The cuts and changes planned for your local NHS

[John Marwood]

Shouty Media Organisations, owned by a handful of self interested moguls, have a readymade obedient and not terribly far thinking audience that consists of enough people to win general elections

Therefore

Nothing will change in a coherent or logical way

All health services have to be paid for

These media owners along with many of their friends in Parliament have self interested reasons to move this payment method away from general taxation to a pay as you die system or a private finance insurance system

Which of course means either the weak and the poor die younger, or around one third of funds that go directly from your taxes to the NHS are clawed up in profits by the insurance companies. A net loss or a life lost.

If we want decent health and care we must pay for it by taxation

However, how we actually pay will only be decided by these handful of media owners

 

[tek-monkey]

I think you'll finds its all the immigrants fault. Coming over here, paying taxes, out I say!

 

[kyoto49]

Councilor Ian Parry, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance, said: “If we want to have an affordable council in the future it means we have to be smaller and smarter.

“That’s the journey we are on and it means making some tough choices.

“So far we haven’t flinched from doing so when necessary.”

The council’s budget for 2017/18 totals £475.6m of which £312.8m will be funded through council tax.

Health and care accounts for £205.8m of the budget, with the council to pay out an extra £19.9m next year when it takes over the long-term care placement budget for older and disabled people from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership Trust.

Read more at http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...fordshire-county-council/#uiSDw2QecG0ewMTQ.99

SO................................... With the council taking over the long term care placement budget for older and disabled people - how long before they over spend on that budget and decide that they can’t look after the elderly and the disabled after all.

Maybe if would help the councillors if they went to Citizens Advice to learn how to do a basic budget sheet.

Oh no they can’t – they have cut ALLCitizens Advice's funding too.and they never 'flinched whilst doing it'

All this yet no one admits to voting for these t*ssers. In fact I bet those moaning the loudest about the cuts locally actually did vote for them ..

 

[Gramaisc]

All this yet no one admits to voting for these t*ssers. In fact I bet those moaning the loudest about the cuts locally actually did vote for them ..

@John Marwood almost certainly moans the loudest (ooh, Matron..) and I'm fairly safe in saying that he didn't vote for them.

 

[John Marwood]

@John Marwood almost certainly moans the loudest (ooh, Matron..) and I'm fairly safe in saying that he didn't vote for them.

I wish others moaned louder

 

[Gramaisc]

I wish others moaned louder

Are you on the wrong Forum again?

 

[John Marwood]

Are you on the wrong Forum again?

Every chance

 

[tek-monkey]

All this yet no one admits to voting for these t*ssers. In fact I bet those moaning the loudest about the cuts locally actually did vote for them ..

I didn't, did you?

 

[kyoto49]

I didn't, did you?

DId I vote Conservative? Are you having a giraffe? If they were the only party on earth I wouldn't vote for the selfish, money grabbing, morally vacuous t*ssers! Hopefully you get my feelings towards them. That's about as polite as I can be. I feel much the same about those who voted for them.