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[Webbo2]

Daughter No1 did a Nursing Degree, in 1989 - 1993. For some reason, it was titled Project 2000? It was quite lucrative, she got a sizeable bursary. Has been quite lucrative since too, she is now about to retire next year (age 55).

I believe the wicked witch was in government at the time.

Project 2000 wasn’t a nursing degree it was an HND. Nurse training was up graded to a degree at a later date although you could do a degree in nursing it was 4 year course rather than the 3 years it is now. If she’s retiring at 55 she must be in one of the specialties.

 

[BoldonLad]

Project 2000 wasn’t a nursing degree it was an HND. Nurse training was up graded to a degree at a later date although you could do a degree in nursing it was 4 year course rather than the 3 years it is now. If she’s retiring at 55 she must be in one of the specialties.

She is now an "Advanced Nurse Practitioner", whatever that means, in a GP Practice, if that counts as a "speciality", then so be it.

The "Project 2000" bit, I wouldn't quibble over, it is too long ago for my little grey cells, but, I am reasonably sure it was a degree course, complete with graduation ceremony, gowns caps etc etc

It may be that she started the course a year later than I said, I just worked it out on her age. She did suffer a period of "unsuitable boyfriend syndrome" which briefly screwed up her academic achievements. 😂

 

[Webbo2]

With NHS pensions the old scheme which was phased out in the early 90’s you had to do 40 years to get your full pension and could retire at 60. Specialties I.e midwifery, mental health and health visiting pension scheme was once you had twenty years in every subsequent year counted as 2. So you got 40 years pension for 30 years service and you could retire at 55.

 

[BoldonLad]

With NHS pensions the old scheme which was phased out in the early 90’s you had to do 40 years to get your full pension and could retire at 60. Specialties I.e midwifery, mental health and health visiting pension scheme was once you had twenty years in every subsequent year counted as 2. So you got 40 years pension for 30 years service and you could retire at 55.

I bow to your no doubt superior knowledge. All I can say is:

1 Nephew (Hospital Nurse) retired at 55 about 3 years ago

2 daughter no1 (as above details) planning her retirement next year, at 55

Both gave one of their reason for quitting as “if I stay longer, I will be paying, to get no more out”. Maybe they are wrong?

 

[Webbo2]

I bow to your no doubt superior knowledge. All I can say is:

1 Nephew (Hospital Nurse) retired at 55 about 3 years ago

2 daughter no1 (as above details) planning her retirement next year, at 55

Both gave one of their reason for quitting as “if I stay longer, I will be paying, to get no more out”. Maybe they are wrong?

If they are not in the scheme I was in and I started paying superannuation in 1986 and I think that P2000 starters were in the next scheme. They will not get a full pension they will be taking a hit by going at 55.

 

[briantrumpet]

Like in Canada, it was the Right's election to lose in Australia. And they have, convincingly. More winning because of (not for) Trump.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cevdw14r1mgt

 

[C R]

Like in Canada, it was the Right's election to lose in Australia. And they have, convincingly. More winning because of (not for) Trump.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cevdw14r1mgt

So Canada and Australia saw the mess caused by the loonies in the US and said fück that. But the UK, and Starmer in particular, refuses to learn the lessons.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

So Canada and Australia saw the mess caused by the loonies in the US and said fück that. But the UK, and Starmer in particular, refuses to learn the lessons.

And the message from Lincolnshire is

"We need change, it's as simple as that," he says. "I'm here every day and that's what everyone tells me."
Simple as that innit?

 

[Ian H]

And the message from Lincolnshire is

"We need change, it's as simple as that," he says. "I'm here every day and that's what everyone tells me."
Simple as that innit?

I've got some loose change and a few pound coins if he needs them.

 

[briantrumpet]

Not sure if I'm being dim, but I can't find the 'spin' thread. Anyway, a good bit of writing here from John Harris in the Graun - he has a habit of just talking to normal people and summing up their outlook. It's not optimistic.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/04/english-reform-party-politics-local-elections

But I also wonder whether England might have irrevocably changed in ways that none of us yet understand. When I hear people pay tribute to Farage as a “good lad” and see whole streets rush to take pictures of him on their phones, I rather wonder what has happened to our old bullshit detector. We are no longer the country of “mustn’t grumble” – quite the reverse, in fact. It often feels, moreover, as if the 21st-century combination of social media’s polarising effects and all those economic convulsions has left us with an intensified version of an old national problem: our inability to really speak to each other and collectively bargain for a better country. All of us, it sometimes seems, are suffering from the political equivalent of road rage, manifested in either futile shouting or tense silence.

 

[Pblakeney]

Not sure if I'm being dim, but I can't find the 'spin' thread. Anyway, a good bit of writing here from John Harris in the Graun - he has a habit of just talking to normal people and summing up their outlook. It's not optimistic.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/04/english-reform-party-politics-local-elections

https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/spin-time.726/page-11#post-119117

 

[briantrumpet]

https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/spin-time.726/page-11#post-119117

Thanks PB. Something weird happening with my feed and ability to locate threads... must be a filter somewhere I've not noticed.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Thanks PB. Something weird happening with my feed and ability to locate threads... must be a filter somewhere I've not noticed.

Check you haven't unknowingly put the thread on ignore. It can happen.

 

[briantrumpet]

Check you haven't unknowingly put the thread on ignore. It can happen.

I've discovered it's because I'd put Spen666 on ignore because of the pointless poisonous ping pong with monkers. I didn't realise that that function also hid entire threads started by ignored members.

 

[briantrumpet]

"In just two months as Chancellor, Adolf Hitler has raised the profile of Jews. But many Jews say he is perpetuating harmful stereotypes."

Good work, NBC News.