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As someone who works in the NHS and has done for 15 years, I’d argue the problem is the provision of decent social care for those who need it and public health work to improve baseline wellbeing. All health, physical and mental is moderated to some extent by one’s environment. If we take a bio-psycho-social model of health or lack of it then improving societal conditions may improve population health. Take lack of NHS bed space as one example. This is often down to lack of community care space or adequate social care to allow timely and appropriate discharge. Or hospital admissions for disease linked to lifestyle. Don’t just fund education, work to ensure people have access to affordable healthy food, safe places to exercise and work life balances to maintain mental and physical well-being.

The NHS is far from perfect and has a habit of change that isn’t always well thought through when it comes to the interfaces with social care and health education. That is where the well funded work needs to be done in my view.

As for immigrants being a burden on the NHS, I ask you to consider again the policies of the current government in housing people in hotels where there is no access to means to work and limited meaningful activity in towns where they feel under threat from the residents. The impact on their mental and physical health is profound and, of course, then requires NHS resource.

Not to worry though, we can send them to Rwanda and quietly forget about them.

Or we could treat all people with dignity and respect and work to promote ethical foreign policies.

I appreciate anecdotes mean little but in my work in a migrant hotel I’ve been repeatedly asked by migrants if they can work or volunteer safely to have something to do. I’ve also heard over and over again that they’d like to return home one day to a country that won’t shoot or torture them for working with allied forces or practising a different religion or demonstrating against the government by holding up a placard and posting something on a website. Of course they might all lying and just wanting a council house and £3k a month to sit around watching sky sports whilst they plot to blow us up. Ripping out their own fingernails and breaking all their fingers was just a ruse to fool us woke folk.

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Intimidated By The Dirty Pigeons

• Burton Albion action + reaction with the Gaffer + David Wheeler
• Knowing Me, Knowing Blues… Jasper Pattenden answers your questions with Becks Daniels  
• #Chairboys Spanish with Uri

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• Exeter City + Fleetwood Town action + reaction
• Development squad chat with Sam Grace
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I am sure that the emotional rollercoaster of the past two weeks has been sorely exacerbated by the time that has elapsed since one of these updates. You may now all move away from the edge of your seats.

Total votes:

1. Scowen - 323
2. Wing - 211
3. Mehmeti - 203
4. Mawson - 191
5. Stryjek - 165

Votes per start (minimum 10 starts):

1. Scowen - 14.68
2. Mawson - 9.55
3. Freeman - 7.92
4. Mehmeti - 7.81
5. Wing & Forino - 7.54

MOTM awards:

1. Scowen - 5
2. Wing - 5
3. Mawson - 5
4. Mehmeti - 3
5. Stryjek - 3
6. Forino - 3

In short, Scowen is running away with it (aside from total awards), and with Mehmeti and Mawson sadly departed, looks pretty much uncatchable in the first two rankings. Can he beat his records of 417 votes and 11.58 per start from last season?

Thank you Gareth.

I was just starting university when your Wycombe era started, having only just begun to go along to games from the 2009 season onwards.

You’ve been a huge part of my life ever since, without me even knowing you on a personal level!

In the days where I was too anxious to go out and party during freshers, you were there as Wycombe manager.

In the days where I was bored in lectures and my mind wondered to my team on football manager, you were there as Wycombe manager.

In the days where I met my girlfriend (now wife) in my final year in Oxford, you were there as Wycombe manager.

In the days where I yearned for the nostalgia of childhood and struggled to adapt to adulthood, you were there as Wycombe manager.

In the days I started my first ever full-time job, you were there as Wycombe manager.

In the days I stressed to buy my first house, making sure it was close enough to Wycombe for me to still come along every other week, you were there as Wycombe manager.

In the days where I struggled to train my new puppy (now a happy 5 year old dog), you were there as Wycombe manager.

In the days where my son was born prematurely and had to live in hospital for the first month of his life, you were there as Wycombe manager.

Thank you Gareth for being a constant in an ever-changing world over the last 12 years. You are and will always be one of the most important men in my life, and the impact you’ve had on me will never be forgotten.

Talks are presumably ongoing and I want Gareth to make the best decision for himself and his family.

However if talks are still continuing I guess the outcome is not decided. I would be sad if anyone casually dropping into the Gasroom gained the impression from our discussions of 'what if .....' that we didn't care about the result.

So I just want to say, unreservedly, clearly and as loud as I can on here:

¡RINGING THE BLUES! 

‘Every Available Metric’ 

⚽️ Derby County action + reaction

💪 Chat with new signing Jordan Willis 

🧂 Opposition view

🤘 Pete Couhig Playlist Picks

🇲🇽 Liga Juan rrrrresults + #Chairboys Spanish with Uri

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In 2008 I went to a Bowie gig at the end of his career. It was a small venue abroad so wasn't hard to get in. I was happy to have seen the great man live and would have taken that as a great life moment.

But then I went for a piss and the legend came and took a piss next to me. He looked me in the eye and said "You won't know what this means now right...but you will one day."

He then started singing "It's a staaaar man playing on the right...his name is Brandon Hanlan..and he's f@cking dynamite"

Now I do.

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Wednesday, on a Saturday 

- Owls action + reaction

- Richard Dobson Playlist Picks 

- Liga Juan rrrresults & #Chairboys Spanish with Uri

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