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Thread: O/T The True Face Of Austerity

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    O/T The True Face Of Austerity

    This is the real price people have paid in this country due to 8 years of austerity .

    This is the end result of tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts for the less well off .

    This is the ideological choice the government and the former coalition made in the name of balancing the books .

    This is the cost paid by the most vulnerable people in society for the collapse of the finance industry.

    This is supposed to be one of the richest country's on the planet .

    This is the real UK today .



    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-JajY3...ature=youtu.be

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    Indeed....

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    Wow. Very powerful stuff.

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    Now stand buy for the tossers who think the Tories have got us out of a mess

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    Of course it's supposedly coming to end , what does that actually mean ?

    In my opinion coming to end is a bit like the government taking £20 a week off you for the last 8 years and then marking the end of austerity by giving you £50 back in your hand .

    Because you have come to expect absolutely nothing the £50 seems very generous , it's a con trick of course .

    The phrase austerity will be taken off the headlines but the affects will remain and may never recover .


    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/l...-a8373851.html

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    Im not a political expert but IMO cuts in local government spending have been driven by the reasoning that for too many years labour controlled councils have been their worst enemy regarding waste of public funds and now the labour run councils are blaming the government for trying to pay back years of spending by previous governments.We live in a debt ridden society - the young people of today do not consider waiting and saving enabling them to buy goods /services when it meant they didn't go into debt.How many private companies have "Assistant Directors" PA's and an army of non value adding staff? And before any body cries "Tory scumbag" I am actually a Labour Party card holder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogsdollox View Post
    Im not a political expert but IMO cuts in local government spending have been driven by the reasoning that for too many years labour controlled councils have been their worst enemy regarding waste of public funds and now the labour run councils are blaming the government for trying to pay back years of spending by previous governments.We live in a debt ridden society - the young people of today do not consider waiting and saving enabling them to buy goods /services when it meant they didn't go into debt.How many private companies have "Assistant Directors" PA's and an army of non value adding staff? And before any body cries "Tory scumbag" I am actually a Labour Party card holder.

    There are glaring contradictions in your post bogsdollox
    So it's only Labour councils that waste money is it;do a bit of homework
    Who was it that set the current obsession of "let the market decide" leading to our debt ridden society
    When cuts are made to what used to be called Rate Support Grant who suffers;the general public in this game
    I think you'll find lots of private co's with Assistant this & assistant that & armies of non value adding staff
    Have you tried ringing customer services of private companies?
    Hand your card back mate & make a difference

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogsdollox View Post
    Im not a political expert but IMO cuts in local government spending have been driven by the reasoning that for too many years labour controlled councils have been their worst enemy regarding waste of public funds and now the labour run councils are blaming the government for trying to pay back years of spending by previous governments.We live in a debt ridden society - the young people of today do not consider waiting and saving enabling them to buy goods /services when it meant they didn't go into debt.How many private companies have "Assistant Directors" PA's and an army of non value adding staff? And before any body cries "Tory scumbag" I am actually a Labour Party card holder.
    My partner works for BMBC , has done for nearly 25 years .

    She works on the desk , the point of contact for elderly and very ill people to ring up when they are extremely ill , fall and a multitude of other problems and she dispatches care workers to the scene or calls for an ambulance etc etc .

    It's a front line job , the cuts have resulted in less staff and when the calls come in she has the difficult job of deciding who is in the greatest need of attention because care workers short in numbers cannot be in two places at once and neither can the ambulance staff , people die or suffer for a great deal of time before help arrives , it's an unenviable task .

    Last year the care workers were transferred to the private sector , many of the care workers left and their replacements were hired on minimum wage terms with no O/T entitlements , this resulted in a high turnover of staff , already cut to the bone this situation compounded the shortages , people simply didn't turn up for weekend work or other anti social shift patterns and she never had a full team of care workers to call upon .

    The private company have now pulled out , too difficult to operate one would presume and now BMBC have had to step in and rescue the situation and re-hire the staff at a cost to the local taxpayer .

    This is the UK today and how our societies most vulnerable people are affected .

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    Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
    My partner works for BMBC , has done for nearly 25 years .

    She works on the desk , the point of contact for elderly and very ill people to ring up when they are extremely ill , fall and a multitude of other problems and she dispatches care workers to the scene or calls for an ambulance etc etc .

    It's a front line job , the cuts have resulted in less staff and when the calls come in she has the difficult job of deciding who is in the greatest need of attention because care workers short in numbers cannot be in two places at once and neither can the ambulance staff , people die or suffer for a great deal of time before help arrives , it's an unenviable task .

    Last year the care workers were transferred to the private sector , many of the care workers left and their replacements were hired on minimum wage terms with no O/T entitlements , this resulted in a high turnover of staff , already cut to the bone this situation compounded the shortages , people simply didn't turn up for weekend work or other anti social shift patterns and she never had a full team of care workers to call upon .

    The private company have now pulled out , too difficult to operate one would presume and now BMBC have had to step in and rescue the situation and re-hire the staff at a cost to the local taxpayer .

    This is the UK today and how our societies most vulnerable people are affected .
    If they are to copy a lot of the French system then there would be massive improvements. Unfortunately they'd probably continue in the same type of arrangements that were put in place and throw monies into a big hole.

    I can tell you a bit of what happened to me over the last year with my ankle problem.

    Because the problem hasbeen ongoing for more than 2 years and it's effected my capability to work all of what I write has been covered by the state. I do however pay into a private health care system which covers all of the other parts of my body. Everyone in France pays 7% of €12000 as a minimum contribution to the health system.You also pay 7% of everything above the 12k.

    12th June I was operated on.
    for 90 days I had a local nurse visit my home to give me an injection
    My dressings were changed at home (every 2 days) until the stitches were removed after 3 weeks.
    after 7 weeks I started a cource of physiotherapy. 3 days per week 8 hours per day. This lasted from between 2nd Aug to the 24th Oct. I had to prove my ability to walk correctly before released from the scheme.
    I had to get a taxi to and from my home every day that I was there.
    I have had new insoles for my shoes measured and fitted by the system.

    The big difference I suppose to this and what would happen in th UK is that I had the opertunity to find the surgeon and it was I that booked the meetings.
    I had to find the place for the physiotherapy and was lucky to be in bad enough condition to be accepted to this system however everyone who has a hip, knee or shoulder replacement automatically gets to enjoy this service. Once you raise to a level when you no longer need the intensive treatment you are given a prescription to find an indipendent physiotherapist to continue the treatment.
    The taxi/ambulance had to be organised by myself with a local firm but you had to give them a prescription given to you by the doctor.

    Evereything is organised by yourself unless you need someone to do it for you. Everything is done by local companies and medical experts.

    There are so many improvements that could be made by the NHS if the politions worked together instead of using it a football which it has become.

    To have a NHS out of the hands of the politions would improve it. Giving employed people the right to make decisions that is good for the NHS instead of the party politics has to be brough in to develop a system that can truely work for the nation!

    Remove the NHS from the politions!

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    If Corbyn was running the country the economy would be utterly knackered in a very short amount of time and there would be no money for anyone or anything so the situation would be much worse.

    That's the reality of socialist economics anywhere and anytime it's been tried.

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