It's a pretty grim outlook mate. I hope for your sake you get what you're after, it's good to hear your lady is feeling better, albeit one step at a time bro. I have a few sound files mate, my hypno-therapist that I paid through the nose for sent me them when I was struggling mentally. One for confidence, one for relaxation (maybe two), one for insomnia, and one for muscle relaxation.. You can have them if you want for your Mrs, it's always the same sort of **** they dish out at these meetings, they chat to you for a bit then just bombard you with CBT techniques. If you want them, PM me and I'll fire you them across.
She got all that stuff in her first stint of therapy thank you kindly fella, they've been very helpful, especially for understanding her illness and how it works. But that was group therapy and she was quickly deemed unsuitable for it. That was at the Newcastle Trust where she got lucky to get a place. She's had nowt but GP Guidance(finally found a good one and he's been outstanding) from the Darlington Trust. They've got no money mate, the Memorial Hospital is the papers regularly in regards to lack of hygine, elderly left on trolleys in corridors, botched care plans. They even closed over 50% of the wards in the mental health hospital. But yeah, a high speed trainline that only serves the rich people of the south to get them into London half an hour quicker is much more important than giving us mere mortal working class northerners some basic health care. Tory Britain never fails to make me ashamed to be British.
If you ever fancy them pal, just ask. My gran's £1m estate was devoured in 4 years by the government for her healthcare mate, she worked up until age 75 looking after folk with cancer and disabilities, then she got alzheimer's and had to go into care soon after. She's been sent a letter saying she's allowed to keep the last £28,000 of her estate to pay for funeral costs and so on. That high speed train line is a joke, the government knows it will increase property prices in the bigger cities linked to London by the trains, next thing you know, half of Manchester will be owned by Chinese investors who never set foot in the house, just like London, full of empty houses with little to no council tax being paid on any of the empty houses.
That's shocking. Robbed of everything she's worked for. That's the Tories though. She's served her purpose and paid in, how dare she then get ill and require to take something out? God I hate Tories me. Saying that, Labour would have taxed her property to death so doesn't sound like there would have been any government who would have helped her there. That's sad to hear fella, sorry about her plight Politicians
Kick in the teeth for her mate, she doesn't have a clue that she's being robbed of her money which is at least something, she's got a fake tenner the size of an A4 piece of paper by her bed that she gives to people when they come round to see her. She worked as a volunteer helping others, unpaid for years, funnily enough.
It's just a label mate, I believe people learn from their elders and take lessons from people around them. As long as I do right by my family and my friends, I'll never be ashamed. Have a great weekend mate
Cheers fella. Unbelievable. The Conservatives are considering options for scrapping several benefits, the BBC has learned. Leaked documents from the Department for Work and Pensions also suggest a regional benefits cap, taxing disability benefits and reducing eligibility for the carers' allowance. The proposals are aimed at helping to save £12bn from the welfare budget by 2017/18. The Conservatives insisted the proposals were not party policy. "This is ill informed and inaccurate speculation," a spokeswoman for Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said. "Officials spend a lot of time generating proposals - many not commissioned by politicians. "It's wrong and misleading to suggest that any of this is part of our plan." The leaked documents were prepared by civil servants and commissioned by Conservative Party officials. "True colours" Rachel Reeves MP, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, said: "If they are ruling out these extreme cuts for the most disabled and carers, then it is clear they will be hitting the tax credits, and support for children, for millions of working families. "Labour has a better plan to control the costs of social security, by tackling the root causes of spending in low pay and rising housing costs. "We will raise the National Minimum Wage to £8 an hour, promote a living wage, and get at least 200,000 homes built a year." Liberal Democrat General Election Campaign Spokesperson Lord Scriven said: "The election campaign has barely kicked off and already the Tories are showing their true colours. "Conservative plans for £12bn worth of welfare cuts means £1,500 cut for 8m households. "To build a stronger economy and a fairer society, the welfare system should be designed to help people get on in life. "But, surprise, surprise the Tories are hell-bent on punishing disabled people and working families with crippling welfare cuts." Benefit cap Welfare reform has been a controversial, but often popular, policy pursued by the coalition over the past five years and the Conservatives intend to pursue more changes should they win in May's general election. Chancellor George Osborne refused to give details of how the Conservatives planned to save the £12bn when questioned last week following the Budget. He has previously said the Tories would freeze the rate at which benefits are paid to people of working age, while Prime Minister David Cameron has discussed lowering the benefits cap - the maximum amount in benefits a household can receive - from the current £26,000 to £23,000. The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests those measures would save no more than about £2bn a year by 2017-18. An investigation by BBC News has uncovered several of the benefits under consideration for change: Industrial Injuries Compensation Scheme - could be replaced by companies providing industrial injury insurance policy for employees. Any that did not would become members of a default national industrial injuries scheme, similar to the programme for asbestos sufferers. DWP predicted saving - £1bn Carer's Allowance - this could be restricted to those eligible for Universal Credit. Leaked documents suggest about 40% of claimants would lose out.DWP predicted saving - £1bn The contributory element of Employment and Support Allowance and Job Seekers Allowance - currently claimants who have paid enough National Insurance contributions can get the benefits with little means testing; DWP analysis suggests 30% of claimants, over 300,000 families, would lose about £80 per week. DWP predicted saving - £1.3bn in 2018/19 Disability benefits - Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payments and Attendance Allowance (for over 65s who have personal care needs) would no longer be paid tax free. Possible saving - £1.5bn per annum(based on IFS Green Budget calculation ) Council Tax Support - to be incorporated into Universal Credit. Possible saving - not known Child Benefit - Limiting the benefit to the first two children. Possible saving IFS estimates £1bn saving per annum in the long run but little initially Regional Benefit Caps - The £23,000 limit would vary in different parts of the country, with for instance Londoners receiving the top amount due to the higher cost of living. Possible saving - not known and dependent on where levels were set Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said he is in favour of a regional benefits cap, but the idea has been opposed by some Labour MPs. Meetings about these options have taken place in recent weeks between the chancellor and Mr Duncan Smith. 'Easier cuts' It is also understood that the permanent secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, has been coordinating some of the efforts to find savings. The government has cut around £20bn from projected welfare spending over the course of the past five years, through a range of measures from freezing payments rates to cutting housing benefit. But Robert Joyce, a senior economist with the IFS, says finding another £12bn over the next two years will not be easy. "The easier benefit cuts are the ones that will have been done first, so what's left will be harder. "In addition, the Conservatives want to do this by 2017-18, in the next two years. It means they have to be looking at less palatable options that would involve overnight takeaways from certain families." Rosanna Trudgian, policy officer at the charity Mencap, said the proposed changes were unfair. "Disabled people don't choose to have their disability. They don't choose to pay for these additional costs related to that disability," she told BBC News. "For example, if you have to go to hospital on a regular basis and you are paying for those huge car parking fees. Therefore, it's just unfair if this is treated as taxable income."
Stan Collymore is one of Twitter’s more vocal and outspoken users, never shy to engage in debate on whatever subject is on the table. After last night’s political debate ahead of the UK general election, QPR midfielder Karl Henry tweeted his thoughts, coming down on the side of the Conservative Party. Henry dismissed Labour’s policies as unfair on those who work hard for a living, and was swayed by the right’s case after the debate. Despite the fact he’s new to Twitter and has just 20,000 followers, Stan Collymore somehow caught wind of his Tweets, and chimed in with his disagreement. It soon descended into a slanging match, with Henry calling Collymore a ‘wife-beating scumbag’, alluding to Collymore’s troubled past. This provoked Rio Ferdinand to get involved, who sounded quite excited and seemed to vouch for his teammate’s name-calling, exclaming, ‘Karl Henry went in hard!’ Collymore wasn’t impressed with Rio’s intervention nor his uninvited joining of the party, and said he’s looking forward to seeing the pair the next time he’s down at QPR. Oh, to be a fly on the wall that day. http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/beef-stan-collymore-meeting-rio-ferdinand-qpr-twitter-row/
I'd love them to all swing at once and knock each other out cold. I've seen two way knockouts, never a three way knockout.
I hate Karl Henry but he's on the money there innit, why does Collymore think he's entitled to shirk his past? He needs to realise that he got away very lightly with what he did, if that was nowadays, he'd have had mobs of social media driving him out of existence. I'd love to see Collymore turn up at QPR acting the big man and end up picking his teeth up off the floor.
