Even her
Well, it sounds like that to me, unless her ladyship was saying that the poorer people with less of a life expectancy should get better treatment than the rich.
In either case it’s wrong minded.
Under the scheme that the real Labour Party set up in the late 40s, a fantastic achievement (against all the odds and that includes the Tories, who, heaven knows, are ODD personified), we were all supposed to get the same treatment.
So much for everyone being equal.
What on earth would Aneurin Bevan think of what Labour has descended to?
And their boss in England, yet another aristocrat, is refusing to overturn the Tory policy of benefits for two kids only.
(I wonder, incidentally, if that applies to the likes of Peggy and the Clothes Horse? After insisting that we should only have two children, they, being superior to us, went ahead and had three. Three, who will have to be provided with security, housing, clothes, education, transport, etc, etc… at our expense).
Funnily, neither SIR Starmer, nor Dame Baillie look half starved.
At least one MSP is standing up for kids.
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I read that MPs get an allowance of £3,550 a year for up to three children this allowance is for food. Maybe it was a windup but I would not be surprised.
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I think it’s extra housing allowance rather than for food but yes they get extra funding for each of up to three kids. No 2 child cap for them!
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Quite amazing…
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Tom Johnston M.P. Secretary of State for Scotland during the War set up the N.H.S. in Scotland, and this successful scheme was rolled out in 1947 by Aneurin Bevan for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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I knew it was started in Scotland and then rolled out to England, Wales and the north of Ireland.
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Not just in Scotland. The Welsh mining communities had a similar scheme which was incorporated by the NHS. London refused to appoint some of the administrators of the Welsh scheme to the Welsh NHS as being far too radical for London’s taste.
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London seems always to have worried that Communism was just around the corner.
All this looking after people.
Funny how it’s all ended up.
Fascism’s just around the corner…
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The more the truth is told the more enormous the propaganda must have been to keep the people in the dark.
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They spare no expense for that.
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The same Tom Johnson, thought of as Father of the Hydro Board.
Lots of the people involved but he was the figurehead as SoSScotland.
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Amazing man.
Imagine if the Labour Party had people like him now.
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The main policy was that a connection to the grid was the same cost where ever you lived in Scotland.
The older private stations came under the 2 public service providers, SSEB and Hydro and worked together on generation and distribution.
New generation was started, we still make use of this infrastructure.
A huge change in policies between then and now, the energy market is totally rigged and the possible benefits of oil and gas squandered.
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It’s a mess now.
I’ve always thought that things which are pretty much an absolute necessity for life, should be government owned.
Electricity, Gas and Water.
And it they want to privatise these things, then there must be a fall back state enterprise that people can go with.
I think too that there should be a state bank. You HAVE to be able to bank now and whilst there used to be a Post Office account you could get no matter what… now there isn’t.
I couldn’t care less about Farage, but ordinary people must be able to bank,
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Agree with you that there should be a bank account accessible to all. In the rush for everything to be online the old and the disabled and others who cannot manage online services have been left behind. All the Tax Offices were shut and those with learning difficulties as just one example have no-one face to face to guide them through today’s complexities. Old codgers unlike me who are frightened by the new technologies are also left behind. A central hub for all services in each main library in towns including a basic bank account could be an answer. We did have that once called the Post Office then Girobank until that got hived off by the Tories Government in the late 1980s and privatised.
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The government is so far removed for the people it serves, I guess it has never occurred to any of them that there are people who don’t have computers… and even if they did, wouldn’t be able to use them.
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