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Harry Hewett playing away yet? He's had enough time....for him....to get bored again. He'll have a few more scalps before the summer is out.

The Daily Mail comment section is so rancid and ignorant.

Someone has made a generalisation clearly based on prejudices and vacuous reactionary beliefs, from a story about one person.

Maybe it is my background in studying how to analyse statistics and design a valid experiment that is why this comment has made me so irate.

Tonight's quiz:

What Type of Fruit Are You?

On Radio4 news this morning it was mentioned that taxes might be increased in order to deal with the pressures on the NHS from old people needing treatments.

No mention of the vast numbers of 'health tourists' demanding treatments - most of them from the EU.

On way to solve the NHS crisis could be to transform it from an IHS into a real NHS. i.e. do what it was intended for - treating UK citizens.

Professor Angus Dalgleish, the principal of the Cancer Vaccine Institute, says the NHS is being bled dry of resources by health tourists denied care at home.

Cancer treatment can cost £200,000 and, under Brussels rules, Britain has to offer it to all EU nationals.

Professor Dalgleish says this partly explains the NHS's £3billion deficit. He will also claim the Government has hindered progress into key disease areas 'by blindly adhering to EU directives'.

Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-point.html

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