My Blog

It has been a very frustrating time for me, it seems that I am totally unable to use my laptop to get onto my Blog, the only way is by using my PC, I thought it was because I am using windows 8 but it is on both machines so can't be.

Not been very well over then past few days rotten blocked nose and a really nasty cough, but keep on going, went to a Pantomime yesterday afternoon, not bad but the lack of skill and ability of the cast makes no difference for the kids, who I might add had a wail of a time, one fly in the ointment 5 tubs small of ice cream £2.50 each a bit steep I thought, by the end of the evening I was light of £100, seems a bit pricey but you can't say that to the kids.

Death seems to be ever present in the World, the young lady in India Gang Raped on a bus including the driver just what is going on, there is a rape every 14 hours in India, how can this be happening?, why is it Indian and Pakistani men have such a disrespectful attitude towards women?, it is time that they learned that it is not acceptable to treat women any differently than they would treat a male, but we in the UK are as much to blame, we know that some young women are forced to marry, some have been killed because they have dared to cross the farther and mother, Honor killings my foot they are just plain "murder", no excuse as it is how we used to live, all women are free in the UK no one has the right to inflict harm on them, no one owns them, they are free and it is about time that our leaders got up and told the people in this country that this is the case and abuse will not be accepted whoever might be the perpetrator, this has to stop and stop now.

I am back

I have not got the slightest idea as to why I have not been able to post my blog but I just have not been able to access my this page for some time.

Well here we go, I have to say that the NHS is in turmoil, the new commissioning groups will if they are not very careful be the death of our hospitals, the trouble with going out to the private sector allowing them to submit bids for services is I believed flawed, the acceptance of "cheaper is better" is a fallacy, just because it is cheep does not in the least make it better, the main thought should be what is the very best service that can be set up for the cost be it more or less, the services have to be of a good standard, how can the private bidder show or prove that?, the hospital has a cost that it has to factor into the bid that makes it very unfair on them, are we going to watch the service become a private led NHS, hospitals closing and going bankrupt, you might think I am talking rubbish, but watch out you can't say you have not been warned!!!.

Life

So we have the stupidity over for the time being, it is not before time, but I am having difficulty accepting that the cease fire will  hold, after all the peace broker is  Egyptian and a Muslim, I  really can't see just what is going on, so my cynical mind tells me that Israel does not call up its reserve troops for no reason, they may have agreed to this cease fire but I would be very careful as to what I should do if I was in Gaza, I do not believe that the Muslim factions will  be able to hold their fire, it to me is just a massive tinder box, one spark and off it will go, but for the time being at least the children are safe on both sides, lets hope it stays that way!!.

Middle East

I am getting sick of watching the TV News, never ending death and destruction, now we have Israel giving it to Hezbollah not surprising really as they keep lobbing rockets in to Israel what else can they expect, you just know how Israel will respond, so where are we at?, Iran with the bomb!!, if not now very soon, Syria I am sure making the most of what is going on further afield, there is one thing for sure people are dying, you as a person might have religious convictions and death is acceptable to you but that is very good of you that is your personal acceptance of the consequences of your actions but why oh why do you expect everyone to be involved in your war, we are not interested we want to live another day, you can go and meet your maker but please do not take me and others with you !!!!!.

NHS

So up to yet after thousands of NHS staff have lost their jobs, the Government still say that there is no drop in patient care, now pardon me!, if you reduce staff service has to drop, it is common sense but of course the people in power lack that ability to recognise the rising problems, so where are we going well it has to be said up the creek without a paddle, you can cut so much but then service starts to fall its just how it is, soon we will have clinical commissioning groups GP led, what if they feel that the service offered by the hospital are not how they want, they have to put the service out to tender, if the hospital should loose several major  contracts just what do you think will happen, the hospital without a doubt will be bankrupt, just how is this protecting the NHS I have no idea, I am just bothered that this is the end as we know it!!, just to add I do not and never have worked for the NHS.

NHS / Incapacity Benefit

So many problems, the NHS in turmoil, whatever you might think it is in one hell of a mess, I look at Hinchingbrook Hospital now in the hands of the private interlopers, they have a loss of £4.5 million, but they say that they will not only reverse this loss by the end of their contract they will have wiped out the whole debt that they took on when they won the contract, so how do you save, well in my mind the only way is the reduction of staff which equates to reduction of the services to patients, I have to say that the government have got this wrong, the NHS does not need to be GP led, most of them have enough work on their plate without these stupid changes to the NHS.

Then we come to ATOS, what a great company!!, two thirds of people they have assessed have been declared fit for work, I do have experience of the system they run I accompanied my daughter to her assessment, you do not have a chance from the minute you walk in till you leave, I noticed in the press that they required a man to provide proof of his disability, he has lost two legs and several fingers on one hand, can you justify such stupidity?, do disabled people need this abuse of their lives.

fireworks

Here we are again November, yesterday from 7pm till 12 midnight fireworks going off all over, and some were really nasty sounding ones, very, very loud bangs sent our dog potty, now I do not mind that some people will let them off on November the 5th but some silly young teenagers seem to think it funny to set them off whenever, this begs the question where do they get the money from to buy them, and what shopkeeper in their right mind does it, locals are well aware who the sellers are which shops  will sell  them to anybody who has the cash whatever the age.

Then you have to ask these are in fact explosives, why are we selling them to members of the public who have not the slightest training in handling such items, I am gob smacked that health and safety have not stopped this crazy senseless sale of dangerous items, I fell that it is far better to provide a one off display on the 5th November, stopping all other sales, I wold finally point out to you all just remember how many children and adults have received serious injuries from fireworks, so it is now time to stop this madness and regulate the sale of fireworks only to professional displays before some one is killed, common sense says this must happen before it is too late.