The NHS prepares to cut back on 17 procedures to save £200 million a year, including breast reductions, tonsil removals and snoring operations. Varicose vein surgery, haemorrhoid operations and procedures to remove harmless skin lesions could also be cut under the plans. The policies endeavour to stop more than 100,000 unnecessary procedures taking place inContinue reading “NHS To Cut 17 Routine Procedures”
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The Longest Income Squeeze
Increasing the minimum salary to £10 an hour would help to alleviate the longest restraint on wages since the Napoleonic era for 9 million workers and Labour is now committed to a £10 minimum salary by 2020 and the newest research for the Unite union determined that the increase for workers aged 18-plus would raiseContinue reading “The Longest Income Squeeze”
Aristocrats Bidding For A Lifelong Seat
Parliament is about to hold an election with 11 candidates. Each candidate is a man, every candidate has inherited a title and only 47 Tory aristocrats in the House of Lords can vote. The victor will be able to make your laws for life. So, welcome to the strange world of a hereditary peer by-electionContinue reading “Aristocrats Bidding For A Lifelong Seat”
Don’t Grope Your Women
Tube bosses could wage an ad campaign telling passengers not to grope women travellers and it’s thought advertisements on the transport system could serve to restrain sexual harassment experienced in the rush-hour. Some passengers see their rail trips as an excuse to feel up women and sadly it is a place where people appear toContinue reading “Don’t Grope Your Women”
The Lessons Learned
Of all the startling findings from the inquiry into Gosport War Memorial Hospital, and the fact that workers raised concerns as early as 1991 but were disregarded will make for especially disturbing reading for the families affected. Hospital administrators joined ranks and fired the nurses who made complaints as a small group of night staffContinue reading “The Lessons Learned”
Isis Does Not Exist
A Labour councillor who was forced to quit as a school governor after insisting that ISIS did not exist has now been elected to a council committee dealing with radicalisation. Safia Akhtar Noor was suspended by Yew Tree Community School in Birmingham following numerous Facebook posts in which she disputed whether ISIS was to blameContinue reading “Isis Does Not Exist”
Russia Is Preparing For War
Russia is planning for battle. Tory Mark Lancaster declared the Kremlin is getting set for battle after learning lessons from current conflicts it has fought and the new head of the Army advised of an existential threat to Britain as he outlined the power of Vladimir Putin’s army. Armed Forces Minister Mr Lancaster became theContinue reading “Russia Is Preparing For War”
America’s Chilling Message
Donald Trump has intensified his discourse on illegal immigration as outrage mounts at his immigration’s policy of dividing parents and children on the US border with Mexico and in an unfriendly tweet, the President stated illegal immigrants are pouring into the United States, and his political opponents wanted them to infest the country. The WhiteContinue reading “America’s Chilling Message”
Zombie Apocalypse
The General Election results were in and Theresa May who had gone to the polls lost her overall majority and was left begging a handful of Ulster reptiles to take a billion pound pay off to save her political career and the woman who had pledged a strong and stable leadership was now a babblingContinue reading “Zombie Apocalypse”
Ditch Scheme
Tory ministers have abandoned a plan intended to prevent people unfairly losing their benefits, maintaining it’s not deserving of the extra time and cost. The yellow card scheme gave people a warning before their Jobseekers’ Allowance was sanctioned after MPs warned the system caused severe financial hardship. But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)Continue reading “Ditch Scheme”