‘Dr Clive Peedell says it’s the only local hustings to exclude him. Even though the organiser has admitted it was an oversight, he has refused to allow Dr Peedell to attend and refused to discuss the matter further, bluntly telling the cancer specialist in an email: “The matter is closed”.’
Another Witney Independent candidate was also refused entry despite having a ticket.
Why did Cameron cross the road?
He was afraid of the chicken.
(joke seen on Twitter last week)
Tax avoidance is robbery, regardless of what any silver-tongued outrider of the corporate world tells you. Companies depend on the labour of their wealth-creating workers: a workforce expensively trained up by a state education system, kept healthy by state healthcare, and whose low pay is subsidised by the state.
The private sector depends on a bailed-out financial system, state-funded infrastructure, state support for research and development, and a law and order system to protect them and their property.
via The EU needs to crack down on the real scroungers – tax avoiders | Comment is free | theguardian.com.
I don’t remember any consent amongst the public to accept diminished living standards in return for Cameron’s proposal of national fiscal security (which he has consistently and spectacularly failed to deliver) and the maintenance of the “market-state”. Nor was there consent for authority, inequality and hierarchy, or an acceptance of being less than we can be and having less than we can have.
A clue is in the name: The word “Tory” derives from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, which means outlaw, robber or brigand, from the Irish word tóir, meaning “pursuit”, since outlaws were “pursued men”. It was originally used to refer to an Irish outlaw and later applied to Confederates or Royalists in arms. The term was thus originally a term of abuse. The Tories live by plunder. They steal your taxes, your public services, your state provision and your labour, in order to raise more money for the rich.
via Conservatism in a nutshell. | Politics and Insights – kittysjones.
A frightening tale of Sue’s recent stay in a severely underfunded hospital:
For the record, David Cameron needs to know that patients are at severe risk. Mistakes are inevitable and it’s only a matter of time before our healthcare reaches crisis. Personally, I believe it has already. He has pushed a system that was already at its limits (and quite a long way beyond them) over the edge. Goodness knows what will happen when winter comes and admissions rise.
There is no more time for talking, reviews, conferences and marches. If we want to save the NHS we have to do it TODAY. We must not take no for an answer. If we don’t, it will soon be YOUR Mum, YOUR sister, YOUR child or grandson who suffers. Saying I told you so when it’s too late, will be no consolation to me at all.
As dear old Nye said “The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the will to fight for it.”
Unfortunately, too many people have bought into the government and mass media propaganda that the problems are down to the NHS being state owned & run rather than it being down to the Tories starving it of funding on a huge scale. We need to try to open up the eyes of everyone we know who thinks like that – show them the truth. For the most part, on so many social media streams, we are “preaching to the choir”.
“Taxpayers will face a £300m-£400m penalty if controversial probation privatisation contracts are cancelled after next May’s general election under an “unprecedented” clause that guarantees bidders their expected profits over the 10-year life of the contract,” according to The Guardian.