It's dawning on people at last

[poledark]

Argyll, sorry to be so dense, but I fail to see how Labour have caused Opticians and Dentists to become rip off merchants. On the one hand we have people complaining about the "nanny state" and on the other hand we have people (like me) complaining that "we" are being overcharged.

 

I watched my local news last evening and heard a dentist say that "they cannot fit in any NHS patients"

 

In the next clip, she was charging up to £1000 a time for teeth whitening which took "only 40 mins"

 

But then I was a plumber, and so I should keep my head down

 

Den

Edited February 11, 2006 by poledark

[Peter]

Last May the Tories took control of Suffolk County Council from Labour, Due to the death of a County Councilor there was a By election last week. A labour town councilor who was trying for the County put out leaflets complaining about local waste disposal facilities and blaming the conservatives because he believes the site is too small. I thought he was trying it on as his group set the budget when they were in control and would also have set any capital spending budget for the current year. Fortunately the voters saw through him and he didn't get elected

[Brian Carragher]

For what its worth I have no time for T Blair and his bunch of accolytes. I never trusted him when he was a junior shadow minister and have met him on a number of times and to me hes just as oily in person as he is on screen. I am of the old Labour mould and proud to call myself a socialist and still believe in socialism although what is practiced by the current government is the rehashing and deliverence of policies of the old SDP

 

All that said I still vote Labour and will do so again as its my belief that the Labour Party as a whole is better than anything the tories or the Libdems have to offer

[Lid]

The problem is that party politics have no place in efficient government, whether local, national or global. The people who are actually clever enough and capable enough of running councils/countries/the world simply are not interested in doing so. Instead we make do with these bizarre systems of government that we all complain about, but do very little if anything to try and change.

 

If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem.

Edited February 11, 2006 by Lid

[chesters1]

your brand new hospital may not last long Den ,ours is now 3 years old (replaced a victorian one ) first thing they did on moving the 50 odd feet to the new one was sack a third of the staff ,last year a ward was relocated (closed) to frimley park ,this year another is following .

the nurses used to have loads of rooms to live in ,theve been closed for 10 years, the buildings boarded up and falling apart.

NOW they are selling the land to a builder BECAUSE theres not enough nurses etc to live there (a very clever excuse of their own making) .

My mrs used to get to see her physio at the agreed appointment time (or within 5 minutes which i agree IS rare) in the old hospital ,the next appointment in the new hospital she waited 3/4hr and has never been seen within a 1/2 hour of the appointment ,the reason not enough staff

its good to build new hospitals but employing enough staff to run them should be further up the list ,i wont go into the closing of 4 local mini hospitals they to are being transferred to frimley

i see the future when we have super hospitals ,the nearest in london (we cant have politico's dieing for want of bed space) and another couple further up the country , if you cant get there because your poor tough ,you might bring in a disease anyway

labour is very good at telling us what we need ,and theres plenty of backslapping when they tell us what were going to get (just count those "iniitatives" theve introduced) but unless their backed up its just frittering tax payers money on words and promisses NOT action

Edited February 11, 2006 by chesters1

[Jim Roper]

Argyll, sorry to be so dense, but I fail to see how Labour have caused Opticians and Dentists to become rip off merchants.

Aren't all the professions rip-off merchants?

 

Anybody working with their hands and remaining honest will always be at the bottom of the heap, no matter who is in power!

 

All the new rules and regulations, that this lot have brought in, just put money in the legal system for extra lawyers.

I can't make out why Mrs Bliar doesn'r stick to that instead of swanning off all over the place and moaning about how much she has to spend on clothes because of her husbands position.

Hyacinth Bucket springs to mind!

[corydoras]

ASBOs are not a bad idea.

 

But I will never vote Labour.

 

And I would only vote Tory if they put Hague back in charge.

 

But I'll be buggered if I joined the Lib Dems.

Does not really leave you much scope then!

[smudger]

I hope your eyes don't get any worse Den. Under labour soon, those rose tinted glasses will cost a fortune to replace

 

yeah and who started charging us for first of all...... the tories

[chesters1]

the prices of glasses are outrageous ,just what are designer glasses ,glasses have remained unaltered for over a hundred years! a pair of glass (probably plastic) magnifiers held in position by aframe supported by your nose and ears (different to a pinze nez (sp?) (pinch nose) in modern glasses every frame type possible has already been used so just what bit does this "designer" design ?? i suspect the graphic sporting its name nothing more and this bit of graphic costs four times the glasses without it .

hopefully the excuse is the wearers are too blind to see how their being ripped off but ofcourse it should come flooding in when they wear them

[David.W]

Here is the full run down from the Dunfermline Parliamentary By-Election.

 

UKIP Scotland 208

SNP 7261

Scottish Christioan Party 411

Abolish Forth Bridge tolls 374

Scottish Socialist Party 537

Scottish Lib Dems 12391

The Common Good 103

Scottish Conservative & Unionists 2702

Scottish Labour Party 10591

 

Electorate 71,017

Number of votes cast 34,613

Rejected papers 35

Majority 1800

Percentage poll 48.74%

 

The look on Catherine Stihler's (Labour) face when she realised that she was second was classic, In this area normally you coud have put up a donkey with a Labour rosette and it would have got in, I guess people are just fed up round here. The dockyard is getting run down, although 700 apprentices have been anounced over the next 3 years, some big companies are pulling out of the area or slimlining their work force.

 

The hospital board are trying to run down the big hospital although Dunfermline is spreading at a worrying rate.

 

For the two weeks before the election it was mad, there were so many MP's, MSP's and MEP"S in the High St that you could hardly move.

 

And most of them were saying the same thing, regardless of the party. Now we will just have to see if Willie sticks to what he promised...