Anything But Cricket

Guess it's anything but cricket, but broke my finger yesterday evening in the nets. Frustrating doesn't even cut it so close to the season

Turned up at A&E at 20:30. Get an x-ray in less than half an hour. Sit around waiting for a further consultation before being told around midnight I should have been sent somewhere else. Go there, get told it's a 5 hour wait time, so said sod that, go home and come back in the morning. Turn up now, going through the whole thing again and waiting for a consultant.

Obviously I am well below the pecking order for a very purple pinky finger, but being in the hospital just gave a bit of a reality dose as to how dire healthcare services are, and to how much I bloody hate the hospital

My sympathies. In my playing days, we had nets firstly at Alf Gover's Cricket School and in later years at Lord's. I managed to negotiate them without any injuries but the date of Sunday 22 April 1990 is engrained on my memory. I sustained a dislocated kneecap keeping goal five minutes before the end of the last game of our season. In those days the A&E service was much better, though because it was the day of the London Marathon it still took a while to be seen. The worst thing was that it wiped out my entire cricket-playing season, and while I was stuck at home in plaster for 6 weeks I missed watching Surrey in glorious spring weather (eg that game v Lancashire where both teams nearly scored 1000 in the first innings!). There was a silver lining, though: in those days working from home wasn't an option, and by early June I was as desperate to be back in the office as my boss was to have me back. So for the first couple of weeks or so (until I could use public transport) he arranged for taxis to pick me up from home at 8am and take me to my office at Westminster, then take me back again after work....in perfect time to watch the early-evening Italia 90 world-cup matches!

On the wider issue, the Health Service is indeed in a dire state and while the symptoms are poor management and insufficient money, the root cause is the same as that which impacts the shortage of housing, overcrowded public transport, shortage of school and nursery places, overcrowded roads and pretty much everything else in this country: chronic and ever-increasing overpopulation.

I hope it mends quickly, which I'm sure it will (the finger, I mean!).

Cheers. 6-8 weeks or so is what they say, although they did say the fact I've pretty good movement with it, so if lucky can be on the shorter end of things. Think I've learned now to just go to A&E in the mornings where they are also a lot more cheerful/helpful; some of the stuff you see on an evening is pretty brutal. Being left handed also a minor consolation.

If you'd been a gay Muslim and you'd arrived in a small boat, you'd have walked straight to the front of the queue. Two-tier (often spelt teir) healthcare system.

By all accounts the gap is narrowing and Susan Hall is catching up with the nasty little worm. The fight back has started.

I'm not sure that Khan vs Hall is any worse than Johnson vs Corbyn was. If you let the members choose you get candidates that the party members like but the bulk of the population likes a lot less, so they end up with an abysmal choice to make. Party democracy seems to screw up democracy for the population!

Do we really need "nasty little worm" by the way?

Genuinely voted for Binface - croissant prices are ridiculous and miss Ceefax

Khan exists only because  of the Muslim vote.
"Nasty little worm" is putting it mildly.

People underestimate the danger to London that is Khan. He has made it a hell hole. And he wants more of the same. Giving planning permission to turn the trocadero in to a mosque was sacrilegious.
Susan Hall whilst not perfect is a much, much better option for us “regular” Londoners.

"Regular" meaning what, SWC?

At a guess, people who think it's a disgrace that the Met is going easy on the pro-terrorist demos going on in London most Saturdays.

So the evil weasel gets back in on the Muslim/Gaza ticket. Pity the opposition was so rank.
Recepe for London disaster. There will be uprising on the streets.

The fact that the George Galloway mob didn't put up a candidate as they did to great effect in other inner-city areas with a high muslim population tells you all you need to know about where they think Khan's priorities and instincts lie.

"We're not far-right, we just continually say far-right things."

As someone else said, and I agree with, "People should realise it's better to risk being called bigots by leftist elites than to quietly accept what is happening to Western countries".

Jackers wrote:The fact that the George Galloway mob didn't put up a candidate as they did to great effect in other inner-city areas with a high muslim population tells you all you need to know about where they think Khan's priorities and instincts lie.

I thought the same, but to be fair to "Gorgeous" George, he doesn't like the Lab/Con/LibDem "genocider" candidates ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzlYyfkqDVs

Crikey! I'm part of an elite!

Sadiq Khan is the only Labour politician I would have voted for. He can probably thank Lee Anderson.

SimonH wrote:

Jackers wrote:The fact that the George Galloway mob didn't put up a candidate as they did to great effect in other inner-city areas with a high muslim population tells you all you need to know about where they think Khan's priorities and instincts lie.

I thought the same, but to be fair to "Gorgeous" George, he doesn't like the Lab/Con/LibDem "genocider" candidates ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzlYyfkqDVs

Lots of London Muslims will have refrained from voting for Khan for this very reason.

By "regular" Londoner I mean non-woke or non-extreme Islamists, of which between them we have way too few in London. WAY too few.

This result was likely manipulated at best and fixed at worst. This creep has stitched everyone up.
Let the revolution begin.

I look forward to seeing the amount of postal votes from a certain denomination. Would be fascinating if they were to give us a break down.

Also heard on Talk radio last night from a caller who claimed non British people were turning up at some voting stations with no ID , who were never the less given a voting slip (or three as it was). Clearly these people would be Khan voters.

An awful lot of masks slipping on here this evening and quite a bit of stuff which sounds like Trump's acolytes at the end of 2020 claiming (quite likely on the equivalent of talk Radio) that they had incontrovertible kraken-level proof of the election being fixed, absolutely none of which has stood up. That led to January 6th ("let the revolution begin"). If we don't respect democratic results,
we are on the way to totalitarianism.

It seems that you have to agree with SWC in order for him to consider you a "regular Londoner". But he says there are not enough of them, in which case maybe they are not really regular after all.

On George Galloway, I just looked on his party's website and they had about 40 candidates in total across England. They simply haven't got the resources to stand other than very locally, thank goodness. It's a lot easier to target a by-election, or a handful of wards in one council area than it is to go regionwide.