But the pretend president did a far better job than the real one. And he got Sigourney Weaver.

The figure I used wasn't originated by the BBC but by our current right-wing Tory government. Even your Daily Mirror article puts the cost of health tourism at between £70 and £300 million, significantly below the £2 billion you originally said.

Brilliant.

On par with your Matt Forde stuff.

It states "Total visitor and migrant NHS Cost £1.8bn to £2bn" of which deliberate health tourism is ESTIMATED at £300 million.

So, if you are a visitor to the UK and you utilise our NHS and we don't claim it back from your own health system (which we don't) that is a COST tours, the taxpayer.

It also states the word 'Migrant', which we also pay for. They may be an asylum seeker, an economic migrant or an EU non tax paying migrant.......whichever they are WE are still footing the bill as they are paying nada.
The truth is the good old NHS dispense health services to EVERYONE with no checks, no charges and no way of totalling these costs, it's a shambles and costing a total that no one can say with any certainty.
As we had 5 million arrivals under Blair and 40 million visitors a year to the UK, it's not difficult to work out that it is a waste of finite resources on a monumental scale.

It's a simple concept.....do keep up Clitheroe1

He must have come straight from the 'Newsnight' studio......the scruffy little sh*t is wearing a tie 😀

Of that £2 billion much of it is recouped from foreign governments and insurance. It is wrong to include migrants who are working and paying tax here as they are not considered to be health tourists. This leaves the cost of health tourism at £200 million, the official government figure, or between £70-£300 million, from your preferred source, the Daily Mirror. To put this in perspective, this total is less than what the NHS spends on stationary.

Thanks for all your comments peeps it's really gratifying making images up in Photoshop and I'm glad some people get a laugh from it they are only meant as a bit fun.

All of my miles are Motorway miles. I will buy an Electric Car at the same moment as most people will. When it is practical.
Give or take 10 years, I doubt that me and you would disagree on the likely timeline.

I have given little thought to the moral dilemmas posed by driverless vehicles....even though my favourite radio show is Radio 4's The Moral Maze..
I accept what is being claimed with regard to overall road safety....and find it slightly disturbing.
At some point a driverless car will make a manoeuvre to avoid a small child, and will kill a different small child as a result. A police officer will inform the parents of the small child and at some point they will be told that the total number of children killed in RTAs has dropped significantly since the introduction of driverless cars, and that there can be no doubt that "lives have been saved".
And we will all feel depressed about this good news.

We have moved away from my main point which was to challenge your view that a man of JOB's age (or younger) who has little interest in "Cars" other than as transport, is unusual, or worse......has a POV that should attract ridicule. If more men are inclined to buy people movers with modest acceleration, that is a wonderful thing, and I hope I have explained why that is the case without needing to post the absolutely mind blowing Elephant in the (dangerous driving statistics) Room....

Nope....ours are vintage and more environmentally friendly than new cars as the resources used to make them was decades ago... and you do know where electric power comes from of course....coal,gas nuclear and a tiny smidge of wind from hideous turbines blotting the landscape.
Our car parts are refurbished not binned and no new materials are being used to make more......

Like Lady Phoebe I ride motorcycles on track as I have cars too getting a race licence but when I lived in Brighton I used my scooter to go in there and into London either train or my motorcycle so not part of congestion/pollution problems....

forever childish? Yep.... never ever going to grow up.......where is the fun in that.....????

Yep that's what I'm thinking of Nosedive

I've only just noticed this at the top of the forum page.

Nice to see they're planning on sorting out the search function and I like the Jail idea.

What is very interesting is the 'banned' amnesty ... I wonder if we will get a few of our old contributors back?? ....

Boris Johnson in 2013: (Before the Syria vote)

"How is it supposed to work? How are we meant to furnish machine guns and anti-tank weapons to one set of opposition forces, without them ending up in the hands of men like the al-Qaeda-affiliated thugs who executed a child for telling a joke?
This is not the moment to send more arms. This is the moment for a total ceasefire, an end to the madness. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...er-be-won.html



Boris Johnson, today:

"There is another inescapable reality that I’m afraid members must accept, which is on August 29 2013, this House voted by 13 votes not to use force against Assad even after he had poisoned hundreds of his people with sarin nerve gas.
We as a House of Commons, we as a country, we vacated that space into which Russia stepped, beginning its own bombing campaign on behalf of Assad."

What? You mean other people are actually phoning in and getting through to his highness Steve?

I'm gutted he won't take just my calls..... & I love Terry Thomas but I don't sound like him!
Today he said he won't take calls on Christmas day as all he gets is people calling to say Steve we love you.....

Vomit bucket by the bedside this morning as the SAS in full power mode (Steve Allen Sycophants) after the showbiz highlight of the year at the Hippodrome.....

It sold out in 29 seconds apparently and the manager said they should have sold more....
So that's why there were several seats being flogged off last week.....

I think someone gave him a knitted prosecco bottle cover.....

Oh and leave Harry and the gorgeous Meghan alone you oaf.....

God I love this woman....

Lady Phoebe just like Julia says about her beau, if you ever get tired of "the current "Mr.Jeebie you know where I am....
Actually, I'm a bloody long way away in Devon but that's a minor problem I'm sure we can resolve!!

Hi Cc did PM you I was back hope you're OK ...

People movers with modest acceleration.......in a nice shade of grey perhaps.

When I think of certain cars, I see gorgeous works of art crafted by master craftsmen.
Men with a vision and a passion, driven by men of equal passion in the pursuit of joy.
The E type jag, Ferrari Dino, Aston Martin DB5, Rolls Royce Corniche, Bentley Continental, Jag XK 120.......these are things of beauty, things to behold.
Why buy an Armani dress when you can buy from M&S, why visit Portofino when you can go to Cleethorpes and ride a donkey, why swim in the med at Cannes when you can have a dip in the Serpentine..........the world is full of choices, and whichever way you cut it the Meriva is dull, uninspirational, plodding, unloved, ugly and insignificant........next you'll be telling us that you want Jeremy Corbyn as your lover Landis as he is the political epitome of a secondhand Vauxhall Meriva.......pah!!!

Would that be the same people who turn up to every show he does, even though it's the same thing each time. I bet he was scanning the room for the the usual suspects.

Sitting in ivory towers, looking down, pedalling dirt to people down on their luck, comes naturally to some.

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In the line up of cars, musn't forget the Jenson Interceptor, what a beaut, hard controlling round a corner though. Eats petrol like the old Ford Mustang, SHUSH .... not for Landis's delicate eco-friendly ears, bless him.

Wow, you seem bitter, has SA blocked you?

There's always Tinder if you're looking for a hook up? Just saying ....

Oh gawd, I thought all along that 'Landis' was a female poster.
Now I understand

He's actually a bloke with zero interest in the combustion engine or the beauty of the classic car (or bike) who didn't take his test until his mid thirties, as his wife had a licence, and bought a Vauxhall Meriva as his first and only vehicle.......do I win a coconut?

Stay classy Landis, just stay classy....

Amusing but having a laugh with Phoebe she speaks the same language and is a hoot.....
and CC been a good friend on here thats all

By the way Interceptor great choice, mate Jonathan has beautiful met blue one and weve just sold a jensen healey last week as it happens.... always hankered after a Bristol as sadly my grail Aston Martin DB4 gt now too far out of reach...