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UK attends with 28 companies the largest healthcare exhibition in Sao Paulo
UK Government Minister Ken Clarke is leading the UK's largest ever Healthcare Technology and Life Sciences delegation to Brazil. Twenty eight companies will travel to Sao Paulo to attend Hospitalar (21 – 24 May), the largest healthcare exhibition in South America, which is expecting to attract around 90,000 visitors – as well as taking part in the trade mission. Read full article
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May 18th, 2013 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Economic mess should be very bad for govt. at present.
Trying to sell Britain at all cost everywhere.
But who is gonna buy?
@1 Dany
May 18th, 2013 - 09:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Once again you show that your grasp of economics is still as good as your grasp of tactics, that is, non-existant.
What whas CFK doing in the Far East last year, crawling through Vietcong tunnels in Vietnam? Having a holiday at public expense? Well in her case probably.
In business it is beneficial to advertise your products, otherwise how will the customer know what is available?
The UK is advertising itself, and has done a very good job at advertising itself. That is part of a government's remit, to increasing trade and profits for the country. A lesson Argentina should learn and quickly.
It's called 'soft' power, and the UK currently tops the world in this category.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2234726/Britain-tops-global-soft-power-list.html
You see, the Queen's Diamond Jubliee and the Olympics, plus numerous other 'events' run by Britain around the world, is showing the whole world just what we can offer.
Other countries high in the 'soft' power index are the USA and China. Argentina doesn't even make it, because quite frankly, you have no power of any kind, thanks to the inept and clownish antics of your government, such as having your ship impounded, announcing to the world that all you want is talks with the UK then refusing to attend (yes the world did notice that you know, you can lie about it as much as you want but everyone saw what your inept foreign minister did), unable to feed your own people in Antarctica, and so on and so forth.
Other countries are 'using' Argentina to get what they can out of you, and then they'll throw you away like and emtpy can.
#1
May 18th, 2013 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Civilized countries who need state of the art medical products.
I am afraid that excludes Argentina as the term “civilized” does not apply. Also, you have no currency of any use outside Argentina.
Ken's not bad for a Tory actually, though I don't know how long he'll last in Cabinet now, given the concessions Cameron's giving to UKIP...
May 18th, 2013 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The important thing is to ignore Clarke. He's not really representative of British people. Basically, he's a loser. Concentrate on the companies offering cutting-edge healthcare products and services. It will be better than anything the third world can even imagine! There are “breakthrough” technologies. Strips of adhesive fabric to cover wounds instead of moss. Clean sheets and dressings. The importance of hygiene. Drugs for pain instead of pleasure.
May 18th, 2013 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#5 See, I told you Clarke's not so bad, and here's the proof - Conk doesn't like him =)
May 18th, 2013 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5
May 18th, 2013 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry Dino, i prefer phitoterapy from Amazônia. Less agressive to my genetic, no toxic.
@LEPRecon
May 19th, 2013 - 06:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you joking again?
UK influential where?
Maradona and Messi are more influential than the whole UK. Ha ha
#8
May 19th, 2013 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0So. there we have it. Two men, one a drug using cheat, who make a living from playing a child's game of kicking a ball around. Their world-wide influence being what ? Do they have a seat on the Security Council of the UN ? Have they made advancements in medicine and technology that benefit mankind ? No, they kick a football up and down a grass field.
I suppose that is the best Argentina can give us !
#9 Don't forget Corned Beef! That's what Maximo eats in his pies....
May 19th, 2013 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@Clyde15
May 20th, 2013 - 03:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still Maradona and Messi more influential in the world than the idiot in the pic above.
“Have they made advancements in medicine and technology that benefit mankind ?”
If you wouldn't be so ignorant you should know that the argies provided my discoveries and contribution to medicine to the world.
Dr. Posadas, Dr. Aguilar, Dr. Ayerza, Dr. Seeber, Dr. Méndez, Dr. Novaro, Dr. Arrillaga, Dr. Agote, Dr. Pavlosky, Dr. Castex, Dr. Bachmann, Dr. Bergna, Dr. Derechin, Dr. Houssay, Dr. Liotta, Dr. Favaloro, Dr. Laglyeze, etc, etc, etc.
#11
May 20th, 2013 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes my ignorance is appalling. I have never heard of any of these people, yet, again, I do not spend my life trawling the net for examples.
OK, me this. What world wide advancements has Argentina made in the fields of medicine and technology in the last 10 years.
Does these exceed those that have been made in the UK ?
Your best argument was Maradona and Messi. I rest my case.
Am I allowed a triumphant guffaw ?
#9 Messi is a great player, and also a great supporter of the Palestinians; I hope he enters politics under Cristina's banner - maybe in 20 years or so he could even stand for President =)
May 20th, 2013 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#13
May 20th, 2013 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How did we get to discussing the merits of footballers as influential world spokesmen ?
@Clyde15
May 21st, 2013 - 05:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who the hell know Ken Clarke? are you serious?
If I sell tickets to a meeting in a stadium to see Maradona or Messi and I sell tickets to see Ken Clarke in a PUB, what would be empty?
The stadium or the pub?
Football players vs a doctor??
May 21st, 2013 - 06:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know who I want when my family is sick.
I know what 3rd World parents would prefer.
Just like Argentina, sell the people the circus when they need healthcare.
“Let them eat cake!” Says CFK
#15 Your right of course. But as for me I have a bit of a soft spot for Clarke, he seems like a reasonably sane guy in a government gone crazy. But I'd still go to the stadium, just hope they wouldn't be playing Scotland!
May 21st, 2013 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0#16 Clarke isn't a doctor...
#15
May 21st, 2013 - 10:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who the hell know Ken Clarke? are you serious?
People that matter in world affairs.
@11:
May 21st, 2013 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On the subject of medical breakthroughs, - If there is one single person that stands out amongst all others. The results of his work/discovery, and what now must be Billions of lives his drug has saved worldwide, it has to be Sir Alexander Flemming.
Unfortunately he was not from argentina.
@Troy Tempest
May 22nd, 2013 - 04:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Football players vs a doctor??
I know who I want when my family is sick.
I know what 3rd World parents would prefer.”
If some of your member family gets sick and you call Kenneth Clarke the only thing you are gonna get is...
“Any enemy of John Major is an enemy of mine” ha ha
May be you will be lucky and he provides you the recipe used by “Dr. Norman Lamont” to get faster than a jet out from ERM.
Kenneth Clarke is a lawyer idiot and not a doctor in medicine.
He only was health secretary during Thatcher govt. Another show about how Brits Tories name anyone without the require skills in that field.
@ Escoses Doido
Before Flemming Penicillin and Bayer Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) the aborigines in America (continent) used them as medicine and they also used alkaloid drugs from coca plants (cocaine also invented by them), cannabis, etc. as anaesthetics.
So don’t you feel a little be ignorant idiot while writing that statement?
I would be if I would be you...
#20 “If some of your member family gets sick and you call Kenneth Clarke the only thing you are gonna get is...
May 22nd, 2013 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Any enemy of John Major is an enemy of mine” ha ha
May be you will be lucky and he provides you the recipe used by “Dr. Norman Lamont” to get faster than a jet out from ERM”
You've got me in stitches here =)
“Kenneth Clarke is a lawyer idiot and not a doctor in medicine.
He only was health secretary during Thatcher govt. Another show about how Brits Tories name anyone without the require skills in that field”
Sure, though the latest health secretary Jeremy Hunt takes the biscuit; not only is he not a doctor, he was due to be sacked from the Cabinet for months for his dodgy dealings with Murdoch as media secretary! Oh and a radio presenter once got his name wrong, no prizes for guessing what he said instead of Hunt...
@British_Kirchnerist
May 22nd, 2013 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only serious politician in UK is George Galloway...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5RWQABijO8
He really think in the best interest of British people
I don’t know why these idiots don’t vote for him instead of crappy Tories like CaMoron.
May be is the UK indoctrination who knows or something in their food?
Any reasonable explanation about it?
#22
May 22nd, 2013 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's because we are not idiots !
#22 Yes, he's the best we've got, wish he was PM =) He and Cristina have a very similar style of politics and personality I feel =)
May 22nd, 2013 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#24
May 23rd, 2013 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0He and Cristina have a very similar style of politics and personality I feel =)
You are probably correct. Both are self seeking publicists and would do anything to have political power.
The British public have shown that they do not want George Galloway in any role except for entertainment value.
#25 No, I mean they are socialist without being miserablist, they have a great talent for oratory and humour that lifts the spirits and inspires activism. If thats entertainment value, I want more entertainers in politics =)
May 25th, 2013 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 026BK
May 26th, 2013 - 03:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0“#25 No, I mean they are socialist without being miserablist, they have a great talent for oratory and humour”
Of course CFK is not “miserablist”, as a Socislist, she has everyone else's money to play with.
She can afford to have humour, she has gotten away with robbing her people blind, intimidating others and branding them liars, whilst living extravagantly at their expense.
Yes, BK, she has an evil smirk.
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