It’s better to level with people than sell false hope
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‘Labour risks making the same mistakes on immigration as the Tories, well, and not just on immigration for it is politics and there is never any leveling with people on anything, it is always them and us, no matter what political colour.
Source: If Labour is going to be tough on immigration, it must not make promises it can’t keep
Health leaders have given a lukewarm welcome to the Labour Party’s newly unveiled policy plans for the NHS in England, saying that the intentions are laudable but overly ambitious and in need of crucial detail on their workability.
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One would have expected Labour to be more enlightened than the Tories and have does some work with the NHS, but this is politics and even more so politicians who always assume they are the experts, but experts at what, certainly waffle and not much else.
When advocating change, always include the organisation from the outset and not just follow a political Agenda for to do so just encourages failure.
As I said it is so expected of Tories, but is this just Labour under a different Tory colour.
Also, again, a major ommission and that is social care, for social care is an intergral part of the NHS, as is the NHS to social care. There is no point in considering one without the other. While the NHS is in a serious state, social care is even more so and in extreme danger of completely disappearing forever, then that will just lead to the same disappearing of the NHS. To safeguard the NHS, firstly social care has to be safeguarded.
Yes, get rid of the Non-Dom status, but that only brings in £3 billion while social care on its own needs £12 billion and hope that will cover both social care for children and adults. No good relying more on family carers for they are already doing more than should be expected, in fact, in 2021 £193 billion. In doing so family carers healths are deteriorating causing, not only more need for social care for family carers, but much more care from the NHS, let alone by family carers deteriorating health, this leads to more deteriorations of the family members they are caring for, so again more social care needed and so much more from the NHS.
Or is the inevitable being wished for and that is deaths of persons in need of social care and family carers so resulting in less need for social care and the NHS as even the NHS can’t get the dead recovered.
This is so expected from the Tories, but surely not from Labour, but it appears it is.
Source: Labour’s plans for NHS get sceptical welcome from health leaders | The BMJ
Keir Starmer is poised to set out “serious, deep, long-term changes” that also aim to slash cancer deaths and improve mental health treatment – and make the NHS “fit for the future”
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Well great for Labour, but do they know what it will take and will they do it with the NHS or just ponder on and do it their way.
The NHS are the experts in health and most of any government or any political party are not, so to enact change you have to work with the experts.
Now they say this they will do within 10 years and in doing so create many more jobs within the NHS.
Well, do they know it takes 10 years to train a GP, so is their promise of change within 10 years realistic? Also, many more staff are required in all areas of the NHS, nurses, OTs, Physios, Junior doctors, Consultants and many more all of whom have to be trained, so 10 years does appear to be some unrealistic.
But without Social Care any funding and changes to the NHS is really extremely unrealistic, for social care is required on a much better basis than as currently. For without social care there will be much more demand for care within the NHS, not only by persons in need of social care, but also their family members who currently do so much to underpin social care. As of 2020 family carers within the UK saved the UK £193 billion an extremely substantial sum. But family carers are not well looked after, yes, they can claim Carers Allowance, but this is only £76.75 per week, but only if,
the person you care for must already get one of these benefits:
If you are eligible you have to provide at least 35 hours care per week, but only if
If your pension is less than £76.75 a week, you’ll get a Carer’s Allowance payment to make up the difference.
So, effectively it is not really an allowance for caring, but an allowance for some or all loss of income while caring.
Family carers spend so much of their time caring, that in many instances they fail to monitor their own state of health and the state of decline could well not be noticed for some time, when much medical interventions could well be needed.
But you say, there is social care, which there is currently, but for how much longer, for as in the NHS there is also a severe lack of persons currently in paid care working for many reasons.
The main being the rate of pay as most care workers only receive the National Living Wage of £10.42 per hour for all the responsibilities they undertake. For caring is much more, than washing and dressing, toileting, meal preparation, for there is so much more. Carers are not there to do as they please, but have to follow a stated care plan arranged through the involvement of the person in need of care and any family members. The choices of the person in need of care are paramount and have to be respected, provide dignity at all times, and respect all of their possessions and their home. Even in a care home it is their home, especially so their bedroom, which in many instances is their only private space. But there is also medication, empathy, safeguarding, where requested taking the person out, and so much more.
Is £10.42 per hour really sufficient for all these responsibilities, when these carers could earn so much more in other areas without any of the responsibilities. But also there are insufficient travel expenses, insufficient allowance for holidays, especially Bank Holidays, no sick pay except for Statutory Sick Pay, which again is way insufficient.
So much is wrong and very little, in fact, nothing is being done to correct it, well the Tories have again delayed looking at social care, now not until 2025, will social care even last that long. Even, then whoever is the government, will sufficient funding for social care be granted, the Tories promised £1 billion in 2019 for all social care both children and adults but it never came. So, in 2023 they promised £500 million over 3 years, but then reduced it to £250 million, but again that never came. To do anything reasonable social care currently needs £12 billion for adults alone and then sustainable funding for many years to come.
So, Labour what now of your promises?
Source: Labour vow to cut heart disease and stroke deaths by a quarter within 10 years – Mirror Online
Rare moment of honesty from ‘Labour’ leader in new speech Keir Starmer is expected to confess – or more accurately, boast – that he’s a Tory. Starmer is now telling th…
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Well he is a politician so lying comes naturally, as does not answering any questions, as to being a Tory, well it depends on how ‘Blue’ the ‘Red’ is.
So, don’t judge on what colour the Party is, albeit that is somewhat easy to see, but on what they say, well that on many occasions is much more difficult to judge.
ANDREW PIERCE: This month, two female former staffers called on Labour to end its use of confidentiality agreements to ‘cover up’ sexual harassment allegations. It’s a bad look for Starmer.
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Be it Tory or Labour there are some very ‘bad smells’ in politics will or does this extend to other Parties, who knows.
All though Westminster is not the total ‘Gentlemens Club’ and I use that loosely, it still has a far way to go. As for some male MPs gentlemen is not the correct terminology as for some misogynistic, pervert, slimeball, abuser and others could be more correct.
There may not be many, but the few cast for the many and one is too many and there appears to be many more than one.
For far too long the political, so called, elite have done what they wish, wherever and whenever they wish to. The Houses of Parliament need to correct their order and if they are unable or unwilling then this has to be done by outside forces. However, from events over the years the Met Police too need to correct their order, but somewhere there must be a force or forces which need to be allowed to correct the behaviours of the few.
Source: ANDREW PIERCE: ‘Cover-up’ row hitting Keir Starmer on home turf | Daily Mail Online
Party press office not answering phones as awareness of right-winger’s suspension after racism allegations. Labour’s press office has battened down the hatches and is ignoring its phones
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Seems hiding is not the prerogative of only one party, so much for honesty and transparency, UK politics at its worst.
But, perhaps one party is worst than the others or is there more to come
Bootle Labour party unanimously called for Starmer to resign for cosying up with hated rag. Now branch that proposed motion has been suspended by Labour in what members regard as revenge attack Lab…
Politics can be and is very ‘dirty’ on all sides of the ‘House’ and at times the House appeasers to be a children’s playground and in doing so annoys the electorate and bring politics disrepute, when it should be respected. The booing, shouting and many other actions causing the Speaker to request silence so persons talking can be heard, to me shows that none of the persons doing so are suitable to be MPs and certainly not deserved of respect.
I agree politics at elections need to but followed, but when MPs are elected the sole purpose should be to do what is required for their constituents no matter how they voted and also the best for the country, party politics should have no bearing, but many just voted down Party lines whether they be good for the country or not, the Party comes first when it should be constituents and country.
But this is the same the World over, but needs to be changed for all of our continued existence.
As to the current situation, I want honesty, which is in very short supply within the whole of Parliament, but expressly so with Boris and even Keir. Boris because he appears incapable to be honest, but that was clear well before he became Prime Minister, so why should we be surprised now, we got what we voted for, so in much respect the electorate is to blame.
But as to Keir I would never trust him, as he believes he is still in court supporting who is paying him, whether they be guilty or not, as that is his preferred profession.
Labour started as being the voice of working people, but over the years the defined ‘working people’ is not the people for whom the party was created for. It was for people who had no one speaking for them and did not have the resources themselves to pay out for someone. Now, many in Parliament have funds which the original Members could only dream about and have lost the ideals of why the Party was formed. It needs to go back to its roots, not just at the top but at every levels.
Source: Labour suspends Bootle branch that demanded Starmer resign over S*n column – SKWAWKBOX
To the shock of almost nobody Knight of the Realm Keir Starmer has stuck the knife into the very people he is supposed to be sticking up for as Labour leader – the poorest. The newly selected Labour leader enraged the core Labour base by u turning on protection for renters while calling on the […]
The party needs to take time for judgments to settle about its descent into the electoral abyss, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Former prime minister Tony Blair was seeking funding from the EU while lobbying for a second referendum, it has been reported. The ex-Labour leader pushed this year for a second referendum and has
Source: Tony Blair ‘sought EU funding while lobbying for second referendum’ | London Evening Standard
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