Another bad trend.
B.C. hires 417 U.S. health-care workers in 1-year recruitment blitz
Province says doctors and nurses are accepting jobs in urban and rural areas all over B.C.
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Mini update on the Irish project. To my astonishment, the Cook Co branch office came through big time. I was expecting a hassle, but they not only got me what I asked for, they got it to me in literally 1/2 the time they said it would take at a minimum. I think it helped that I was already holding a copy of a valid document in my hand when I went there and just wanted a new document. My response to the clarification request is already somewhere in Dublin now, so I expect to hear something very soon.
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Looks like the UK is headed for a recession due to the ME conflict.
UK headed for shortages by mid May
Well, that didnt take long.
More NHS strikes.
Very interesting graph. Always thought this was the case but never seen it mapped out like this before.
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Thanks for that. I found this spreadsheet showing all the metro areas in the US -
Interestingly, the most integrated metros have representatives from both blue and red states.
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Since we donât have laws forcing segregation, seems that these cities are socioeconomically segregated, meaning the people choose to live segregated, or they do not have financial mobility.
Might be some mob mentality, too.
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Could also be hold over from when the US did have laws enforcing segregation.
ETA: this goes into some detail on how segregation gets maintained in the USâŚ
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/systemic-inequality-displacement-exclusion-segregation/
So, Starmerâs having a bad day today, and English voters are demonstrating theyâve learned nothing from Brexit and MAGA?
There are basically two things going on:
The old and unproductive dislike Starmer because he has not improved things for them (in the face of a cost of living crisis).
Those two groups shifted from Labour/Tories to Reform. Thats why you saw them gain so many local seats.
Then there is Labourâs problematic assault on the right to protest and free speech. They lost another bunch of voters here to the Greens and LDs.
The Mandelson affair (tied to Epstein) cut across all political views, and also damaged Starmer. Thats the why of how Labour was absolutely wiped out in the local elections.
But taking a step back, I would not project local election results to national elections. People on the ground usually use local elections as a protest vote if the national government is doing badly in their view.
This was a huge middle finger to Labour basically from the entire electorate. If they donât start becoming more effective at Govt plus stop their assaults on free speech, they will absolutely be wiped out at the next GE.
The British public have no patience for the type of authoritarian BS they have been trying to shove down everybodies throats by weaponising accusations of antisemitism.
Full results of the elections.
Labour was anhilated. So where the Tories. The two party duopoly in the UK is likely over.
Would certainly agree with this conclusion but how much difference will it currently make locally? Reform will have more voice but how many councils are actually controlled by Reform?
They control Kent County Council, and it looks like they have gained control of a couple more (but only for a brief time as several county council boundaries are being redrawn).
I see Reform gaining so many seats as a good thing because the local electorate will be fully exposed to their incompetence for the next 12 months (they have modified/merged the boundaries for a lot of councils so there will be another set of elections nect year). In Kent, they havenât really improved anything and people are already souring on them.
Best disinfectant you can have for Reformâs set of cranks and imcompetents is broad daylight. Once the broader electorate sees that they are not the answer to the current set of structural problems (which are legion) in the UK, they will move towards a less extreme position for the GE.
If this happens, the LDs could benefit if they play things right (and run their councils well). We are definitely headed for a fragmented Parliament at the GE, so the LDs could become the largest party in a coalition.
That was a point that was being made on the news as I was getting ready to check out of my London hotel this morning. At that time, even though Reform had a huge pickup in council seats, they had (at that time) only picked up control of one or two councils.
Since Iâm just mid-connection at Keflavik at the moment, I havenât looked into how that has evolved today.
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That is exactly what my London daughter felt, although she added corruption to incompetence.