Stafford hospital's future

Sadly for the patients and relatives, Labour seem to have gone into hiding? and answers to a range of questions are slow to be answered, but  Labour's flagship  “Staffordshire NHS Trust “is in a mess and in the next step in this sad story it could face administration.

CANNOCK’S MP Mr Burley. has blamed ‘financial incompetence’ and ‘clinical failings’ and said

“Today, people across Staffordshire will be astonished that an NHS Trust, which was considered so outstanding by the last Labour government that they awarded them the highly prized ‘Foundation Trust’ status in 2008, will now been abolished after just five years due to financial incompetence and clinical failings,”

http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Cannock-MP-responds-to-Stafford-Hospital-announcement-28022013.htm

If this was Labour's flagship trust .just 5 years ago, will Labour come out of the wood work and tell us all how it could happen?

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/02/28/stafford-hospital-s-future-in-doubt-after-watchdog-special-a

We in Sandwell have seen similar before

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/may/28/schools-academies-oftsed-failed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347213/Labours-24m-showpiece-school-closes-2-years.html#ixzz1B89nxVcP

Sandwell Tory said

is the NHS safe in Labour's hands?

Its rumoured there's over a dozen more hospitals under the spot light  

 

Tipton Horses

This story gets worse, a few years ago Sandwell Council in their wisdom decided to remove a number of horses from the Tipton area which traditionally had grazed on council land.

Back in November 2011 the BBC even ran a story that the Tipton horses could be sold at auction if not reclaimed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-15596742

the problem was Seized horses could be retrieved by owners but only at a cost of £2,000 a very large sum.

Horse owners put on horse drawn processions appeared on TV and Radio asking Labour to reconsider.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-15212175

Even the local Conservative councillor appeared on TV asking for the Labour run council to reconsider and relent on their plans,

                Labour did not listen, and the horses disappeared.

Now following revelations from the National farmers union it seems Tipton Horses may have gone for food

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/farmers-warning-flygrazing-horses-smuggled-1728525

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/02/27/fears-on-stray-horses-in-tipton-being-used-for-food/

A Sandwell Council representative said

 "They allow them to breed like there's no tomorrow and, yes, the foals disappear."

no sweat Einstein 

Well Sandwell Council, the people need answers?

How many Tipton Horses impounded by the council went to the abattoirs for food ?

Did any Labour Councillor or Labour MP's  know these horses may go for food ?

Is it possible the people of Tipton have eaten their own horses?

Sandwell Tory said

if this turns out to be verified as true its an absolutely disgraceful

If councillors knew they should resign 

if they didn't know they should resign, for not knowing

 

I bet not one councillor will go 

 

Its a Labour to Park

Our local Councils just don’t understand a thing called the free will, to a Socialist its an unknown

quantity, We know what’s best and you will have parking charges and enjoy them is their battle cry.

even some Conservative councils have a problem and struggle with with the concept of free will and business.

The front page of our local paper highlighted how disconnected from reality our councils have become

Parking fees plea on Merry hill site

was the heading

Our Councils  blame Merry Hill's free parking for the demise of their high streets and want Merry Hill to introduce parking charges to save the high streets.

Call that passing the buck ??

WELL COUNCIL LEADERS ITS CALLED BUSINESS AND YOU MESSED UP BIG STILE

Your parking charges helped destroy your High Streets not the Merry Hill centre

These council jokers, thought parking charges would be a cash cow for their milking so they could continue their wasteful spending, they limited town parking spaces causing you to drive around 10 minutes for a parking place, then introduced draconian fines if your 10 minutes late to the car after being stuck in a queue at the tills.

Then Councillors wonder in amazement when people left the towns on mass to shop at the 

Out of town Centres.

While their towns wither and die. They then sit at big posh meetings rooms eating lush food 
blaming others for the demise of their very own towns.  
Its this,  its that and the old favourite, 
Get a consultant in. 

SMELL THE COFFEE ITS YOUR PARKING CHARGES   

Blogger said

Lets get this right

Merry Hill Business  Plan.      Free Parking results in business Success 
Council's Business Plan.          Charge for parking results in desolation & empty shops.

If these budding Einsteins  honestly think the the Merry Hill and other Out of Town Shopping Centre owners will introduce parking charges so their shops will close following these council lemmings High Street Disaster, They simply should not be in office

The Labour Government ignored MP requests for Mid Staffs public inquiry

 

So from press reports Labour ignored 81 requests for a public inquiry into Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, including 20 from fellow MP's.

 Link to Telegraph

Meanwhile it now seems Managers and staff involved in the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal could face prosecution

Link

But a further question still lingers on

“why are more than a hundred police officers still poring over the evidence from the News of the World and The Sun on the phone hacking inquiry. 

Forget-hacking-hacks-lets-jail-some-callous-Mid-Staffs-NHS-staff 

Blogger said

The people want an inquiry into Hospitals lets wait for our MP's support 

Rules on Council propaganda to be tightened

 

 

 

 

 

Councils can and do produce good information booklets helping local people to gain access to services but the Government has said

The use of taxpayers' money for political campaigning is simply not acceptable,

We are looking at putting the Publicity Code on a statutory basis to address this corrosive abuse of taxpayers' money. 

 Parliament. hansard Link

 

Read more

Rules-on-council-taxpayer-funded-propaganda-to-be-tightened. LINK

Blogger said

any comment deemed political could well end up in court

Sandwell Sharing

Some two years ago Sandwell Conservatives advised the Council to share services and save a fortune, this was met with boos and hisses

Now the Government has come to the aid of our Councils with the "New Challenge Award"

Share the Chief exec

Share the legal team

Share the planning team 

basically Share top bosses 

Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea, who are set to save £40 million by 2015-16

Blogger said

Sandwell share your Top management staff,  leave your workers alone, save a fortune and also get extra Government money

Lets wait and see Labour squeal with excuses on why it cant do it 

 

The Gordon Brown repeal bill petition

So that's it then? The long awaited Labour speech on finance is out and Labour supports

The Gordon Brown repeal bill petition which has been running on our blog for weeks.

Ed less wants to re-introduce the 10p Tax rate, that his old mate Gordon Brown removed  

( remember when Labour shafted the working classes ) and pay for it by using a mansion tax.

You must read this
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2727/hypocrisy_lies_and_spin_miliband_and_the_10p_tax_rate

 

Ed I'm so impressed you read our humble blog, but how many times have you spent the money from a mansion tax? Once, twice or cant you remember?

The people of the UK deserve to know if you are spending the same money twice, because the last time that happened, Labour took our country to the brink of bankruptcy

.

Ed if you do read this blog can you let us know

have Labour found a magic money tree ?

Or

Just going to borrow it like the last time?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/labour-plans-mansion-tax-fund-10p-tax-rate-110407224.html#wKvNDF2

blogger said

Perhaps Labour should keep to talking about meat pies, while we get on with fixing Labour Mess

If you wish, vote here

http://greatgordonbrownrepealbill.com/

But we are increasing your tax allowance to £10,000  any way 

 

Labour's Beef?

I agree the meat scandal is abhorrent and a disgrace, but while Labour seem to be preoccupied with meat pies, its time to reflect on a bigger story of what has gone on.

There is a European thing called CAP the (Common Agricultural Policy) this dictates what countries do with their farms, food and trade and is funded with a Tax on member states,

http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/faq/index_en.htm#2

Because the UK is not farmed like Europe we had some of this tax back called (Maggie’s rebate) after Maggie Thatcher argued for it, this was like the UK getting a Tax rebate valued at £4bn a year becoming £7bn by 2013.

but along came dear Tony and dear Tony had a plan, Give Maggie's tax rebate away on the promise of CAP reforms and he did, so we now pay £4-5Billion a year more to Europe.

Thanks to Labour we now pay Europe £Billions more, Just when our country needs every penny,  but guess what? the reforms to CAP never happened, so some say Dear Tony gave away the rebate for absolutely NOTHING 

read this from Hansard

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm121031/debtext/121031-0003.htm

What happened, in that disgraceful decision in 2005 when Labour gave away the rebate,

If there is an inflationary increase, as the Government propose, we will be looking at a net contribution going from £9.2 billion last year to £13.6 billion at the end of the process. We simply cannot afford that.

Another interesting point is that CAP gives our UK money to EU food producers and talks about food safety 

http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/faq/index_en.htm#2

under the heading “Food quality and safety”

Is our food safe?

The EU has improved food safety significantly since the food scares of the 1990s, by introducing hygiene measures, rules on animal and plant health and checks on pesticide residues and additives in food, to give only a few examples.

How does the EU guarantee food quality?

Food quality is guaranteed through labelling, marketing and quality rules, such as the protection of geographical indications, obligatory nutritional information on labels, quality logos and animal welfare standards.

Apart from hygiene rules which guarantee safe products, the EU has developed:

• marketing standards that products sold in the EU must meet
• optional quality terms to indicate the quality of the product on the label
• European quality systems identifying products with a specific quality
  • 'Protected Designation of Origin’ (PDO) or ‘Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) for quality linked to geographical origin
  • Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG).
• a special EU logo for organic products meeting strict requirements
• Guidelines to optimise the performance of food quality certification systems guaranteeing compliance with certain product characteristics or processes.

Sandwell Tory said

Now while this horse in the food chain seems to be the work of Criminal activity, good old Labour ramble on about pie fillings from the EU, sadly I think Labour have totally missed the point 

Labour gave away our CAP rebate,
The EU's Food Quality systems inside CAP policies do not seem to be working well 

So we now pay even more money for the Horses in the food the EU allegedly sends us.

Do you think Labour's decision from years ago has come back to bite us?

and remember

Labour wont give you a Vote on Europe 

sub note, when the Police catch them, I feel the courts should throw away the keys to the cell,  a fine is simply not good enough  

  

Sandwell Hospital Parking Shock

So Sandwell and City hospitals want to raise the Tax ( parking ) charges on the sick folk and their visitors by up to 20%

A Disgraceful TAX on the sick

This comes just weeks after Sandwell Council also announced massive parking charge rises on a number of council car parks 

We have 

A Police station with no staff car park

A College with parking problems 

A hospital with big parking charges

Towns with big parking charges and empty shops

What is it with parking in Sandwell ?   

 

UCAS figures Expose Labour scaremongering

Labour introduced UNI fee's we made them fairer, then Labour claimed the reforms would put off 1000's from higher Education

Figures released show that Labour have been scaremongering. The application rate for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds has actually increased to 19.5% the highest ever

http://order-order.com/2013/01/30/ucas-figures-expose-labour-scaremongering/

http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/71069/conservatives_record_ucas_applications_defy_labour%E2%80%99s_scaremongering_willetts.html

No Comment?

Labour, the party that blames the Coalition for bad weather now seems to be in stunned silence about Stafford hospital.

Why have Labour not had petitions or marches or twitter comments on this issue?

Blogger said

I for one would welcome a criminal investigation into what went on and who knew what and when.

I still despise the Liverpool care plan.

Francis Report on Stafford Hospital between 2005 and 2009

Having read some online information, on what was going on in that hospital

I am totally lost for words

David Cameron responds to the FrancisReport (Link).

now I hear a number of other Hospitals are to be investigated

West Bromwich town Development

I see that employment estimates have been released concerning the £200 million development in the West Bromwich town centre.

Wait for it ….............................................120 jobs, ring fenced to Sandwell residents

We've

Waited over 12 year for the development

seen high street shops close

The old Bus station move

Gala baths close

The Public built

Yet Labour's new development, plans to bring in 120 local jobs?

When Labour were in the press telling people how wonderful it would be for jobs

Did they tell you the the rest of the 750 jobs could be from people out of borough? 

 

See E&S Link

See SMBC Link

Sandwell Tory said

Well Done Sandwell that's £1.6M spent per Sandwell Job