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WE WISH ALL OUR READERS A VERY HAPPY AND SAFE NEW YEAR.

The New Year, 2012 Is Expected To Be Tough On All Hard Working Citizens.

• VAT increase at 20% to be permanent and will cost us £520 extra each year.
• Petrol now costs £1.39p per litre.
• Electricity increased by 14.9%.
• Gas increased by 15%.
• First class post to cost an extra 5p.
• Mortgages to cost an extra £200 per month.
• Rail fares increased by £1,200 per year.

Meanwhile Armed Forces and teacher’s pensions to be frozen.

79% of people believe they will be worse off than a year ago.

The other 21% say they can absorb any increases.

CAMERON, OSBORNE ET-AL CANNOT POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND THE FINANCIAL PAIN THAT WE SHALL SUFFER. THEY ARE FORTUNATE TO BE VERY WEALTHY IN THEIR OWN RIGHT.

David Cameron’s Failed Promises.

When in opposition and at the start of his Premiership, David Cameron made numerous promises.

Listed below are the promises that he made and has so far FAILED TO KEEP.

• MPs expenses clean up.
• House of Commons accounts to be “Signed off”.
• Reduction in the number of MPs.
• Fully elected House of Lords.
• Bonfire of quangos.
• No top-down NHS re-organisation.
• Better care for elderly NHS and care home patients.
• Care for vulnerable in society.
• Cancer drugs to be available for all sufferers.
• UK borders to be tightened.
• Stop non-EU citizens entering the UK for “Family reasons”.
• Curb on immigration.
• Deport criminal immigrants.
• Clamp down on Pakistani student numbers.
• To repeal the EU Human Rights legislation.
• Introduce a British Bill of Rights.
• Reclaim powers from Europe.
• Reduce the human rights of criminals.
• A referendum on Europe.
• To stop contributing to EU country bail-outs.
• Better housing for British Armed Forces.
• Wounded British troops to have military jobs for life.
• Improved welfare for wounded British troops.
• Top salaries for British troops.
• Clamp-down on benefit cheats.
• To reverse Labour’s “Soft-on-crime” policy.
• Re-negotiate extradition laws with the USA.
• Reopen Dr David Kelly’s death.
• Squatting to be a criminal offence.
• Clamp-down on “Big firm’s” sweetheart deals with the taxman.
• To stop multi-million pound bonuses for bailed-out bankers.

SO FAR CAMERON HAS FAILED TO KEEP ONE OF THESE PROMISES.

Articles updated 17 January 2012.

Another Cameron Broken Promise.

Cameron promised to cut down on “Government Red Tape”.

Now HMRC (The taxman) is clamping down on small firms with £3,000 fines for missing paperwork.

This at the same time sweetheart deals with big business continues.

Large firms such as Goldman Sachs and Vodafone have been let off £ Millions in tax.

Cameron is full of rhetoric but takes no action.

Britain’s biggest firms owe £25 BILLION in unpaid tax.

Cameron’s 3 Lies In 30 Minutes.

Cameron was caught out telling 3 lies in PM’s questions at the House of Commons.

LIE 1:

Cameron claimed there are more people in work since the last election.  TRUTH. There are 26,000 FEWER in employment.

LIE 2:

Cameron claimed that disabled children’s benefits would NOT be cut.  TRUTH. They wil be cut by £1,300 per year.

LIE 3.

Cameron claimed Dr Connor defended NHS reforms.  TRUTH. Dr Connor no longer holds position of commissioning group.

Cameron’s Nepotism In New Years Honour List.

Honours given in the New Year list are for achievements for the Nation and our citizens.

Cameron idea is that honours should be given to those who donate most money to the Conservative Party.

• James Lupton donated £105,000 to the Conservatives.
• James White, £175,000.
• Paul Ruddock, £570,000.
• Doug Ellis, £90,000.
• Gerald Ronson, a convicted share trader.

All received high honours.

Breast Implants To Cost NHS £150 Million.

The NHS will pick up the bill for faulty breast implant removals.

WHY?

Yes if for medical emergencies, but no for those carried out for cosmetic reasons.

St James Hospital Made 140 Blunders.

Christine Lofthouse was admitted to St James’s Hospital in Leeds having suffered a stroke.

Instead of prompt treatment Christine was left on a trolley for hours, not given antiobotics to treat an infection for one day and then was prescribed the wrong medicine.

Christine’s son identified 140 mistakes in her medical notes and charts.

No checks were carried out on Christne’s vital signs including blood pressure, pulse, temperature and breathing for 15 hours.

The consultant FAILED to see her on morning rounds.

The usual statement has been issued.  LESSONS WILL BE LEARNED.  Where have we heard that before.

90% Of Hospitals Fail To Check On Nurses’ English.

Over 90% of hospitals FAIL to check whether nurses from Europe can adequately speak, read and write English before letting them work on wards.

Time after time there are examples of patients who could not make foreign nurses understand their needs.

Lansley must correct this major problem.

Queen’s Hospital Midwife Sacked.

Terrai Mutasa, a midwife at Queen’s Hospital has been sacked for making sarcastic comments to a mother over her stillborn baby.

Queen’s Hospital Romford has a history of poor care.

• June 2007, doctors sent pregnant mother home with a “Stomach bug”.  The baby was delivered by the woman’s Grandmother.
• August 2007. Catherine Brown gives birth to premature baby with help from her Grandmother.  Baby later died.
• October 2008. Expectant mother spends night in car after seeing woman give birth on hospital floor.
• January 2009. Mother abandoned to give birth alone.
• December 2010.  Hospital judged to be one of England’s worst performing.
• January 2011. Mother dies from shortage of oxygen after staff FAIL to spot signs of a ruptured womb.
• January 2011. Baby dies of meningitis hours after doctor misdiagnoses it as a vomiting bug and sends her home.
• December 2011. Mother in agony and humiliated as son born in front of 15 strangers.

IS THIS PART OF LANSLEY’S REORGANISED CARING NHS?

Hospital Is Sued By 23 Families.

Alexandra Hospital in Reddich Worcestershire is being sued by 23 families of patients for neglect and poor care.

Foreign Patient Debt.

The amount of money that foreign patients owe the NHS now stands at £1.6 BILLION.

NHS Waste Continues.

The labour Government introduced the “Private Finance Initiative” PFI  for building new hospitals.

Under these deals the NHS was ripped-off to the tune of £ BILLIONS.

Examples of costs imposed by these PFI companies as part of “Services”.

• £13,704 to install three lights - North Staffordshire Trust.
• £8,450 to install a dishwasher - Hull Hospital Trust.
• £997 to build and fit a TV cabinet - Avon and Wiltshire Trust.
• £929 to install two electrical sockets - Hull Hospital Trust.
• £676 to erect four “Fire Assambly” notices - Avon and Wiltshire.
• £525 to move three beds -  Durham Trust.
• £466 to replace light fitting - Cumbria University Hospital Trust.
• £245 to make a door move outwards - Cumbria Trust.
• £242 to change a padlock - North Stafordshire Trust.
• £198 broken door handle - Brighton Hospital Trust.
• £184 to install a bell at reception - Cumbria Trust.
• £169 To open a locker - Brighton Hospital Trust.
• £120 to reset an alarm - Ipswich Hospital.
• £112 to erect a white board - Birmingham Health trust.
• £75 to install an air freshner Cumbria.

THIS IS A SMALL EXAMPLE OF THE KINDS OF WASTE THAT TAKES PLACE IN OUR HOSPITALS.

Immigration, The Official Report.

The Migration Advisory Committee has published its findings.

• MASS IMMIGRATION CAUSES UNEMPLOYMENT.
• PUSHES UP PRICES.
• FORCES UP COST IN HOUSING.
• PLACES A SEVERE DRAIN ON EDUCATION, TRANSPORT AND THE NHS.

Immigration has left 160,000 Britons jobless in the last 5 years, while at the same time 11,000 immigrants a year are sliping into the UK by the EU back door.

Last year alone there were 252,000 immigrants into Britain.

UK Loses 75% Of Human Rights Cases.

The UK lost over 75% of human rights cases taken to the unaccountable European Court of Human Rights.

Rapists, murderers and terrorists are given the right to a “Family Life” here in the UK and cannot be deported.

CAMERON PROMISED US A BRITISH BILL OF RIGHTS.  Where is it Mr Cameron.

Beware Loan Sharks.

Payday loan sharks are springing up in every city and town. Some are advertising on TV.

Here is a list compiled so far showing the extortionate rate of interest that these companies charge.

• WONGA.  4,214%
• POUNDS TO DAY. 5570%
• QUICKQUID.  2,222%
• CASHLADY.  1,737%
• PEACHY.  16,000%
• FERRATUM.  3,333%
• OAKHAM BONUS LOAN.  300%

Students and housewives are being targeted.

DON’T BE TEMPTED BY THESE PAYDAY LOAN COMPANIES.

Student loans are just 1,5%

Articles Updated 31 January 2012.