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That the health care bill that has now gone through parliament and passed to the lords, will end the national health service as we know it.
once this bill has passed through the lords and become law the secretary of state will no longer have a duty to provide health care for all in this country any longer.
surely this will create a much more fragmented health care system with the only winners being the wealthy, whilst the sick and disabled and the low paid will suffer because they can not afford health care.
Is this the real future of health care in this country, a shift to an Americanised health care system where if you can not afford it you and left to suffer.
is this what the public voted for in the last general election and did Mr Cameron not promise to protect ...

Originally Posted by Expounder

This culture of anti social arrogance and violence has been prevalent since the 60s the rot set in when the first the first offspring of the 50s migrants started school. It started with small gangs in state schools intent on preventing the teaching of students, disrupting classes making it difficult for teachers to do their job. The sheer scale of this was a new phenomenon and no one knew how to handle this. I can vouch for this as my son was one of the victims of this mindless activity which was also the reason for the deterioration of education in state schools. during the 60s which went slowly downhill since.

From this, the local gang culture was born, and over the years all hues of governments and parties back peddled and bent over backward to placate and excuse this

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Originally Posted by Expounder

Clegg and co had a choice, they may argue that the Labour brand was tired and tainted and that they had to make the other choice on the basis of the pre election promises made by Cameron to the electorate. In the mix, was the attraction of the power and the glory of ministerial posts in government. The glint in Vince Cables eyes during the negotiations of trying to form a coalition government as they went from one meeting to another told me they couldn't believe their luck at the outcome of the election result.

Lets suppose we accept the Lib Dem argument about the choice they made. After over a year in office they can see that that all of the promises made by Cameron to the electorate have been broken.They were stiched up on the AV referendum by Cameron and the Tory and Murdoch

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We cannot, as a people, make serious progress without aggregating and galvanizing the
power and efforts of the apparently powerless for social development, economic growth
and political advancement. Development must be of the people, by the people, and for the
people. It must grow from the base to the apex. To have a workable medium-term
strategic policy for development, we must know ourselves and we must understand the
world and the environment we live in. We have land and people. But our land is grossly
under- utilized and badly exploited, thereby leading our environment to great waste and
degradation. Our people are generally uneducated, unskilled and grossly under-employed,
under-utilized, under-fulfilled and consequently poorly remunerated ...

Fresh water supplies are going to run out, so what can do to make the taps keep running?

How we manage the rest of this precious resource will dictate the planet's future.

This may seem like a surprising statement, but the world's supply of fresh water is finite. As global population rises, the demand for food – and the water that produces it – grows inexorably. Globally, farming accounts for 70 per cent of our withdrawals from this fixed "bank account", this in the face of ever-greater domestic and industrial usage.


Water tables are falling in many parts of the world. Himalayan glaciers will shrink massively in the next century, reducing natural water storage in the mountains. The shortfalls will have to come from groundwater ...