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Toby Latimer wrote:So David Laws says that the Tories spending plans are "A very extreme and very rightwing suicide note"
David Laws voted strongly against the policy for 'More Generous Benefits for Ill & Disabled' including ESA for cancer patients & disabled children http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=40680&dmp=6673" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Note to expenses cheat David Laws - Go back to your constituency, and prepare to lose your deposit you hypocritical, shallow two faced guttersnipe.
Laws will hold his seat, despite being a crook and everything. He joins the likes of Farron, Webb and Carmichael to make up the handful of super-safe LibDem MPs
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Toby Latimer wrote:So David Laws says that the Tories spending plans are "A very extreme and very rightwing suicide note"
David Laws voted strongly against the policy for 'More Generous Benefits for Ill & Disabled' including ESA for cancer patients & disabled children http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=40680&dmp=6673" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Note to expenses cheat David Laws - Go back to your constituency, and prepare to lose your deposit you hypocritical, shallow two faced guttersnipe.
Laws will hold his seat, despite being a crook and everything. He joins the likes of Farron, Webb and Carmichael to make up the handful of super-safe LibDem MPs
Some kind of Martin Bell type figure needs to stand there, to unite all his opponents. I'd have thought a fairly large percentage of those who voted for him last time will refuse to now, based on both the policies he's supported and his "financial irregularities." If I lived there I would even consider voting Tory, just to get the skank out.
The NHS is being hampered by an over-complex management structure which is quashing initiative within the service, a delayed government report by the former Marks & Spencer chief Sir Stuart Rose is expected to conclude.
The report was due to be published in November but is now expected early in the new year before the general election and amid growing concerns about the pressures being placed on hospital accident and emergency departments.
Ministers are concerned that Rose’s report will be seized upon by critics of the coalition’s NHS reorganisation because it says or implies that some of the changes have made an already complicated structure even more unwieldy.
I bet they are...
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
The NHS is being hampered by an over-complex management structure which is quashing initiative within the service, a delayed government report by the former Marks & Spencer chief Sir Stuart Rose is expected to conclude.
The report was due to be published in November but is now expected early in the new year before the general election and amid growing concerns about the pressures being placed on hospital accident and emergency departments.
Ministers are concerned that Rose’s report will be seized upon by critics of the coalition’s NHS reorganisation because it says or implies that some of the changes have made an already complicated structure even more unwieldy.
I bet they are...
This is such a good comment under that article - devastating information about devastating knock on effects of Lansley's car crash reforms.
BobBobson gilesjuk
28 December 2014 9:32pm
Other than hearing soundbites about the latest reorganization most people simply don't understand the scale of the problems that have been created. No NHS organisation is willing to invest in services because the new system institutes constant churn of contracts. Why would a hospital invest in a new scanner say if it doesn't know if the item will pay for itself. A hospital could hire new staff for a department only to lose the service 12 months later, hence the proliferation of agency staff filling temporary posts costing more in the long term. GP recruitment is a problem because most didn't start in medicine to be lumbered with managerial finance roles. Other staff are made redundant, costing money, only to be rehired by some newly reconstituted body six months later. Outpatient appointments are being reduced as the pressure is placed on CCG's to bring services in house to save money. This leads to specialists being replaced on an adhoc basis by nurse lead clinic services. NHS England itself stopped permanent recruitment over the summer because they face reorganisation themselves in March, and every March thereafter. PCT's are still running an entire unneeded parallel shadow organisational structure along side them. People used to complain about the perceived system on budgets being saved earlier in the year then splurged in March to gain extra funding. Now we have a system where no service can know whether they will get additional funding however well they do with a budget. Both public and private contracts are negotiated to undercut other established services, because everybody is in competition with everyone else. There is no point in one trust, or one CCG, trying to help another to reduce costs as it impacts directly upon their own funding. Its an unholy mess, entirely legislated for, a wrecking ball of a bill passed with virtually no oversight from those in government who voted on it. This is not a party political point, I don't think anyone set out with the intention of this happening. But the situation on the ground is entirely of politicians making.Indeed.
No wonder Cameron didn't give her a proper job for so long.
Tory transport minister Claire Perry has drawn ridicule for “toasting the success” of the railways when thousands of passengers faced hours of delay in the bitter cold.
Writing in a Sunday newspaper, the minister declared: “The trains are busier now than at any time since the 1920s. In fact, passenger numbers have doubled since privatisation in the 1990s and services here are now among the most punctual in Europe.”
The article, which appeared in The People under the headline “Why I’m so chuffed” did not mention Saturday’s scenes of chaos, when trains in and out of King’s Cross were cancelled because maintenance work was not finished on time.
