Brexit

I find it very sad that Tony Blair sees it fit to promote his anti Brexit views, telling people to rise up against Brexit just what in God's name does he think he and his side kicks are?,  are in fact has beans finished and out, Mr Blair's PM reign is now coming to be seen as a nasty work by him and his compatriots, so much deviousness and spin that in fact often be called lies. he should remember that he is no a part of the government now so his opinion is in fact no different to yours or mine, he is a has been but unfortunately there are many more who just can't keep quiet, the Lords who are in reality a costly bunch of idiots £300 a day just for signing in they do not have to do any work at all for that money, they do not even have to be in the building to get this payment!, but they feel that they have the right to disrupt the legislation going through  parliament at the moment, is it not time to stop wasting so much money on unelected Lords who often are irrelevant to the government of this country, I cant wait for the process to start and to see just what evil things will be put in the way of us leaving the EU. 

Brexit

Now we still have MP's who just will not accept the decision of the majority, I would have thought that those wanting to stay in the EU would have realised that they actually lost the argument and the government has been told by us the electorate to leave the EU so they should get on with it, the country can well do without the comments of Ken Clark and Nick Cleg, they are both determined to do everything possible to delay us leaving, then we have the EU stating that they have set their budget for years in advance and we have no choice but to pay up even when we have left, this is to me just what Europe Union is all about they are not bothered about anything other than the loss of income they will suffer when we leave, to me when you join a club and pay a membership you have to pay till you actually resign, then in no way are you expected to carry on paying a fee!, but it seems that the EU club is in fact financially unstable, I do not see why we should pay when we are not a member, am I wrong but it seems that Eu only wants us to stay in the union solely for our cash input and nothing else, as far as I am concerned any shortfall in their budget will have to be made good by the remaining nations having to pay to cover the financial gap, it is time we got out of the union and once again become a country that looks after itself rather than everyone else, we should look inwards and sort out our affairs firstly and worry about the rest of the world at a latter date. 

Brexit

I find the arguments  about us leaving the EU childish in the extreme, some are behaving like spoilt kids chucking their toys out of the pram, stamping their feet and crying foul because they cant get their own way, I keep saying that it is time to  stop!! enough is enough, I find it quite difficult to see the argument change on a daily basis it seems, you have to accept that all the problems we would allegedly encounter if we should leave the EU have not materialised and we move on or at least try to but the media and the grandees find arguments to put the referendum down as a mistake, us poor peasants taking a decision that we were not capable of understanding, I have heard all the reasons as to why the decision was made and the one thing that influenced me is not seen as a problem, I mean immigration most of the people I have spoken to about leaving their main influence was the level of unstainable immigration that is happening in this country, it is plainly obvious that the NHS is failing because of this influx of population, doctors surgery's overwhelmed schools unable to cope and a massive housing problem, so whatever is said we just can't keep on allowing people to enter the UK, it is fine saying we need the labour for jobs that the UK population will not take but that can be sorted out and no doubt will be, one question on my mind is how much longer can we allow the vast amount of cash being sent to all these eastern countries, I have always thought that earned income in the UK should be spent in the UK, it is aggravating to find that the shelves in my corner shop are filling with polish food rather than UK goods, just where are we going are we a  multi  national state or are we a mass of people that stick in their own communities and refuse to intergrade, it is a ridiculous situation that people who have lived in the UK for 30 years or more still can't or won't speak English, we are not and will never be a multi-cultural society while these communities never assimilate with the local population>   

Brexit

I am so sorry to go back to this once again but the whole thing is becoming idiotic, I am sick to death of those who are turning every stone they find to try and block Brexit, they just cant leave it alone!!, we had the referendum and the out camp won it so does the majority rule or not???, do we not elect MP's to represent us in Parliament or do we elect them to do as they please????, Nick Cleg is a prime example he just can't or wont accept the result, who is he now?? a little voice in a big country, his party were depleted considerably at the last election so just what does he think he is doing??, now I see that Richard Branson is sticking his finger in the pie, he says he will bankroll another referendum he should keep his money in his pocket and shut up he represents no one or am I missing something??, then we come to the wicked witch of the North  who is loving every minuet of this, throwing in her three pennyworth saying that Scotland does not want to leave the EU, if it is to happen she wants another referendum on Scotland leaving the UK?? what is she about she was part of the last referendum and she was on the loosing side, but it seems the losers in referendums in the UK are totally unable to accept democracy!! democracy to these people is when they get their own way, we the run of the mill yokel's who have no idea as to anything of importance, we have to be led by the nose at all times and never make the mistake of allowing them to be involved in a major decision, but for them David Cameron made what they consider a massive blunder in allowing us the peasants the ability to make a decision, and they have no idea as to how to accept the decision made, I would love to meet these pompous idiots and tell them a few home truths about just how we live compared to them and that we over the years of our lives watch take in information and make very informed decisions regarding who we vote for, and they should be very careful as to their intervention in matters that in all honesty they have no right most of them to comment as they are unelected they have a personal view but that is their view and in many instances irrelevant, just maybe they should keep quiet and accept the decision of the majority.

ILLNESS

Once again taken seriously ill again, it seems that the paramedics got to me just in time, 3 very good medics arrived and everything seemed to happen at once, cannula fitted, ECG done plus blood pressure and bloods for testing taken, then into the ambulance blue lights on rushed me to A&E, things got worse in the ambulance so on arrival rushed into resuscitation where after some time I stabilised, it seems that my blood oxygen was at 65% so very ill, the hospital unfortunately was on Black alert so was on an A&E laughingly called a bed for 13.5 hours my bum was in agony by the time I was moved to the Cardiac Care Unit, put on the machines and a second cannula fitted and so two drips were in place, I was receiving oxygen and antibiotic drugs by infusion,  I was on these machines for 4 days, finally I got a lot better than I was, now the food, they say that food is a major part of recovery, not at my hospital, the food is steamed so there is a lot of water about, the attractativness leaves me sick, I have tried just about everything on the menu not one meal looked appetising, and the taste was awful, most of the time I had a cup of milk and 2 orange juice and an occasional sandwich, I just could not wait to go home, the relief that I felt when the consultant said you can go home was beyond belief, but even then the wait for the discharge letter and pharmacy to get their finger out means 4 to 5 sitting waiting to be allowed to go, not a happy experience.    

Illnes

I never thought I would want to write about what is going on in my life but things health wise are going down fast, over the past two years I have spent many times in hospital, it all started with a fluid build up in my legs and feet, I was admitted and given an intravenous  water drugs, at that time my legs were both leaking fluid, most of the two weeks I was in hospital I sat in a chair in a puddle of fluid as the nurses were to busy to change the dressings, finally the fluid reduced and stopped leaking, I left hospital with drugs to get rid of excess fluid but it soon built up again and the drugs were upped to the maximum I could have, it was then found out that I had a heart murmur and  my heart had gone into atrial fibrillation, an attempt was made to put it back into rhythm but two weeks later it went back in to A/F, unfortunately they are not able to perform the procedure again, so there I was full of fluid, a heart murmur, A/F, type two diabetes insulin dependant,  could things get any worse for me??, I will carry on in my next post>     

NHS

Over the past year I have spent several weeks as an in patient in hospital, firstly I was seriously ill and the nursing I received was second to none, but then the problems started that was the horrendous food served to patients, ordering roast beef and roast potatoes I received what is called "steamplicity" so I would welcome some one telling me just how do roast potatoes are roast potatoes when they are in fact steamed???, they were in my meal in fact white they may have seen an oven at some time but it must be just in passing as they can't have stopped in the oven for long,  but as all the food served has gone through the microwave steamer it is mainly dry, nasty taste and some of it unpalatable, it is not surprising that so many elderly patients loose weight while in the hospital, on my ward I was told that one patient had gone to the hospital restaurant for breakfast, dinner and tea each day because he could not stand the food,  I only wished I was fit enough too do the same but unfortunately I was hooked up to too many machines and drips to allow me to go.
Food is a form of medicine good food means quicker recovery rubbish food means longer recovery consequently longer stays in hospital, the problem in my eyes is the fact the some hospitals have companies that import ready made meals, then the wards if they should order a sandwich for a late admission costs £6 two slices of bread with just a little filling, the other problem is the fact porters working in my hospital work for a separate company not the hospital, so when you need to be moved it takes some time to get a porter allocated to the job, finally to be discharged means a long delay waiting for pharmacy to get the needed drugs for you and then there is the discharge letter, in my case told at 9.30am I could go home it was 5.15pm before I went out the door, spending many hours sitting in the  ward waiting room to be allowed to go!!, so from a patient point of view really good treatment totally let down by everything else it is so sad, I live in dread for the next time the ambulance is called and they say the words we are taking you to hospital, panic pervades!!!!.