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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 38m

She is lazy, but I don’t she preps the one question either 😆

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 43m

Why does BadEnoch persist with this 6 questions on one subject when her argument always falls apart after 1

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 48m

I leave my thermostat at the same settings all year. In theory if we had a cold snap in July the heating would come on…

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 51m

Don’t listen to someone with years of experience of a digital ID

You must listen to UK commentators with no experience at all

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 9h

Digital ID

This is Adam - a dual UK-Estonia national.

He has been using digital ID in Estonia for almost a quarter of a century.

He tells us about some of the benefits of digital ID.

Great video of someone's personal experiences with it, put out by the government via the DSIT.

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 1h

It isn’t unfair, it’s simply the truth

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

He is a hypnotherapist who claimed he could make your tits bigger, how much intellectual heft do you expect? 😉

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

Cheque

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

Why should any business shoulder the costs of operating so that another business can make more profit? It’s a bizarre notion from the CMA

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

It is proposing, to set the value of the time and judgement to issue a prescription

The value of a that is not in a signature on a piece of paper

If online pharmacies can sell drugs cheaply, the cost of seeing animals, diagnosing them & issuing the prescription should fall on them, not other vets

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

The actual cause of price inflation is the corporate ownership of practices

If the government wants a reform that will actually help consumers, change the rules back to only vets owning and running practices and give the corporates 5 years to sell up

I am not a vet BTW

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

How does that make it OK for the CMA to decide the value of a professional’s time, judgement and experience?

Is the CMA going to say that a legal opinion is now a fixed cost regardless of whether it is by a 40 year qualified KC or someone just called to the bar?

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

She is a person on X who doesn’t know the law, that’s her level

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

It was. But it’s an odd approach

Those other professions are probably more obscure in their pricing and more expensive. Where is the CMA investigation into that?

What would it cost you to see a private doctor and get a prescription, £120? Is the CMA going to set the price of that?

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

Really quite a bizarre approach

Why pick on one profession instead of making this compulsory across the board

Lawyers, doctors, dentists, accountants, architects you name it, there is no price transparency. If it’s good for vets, then it should be applied to all

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 3h

That’s really unfair to morons

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 4h

If I had bought one and not been told clearly and repeatedly that I would not be able to use the vast majority of public rapid chargers then I would be returning the car to Mercedes

And it was done to save a few quid on an expensive car

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 5h

True, but the competition from Sultana is strong

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 5h

Apparently not - £30 microwave meal, £10 for a bottle of wine, £5 dessert

There are lots of restaurants I could eat at for less than that

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 5h

Bravo, well done

If I was in my “healthy” BMI range I would be skeletal

Go to where you feel happy & healthy

Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 5h

It’s hard to know which of them is more pathetic

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

Is the Employment Rights Bill right wing?

Or the Renters Rights Bill?

Or the Hillsborough Law?

Or the Football Regulator?

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

Sure, but if one practice has a consult price £15 lower, they can increase it by £10 and still be cheaper. I'm not sure how this helps consumers

Also, price tells you nothing about the quality of care. Maybe you save £10 but get seen by a different locum every time

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely. There's no why a huge conglomerate can't launch a car company. But it's still a bit weird to think about buying a Samsung car

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

If you pay £30 for a ready meal, you need your head examined 🤪
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A quiet bite in: Charlie Bigham launches £29.95 ready meals for home diners

Supermarket supplier says new pricier range is still cheaper than bill for a night out at a restaurant

www.theguardian.com

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Bill Heywood @billheywood.bsky.social · 7h

So once every price list is published, you can raise your prices to match the others

That's a genius idea, not

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