@ChrisMayLA6 The idea of vouchers for fruit and veg might be a very good one. It's nice to have a suggestion that doesn't simply come down to 'demand poor people greatly increase their food budget'.

Of course, we could always go particularly crazy and try to reduce poverty, but that never seems a popular idea.

@ChrisMayLA6 Assisted suicide will sort it all out. Tell all the fat unhealthy people they have no quality of life and prescribe some good toxins to send them to sleep /s

@ChrisMayLA6 While the UK and European food systems might have problems, and those of other countries, the US system is much worse. Plenty of cancer causing ingredients in much of our food and so many with diabetes here.

@ChrisMayLA6 All good synoptic points.

Maybe what’s missing is the malicious change in responsibilities when the National Rivers Auth & the Pollution Inspectorate were combined into the Environment Agency *and* their legal powers were curtailed in the Act.

But the main thrust - the utter stupidity of expecting merchant banks to not securitise and debt-load govt-backed assets - is spot on. Chuck Ofwat on the fire next to Ofgem.

@ChrisMayLA6 The big takeaway for me from this article is that the worst excesses were instituted in the 2000s under Labour governments, who appeared to do nothing to restrict the water companies.

@ChrisMayLA6 to answer his final question in the article, ofwat must ban any bonuses or dividends in any company where debt exceeds 20% of its capital assets, ( not the stock market price!)
If that causes share prices to fall such is the risk of gambling in stocks and shares.

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If pensions, the Post Office, water and the NHS are all 'unsustainable' why is the private sector so keen to add then to their portfolios.

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@ChrisMayLA6 all the indicators of civilisation are apparently unsustainable, so perhaps we need to go back to the stone age

@ChrisMayLA6 I'm cynical. Baksheesh?

@ChrisMayLA6 The same approach worked rather well during the Blair/Brown years.

Using private entities in the short term to clear the backlog was however accompanied by significant NHS investment to in the longer term to remove the reliance on private support. Streeting wants that outcome but hasn't committed to the spending to get there yet — which is a legit area of concern — but I've not seen anyone serious argue that using private capacity to reduce the backlog won't work.

@ChrisMayLA6 and next week we’ll get another message from his sponsors!

@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld @bookstodon wow hahaha i also sort of treat daydreaming or just thinking about my art like mental work i do behind the scenes xd when you put a slice of pizza in the microwave you need to wait 3mins for it to get warm & it's the same with art kinda .. sometimes you have to "do nothing" & wait for your ideas to cook

@ChrisMayLA6 never heard the word "pottering" before -- love it!

@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld @bookstodon he is brilliant, Tom Gauld isn't he