Disability

What is up with this government?, just why are they insisting that the disabled have to pay the bedroom tax?, I saw yesterday that a lady who had had a £30,000 refit of her house has to pay this stupid tax, or of course Move, where to you might ask?, well to a bungalow, the doors are not wide enough for her wheel  chair, there is a big step to get in to the front door, and many other problems, the house that she lives in has been set up for her disabilities, here lies the problem, the idea that some faceless wonder has come up with is if you charge for bed rooms that are in their mind not used will allow us to charge for the rooms this will force people to down size to one or two bed room houses, the failing on this great idea is that there are few two or one bed houses, the reason for this is that the vast majority of building is for three bed room houses that is because of profit, so the game has failed!!, time to stop this silly carry on before some one does something silly because this has put them under real pressure, the whole benefit change has been farcical, homelessness is becoming prevalent families are breaking up, of course children are suffering more so this week because they will not get their free school meal, parents going to the food bank!! just what the hell is going on?, what is the point of pressurising families in this way, I dread to think what Christmas will be like for them, but this government could not care less, that can be seen in the proposed rise in MP's pay by 11% a national disgrace. 

The NHS

Now it is the question of the use of agency staff to be used to cover staff shortages, it is all well and good the government saying that more nurses should be recruited to cover these shortfalls, many occur over the weekend,  most people do not like to work weekends, but in the caring profession it is a must, but hold on!, do we not mean we need more nursing assistants?, they are the people who do most of the caring on the ward, one problem here is that many have very poor English, so can be as much of a danger rather than a benefit, Nurses now spend most of their time in university leaving with a nursing qualification but little or no experience of patient care and to make things worse to move forward you need masters degree, I have to say you do not need a degree to be able to care for sick people, many nurses new to the profession see it as below themselves to see to a patient needs, I have seen patients in great pain begging to be helped  left for an hour before any pain relief was given, so just how does the government think that by employing more nurses means a better service it will not a radical rethink needs to be undertaken taking into account the views of the patient as they know just what is happening far more than ministers do, the information they are given is in fact flawed, doctored and taken a little out of context to make things look different to what they really are.

Bio Fuel

I see that 10% of Bio Fuel is being produced in the East of England at a factory belonging to British Sugar at Kings Lynn, so much of the land in the East is being used to provide Bio Fuel, so arable food land is not being used for food, I am not part of the Green Party but this seems very stupid way to go, Europe is about to say that the arable land that can be used for Bio Fuel has to change from 10% to 6%, I personally do not believe that Bio Fuel should not be allowed to be produced on Arable food land at all, all the talk about green energy is not the reason that farmers grow crops for Bio Fuels it is solely for financial gain, many farmers are living on the bread line, money is tight so they have to diversify, sitting on a train as you move through the countryside it is mainly Yellow, Rape Seed, some for food much for fuel, it is all well and good doing this but it needs to be recognised that because the large influx of people into this country we need food and much more of it, if we are not very careful we will have fuel to drive our vehicles but no food to eat!!.

Terrorism

I am in the middle of a course on Terrorism and Counterterrorism, I was very surprised to see that there is no academic definition as to just what defines terrorism, when you look into it it become obvious that even though the terrorist threatens the West very few deaths occur, I know that many died in 9/11 and 7/7, but on a daily basis it falls into insignificants, now that does not mean that we should be  lulled into a false sense of security because that would be very foolish, our main fault is political correctness we have to be aware of the dangers that lurk in our communities and not to accept them just because they shout loudly that they are being oppressed and their human rights are being abused, that is a false hood , some of these people have been taken in by us gaining citizenship and all the benefits that this country offers, how do they repay us?, some of them choose to conspire to cause harm to us, so be aware some people are not what you might think they are.

A&E

This is first hand experience today, dialled 999 an emergency ambulance dispatched arrive within 10 mins, so far so good, all information given to the Ambulance crew who attended and I mean just about any question I could have thought of, in A&E seen by a nurse all the information given to the ambulance crew was repeated before, but one question extra "what brings you here today" again all symptoms were recorded by the ambulance crew so why the question?, next the doctor again "what brings you here today?" why twice when the symptoms were there  in black and white, so to start with possible heart attack, irregular heart beat and finally indigestion, just what confidence does this give you?, she was put in a ward of four beds two beds used, one with a TV on loud and the patient talking loudly on a mobile phone in some foreign language so not the best place to have to stop, just hope that she is discharged tomorrow, I did spend much time observing the Nurses desk, it was quite amusing to see up to 13 doctors, nurses and porters talking at the desk but still took over four hours before my wife was taken to X-ray

I did notice that she had not had any food offered her so took some bits from home I left her at 7.30pm and she had still not been fed so all this to me does not instil confidence in me for any future visits.  

The NHS

The latest insult to NHS staff their 1% rise due next year has been cancelled, well isn't that great?, as I have said many times this government is slowly taking the NHS apart bit by bit, no pay rise for several years now this, it wouldn't be surprising if many decided this is the end of the day as far as the NHS is concerned, the government keep saying that the NHS is here to stay but then reduce the finance to the NHS, we have an elderly population many suffering long term conditions, strokes and diabetes for just two, these people need many services to survive or is it the intention of the government to let these services fall behind their requirements budget wise, the outcome? well I will leave that to you to surmise, I just think that people should be aware of the problems that the NHS is  suffering, you may not have used it yet but when you have to you just might get a big surprise.