Why is it nonsense? Of course, you are the expert.
The freedom to burn coal fires and pollute the atmosphere? There was a lot of opposition to smokeless zones at the time. Iām old enough to remember the evidence for why they were needed and this shite was not just on buildings. It was in peopleās lungs:
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You obviously are no expert!
Go back to reading your Torygraph!
Exactly. Smoking isnāt a freedom. Itās a terrible imprisonment through chemistry and brain washing. You are programmed to consume a product that is killing you and costing you money best spent on almost anything else.
This was carried out by the tobacco industry in cahoots with pliant politicians for a century or more. Itās similar to the weapons industry in the US, except that guns arenāt only used for suicide.Their propaganda was so successful that there are people today who still insist on their āfreedomā to be addicted.
I smoked for 35 years and giving up was one of the most liberating things Iāve ever done.
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And, just so coincidentally overlaps with the push by Tories to get the police to re-open the investigation into Angela Raynorā¦ 
Peter Murrell charged with embezzlement.
Potentially good news for Labour, with Scottish voters having second thoughts about the SNP.
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Now they just need to charge all the Tories with dodgy PPE contracts.
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Never had a first thought for them
Sunak has declared a crackdown on āsicknote cultureā.
He has suggested that this is down to mental health conditions and people should receive treatment rather than benefits. Well, if people were to receive treatment they wouldnāt need benefits. The problem with that is that psychiatric services across the UK are massively underfunded. Removing benefits are likely to make mental health worse, not better.
There has been a big increase in long term sickness in the UK in the last 4 years. Rather than being due to an increase in mental health as such, I would suggest that letting a virus rip through the population unchecked might have more to do with it.
This just looks like standard MO for this government. Victim blaming.
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Another issue that the incoming government will have to u turn on.
Whatās the current NHS waiting list again?
Now the real question is where will that money go?
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He said āsomething has gone wrongā since the pandemic
He even invoked it he is an imbicile like my boss!
How can that arrogant, entitled, non-elected git say GPS will not be allowed to sign off sick and disabled people off work? His Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, who took 3 months off work to avoid giving evidence in the Covid inquiry, yet he dismisses GPsā opinions as insignificant for the general public. This PM also campaigned for āEat Out to Help outā during the pandemic, which spread the virus more widely.
Many people had severe post-covid symptoms and eventually long covid and thus had to take sick leave. Many people were so isolated from friends and family during the pandemic, it effected the mental well being.
He is so out of touch with general public. He doesnāt seem bothered about investigating covid fraud.
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Build a wall, build a wall, ā¦
Appealing to one of the basest instincts (fear of others) is at least tried and tested and has worked for the other sideā¦ if you cannot beat them, join them!
Iām assuming that Labour policy on this is to process asylum cases according to internal law. That poster basically says that but tarted up for the gamonarti.
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More importantly, what on earth does it have to do with local elections?
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Not sure the application of the ādefencing the bordersā scaring tactic has bordersā¦
p.s. playing slightly to a couple of threads in that response - sorry