THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

How The Legacy Of Victorian Times Still Soars Over Single Mothers

No single mother could be described as a layabout and, so far the prejudicial impact of the 19th century carries on and, the Victorian epoch inflicted unthinkable expectations on women that are still with us and; it’s up to us to put them to sleep.

Being in the family way at sixteen meant that the mother was ignored, whether she was married or not. In Victorian culture, the whole schmear had to be of good repute. One was at no time allowed to go to school looking scruffy and, friends were not allowed to come over to visit without a weeks notice and, women didn’t go drinking alcohol for being afraid of being labeled a whore.

There’s still a shortfall of female emancipation in the British governmental and mainstream comprehension of women; it’s been there since the Victorian epoch which inflicted deep-seated, impractical expectations on women and, it still remains, for when you consider it, it wasn’t that long ago.

If you consider your grandparents, their parents were Victorians, it’s so immediate, that there’s a living memory of it, it’s under our noses and under our skin.

No mother should be named a good-for-nothing and, we can speak about the awe of the 21st century till we’re lying in technological landfill, but there will still be mothers embarrassed by their pregnant daughters, telling them they’re not of good repute.

Ethical morality shouldn’t be forced down our gullets, particularly when it brings about such an unconscious misogyny on both sides of the gender divide.

Respectability attained its summit in 1834, three years prior to Queen Victoria becoming Queen, yet its spectre is encountered all through her rule as something which is so inherent, so underhanded, that it’s believed to differentiate the middle class of society.

Although its phraseology is without doubt levelling off in 2013, its Victorian presence remains and, it remains in the way people instinctively behave in the expression of a single mother, or family of six on benefits in the mainstream media.

The unmarried mother is viewed all through Victorian creative writing and neo-victoriana as avoided and adversity and, conformity on the subject from that time shows this facet and, an aspiration to help but as well displays the flip side that a great deal were panicked by the belief that women got in the family way to obtain financial benefit and, to trap a man, because they were idle.

There aren’t many professions that are more arduous than being a single mum, no single mother should ever be hailed a loafer and, when the tabloids stigmatise single mums on benefits good-for-nothings they’re strengthening those Victorian views, but not only that, they have little to no concept of how their views and, the societal climate their views generated, then affected that family.

Austerity Is Being Abused And, Children Refused Fundamental Entitlements

Austerity is being abused to drive through budget cuts and revamping of the old system, which is denying children their fundamental human rights, according to a significant new report, supported by more than 60 organisations and experts.

The State of Children’s Rights in England report blames the government of utilising economic weight to give grounds for, not only a grave abrasion of children’s economic and social rights, such as health, food and the right to play, but as well significant modifications to our justice system.

Welfare changes motivated by austerity, amalgamated with looming prices and inferior salaries, have ended in children suffering acute poverty. Hundreds of thousands more children are living in impoverishment compared to years ago, the total figure is forecast to extend to three million by 2015.

In terms of education, astounding inconsistencies continue to exist and, when it comes to health, poverty-stricken children are now four times more likely to be unhealthy than wealthy children. Children are failing to be given significant state help because of cutbacks to services.

Considerable cutbacks to legal aid and limitations over judicial inspection really threaten’s children’s power to questions rights violations, the state does no longer keep safe children by safeguarding their well-being and best interests.

When we look at all of the issues which have an effect on children in the United Kingdom today, we can see that too many are still suffering from mistreatment, destitution and unfairness and, it’s a well-focused indictment of a country that deems itself to be modern and progressive that we can’t presume that children will be protected and flourish in today’s society.

Children’s entitlements must not be surrendered in the name of government belt-tightening and, cutbacks to legal aid will deny children a legitimate voice to stop them from getting the legalised help they are qualified.

Britain is signed up to the UN Convention on Rights of the Child and, was given a catalog of 118 areas which required action after a visit by UN officials five years ago, so far there has been no developments, or matters have got more inferior and, in most regions requiring betterment 88 out of the 118.

The well-being of children should be at the centre of this government’s broad expanse of improvements. Organisations are failing children and, should publicly be held to account and, the government should be spending out on helping the most deprived pupils achieve at school.

Victims Of The Coalition’s Vicious Welfare Cuts

There will be a large number of people who will be targets of the Coalition’s savage welfare cuts. A classic instance is a person who’s afflicted with Cerebral Palsy, they’ll be concerned that they’ll be deprived of their benefits in the modifications from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment.

Disabled people are facing being deprived of cash if they can walk only 20 metres, down from 50 metres. This recently developed process doesn’t appear to get that these people also require supervision.

Some people might be in need of a wheelchair one day but can go to work the following day not needing one. So, people must grasp that disorders like Cerebral Palsy vary widely and, so do a large number of other problems that disabled people have.

Assessments like walking a set distance aren’t just yes and no questions and, an article could be written down on whether people with disabilities could walk 50 metres; it’s all contingent on the terrain, what that person was doing after that, what they might have been doing that day, whether they have someone with them, it’s not that straightforward.

The Paralympics has given people confusing notions of what it means to be disabled and, that Olympians unintentionally made people with disabilities victims of their success.

Paralympics were a glamorous result of years of hard work and, people haven’t understood what it’s like to be disabled behind the scenes and, paralympians are in fact a tiny part of the community.

Citizens of the United Kingdom now automatically believe that they comprehend disability, but not each and every disabled person is a Paralympian and, the Government should have second thoughts about substituting DLA for PIPs, which covers additional expenses like transportation.

As stated by Government figures 600,000 disabled people will be deprived of money and, the Government’s assessment for PIP is profoundly flawed and, help won’t be aimed at those who in fact need it.

The United Kingdom is recognised as a world leader in supporting independent living for disabled people, but if the government take away their money, they will be striking the most defenceless and, destroying the lives of those that desperately need it the most.

Anyone that can do such a thing has no empathy and, no emotion. They should consider the brutality that they’re inducing on these people, just so that they can convince the general public into thinking that they’re doing good by them.

It’s the government’s responsibility and, they should be pressured into making sure that the people of the United Kingdom are protected, it makes no difference whether they’re disabled or not, all people of this country should be thought about before anything else.

If there’s not a law, then there should be one put together to make sure that the people of the United Kingdom are protected, that they have clothes on their backs, a roof over their head and food on the table and, not by way of food vouchers or charity, and homeless shelters.

Government should be pressured into making sure that families of the United Kingdom are looked after, then they will without doubt know what oppression feels like.

It doesn’t matter what walk of life you might come from, abuse is the very same and, it’s in no way gratifying, but we’re a savage society, no matter how much one tries to convince themselves that we’re not, we’re a hostile beast, set against being a peaceful nation, which is what everyone would like, but at the end of the day, that’s not ever going to be possible.

Conservatives Cleanse Past Communication From Internet Records

The Conservative Party has removed information and media announcements issued on its website between 2000 and the 2010 general election. The documentation has as well been hidden from search engines.

The change was spotted by Computer Weekly, a trade publication, which said some documentation had been removed from the Internet Archive, which aims to make a lasting description of web content.

The Conservatives said the transformed position keeps their refurbished website on the cutting edge of technology and, the consequence of the changes was as terrifying as dispatching Men in Black to disrobe the past from books in a civic library and, set them alight in the car park.

The Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne crusaded on an assurance to democratise data held by those in power, so people could hold them to account. Instead, they have presided over a modification which has left Conservative communication in a secretive curve of cyberspace like those that protect the armed services and gang members.

Recorded pages on the Conservative Party website provided an account of developing policy statements, which were removed at some time after 5th October and, additionally, a text file was attached to the website, called ‘robots.txt’. This is a standard way of telling search engines which part of a website they should not attempt to index.

Yet the robots.txt file had the aftermath of stopping search engines from continuing to make documentation of the websites previous contents obtainable to the public, it as well prompted the Internet Archive to take down its copies of the pages, even though some of those copies have since been restored.

A Conservative representative said that they were making sure their website kept the Conservative Party at the spearhead of political campaigning and that those modifications permitted people to quickly and without difficulty obtain the most significant data that is provided and, on how they are clearing up Labour’s financial chaos and, taking tough choices and, standing up for hardworking people.

Nevertheless, the modifications to the website have been detailed as a cynical stunt and, it will take more than David Cameron pressing on the delete button to make people forget about his broken promises.

A Demand For Bedroom Tax To Be Disposed Of

Non-profit organisations and department statistics have called for MPs to remove the impractical and unjust bedroom tax, as Parliament votes on throwing out the policy today.

The Labour Party is utilising an opposition day debate in the House of Commons to force through a vote on the under-occupation sanction.

Nevertheless, some of Labour’s most substantial names failed to turn up to vote last night in opposition to the hated bedroom tax. Chuka, Bryant, Douglas Alexander, Margaret Hodge and, surprisingly Ed Balls was non attending, making them powerless to ever speak convincingly on the matter ever again.

Obviously it was all an empty gimmick and, why even bother putting on an act anymore. And as far as David Cameron is interested, he could feign to care, but in fact, why trouble one’s self? He’s worth a vast sum of money and, that’s all that’s important.

Anyone with half intelligence will be aware that David Cameron is from a talentless group of people who neither knows, nor worries, what it’s like to be a genuinely diligent person, attempting to make do without being born into affluence and privilege.

Anyone who votes for him in the next election is either on the take like him or his cabinet, brain dead, or one of the City Bankers who jerks his chain.

So, it’s no good detailing the negativity and, telling what they think are the subordinate classes that they are compelled to pull tight their belts, because its a futile task.

Will this have an effect on the next election? Absolutely not, because neither David Cameron nor Labour genuinely give a fuck, they just take it in turns to piss people off.

There is a large amount of people who have said there is no point in voting, but do the government in fact care about how they are regarded at all? Of course not, because there are still sufficient fools in the United Kingdom who will give them something so that they can make believe that there is an electoral mandate.

The government think that the people of the United Kingdom are unintelligent and naive, but it keeps people like David Cameron in an extremely good position, especially financially.

AUSTERITY, DEMOCRACY AND, PROTEST

It’s the uninterested conformist broadcasting and, an indecisive political group and, an extensive population who have become observers rather than performers in their everyday lives, who have produced the wrong image that Britain is taking its austerity battering laying down.

Nevertheless, this couldn’t be furthermore from what’s going on because many of the most disenfranchised groups in UK culture are moving up, unrest is being instigated and, flames of discord are beating the powder keg of the mainstream state of mind.

Winston Churchill said that, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”.

I shadow no party and, do get satisfaction in exposing David Cameron’s deficit arguments and, as long as the party carries on talking down the economy by means of the blame game, the trust of the people will not be given, or have a chance to return.

Without trust and confidence there can be no real development in parliament because the debt is one big shambles. It’s common sense, in case terms, that a millionaire’s debt would be bigger than the majority of people, so, as a result the United Kingdom would have a higher debt and deficit than the majority of countries because, we are the sixth largest economy.

The present government and, the fiscal mock-up they reinforce are reducing people to penury and, entire segments of the UK population. The cardinal number of young people have been out of work for periods lasting more than two years and; it’s the highest in twenty years and, the cost of living is ascending at four times the ratio of peoples wages.

This Christmas 80,000 children will be on the streets and, 600,000 additional children will be living in poverty by the next election and, this is all going on while the government glorifies itself as a rapidly increasing economy in the western world.

Financial expansion on the back of poverty wages and cuts to the welfare state which are leaving people penniless. This is extremely bad and, it’s without question a matter of life and death. The people are now too poor to live and, as well, too poor to die.

And people are fighting back, but it’s no duck soup out there because we have at present become a Police State and, people are discovering their entitlement to object repelled by consecutive parliaments under the disguise of anti terror laws.

On top of that, they are challenged by a militarised, government police force that utilises physical force, chemical agents, helicopters and, intelligence crews. Sporting cameras and making snatch and grab detentions, armoured vehicles, horses, dogs and the real danger of arrest.

This, amalgamated with harmful press reports about trouble making demonstrators has achieved success in making protest a personally menacing and mostly avoided action to participate in.

David Cameron would like people to think the markets loan in the same way as retail banks lend to you and I, but in general, when the facts and figures are put into a frame of reference, these childish deficit accounts merely fail to stand up to the real truth.

The deficit saga is the fattest fabrication ever imposed upon the people and, it has been promoted by taking advantage of people’s financial ignorance.

Cameron is amusing himself and, playing the blame game to demoralise trust and increase the justification of austerity, so that he can use austerity as grounds for a smaller state to gain lower taxes and, to portray Labour as a party that can’t be entrusted with the country’s financial affairs once more.

Consequently, the Conservatives will be the victors a second term because, people vote out of fear. The plan has succeeded previously and, will be effective again because, in the end, elections are gained and lost on financial plausibility and, consequently because people think that Labour created the mess, they won’t have confidence in them again.

In the meanwhile there are people out there that are trying to demonstrate, but the motivation of protest and civil disobedience is to get in the way and to throw into confusion the normal goings on and, to outline people’s awareness to an issue.

Nevertheless, a protest is now described as somehow bad and wrong, but in short people have the entitlement to complain, so long as they don’t complain, that means make no pandemonium, get in no one’s way and, for goodness sake’s don’t get irate.

This has put a strain on demonstration groups to be fuzzy and ineffectual and, if they want good press reporting, or the desired support, they should keep their demonstrations nonviolent, to keep calm and carry on, but in spite of this, they in fact will make no real difference.

Disabled People Win A Case Against Government

Five disabled people have been successful in winning a legal battle to the government’s determination to get rid of the Independent Living Fund.

The £320 million Independent Living Fund currently provides support, giving the means to almost 19,000 seriously disabled people in the United Kingdom to live independent lives in the community.

The High Court ordered in April that the discontinuation settlement was legitimate, but this was turned over by the Court of Appeal, in spite of the fact, the government said it was taking into consideration whether to contest the verdict by the Court of Appeal.

Throughout the Court of Appeal inquiry, the five insisted the High Court had misunderstood the directives and; there had been a lack of genuine debate by ministers over the modifications.

They said that with the absence of Independent Living Funding and support, they would be forced into residential care and, be deprived of their potential to take part in work and, day-to-day events on the same premise as able bodied people.

The scheme’s typical payout is £300 a week and, the government has said councils, which control nearly all social care, will take over funding this assistance. Ministers took the resolve to close the funding on 18th December last year.

Court of Appeal judges gave permission the challenge in the High Court’s previous ruling, rescinding the original verdict in favour of the government.

It was said that the evidence upon which the settlement had been founded had not given an adequate flavour of the responses received, demonstrating that independent living might well be put severely in danger for a great number of disabled people.

Disabled claimants were worried that the ruling to close the fund and transfer the money to local authorities would lead the way to a cutback, or even misplacement of that money, which had previously been ring fenced.

Welcoming the powerful judgement, law firms Deighton Pierce-Glynn and Scott-Moncrieff & Associates, which represented the applicants, said their clients had dreaded the loss of their Independent Living Fund support, which would endanger their entitlement to live with self-respect and, that they could be forced into long-term residential care, or be deprived of their capacity to work and, engage in daily events on an equivalent standing with other people.

The Court of Appeal ruling was reported as being of the greatest significance, not just for the applicants, but for each disabled person.

The ILF was established in 1988, but the government found in 2010 that it had become no longer relevant or sustainable to keep running the scheme outside the mainstream social care system and, the fund was closed to new claimants shortly after.

The government speaks of wanting people to go back to work and, yet they make it so hard for people to do that, because they can’t merely say one thing, but mean another, if they do that, then it makes the system extremely defective. ILF was favourable in so many ways for the disabled and, to take that away from them would be very damaging.

It appears that all that this government do, spreads like cancer and, we’re at the compassion of the government, for they have the ability to do anything they see fit, while they hang us out to dry.

At the start they gave us all these marvelous speeches about how they were going to do this and, how they would make things better for the people of the United Kingdom, but it was all jibber jabber and, as learned as they may appear, they in fact have no idea of how the real world slogs and hauls its worn out jenny on a day-to-day basis.

They’re so soaked up with what they want and, what they can get out of it, that they have no compassion for other people, as they engage on stealing from the poverty-stricken to furnish the wealthy, to make them even more rich. They’re not worried about our welfare, as television advertisements drill direction into our children, giving them ideas that merely the regime want to put there for their own benefit, while they harvest the bounty.

They have no good character and, they’re excellent at concealing the facts, but in all sincerity they’re just trying to survive just like the general public, because without us they would be in the very same situation we are now, with nothing and, if we were to recognise that they’re in fact no different from the general public, we then start to comprehend that they’re just human beings and, they can be damaged and, they can be undermined.

The thing to understand is this, it will not be the general public that will sabotage them, it will be the government themselves, because they are their own overwhelming opponent, because when one considers themselves beyond disdain and condemnation and, they’re convinced that they’re above suspicion, that is when they come under disapproval and examination.

Another Expenses Scandal

MP’s are claiming fuel allowances and, it’s deplorable. They have free housing, free food, alcohol, gym membership, the catalogue of things are limitless.

What about the poor, the sick, the disabled, old and, people of no fixed address?

80,000 children will be homeless at Christmas and the rest of the year. They don’t have the grandeur of one home, let alone two and, as for MP’s claiming for energy when the rest of the nation has 10% increases is completely nauseating, as we all freeze while they snigger all the way to the bank.

The disabled are at death’s door in their thousands following being established suitable for work. They’re being denied benefits and; there will be additional loss of life to come in the following winter months.

The old are being intimidated with the misplacement of their Winter Fuel Payment should the Conservatives be in control in 2015. They can hardly cope on a state pension as it is.

The communal poor must pick between heating or eating and, those unfortunate enough to be sanctioned, they can’t do either.

The expenditure disgrace has done nothing to put an end to MP’s continuing to sponge and thieve from the taxpayer. Whether working or not we’re all paying our dues on each thing we buy, as well as PAYE and NI contributions.

The MP’s take, take, take with no feeling for the people they’re rumoured to serve. They oppress and break the law, they exaggerate and deceive the people and, get away with it.

Iain Duncan Smith tells lies in parliament and, gets away with it every time. Grant Shapps has different pseudonyms and dodgy business methods and, the police don’t bring legal proceeding against him.

The energy disaster is the last straw. This country isn’t just and fair and, MP’s will carry on taking freedoms away from us, along with our good natures for as long as they see fit.

One day the tables will be compelled to turn and, we must purge ourselves of self serving fools, rather than serving them.

In 2009 there was a major expenses scandal, which exposed members of the United Kingdom Parliament. There was public outrage because of the actual and so-called abuse of the authorised allowances and expenses claimed by Members of Parliament.

Yet we’re now in 2013 and, it’s still going on under our very own eyes and, people are permitting this to happen, they’re all walking about with blinkers on their eyes, like they’re in some sort of stasis.

The political expenses scandal in 2009 ended in a huge number of people standing down, sackings, de-selections and retirement announcements, together with official expressions of regret and, the reimbursement of expenses.

Various members or previous members of the House of Commons and members of the House of Lords, were taken to court and sentenced to periods of imprisonment.

Yet we all appear to consider it adequate that members of parliament are now extracting money from the poor to give to the wealthy and, funding their exorbitant way of life from the honest taxpayer and, not only that, they are getting away with it.

In the United Kingdom MPs can claim expenses, comprising the cost of accommodation, that are entirely, exclusively and, as a result incurred for the functioning of a Member’s governmental obligations.

In February 2008 a Freedom of Information Act request for the liberation of particulars of MPs’ expenses claims was permitted by an Information Tribunal.

In May 2008, the High Court in England and Wales decreed approval of liberating the particulars of MPs’ expenses claims and, in April 2009 House of Commons officials made known that publication of expenses, with particular details considered overly delicate, to be removed, would be made in July 2009.

Nevertheless prior to this taking place, a full uncut transcript of the expenses records and documentation was disclosed to the Daily Telegraph, which started issuing particulars in day-to-day instalments from 8 May 2009.

If this could occur then, it can take place now and, those MPs who are squandering the taxpayers money haphazardly are like a lethal disease spreading, but looking as if they are giving us charity and, doing us a good turn.

It’s not a ‘gentleman’s club’ for MPs and, there should be a strict cutting-edge control on how to prevent misuse of pay and expense process and, there should be agreed radical plans on how to implement this.

We can’t turn a blind eye to this misuse of trust inside the government and, it should be abolished at once, directives should not be damaged, particularly by a government that we’re supposed to put one’s trust in the most, when they’re supervising our nation.

Westminster can’t operate like some gentlemen’s club where the subscribers of that club make up the directives and run it jointly themselves and, if MPs carry on setting their own codes and rules, our country will consistently dispute its transparency and, quality that they rightly demand.

The conduct of some MPs is completely unsatisfactory and, particular MPs should be forced to stand down and, there should be an immediate general election.

Members of Parliament appear to think it is their entitlement to claim for furniture, gardening, cleaning and stamp duty on house purchases, as well as acquiring second homes and, then some, all of this, will not reinstate the people’s confidence in our political system.

Our political system needs to be changed and, looked into more seriously. There needs to be reorganisation, so that the citizens of the United Kingdom can have more confidence and pride in their elected Members of Parliament and, these suggested alterations should be relevant to the House of Lords, as well as the House of Commons.

Cancer Payments: Terminally Ill Man On Months Of Delays

A terminally sick man has been made to feel humiliated after being handed a food bank voucher surrounded by delays to his benefit payments.

After the man was identified with having terminal cancer, he filled in the relevant forms, yet for three months was given no money at all.

His story was highlighted by the nonprofit organisation Macmillan Cancer Support, who said patients are having to wait weeks, or even months, to have their payments processed, even though The Department for Work and Pensions has raised questions over the robustness of the charities data.

The man had gone to his doctor after a diagnosis and treatment proceeded incredibly fast. They did an internal scan on the 23rd May and, on the same day they found that he had lower bowel cancer and, on the 24th May, doctors removed 90% of his lower bowel.

He was then contacted by the hospital on the 13th June, to give him the news that regrettably it was incurable and, it had gone to his liver, his stomach and, one or two other parts of his body.

The doctors preferred not to talk about how long he had to live, they said it could be 2 years, they said it could be 5 years; it could be whatever it took, the doctors said they didn’t like to set boundaries on it.

As an outcome of his illness, he made a claim for a Personal Independence payment and, for an individual who is suffering from a terminal illness, payments for PIPs should be exercised pretty swiftly.

The man’s doctor issued a DS1500 form, which the man had been informed since, makes your claim a priority with the PIPs department. The man filled in all the forms and, they went in the week of the 17th June and, then the man heard nothing from the PIPs department.

Macmillan began chasing it up and, they were informed it was with the decision makers. Even Citizens Advice pursued the PIPs department and, they were informed it was with the decision makers, everyone was told the same thing.

And when Macmillan head office got involved and, began talking to people, it turned out that it had at no time been with the decision makers, it was sat on a desk doing nothing. When the man found out what was really going on, it made him extremely distressed.

At the Citizens Advice Office they had got so frustrated because everyone they spoke to, told them the same thing, ‘We can’t do anything, it’s with the decision makers’.

A woman came back into the room and, handed the man a red piece of paper to take round to a food bank, so that himself and his partner could be issued with some food and, the man felt so ashamed because all he could get off anyone was a voucher for a food bank.

When he actually got the payment on the 10th September, they rewarded him the money owing, which was backdated to the 13th June and, something else the DWP kept saying, ‘Was don’t worry, it’s all backdated’, but it was three months this man had to remain in poverty prior to seeing any of his money.

The man said, ‘That every time you spoke to somebody on the phone, you felt like they were waiting for you to die before they did anything’.

‘You felt because the doctors wouldn’t set a time limit on it, which they simply don’t these days, that the DWP are just waiting to see what the outcome is’ and, when the man mentioned that to a person at PIPs he said, ‘Oh, no no, even if you die, the payment will be made’. And saying something like that doesn’t help because the person feels deceived.

The man’s consultant had said to go out and, for him to enjoy himself, but how do you enjoy yourself when you’re not getting what you’re entitled to?

The man was given an apology for the way that his case was handled and, he received some recompense about £150, but Macmillan believes that there are hundreds of terminally ill patients who are being affected and, this additional obstruction in benefits is coming up time and time again, because the system had been altered , but it was still the case that those who were priority, or anyone that was identified with a terminal illness this ‘special rule’ claim, that they should really have their money dealt with extremely swiftly, just to make their life as trouble-free as possible.

The idea of a ‘fast track’ process for terminally ill patients who are in need of the money urgently, because they clearly don’t have as long as the rest of us to live is still there, but the reality that the process has gone from 8 to 10 days to 8 to 10 weeks in fact is shocking and, we see from this man’s story, the anguish that causes.

The structure of the way things work was only altered in April, but are these teething problems going to settle down, are we going to see any indication that things are working better now? Sadly not and, Macmillan are talking to the DWP and, they’re working with them to obtain a resolution to make the process work more swiftly, but the level of alterations, like removing the old methods that used to be very straightforward to fill in and, posted through and, replacing them with lengthy phone calls, these things add to the hinderance and, plainly Macmillan don’t comprehend why the department wants to have a process that sadly takes so long.

The DWP was asked if they would do an interview and, they refused, but they said that Macmillan’s data wasn’t reliable on how many cases there are and, that Macmillan are not comparing ‘like with like’, there are differing benefits and different claim procedures.

Yet the idea is precisely the same, the predecessor benefit Disability Living Allowance had a ‘fast track’ process. The replacement benefit Personal Independence Payment has a ‘fast track’ process as well, so in that case the idea that has been talked about would be identical.

So, could it be believable that Ministers sat down and took the choice that terminally ill patients would have to wait 2 months for a benefit that they qualify to and, there’s plainly a bureaucratic mess up somewhere in the system and, one that they don’t have a grip on and, are not getting a grip on because there clearly is no commitment on what the timescale should be and, if it’s more complicated and, it takes a little more than 8 to 10 days, then perhaps that’s all right, but not when it’s 8 to 10 weeks.

Start Booking Your Ambulance In Advance!

Has anybody had to call for an ambulance recently, well if they have, the waiting time for an ambulance is now up to a four hour waiting period and, by the time you’ve had to wait you could have passed away.

I was in extremely identical circumstance a few weeks ago when I was at my sister’s house paying her a visit and, I became unwell. I suffer badly with Crohn’s disease and, I was fine when I left my residence, which is ten minutes down the street, but when I got to my sisters I began to feel extremely unwell and, was after some time crying out in agony.

My sister called for an ambulance and was informed that an ambulance would be there, but it wouldn’t be with the two’s and blues, which I didn’t expect, but I did expect them to turn up inside the hour.

An hour went passed, and someone telephoned and talked to my sister and, said that the ambulance was about a mile away from us, so not to panic. One more hour later I was still waiting.

In-between waiting, my sister had managed to get my nephew to go to my home and, get some of my medication, which I had taken, but because I had begun to loose blood an ambulance was called in the first place.

Two and a half hours following the first phone call for an ambulance, someone called to say that they were sorry, but they wasn’t sure when the ambulance would get to me. By this time, the pain had abated enough so that I could manage to get home and, even though the bleeding had not stopped, it had let up a little, sufficient that I could make it home and, get into bed with a hot water bottle, take some additional medication and rest.

I was still unwell the next day and, I was still in pain, even though the bleeding had stopped; I should’ve been seen in A&E to have blood tests done to see if I had an infection that had sourced my flare up.

I’m very distressed at the time it takes for the ambulance service to get to people who are clearly in a lot of pain and suffering, especially the elderly, young children and the disabled, but more to the point a human being in general.

It appears to be the criteria these days that it in fact doesn’t matter how much suffering another human being is in, it appears to be immaterial, or more to the point, the communication expertise of the individual on the other end of the telephone, who is reading off a sheet of paper with suggestions, telling them if you in fact require an ambulance or not and, if those guidelines state that you don’t, then essentially you can get lost and die.

If they want to make short the life that one lives, then why have an ambulance service in the first place, particularly if they can’t get there in time. There should be no suggestions on who gets an ambulance and who doesn’t, if you’re unwell then you are sick. As the patient, you have no idea what’s wrong with you, it might not be dangerous, but unless you’re seen by a professional, how are we supposed to know, not unless of course, we have a crystal ball stuck permanently up our rectum and, in that case, it unquestionably would be dangerous and, need an ambulance.

To be honest, our healthcare system has become the most shameful profession. Once upon a time you could talk about the medical profession with pride, but now it’s grown into an industry with a large amount of difficulties.

I call it an industry because that’s what it has grown into and, what a predicament it’s in as it delights itself with not helping the recuperation of people that are sick, but with the intentional demise of human beings.

For it’s far less costly to see human beings die, than to pay out more funds than is required for the living and, if you believe that the health care system is there for the living, then maybe it’s my skepticism that should be in question and not yours.

When I read of a Grandmother that died in pain after waiting four hours for an ambulance to turn up, it definitely puts uncertainty in our health service and, that someone should be seriously examining what’s really going on, rather than skimming above the surface of things and, making as if that we know what’s going on.

What somebody or someone does will at all times have repercussions, in this instance, this poor Grandmother died, which means that while this poor woman waited and, suffered while waiting for an ambulance, the person on the other end of the phone failed to look after her while she waited.

Bearing in mind when reading this article that you can skim over it as you desire, but remember this, at some time this could be your Grandmother, Son, or Daughter waiting for an ambulance in agony and, if you don’t want a more superior health service, then please feel free to skim over this article, but remember, one day this could be you!

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