We stand by nurses going out on strike
JOKE OF THE DAY for I’m rooting in the Switzerland I don’t World Cup. about the know much their flag team, but is a big plus! Emma, Fleetwood
❑ Even if it means my operation is delayed i am totally behind the nurses’ going out on strike. they have been under appreciated for years. clapping’s hardly going to pay their bills is it? this government is a joke and time we all let them know. Paul Birmingham
❑ Learning that nurses are going on strike next month, I need to say this. I lost my dear wife on 25th Nov. tameside hospital & staff fought for two weeks to help her, I cannot thank the staff enough, it will take weeks, months to accept I will never see my beloved wife again, stop messing about and give the nurses and doctors what they deserve. If they come out on strike, I will stand by them and support them for what they did for my wife. God bless the NHS and ALL staff and workers. Tameside mike
❑ Transport secretary Mark Harper says inflation busting pay rises are unaffordable. Maybe if we stopped paying £7 million a day to house migrants, it might help the people who have worked hard in all their lives to a decent living wage. the way the powers that be are handling this is actually adding to the problem!!! Cumbrian Kev
❑ To Andrew Foley, WashingtonTyne-Wear: This country is on its knees because of money being spent on immigration, a Labour government will make it worse. CHARLTON GARRY
❑ Grant Shapps said he was concerned by reports that energy bills were rising despite people cutting back on energy use. Where has Shapps been all this time? Over the years people have insulated their homes etc to save on energy and save money only to be hit with higher energy bills. When will politicians step out of their ivory towers and step into the real world to physically meet the electorate who they claim to represent? Politicians forget they are public servants. Have any of them actually seen a household bill? Richard
❑ We shouldn’t really be surprised at the watered down democracy we have ended up with after 47 years under the thumb of the closet fascists in Brussels. Why else would Sir Keir be sending his MPs to be taught how to form a government? Alan in Teesdale
❑ I’m also 71 like bantaman, and also have aching joints and emphysema PLUS migraines, shingles, gout and a wobbly heart. When I get cold, like him I also use extra bed clothes, (and double duvets) long johns, thick wooly socks, t-shirt ( and sweat shirt) TWO wooly jumpers, fingerless gloves under the wooly gloves, balaclava and scarf under my beanie hat, not forgetting my jacket and thick outdoor coat and snow boots, and shawl over my feet. But unlike bantaman I think how lucky I am that all these items of clothing were invented years ago!!! Presumably because some people decided they’d be really, really important to help keep us warm. It’s 10 degrees outside here, and only three and a half weeks till midwinter. I’m still gardening in shirt sleeves. Aunty Mona
❑ whatever next, social anthropologists have researched jesus to be transgender. could they discover the conservative hierarchy to be socially fragmented next? frank aston
❑ Some one is a little mixed up with the prices of beer, at 18 in 1961 I’d practised a few before then? My first official pints was 1sh for mild, 1s 1d for bitter, and 1s 3d for a super bitter that wld knock yr socks off. As old Walt my old sparing partner wld say, those were the days when we were on nights Baz. As we wobbled home. Bazboy
❑ m hemel your ignorance is astounding. the real mr coffee
❑ the problem isn’t that obesity runs in are family, it’s that no one runs in our family. tony worksop
❑ If this recession does take us back to the 1970s can it be to the bit when i discovered Caroline Munro or Jacqueline Bisset?