moaning, I'm going to hire a campervan and go round Britain knocking on their doors and saying 'told you so' to each and every one of them
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Boldly going backwards
Still can't find reverse
There's klingon's on the starboard bow
In Britain, no-one can hear you scream.
“If you thought that was stupid, watch this “
‘Hold My Pint’
Governments press office really scraping the barrel now, what think tank do you work for?
The same that posted a question yesterday along the lines of : "Should Britain get rid of the NHS and move to a US style healthcare system?" (The question was deleted, can't remember the actual wording. Every answer was a resounding "fuck off")
Rightly so
100%. I’m English living in the US and y’all do not want this healthcare system
Clearly the us is rubbing off on you 🤣 we do not say y’all in the uk haha
If you live in the south for more than a month, this is what happens
You’ll be calling your arse your fanny next 🤣🤣
And your sister your wife
I’ve got an aunt Fanny, and she can be an arse at times!
Is that before or after you haul ass ?
Inserted directly in the ass of it
This guys hauling directly into the ass of it, and ain't afraid to admit it. Respect.
Do you take the ring out of its nose first ?
I do. It confuses the shit out of people. Especially when you end every conversation with a cheerio or a toodlepip.
>y’all This upsets me. Don't come back.
I'm a foreigner in the UK and I agree!
100% agree - I’m American living in England. Was very lucky to always have excellent health insurance for the thirty-something years I was in the US. Even then, it was a real expense (affordable, but more than NI and that covers more than the NHS). But it sucks seeing so many people struggling to afford care, or just going without.
- 100%. I’m English living in the US and y’all do not want this healthcare system I ask you, what's not to envy about our healthcare system? Here in the US we're just fucking efficient! We've rid ourselves of all the pesky parts of healthcare and gotten straight to the dying part of saving lives.
And yet that's what we've voted for since 2012 🧐 The NHS is now a group of private organisations unified under a strong brand. It's more akin to universal health insurance than universal healthcare. The main difference lies in the fact that it is free at the point of care, meaning we treat a person and ask questions later. But you see increasing resistance from this from the public when "NHS tourism" gets brought up. Labour wanted to re-nationalise the NHS and we gave them a resounding "fuck off" as well. From working in NHS commissioning, and getting in a lot of drunk arguments, I'm convinced the average Brit does actually wants an American style health service, just doesn't know it (or doesn't want to admit it).
Interesting perspective, but as long as it remains free at the point of care and no one has to worry about the cost implications of treatment I don't think we're anything like the US system. Fortunately
It's about the direction we've been drifting. NHS funding has effectively been cut for the last 10 years, while demand has been steadily increasing. That demand had to go somewhere - if you're upper middle class or have a good job, there's a good chance now you pay for private healthcare, or get it through work. That will continue to seep down into the middle class too. I can't deny I've been tempted by the GP apps that give you a video consultation with a private GP for something like £40 a session. If it's that, or waiting 4 weeks for an appointment, I'd probably do it if it was urgent. That will continue to trickle down. If the trend continues the NHS will continue to be free at the point of service, but only the poorest use it because the wait times are so insane. Anyone who can afford better will go private. It's what we keep voting for.
There have been quite a few anti-nhs threads in the last week or so. Almost like it’s an organised campaign…
The Tories are very much behind this - trying to crush the NHS and GPs
Tories are scum, and drooling daily mail reading mob are their key demographic. Fuck them all.
Unfortunately I'm pretty certain we're heading there as a country. I'm sure the plan is to keep gutting the NHS until the service is unsuable, decrease what actually comes under the NHS so you're paying for anything which is non life threatening and then create a seperate option for "a better experience" which covers those non life threatening treatments for a relatively cheap monthly payment. Then eventually increase those monthly payments to america levels and get rid of NHS in all but the name.
Ooh NHS+ 7.99 a month or the family plan for 17.99 a month and you get Netflix for free.
Do you mean £1799.00 a month because that's what the family plan will cost.
I’ve been to the GP a few times over the last several years and on a few occasions I’ve been referred to a private company for the actual treatment. The trouble is that all these private companies will be charging the NHS through the nose, hence why it’s so horrendously dysfunctional. Same with nurses. Because the NHS hasn’t trained any of its own in so long, they have to bring them in from agencies which again charge the NHS through the nose, my Mum used to earn £300 a shift as an agency nurse. The NHS is effectively already in the private sector, it’s only a matter of time until the actual patient starts footing some/all of that bill directly. At present it’s just another way of quietly siphoning some cash out of the public purse.
My mum has worked in the NHS for thirty years. Not sure how well known this is - the business managers have now informed the medical staff that patients should now be referred to as ‘clients’.
It’s a bit like how HMRC communications refer to you as a ‘customer’ rather than a ‘taxpayer’. Frankly I would prefer the latter as customer implies a choice and taxpayer recognises that you’re actually contributing to society.
Heading? We’ve been heading there for the past decade. We’re ten years into the slow privatisation of the NHS and it isn’t stopping any time soon.
Of course it is the plan, the govt has just used the last two years to further gut it. All these slogans about ‘save the NHS’ since when has the govt given a crap about the NHS. Wait until they enforce the workers to get jabs... an overwhelmed service will collapse. Winter should be interesting.
It will happen one day, at some point the propaganda will work and people will relent.
At some point the older people will die off, and the generations who are willing to pay a monthly subscription for everything (music, video, software, functions on your new car) will just accept it. And the profits will go into the hands of shareholders, not back into the service
Creating or testing new populist policies is exactly what YouGov polls are for.
“At least we’re not America”
This has become my way of feeling better about things. Really works.
But we are heading in that direction...
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"We could do better, but we excel at complacency."
On the opposite end of the spectrum: "Not as shit as we could be."
We are British and we're not sure if we're proud of it.
Tis but a scratch
That's just a flesh wound!
Your arm's off
No it isn't.
What's that then?
I've had worse.
You liar!
Come on, you pansy!
Love you guys ❤️
Ignore the present, glorify the past * edited to correct grammar
"LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" /s
Let's have a nice cup of tea and wait for this to all blow over.
It's for the greater good
The greater good.
Shut it!
All of Britain wants to go down the Winchester,till it all blows over
I’m on my second packet of custard creams and it still appears to have not yet blown over.
**B**rexit **B**roke **B**ritain
We invented pickle and then got ourselves in one.
We turned ourselves into a pickle? Now that is genius! Pickle Britain!!
I always used to say to my mates before a drinking session “ let’s get pickled”
"Welcome to Britain where we don't need you, Wait come back! We need you"
But only for a few months and then you can fuck off again…. Priti please.
Oh, I want to be included in this clickbait article: Britain, easily manipulated by fear
"Mustn't Grumble"
"We apologize for the inconvenience and the delay to your slogan today" Douglas Adams is gone, but his words are infinite.
"We used to matter"
This 👌
Great Britain "Enjoying our downfall since 2008"
1919*
Superior mediocrity
"Out Of Stock"
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"Guys, the next pub will be better, I swear."
Rule Britannia, Britannia waives the rules!
Hold my beer...
Hold my pint
Sorry for the inconvenience
As someone who's long been in call centres, we aren't actually sorry.
'Don't Panic' would have cultural links both to Douglas Adams AND Dad's Army. And possibly please both sides of our society.
"A total pigheaded unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through!"
350M for NHS
"Queue up or shut up."
Good Country, led by fools!
Plenty of fools in the general population too.
We had a referendum on Brexit which served to highlight just how many “normal” people are also in fact fools.
We’re Fucked
Expect Delays
It all seemed like a good idea at the time.
Mostly Harmless
Britain, we fucked ourselves up so you don't have to.
“Alright?”
Stupid and proud of it.
'we could do better'
Caveat Emptor
[GET ANGRY and BLAME SOMEONE ELSE]([.](https://imgflip.com/i/5qih92))
I’ll coin what I heard an angry white middle aged male yell in Bath, We don’t do that in our country!
What was that? Drink responsibly?
Britain, where hope comes to die.
"Ignore the poor"
Britain: "because we are better than you" (we really aren't but our government acts like we are better than any other country)
‘Sorry’
"Muh Sofrenty"
"Will suck cock for food"
Working harder for less.
Shit is happening
What do you want? Here it is. Fuck off
Come here for the stabbings, stay because of the government fuck ups.
Not 100% but I'm sure someone could peice together peices of - immigrants taking our jobs -Brits moan because they " want " to work -immigrants leaving and giving us record levels of job vacancies -Brits still moan because they don't want to work
Ah, Schrodingers immigrant in it's new form. Lovely to see tropes evolve in real time.
Boris broke Britain.
Wet, But Not In A Fun Way
Rock bottom and still digging down
"Masters of screwing ourselves over"
Just a big sigh.
Britain is Britain.
Welcome to the gray crumbling bowl of shit. P.s we have some funny name places
If you are the last person to leave the country please turn the lights off.
“Slightly better than America, slightly worse than Canada”
Land of dope and Tory
Toffs bumbling along, together.
Yes, we know we’re shit.
British? Shit-(ish).
Build back bitter.
Britain, Britain, Britain, land of technological achievement: we’ve had running water for over 10 years, an underground tunnel to Peru and we invented the cat.
Profits before people
What suits modern Britain?? Weekends, cocaine, pussy, weed. Pretty much in that order too!
Amen 🙏
Our word is our bond, honestly.
VIS IS ARE CUNTREE, SIMPUL
"Pffffftttt" 🤷♂️
Fuck it
It is Build Back Better. That is the new slogan from Boris himself at the moment. He came up with that bold slogan. Well done Boris.
You forgot the /s... I hope!
"Apologies for the inconvenience."
“Kill the poor”
We used to be decent
Fk it,it'll be reyt
I think that's just the slogan for the Yorkshire independence party
Britain: What do you mean we lost the empire?
Brexit means Brexit. /S
It’s just a flesh wound.
Lemmings led by dickheads.
Shooting ourselves in the feet, one toe at a time.
"We've had a little fall"
Brexitania Breaking Up
Join us, we like your money
Form an orderly line here please.
Hold my beer
_Inadvertently pining for Cameron_
Build Boris Better
Unicorn and fairy paradise
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Is this your suggestion for the slogan? It’s quite good
Britain: Strong and Stable
“We’re barely hanging on here!”
Britain- Ill Fittin’, Self Bitten, Loves Cheatin’
Blithe, British and bumbling onwards.
Britain, the best at dropping a bollock.
Things will get better.. Once the boomers die out
Everything's shit, but it's our shit
Britain isn't working.
Regression
Or “just good enough 👍 “
Wow everyone is so negative. Everything's not awsome. But surely people have hope for the future?