The working-class, not the scroungers, the media and politicians try and portray them as. These people have been failed by successive Governments, Labour and Conservatives who have pushed a broken economic model, based on ‘growth at any cost’. They have allowed multi-nationals to strip this country of almost everything, whilst lining their enormous pockets. In the meantime, the ordinary people have suffered along with the environment.
Mad Cycle Lanes of Manchester: Love Cycling Go Dutch – Manchester
This is a nice blog about a workshop on cycling, promoted by the Dutch that took place in Manchester. The writer is optimistic that something positive may come from this. Unfortunately, I believe the writer is naive and does not understand Manchester City Council and especially the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). The TfGM only employs motorists, so does not understand the needs of Public Transport users or cycles, their real priority is the motorist, like themselves.
Mad Cycle Lanes of Manchester: Love Cycling Go Dutch – Manchester.
EXCLUSIVE: Secret Tory steering committee working overtime to ready NHS for mass privatisation | A diary of deception and distortion
A blog about the privatisation of the National Health Service (NHS) by the present coalition. But the author does point out that Labour are to blame for the financial crisis of the NHS. And that Ed Milliband, if every elected, would only bring back the same disastrous Labour policies. In the mean time, the Liberal-Democrats do not seem to have anything to stop this privatisation. Unlike the rest of Europe, who have well funded health care services, the UK is following the USA route, where care is only for the rich.
And another article, this one from the Guardian newspaper, on how a few are profiting from the privatisation of the NHS:
Health care sell-off makes GPs millions
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