I would not be alive if it weren't for the NHS. I get hospital treatment every week and opiate medication every day, and I could not afford any of that if it ends up in a co-pay system, because I'm on benefits as I can't work regularly. *sighs* Cameron knows that his party would have never got into government again if he'd been honest about his plans. They don't have a mandate for this. For once, I'm glad we have the House of Lords, and hoping desperately that they at least see sense and block this.
I'm generally pretty laid back when it comes to politics, but as a Scandinavian (high taxes, excellent social services) this kind of thing just infuriates me. Plus, you know, just the blatant lying and destruction. A pox on all their houses!
It's shocking. They want to dismantle the NHS like its their broken plaything that they need to fix. They have little understanding of how things work at ground-level in either the NHS or in Local Government. These people are removed from reality and it really is criminal what they are doing to public services in this country.
Not on the NHS but, i'm a librarian in Lancashire and in the town i work 5 libraries are closing - that's a third of them. And two of them in areas with a high deprivation index. Over the country over 400 are closing or proposed to close. Cameron has no conception of the role libraries play in the community or the good that they do, i see it every day - some of these kids in deprived areas will never access a library again after their local ones close. What's worse is they are palming off the responsibility for council closures onto Local Governments, saying that other efficiences could be found elsewhere to help them keep libraries open. And then they freeze council tax, causing another 1.5million budget deficit in the town i live.
*takes rant head off and breathes deeply before explosion*
I don't really have anything to add, but that was a quality rant. *applauds* I'm very laid-back fannishly, always trying to find the positives, but that's because it's fiction, y'know? Stuff like this is what I get angry about.
So sing it. (My 10 year old is going to write any letters - one to the BBC, one to David Cameron - re. the cancellation of Confidential. I look forward to whether she'll get a response...)
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I would not be alive if it weren't for the NHS. I get hospital treatment every week and opiate medication every day, and I could not afford any of that if it ends up in a co-pay system, because I'm on benefits as I can't work regularly. *sighs* Cameron knows that his party would have never got into government again if he'd been honest about his plans. They don't have a mandate for this. For once, I'm glad we have the House of Lords, and hoping desperately that they at least see sense and block this.
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Cuts in public broadcasting and eliminating your national health care system...be careful you are slowly morphing into the US. BE AFRAID.
I hope these idiots see sense and vote the way the people, not their party, want them too.
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I am. Also I dearly wish that the opposition was less... useless. Bleagh, politics. :(
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It's shocking. They want to dismantle the NHS like its their broken plaything that they need to fix. They have little understanding of how things work at ground-level in either the NHS or in Local Government. These people are removed from reality and it really is criminal what they are doing to public services in this country.
Not on the NHS but, i'm a librarian in Lancashire and in the town i work 5 libraries are closing - that's a third of them. And two of them in areas with a high deprivation index. Over the country over 400 are closing or proposed to close. Cameron has no conception of the role libraries play in the community or the good that they do, i see it every day - some of these kids in deprived areas will never access a library again after their local ones close.
What's worse is they are palming off the responsibility for council closures onto Local Governments, saying that other efficiences could be found elsewhere to help them keep libraries open.
And then they freeze council tax, causing another 1.5million budget deficit in the town i live.
*takes rant head off and breathes deeply before explosion*
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I don't really have anything to add, but that was a quality rant. *applauds* I'm very laid-back fannishly, always trying to find the positives, but that's because it's fiction, y'know? Stuff like this is what I get angry about.
So sing it. (My 10 year old is going to write any letters - one to the BBC, one to David Cameron - re. the cancellation of Confidential. I look forward to whether she'll get a response...)