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Rishi Sunak says Britain would go ‘back to square one’ with Labour ahead of first major campaign event of year. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The article writer has a good summary:

There are three types of campaign you can run during an election: ‘it’s time for a change’ (normally an opposition message, but a governing party can also campaign like this, as Boris Johnson did in 2019); ‘give us time to finish the job’ (the standard incumbent’s message); or (the last resort option) ‘you might not like us, but at least we’re not as bad as the other lot’.

All this albatross can tell is, if he's saying that, there's an election a coming.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cool, is that "square one" where we can book a GP appointment for a time before the heat death of the universe? Sign me up!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's fine, there are three easy ways to get a GPs appointment in a timely manner:

Be really rich
Have a parent who is a GP
Call your GP on 5 separate phone lines, spreading the start of the call between 07:59:40 and 08:00:20

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Honestly, most effective tactic I've found is to go in to the GP at opening time. The receptionists talk to you before answering the next phone call.

Not ethical but :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Hey now that's not fair. I called the doctors last week to get an appointment for my 3 year old, and was given one in only 3 weeks time! That's the kind of speedy service one needs from the basic frontline healthcare provider in one of the richest countries in the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Or go online about 6.00am and get one of the slots that were dropped onto the system overnight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's square one where you can order something online without the chance of getting a surprise VAT and customs invoice because your order came from the EU.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Not that square one. Labour still need those votes outside of the South too. They aren't offering anything on Europe.