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New Tory, New Spin, Youth Wing clipped..

Posted under Adur | on Aug 11 2008

Cllr Arculus might think of adding ‘spinning’ to scuba diving and stained glass amongst her impressive list of hobbies and interests. On Monday August 11, at Quayside Youth Centre, with a neat flick of the hooves, she jumped clear over the pig’s ear that West Sussex County Council is making of the ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity of the South Coast Academies. 

The Butchers of Grozny are back, appeasement stalks the Caucasus

Posted under European | International | National | on Aug 10 2008

Renewing Trident angered some, and worried more.What’s the purpose of our nuclear arsenal?. Some of us have long warned of the other major threat outside of internationl terrorism and its state sponsors: Russia. Lenin and Stalin’s regimes destroyed the rule of law in the Soviet Union, their collapse gave way to a gangster state, a kleptocracy with fabulous resources, a devastated environment, a brutalised and brutalising army. Now the accidents of geology have handed unlimited wealth and power to the inheritors of the infamous KGB who, in a grotesque inversion of the rise by merit, have floated like scum to the top. The Russian Federation, Europe’s principal source for cyber criminals, pornographers, and human traffickers, perpetuating a foreign policy that started with ice-picks and continues with polonium-210, is bent on conjuring its dead empire, reducing millions who’ve scarcely tasted their precarious freedom to a new serfdom.

a million pounds of misspent public funds, smoking over the wasteland

Posted under Adur | Council Watch | Fishersgate | on Jun 27 2008

Though the story of the great Fishersgate fiasco is still to be told, the outlines and the themes are already visible. Over-arching everything, within Adur District Council, was the glaring lack of an appropriate structure for administering the project, the absence of a framework of standards relevant to major community regeneration, the lack of oversight, lack of scrutiny, the lack of accountability. Apart from that everything was hunky dory. 

Mendacious and misleading - sounds familiar

Posted under NHS | on Jun 14 2008

It’s hard to know why doctors’ ‘leaders’ (BMA) are lying and scaremongering to torpedo the new Health Centres that are being funded for every Primary Care Trust. In their Alice in Wonderland world, extra capacity means that “some patients will have further to travel to see a doctor, that they will lose the personalised care they get at the moment, and that the crucial role the GP’s surgery plays in the local community will be lost.” (Dr Kailash Chand of the BMA) In Dr Chands mendacious and misleading letter to the Guardian, plump with ifs and probablies, he earns the further epithet ‘disgraceful’ for his Goebels-worthy ‘Polyclinics, otherwise called health centres’ (they are not) extrapolated to polyclinics being forced on us throughout the nation with dire, civilization ending job losses and damage. This is pumping up hyperbole to dangerous pressures. As for hyperventilating about the new Health Centres being run by ‘commercial companies that are accountable primarily to their shareholders rather than patients’, a good many GPs are already self-employed (ie a commercial business) ..... “The profit of GPs varies according to the services they provide for their patients and the way they choose to provide these services. Most GPs would expect to earn between £80,000 and £120,000” (NHS Careers).

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  • ‘Parking’ Parkin clamps your style. -

    The appropriately labelled Neil Parkin (Nil-by-Car), fulminates against the ‘parkin’ anarchy’ that has reduced our little town to motoring mob rule and rolling gridlock