Monthly Archives: February 2014

Health Rationing, perverted ConDem logic.

By Mike Shipley

I was horrified to read a press report that stated that the Government was considering a new policy that could see the elderly denied treatment. NICE, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, has been asked by the Department of Health to look at the guidelines covering the availability of drugs and treatments within the NHS. Their aim of course is to cut expenditure and to make the NHS a more attractive prospect to the private health providers that they want to see eventually take over health delivery in the UK.

The Government wants the decisions about making treatments available to take account of the ‘benefits the patient may have in society’, rather than to focus specifically on the welfare of the patient. The purpose of this wider consideration is to target treatments on those patients who will return to work to the…

The recent Channel Four programme “The Benefits Street” has caused a lot of controversy and further debates about the Welfare system and its recipients.
The left is outraged by the portraits of the individuals as it feeds a negative stereotypes and further does not show the real picture of our benefits system.
When I talk to work colleagues, neighbours and some friends, it is clear that many Brits are angry that we are all financially struggling as prices keep raising, wages have been staying the same and jobs are difficult to get, whilst it is perceived that some people appear to get good money for doing nothing. I can understand that this perception would be frustrating for hard working people.
But we must face the reality rather than just blame the people with the least power in this country for the problems caused by the true elite that controls our…

Kat Boettge

Having a climate change denier as Minister for the Environment is beyond cynical, it is plain stupid and it calls into question David Cameron’s judgement. Now the Prime Minister is reaping some of the rewards for giving Owen Paterson the job. From the badger cull to the floods, Patterson has shown that he is clearly not up to being a Minister and he must go. The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs’ (Defra), mandate is to ‘improve the environment and safeguard animal and plant health’. In his short time in charge Paterson has overseen the totally counter-productive cull of a protected species – the badgers - cut 1700 jobs from the Environment Agency, failed to act on flood protection, called for GM crops in the UK and expressed a wish to see fracking sites all over the countryside. In addition he has slashed the budget for climate change…