Articles in the Christmas spirit
I am at a complete loss to understand how anyone could believe that the gun message was relevant to Christmas and the ammo reference is showing utter contempt for the occasion.
But then in American the gun is worshiped as a God, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see some in the Gun lobby to depict Christ with a AK-47 and ammo belts.
Source: Thomas Massie: US congressman condemned for Christmas guns photo – BBC News
2020 has not been the year that we expected and it has been far from Merry, so make the most of Christmas 2020 and look forward to a better and happier New Year 2021
By this action it shows that Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust do not care and do not consider health in these actions so they are now Gloucestershire No Health and Unable to Care NHS Trust.
They should be ashamed of themselves, for they are commissioned to improve lives and not make them worse. A Formal Complaint needs to be sent immediately and assuming that their actions will not improve there should also be a submission to the Health Ombudsman.
Peace and goodwill to you all
Chris
The Tories have been slammed over their handling of the 2015 negotiations with the BBC that ultimately led to the abolition of universal free TV licences for over-75s.
A new report published today by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee accuses the government of seeking to “bounce” the BBC into accepting a deal that exposed it to “administering welfare benefits”.
It says the BBC has found itself in the ridiculous position of being the administrator of welfare benefits that should “only ever be implemented by the Government”.
However, the report also says that the BBC cannot be absolved of responsibility for their part in the “flawed” negotiations, and highlights the lack of transparency at senior levels of the corporation.
In particular, BBC Director-General Tony Hall is singled out for his poor handling of the negotiations, particularly in failing to seek the formal agreement of the Executive Board before recommending the deal to the BBC Trust.
The report concludes that the 2015 negotiations were “flawed” on both sides and criticises the decision to hold the meetings “behind closed doors”. It also highlights that licence fee payers were not given the opportunity of a consultation.
The cross-party group of MPs calls on the government and BBC to work together to find a way of restoring free TV licenses for all over 75s who don’t receive pension credit.
Source: MPs call for the restoration of free tv licences for all over-75’s : Welfare Weekly
Furious Brexiteers caused motorway chaos across the UK as they organised a lorry go-slow at rush hour after the EU exit date was postponed.
Traffic mayhem could be seen in Devon, Cornwall, Lancashire, Stoke-on-Trent, Hull and north Wales.
Brexiteers of Brexit Direct Action are calling for similar ‘go slows’ across the country as they declare their fury at Theresa May‘s negotiations. They claim that they have hauliers prepared across the land.
The protests come as the exit date was postponed til at least April 12, as it was revealed today MPs could vote on cancelling Brexit altogether.
Another year is approaching to a close, but before it does have a very good Christmas.
England’s broken care system is lagging well behind those in other major Western nations, a damning report warns today.
Patients are being forced to pay substantially more out of their own pockets compared to those living in France, Italy and Spain.
The analysis by Age UK is particularly critical of our ‘harsh’ means-tested system, which sees adults having to pay for their own residential care if their assets are worth more than £23,350.
This is stricter than in other countries – and results in thousands of families having to sell their homes every year.
The report criticises the unfairness of the English system, with dementia patients forced to pay more than those with cancer or heart disease.
And it brands England the ‘poor man’ of six Western nations – also including Germany and Japan – when it comes to care provision.
Yesterday the Tories caved in and abandoned their plans to use Universal Credit to pay for the costs in supported housing. They backed down some 7 years after first proposing this (ideological and totally impractical) change in a consultation paper in July 2011 and have now agreed that the legacy Housing Benefit system will cover housing costs in supported housing.
The two main housing lobbies of the National Housing Federation and Chartered Institute of Housing as well as housing trade journals and the usual suspects of housing CEOs et al proclaimed this to be wonderful news to be roundly welcomed and also stated – in huge delusion and error – that this now ensures supported housing services such as refuges are now safe.
Below are actual funding levels from two supported housing services and you can see the significantly different proportion of funding they have and which typifies the very real funding distinction between low level support services such as category 1 sheltered housing and a high support need service whose client group I withhold only for anonymity reasons.
Both service
Source: Supported Housing in crisis.Vulnerable severely let down by perverse £ system | Speye Joe
Christmas is now gone by and we have the New Year to look forward to or not as the case maybe.
But have some fun at Donald to bring you through.
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