Keep your grubby little hands off our NHS Cameron

so this morning any of you who tune in to the today programme on bbc radio 4 this morning will have hard our prime minister David Camron running our NHS down calling it a second rate service and calling for big reforms. Well maybe it is to you Mr Camron but seriously this is a insult to the great people of this country who rely on the NHS's great service.

The staff especailly which make the organisation will not be happy to hear these words from him. These reforms planned by the tories which incidentilly were never in their manefesto in fact they stated the opposite that the NHS was to be ringfenced would appear now that was all hot air as is the case with alot of the things that come out of a tory MP's mouth these days.

I am worried now the tories have their hands on the steering wheel our NHS is at great threat. You can never trust the tories with th NHS. With the news last week of the Post office being voted by the commons to be sold off to the private sector these words today from the prime minister worry me greatly.

It will be a very sad day if we see the NHS privatised and i really hope we do not. Labour and whoever has a say and can vote this down must do. If the tories plan cuts and mass scale reforms to the NHS we all know where they are leading with this, eventual selling off of our greatest public sector organisation this country has ever and will ever see in my opinion.

I do hope people wont take this one lying down as this will be a big fight if the tories do push ahead with their plans.

There has already been mumerings from within the NHS about how dangerous this will be and what a risk to patients this will be, but do the tories care ? no is the answer they only care about their money not about peoples lives.

An expensive start to 2011- VAT bombshell, Broken promises continue

Well that is how it seems this morning. Whilst reading this article from the New statesman http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/01/raise-vat-tax-tories

It seems they are both at fault here. Highlighting the fact that both the tories and the lib dems campaigned in the last election on the back of the fact they would not be putting up VAT at all if they got elected.

In fact David Cameron made it one of his persoanl pledges to not bring VAT up. He described the tax as a regressive tax and unfair on the poor.

Fast forward 6 months 4th of January 2010 and guess waht a 2.5% rise in VAT to a staggering 20% on all things VAT taxed. Absolutely disgusting. How are they getting away with it i ask you ?

It is a horrible slap in the face to the poor and business's who are already facing tough times from the year before. Some may have only just made it through the last year by the skin of their teeth. Now are being forced to absorb a VAT increase.

On top of all this the thieving train companies which people rely on day in day out to get across our great country to and from work have decided due to lack of investment to put up their prices by a average of 7% on top of what wwere already ridiculously expensive prices.

How are the train regulators allowing them to get away with this nasty rise taking the VAT increase into consideration too train travel will simply become unaffordable to many this year i feel. But are our government stepping in to help people out ? no they are not they are making things worse for them at the worst possible time.

I read a article over the weekend that suggests people should start protesting to train operators who charge ridiculous prices for their service yet offer a terrible often late or canceled service. If train companies since going private want to charge more i feel people have a right to expect a much better service for that extra price.

The extra rise in the VAt rise will bring in a estimated 13 billion pounds to the government is it really worth that when we could be taxing the bankers far more and closing tax loop holes which is estimated it could bring in nearer 120 billion pounds. More than enough to cover the debt and allow the people in this country who did not cause this mess a chance to breathe and try and get by a lot easier.

All these attacks just seem to be coming more and more on the common working people its about time it ended and the tables were reversed.

Kettling a disgraceful way to treat protesters

Today is the second wave of student protests all over the United Kingdom against tuitian fees rising to 9 thousand pounds a year. AStudents from all over the country have walked out on mass today not just against university fee increases that Nick clegg seems to now regret promising to protect against but also the removal of the EMA which helps a lot of less well off students and families afford school equipment.

But a number of students protesting today in the capital in London have been kettled, a police tactic they use in a event of a riot where the crowds are penned in. This is going to create tension and if there isnt violence before this might just trigger any off.

Lets hope there are no repeats of the violence seen on the 10th of november but if any does break out police heavy handed tactics and leaving police vans as decoys to set students up should be highlighted.

I have already read of students being beaten heavily with trunchens and being kidney prodded and all sorts of unsavory actions. The police should not provoke trouble they should just respect the peaceful protest and not rial already angry students up.

How the lib dems planned to drop principles long before the election

this news has broke over the last day or so : http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/12/lib-dems-tuition-fees-clegg?CMP=twt_gu

it describes how the liberal democrats were preparing to drop their pledge to defend the rise in tuitian fees. The article describes that in any event o a hung parliament the party lead by Nick Clegg would be happy to drop their tuitian fees pledge as one of their first things to bargain with.

This to me strikes as a big let down and a betral of their voters. THe lib dems won a lot of votes on the student vote and to sell them out like this is just not on.

I feel all the anger directed at them right now is fair and just. If they planned to drop that pledge long before the election why did they not be honest and tell their voters ? spineless i'm sorry the whole party.

No they are firmly in bed with the tories, a party i dont think now they are too disimilar from. In the past these two parties have been very close in the past and i wouldnt mind betting they will merge one day.

But the coalition talk about this "neww politics" and being honest and regaining trust i just think this latest announcement flies in the face of all of that and makes them look like the lieing fools they are.

my take on the students protests in london today

As we all have been watching and hearing on our tv's and radio's there have been big protests today organised by national union of students. Police estimate there was 50,000 people out on the streets today.

The protest which was there to campaign against the unfair trebling of tuitian fees to as much as 9 thousand pounds.

the protest turned ugly later in the day with several hundred storming tory party HQ on Millbank. As you all may gatehr i'm far from a fan of the conservative party and really dont like what they stand for. But on this ocasion i cannot condone violence. By all means protest and make your point heard but i think this will have marred the true reason as to why the students were protesting today. People have said there were socialists out there causing trouble. I dont believe there were i heard no rallying call for people to go up there and join teh protest. I can only assume these people who got into the tory hq and on to the roof were students with a radical agenda. Not that i condone violence but i really can understand their frustration and someway anger at these rises in fees.

I'm left leaning myself, a little bit more than some in the labour party maybe but i dont believe socailists to be aggresive or violent. This lot of people today were there to cause trouble and i dont think it was right. Reports of a few injuries today during the protests but i do hope the media focus's on the positive message being sent out today that students will not just lay down for these rise's and that the working and lower class will fight back if it needs to.

This was as much a message to the lib dems who broke their promises from before the general election of voting against tuitian fee rises. That is where the anger stems from. Nick Clegg and his awful party of liars who have joined the conservatives to give them the chance to put through these awful cuts which i still dont feel are entirely nessesary.

So to sum up i dont agree violence is always the answer but as someone pointed out on twitter peaceful protests never make teh news while these sorts of ones do, maybe not for the right reasons but it does send a message to this government that we will fight back if need be.