Cameron: "Cuts will change our way of life"

[Dirk]

I can't believe Strontium Dog is still alive, I thought he'd have died of shame by now, given the way his senior party members are behaving.

[dennis tooth]

Les Woodward, 58, a wood machinist at the Remploy factory in Swansea, and a Remploy national convener, described the decision as "absolutely devastating".

 

"Angry is too small a word," he said.

 

"It's all part of the government cuts agenda.

 

"It's got nothing to do with looking after disabled people, there's no rhyme or reason to it.

 

"There are 54 Remploy factories employing 2,000 disabled people.

 

"All that is going to come out of this is that 2,000 disabled people are going to be added to the unemployment figures.

 

"Where am I going to get a job? Living in Wales, there's no jobs going.

 

"I can't see how they're going to help me get a job - they'd be better off trying to get other disabled people in work."

 

Shut up you disabled idiot. Mencap have spoken for you.

[Strontium]

What do you mean SD by pouring money down the drain on cuddly socialism?

 

 

I mean, it's all very well having good intentions, but you need good results too.

 

Does that mean nothing should be done with taxpayers' money unless it's going to turn a profit?

 

 

No, it just means that whenever you use taxpayers' money, it should be the best use you can get out of it.

 

I reckon everyone on here - including Tooth - would have to admit that if this decision was being made in the best interests of the people losing their jobs, and as part of a better plan for disabled people to find work in a wide range of industries it would be a good idea.

 

Considering it all seems to be about saving money though, would you like to bet on it?

 

 

It's not about saving money, the budget is left completely intact, it's just about not wasting money.

 

I can't believe Strontium Dog is still alive, I thought he'd have died of shame by now, given the way his senior party members are behaving.

 

 

Got nothing to be ashamed of so far as I can see.

[Strontium]

One final point, its funny how you use a group like disability rights UK and seemingly act the fag when it comes to what the BMA have to say on another issue. Like I amuse you.

Pathetic effort that doesnt bare you own transparent scrutiny.

 

 

You really are a moron. The BMA is a union. Disability Rights UK is a pressure group. The first group look after their own interests and the second group look after other people's interests.

[Section_31]

louise mensch's comments on Have I Got News for You a couple of months back summed up the political class for me. She was ripped to shreds by Merton and Hislop becasue she said something like 'if the St Paul's protestors hate capitalism so much why are they drinking coffee from Starbucks?'

 

It was perfect, just a perfect line which shows how these people think witht heir dangerous half knowledge, generalisations and ability to get where they are with a fast word and a wink rather than having any depth of understanding - of anything.

[dennis tooth]

You really are a moron. The BMA is a union. Disability Rights UK is a pressure group. The first group look after their own interests and the second group look after other people's interests.

 

Haha.

You have failed my 'merit-a-response' test at the first hurdle.

The person you are calling knows you are waiting.

Please replace the handset and try again.

[Hooch]

I mean, it's all very well having good intentions, but you need good results too.

 

 

 

 

No, it just means that whenever you use taxpayers' money, it should be the best use you can get out of it.

 

 

 

 

It's not about saving money, the budget is left completely intact, it's just about not wasting money.

 

 

 

 

Got nothing to be ashamed of so far as I can see.

 

Is there really much difference in these two phrases?

[dennis tooth]

Is there really much difference in these two phrases?

 

I dont get his claim as the amount has clearly been reduced from 68 mill to 8 mill in expenditure terms.

 

The budget is still intact, it was just resting in Father Ted's account.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

 

I would presume there are more economical ways of achieving these same ends.

 

There was, but the Government filched them off as well.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Cameron did the classic Tory long con yesterday in PMQs by claiming that DLA is not being cut, but "replaced" - reminds me of Thatcher during the miners strike, when she claimed that the pits had to be closed, so "new ones could be built." Cameron also managed to get his dead son into the argument once again - there is no depths to which he won't sink. As Omar would say - "It's all in the game"

 

As for the gobshite Unions - my wife was made redundant by her employers whilst on maternity leave and the unions stopped her from being screwed (as they said in Pulp Fiction, she only likes to be screwed by her husband - I hope) - the other people laid off who hadn't bothered to join suddenly filled in their application forms pretty fast.

 

Oh it's being cut alright.

 

What they are also doing is sending people who can't work to places like Ingeus (Cameron's best pal at Group 4) to get them into work.

 

The thing is they are sending people who are blind (yes blind) and in their late 50's early 60's out to force them into work.

[G Richards]

I have no idea what point you are making. I'm not altogether convinced you do either.

 

Bad joke, never mind!

[dennis tooth]

Get out of that job you lazy disabled scrounger, we have a new scheme for you now called the dole queue, before you get any benefits however we have set you a series of gruelling tests to see if you really are disabled or just fakin it to get yerself a cushy remploy job. This is a silver spoon, its ice cold from resting in my palate for 54 years being constantly cooled by my pumping heart.

Now cough motherfucker.

[VladimirIlyich]

Bad joke, never mind!

 

You werent joking Rev,you were making a very obvious point that the agenda that SD was talking about was a carbon copy of his own agenda.

 

There's none so blind as those that cannot see.

[dennis tooth]

hmm

 

DISABLED workers at a factory in Wirral today said they felt as though they were being “thrown on the scrapheap”.

 

All 29 staff at the Remploy factory in Birkenhead are facing the sack after the government said it was cutting its funding of the firm.

 

After an outcry from MPs, Government minister Maria Miller defended the decision, which is likely to see 1,500 disabled people made redundant at 36 plants across the country. She said by spending money more effectively, more unemployed disabled could be supported into mainstream employment. But outside the Remploy factory in Birkenhead emotions of staff were running high.

 

Supervisor Jeanette Williams, 48, said she was doubtful that some staff would work again after the cull.

 

She said: “In the beginning I think a lot of people are going to end up off sick.

 

“Obviously, people here have got disabilities. Here it’s like a home, and I don’t know whether any of these people, not just here but at the factories elsewhere, can cope.

 

“I really don’t think they will fit in with outside employment. ”

 

Mrs Williams, who has epilepsy, and her partner both work at the factory and they have two children to support.

 

She said others there also had children and mortgages to pay for and faced being put out of work at a time when there were “no jobs in the area for anyone”.

 

She added: “We are people who want to live, we want to work, we do not want to stay at home. We don’t want to be thrown on the scrapheap.”

 

Another worker, who did not want to be named said the government’s move was forcing them onto benefits.

 

She said: “They’re supposed to be trying to get people off benefits but that’s what they are doing to us. ”

 

Read More Wirral Remploy workers “forced on scrapheap” - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo

[JER]

Oh it's being cut alright.

 

What they are also doing is sending people who can't work to places like Ingeus (Cameron's best pal at Group 4) to get them into work.

 

The thing is they are sending people who are blind (yes blind) and in their late 50's early 60's out to force them into work.

 

And they want to force people with terminal cancer who have a life expetancy of more than six months to work for free. Or they lose their benefits. The Tories don't even let you die with any dignity.

[JER]

Trying to suppress a risk assessment, trying to stop monitering child poverty, mooting getting rid of maternity rights, forcing people to work for free?

 

"I described myself as a modern, compassionate Conservative. Modern, because I think we've got to apply ourselves to the challenges of today … Compassionate, because we mustn't leave people behind in our country …

David Cameron, Oct 2011

 

 

 

NHS reforms: government loses appeal against order to publish risk register

 

Department of Health loses latest stage of fight to keep secret an assessment of risks involved in the health and social care bill

 

Press Association

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John Healey

John Healey MP, who first called for the NHS reform risk register to be published. Photograph: Lorne Campbell/Guzelian

 

The government has lost the latest stage of its fight to prevent publication of an internal civil service assessment of risks posed by the controversial NHS reforms.

 

A Department of Health appeal against an order by the information commissioner to publish the "transition risk register" was thrown out by a tribunal.

 

Officials argued disclosing the dossier would inhibit civil servants from speaking their minds to ministers in the future.

 

The information rights tribunal upheld the commissioner's ruling that the November 2010 document should be disclosed.

 

The call for the register to be published was made by the former shadow health secretary John Healey.

 

In response to the tribunal's decision he said: "The judgment backs the public's right to know about the risks the government is taking with its NHS plans."

 

The Department of Health will await the tribunal's full decision before deciding whether to appeal, but Healey urged ministers to publish the document.

 

He said: "This is the second legal direction to the government to release the risk register.

 

"The judgment backs the public's right to know about the risks the government is taking with its NHS plans. It gives strong legal support to a full and open debate about the NHS reorganisation.

 

"Ministers must now respect the law, release the risk register in full and let people make up their own minds on the NHS changes.

 

"Today's legal judgment must put an end to the government's efforts to keep this information secret. They have dragged out this process for 15 months, while parliament has been legislating for their NHS plans."

 

Healey called for the information to be released before the health and social care bill completes its troubled passage through parliament in the next two weeks.

 

He said: "It's near the end of the 11th hour for the NHS bill and parliament rightly expects this information before it takes the final irrevocable step to pass the legislation.

 

"The government could appeal, and prolong this legal row. But I call on the prime minister to accept today's court verdict and order the Department of Health to publish the risk register immediately."

 

More soon …

[lifetime fan]

I wonder why they want to stop monitoring child poverty?

 

Maybe because it has gone up under them!

[JER]

I wonder why they want to stop monitoring child poverty?

 

Maybe because it has gone up under them!

 

Not with the Lib Dems involved - they feel so strongly about it

 

Ministers have run out of ideas on child poverty says Webb

 

Tue, 26 Jan 2010

 

“The Liberal Democrats will invest more in education to give every child a fair start and break the link between poverty and low grades," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary.

 

Commenting on today’s report by the New Policy Institute showing an increase in the number of children living in severe poverty since 2004/05, Steve Webb said:

 

“Labour has failed to tackle child poverty with its complicated tax and benefit tricks. Ministers have run out of ideas.

 

“The Liberal Democrats will invest more in education to give every child a fair start and break the link between poverty and low grades.

 

“There are gaping holes in the Tories’ policies on poverty. Their mishmash of tax cuts for millionaires and tax bribes for marriage would do nothing to tackle severe poverty when most of these families are not even in work, let alone in a position to inherit more than £1m from their relatives.”

 

February 27, 2012 10:31 am

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Mark Ferguson

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According to The Times:

 

“Two Cabinet ministers and David Cameron’s most trusted adviser drew up a plan to stop monitoring child poverty…Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office minister, and Steve Hilton, the Prime Minister’s chief policy guru, called for Britain’s official child poverty measure to be scrapped amid signs that it would produce a string of bad headlines for the Government.

 

A compromise over child poverty has now been reached within the coalition. The income measure will be retained, but others will be added to create a more “nuanced” picture of child poverty in Britain. They are likely to concentrate on a child’s access to education and health services. Ministers believe the additional measures will produce more favourable results.“

[lifetime fan]

Fuck Steve Webb, the lying two faced cunt is my MP.

[dennis tooth]

Social Investigations: NHS privatisation: Compilation of financial and vested interests.

 

-Knock yourselves out! This is my assasination list. All of the above cunts want shooting.

 

#NewsCorp :Cameron's Pal Matthew Freud Picks Up £1m-A-Year Contract With Department Of Health

 

The Chipping Norton set might not be getting together for the festive season this year, but Christmas came early for one of its main movers yesterday, courtesy of a £1m a year contract with Whitehall.

 

The Department of Health announced that from January, its entire public relations work on public health would be handled by Matthew Freud's communication agency, which lists several fast and snack food producers among its clients.

 

Other Freud clients include Pepsi, KFC, Walkers Crisps and the premium drinks company, Diageo. Public health lobby groups, including Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation, previously refused to sign up to health secretary Andrew Lansley's "responsibility deals" with food and alcohol producers, amid fears about vested interests.

 

Professor Graham MacGregor, chair of the salt-reduction campaign CASH, said: "Andrew Lansley inherited a plan on salt which was leading the world, but this has now given way to confusion. The reliance on PR people with deep links to the food industry deepens the anxieties about public health in the UK."

 

Industry insiders said this was the biggest Whitehall PR contract awarded since the election.

 

Diane Abbott, shadow public health minister, said: "It is really creepy. Big business is now completely in the driving seat of the country's public health policies. Big fast food firms and drinks companies are writing the policy, and corporate lobbyists are delivering the message"

 

#NHS - GOVERNMENT GENOCIDE: #NewsCorp :Cameron's Pal Matthew Freud Picks Up £1m-A-Year Contract With Department Of Health

 

 

 

How to abolish the NHS

Richard Wellings

23 January 2012

 

The National Health Service enjoys strong support among the public, making it almost impossible to introduce radical reforms, even if the performance of the NHS is relatively poor compared with systems in other developed countries. Over the last thirty years reform efforts have therefore focused on greater private sector involvement within the NHS system and the deployment of some internal market-style mechanisms in an attempt to improve efficiency. In a recent initiative, for example, a private company has been contracted to manage a ‘failing’ NHS hospital.

 

...................................................

 

But radical regulatory reform is necessary if a dynamic private health sector offering low-cost, high quality and innovative treatment is to emerge. A selection of regulatory changes is suggested below:

 

Perhaps most importantly, the compulsory licensing of medical professionals should be abolished. Anyone should be at liberty to practice as a doctor or nurse, with patients relying on brand names or competing voluntary associations to ensure quality. Ending current restrictive practices is essential to enable private firms to increase productivity in the sector.

Restrictions on the types of treatment available ‘over the counter’ should be lifted to enable patients to obtain medication without recourse to registered doctors and regulated pharmacies.

Burdensome drug licensing regulations should be rescinded. Instead, the testing of new drugs should be left to private firms and free markets. Reputable companies would have strong economic incentives to ensure the safety of their products, while there would also be far more freedom for experimentation and innovation by new market entrants, with huge potential benefits for patients.

Prohibited recreational drugs, such as cannabis and opiates, should be legalised to allow the sick to benefit from their numerous medical applications.

Some form of tax rebate could be introduced for patients choosing to opt out of NHS treatment (see, for example, this study from the Adam Smith Institute).

Private firms should be free to bring in low-cost medical professionals from abroad and at liberty to determine rates of pay and working conditions through private contract.

Legal reforms could enable patients to waive their right to clinical negligence claims.

Planning controls and building regulations should be liberalised to enable the rapid development of new private healthcare facilities.

 

 

 

How to abolish the NHS | Institute of Economic Affairs

 

This peice of shit is from these scum as described below:

 

"...undoubtedly the most influential think tank in modern British history." – Andrew Marr

 

[dennis tooth]

Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred

I know you can't stop thinking of her

By all means you can vibe with this girl

But just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself

 

 

A4e: Department for Work and Pensions probes fraud claims

 

An investigation into an allegation of attempted fraud against welfare to work company A4e has been launched by the Department for Work and Pensions.

 

It said it had been made aware of an allegation of attempted fraud in relation to a contract with the firm.

 

Police are already investigating claims of irregularities at the company.

 

The company, which had launched an internal audit, said it took any allegations of fraudulent or illegal activity extremely seriously.

 

As part of its work, A4e handles millions of pounds worth of government contracts for welfare-to-work schemes.

 

Last month its chairman Emma Harrison resigned amid the police probe and it announced an independent audit of its procedures in a bid to reduce "speculation and uncertainty".

 

The DWP said it had "immediately commenced" an independent audit of its commercial relationships with A4e following the allegation.

 

"We have required A4e to make available all documentation which our auditors may require and provide full access to interview any A4e employees. This is separate from the independent review of internal controls which A4e has previously announced," a statement said.

 

"We have made it absolutely clear to A4e that we take this matter very seriously, and that if, at any point during the audit or thereafter, we find evidence of systemic fraud in DWP's contracts with A4e, we will not hesitate to immediately terminate our commercial relationship."

 

 

Everything Cameron touches turns to gold.

[dennis tooth]

COMEDY GOLD.

[VladimirIlyich]

Not with the Lib Dems involved - they feel so strongly about it

 

Ministers have run out of ideas on child poverty says Webb

 

Tue, 26 Jan 2010

 

“The Liberal Democrats will invest more in education to give every child a fair start and break the link between poverty and low grades," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary.

 

Commenting on today’s report by the New Policy Institute showing an increase in the number of children living in severe poverty since 2004/05, Steve Webb said:

 

“Labour has failed to tackle child poverty with its complicated tax and benefit tricks. Ministers have run out of ideas.

 

“The Liberal Democrats will invest more in education to give every child a fair start and break the link between poverty and low grades.

 

“There are gaping holes in the Tories’ policies on poverty. Their mishmash of tax cuts for millionaires and tax bribes for marriage would do nothing to tackle severe poverty when most of these families are not even in work, let alone in a position to inherit more than £1m from their relatives.”

 

February 27, 2012 10:31 am

Author:

Mark Ferguson

Tags:

Child Poverty Michael Gove Oliver Letwin Steve Hilton

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According to The Times:

 

“Two Cabinet ministers and David Cameron’s most trusted adviser drew up a plan to stop monitoring child poverty…Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office minister, and Steve Hilton, the Prime Minister’s chief policy guru, called for Britain’s official child poverty measure to be scrapped amid signs that it would produce a string of bad headlines for the Government.

 

A compromise over child poverty has now been reached within the coalition. The income measure will be retained, but others will be added to create a more “nuanced” picture of child poverty in Britain. They are likely to concentrate on a child’s access to education and health services. Ministers believe the additional measures will produce more favourable results.“

 

I was well pissed off with the last Labour government but they did at least attempt to look like they were dealing with it.

Child Tax Credits were a godsend to our family and EMA too.

That statement is bullshit based on my own experiences.

 

I think Working Families Tax Credits were actually started by the previous Tory Government too.These were again helpful to my family too despite being a Tory idea.

 

The present Government is repelling some of these initiatives and not offering any alternatives at all.

[Strontium]

Fuck Steve Webb, the lying two faced cunt is my MP.

 

 

?

 

We did exactly what has been bolded in JER's post. Stopped their proposed inheritance tax cut and stopped their marriage break.

[lifetime fan]

?

 

We did exactly what has been bolded in JER's post. Stopped their proposed inheritance tax cut and stopped their marriage break.

 

I know Steve Webb from a few years ago when he wasn't my MP but the MP covering where I worked.

 

He is a two faced lying cunt.

 

I am more than happy to explain why I hate him in a PM.