Penny Mordaunt's credibility is destroyed by her lies

Anniebach

Dickens I was replying to a post which said Corbyn doesn’t lie, your need to correct a post should be addressed to the right
poster

Apologies.

Your post appeared directly under mine. And as you didn't put the name of the poster you were replying to - I assumed it was my comment.

My error,sorry Dickens

Anniebach

My error,sorry Dickens

It's OK - I should have looked at the previous posts. I can see the one you were referring to.

It would be better if GN had a 'nesting' reply system, where you can just respond to a comment by posting directly underneath it without having to indicate a name... and everyone can then see what posts they want to look at, or avoid, or if anyone else has commented on that same 'nest'.

Excellent post Grannygranby

Penny Mordaunt advocates the use of homeopathy on the NHS, in opposition to scientific evidence that it is ineffective.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/15/penny-mordaunt-repeatedly-advocated-use-of-homeopathy-on-nhs

Perhaps some people find homeopathy a help because of its placebo effect.
And Penny has frightened the Left, it seems...
Good post Annie1.

loopyloo

Perhaps some people find homeopathy a help because of its placebo effect.
And Penny has frightened the Left, it seems...
Good post Annie1.

At a time when the NHS is desperately struggling after a decade of tory underfunding it should most definitely be funding quack remedies that are proven to be ineffective. Whether or not they have a placebo effect is irrelevant.

It's not just Mordaunt who frightens me, the whole lot of them do.

She frightens me because I think of all of them she reminds me the most of Johnson.

Damn. Missed out an essential word
'The NHS should most definitely NOT be funding...'

It worked without the not I thought. It was more pure sarcasm without it

Mordaunt is frightening,

Charles has been lobbying ministers to get NHS to fund alternative medicine A book Charles the alternative prince

Charles has been speaking out about homeopathy being funded for years

I love homeopathy, used it for very many years, nothing else, nothing allopathic. It also helped my horse a great deal

btw I just don`t like Mordaunt, she comes across as very shallow and as quite a bully with a loud forceful voice. A bit of a nasty piece really who will duck annd dive rather than do any work

Tugenhadt was refreshingly honest on Raworth programme this morning which probably means he will lose.

karmalady

I love homeopathy, used it for very many years, nothing else, nothing allopathic. It also helped my horse a great deal

btw I just don`t like Mordaunt, she comes across as very shallow and as quite a bully with a loud forceful voice. A bit of a nasty piece really who will duck annd dive rather than do any work

It used to be offered on the NHS until fairly recently but no longer.

I paid for homeopathic treatment for a DC with severe hay fever but it had no noticeable effect. Perhaps the practitioner wasn't very good but she did more talking than offering effective treatment although she did prescribe expensive remedies.

Casdon is right: I hope the Tories vote for the most inept candidate, then when this person makes an even worse mess of things than Boris has the electorate will recognise the new cabinet for the unprincipled bunch they will surely be and vote in the Labour Party, who don’t allow Russians to buy peerages, and who keep the true interests of working people in mind.

karmalady

I love homeopathy, used it for very many years, nothing else, nothing allopathic. It also helped my horse a great deal

btw I just don`t like Mordaunt, she comes across as very shallow and as quite a bully with a loud forceful voice. A bit of a nasty piece really who will duck annd dive rather than do any work

A day or two reading up on the theory of homeopathy
is very useful, because it can cure ailments that your GP can’t.
BUT remedies are non specific - there are several treatments for any ailment, so the correct one may not work first time.

The cost of self treatment is low and for routine ailments is worth trying

I like homeopathy. It has helped me many times when conventional medicine has done nothing. I have kept what was excruciating arthritis pain in my hands and feet at bay with a homeopathic ointment rather than have steroid injections or take endless painkillers. I wasn't expecting it to work but it did.

Homeopathic remedies are cheap, so you were unlucky with your practitioner, Callistemon if she charged you a lot for them. But as with dentists or surgeons, there can be good and not-so-good practitioners.

Homeopathy is a "treatment" based on the use of highly diluted substances, which practitioners claim can cause the body to heal itself. A 2010 House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report on homeopathy said that homeopathic remedies perform no better than placebos (dummy treatments).

NHS website

The fact is that some people get better after taking placebos and some will get better after taking homeopathic treatments and some will get better without taking anything.

Isn’t the Queen a fan of homeopathy? One of the two vets in my village uses homeopathic treatment on animals.

The principle is the diluted substances that would have caused the symptoms cure the condition.

What seems to happen is that it switches your immune system on to effect a cure, it works on animals so it’s not placebo, its not possible to scientifically prove the medication so it doesn’t exist.

Very useful for the routine family conditions, aches, sprains, rashes, not serious illnesses.

Ladyleftfieldlover

Isn’t the Queen a fan of homeopathy? One of the two vets in my village uses homeopathic treatment on animals.

Yes, she is and I think the Queen Mother was too.

We probably saw someone who fancied herself as a psychotherapist rather than offering much in the way of practical therapy.

Make sure the homeopath is registered

Homeopathic principle is superfically like active immunisation against infectious diseases. I say "superficially" because unlike the effect of active immunisation, the effect of homeopathic treatment lacks statistical corroboration.