This weekend, the electric mayhem that is Formula E runs at Excel for the last time (nest season's Gen4 cars will be too big for the venue). Enjoy!
#formulae
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Yes, speculation about the upcoming Grand Prix weekends in the Middle East getting cancelled is on the bingo card...
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#f1#F1Sprint#ChinaGP
There’s a reason it takes weeks to see your GP & years to get your surgery.
The UK is an under-doctored country; yet thousands of doctors are being blocked from progressing to become Consultants & GPs because the Government has artificially capped the number of speciality training posts.
In 2025 alone, there were 20,000 more applicants than there were training spaces. Doctors are ready to care for patients; but they are left waiting, unemployed, or even forced abroad.
We are short of NHS doctors yet we’re still not employing the ones we already have.
This is the result of years of catastrophically bad workforce planning. @wesstreeting’s proposed plan for 1,000 extra speciality training posts over three years barely scratches the surface of the crisis.
If he’s serious about fixing the NHS, he must address this head on. Until then, both doctors and patients will keep paying the price.
Hey @Nigel_Farage@TiceRichard - look what someone's done to your old website - and your names are still on there, advertising online casinos! Not a good look!
Next week is race week, but first comes Drive To Survive! This was one of the first custom bingo card generators I made and I still love it.
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Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns
Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"
➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP
There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths
➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible
➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)
"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"