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Overpaid middle to senior managers/doctors/dentists/etc who managed to keep hold of "boom" pay packets.
There are 8000 NHS managers on over £100k a year; they aren't even doctors.
Huge, huge waste yet while we pay more and more, we get less and less.
I am sure that is true mattee, and I am not defending it
But the fact remains as a % of GDP we spend less on the NHS in the UK than most developed countries spend on health - and get comparable outcomes
Always room for improvement and reductions in waste are a good thing/aspiration etc - but let's keep things in perspective
But totally agree with the sentiment around this "management class" we seem to have inherited - mainly from the US and the mckinsey school of management, that seem to have infected the UK economy
The price of VP Nitro+ in Leic has dropped from a high of about 141.9ppl to, currently, 119.9, in the space of about 2 months (as a knock-on effect of a barrel of oil halving to $60). I hope it also attains this 2p drop, too!...
Indeed it has! VP Nitro+ SUL in Narborough Rd... 117.9ppl. Small mercies, I guess.
(I think a barrel of oil has dropped further to $55).
Before I left to fly back to Saudi yesterday I filled up my 3.0 tdi q7
At asda diesel was 112p per litre and petrol was around 105p a litre
Aberdeen seems to be one of the cheapest places for fuel as was down in Birmingham the day before and fuel all the way back upto aberdeen was dearer than aberdeen.
Fuel prices here in Saudi are around 10p a litre lol
I fill up a 6.2 dodge ram for under £10 from empty lol
Put 50litres in for under £50 last night - tesco fuel save discount (10p off per litre). Happy days
Wow those were the days! Won't be long before it's under £1 a litre. Problem is the knock on effect it will have everywhere else.
Do you think certain countries are continuing to over prodruce so that it puts the price so low, it puts others out of business. Then, when the price goes back up, there will be less competition?
Last edited by Gear Head; Jan 10, 2015 at 12:38 PM.
Do you think certain countries are continuing to over prodruce so that it puts the price so low, it puts others out of business. Then, when the price goes back up, there will be less competition?
You're a bit late to the party
It's the Saudis trying to dampen down the US shale industry. The US was on track to become the largest oil producer in the world and therefore entirely energy self sufficient within a few years.
That would be very bad news for the Middle East oil producers - largest oil consumer in the world no longer needs what they have.
(Not that I'm complaining, mind 
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