BLOODY TORYS!!!

4 May 2012

I've just read about the changes to DLA that come in next year.  Disability Living Allowance (DLA) will be replaced by a Personal Independence Payment (PIP).  DLA was dependant on a person's disability, PIP will not take disability or illness into account.  On the government website http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Disabledpeople/DG_201317 it says, "There's no automatic entitlement to Personal Independence Payment. Entitlement is based on your personal circumstances and the impact that your condition or disability has on your ability to live independently. Entitlement will not depend on what health condition or disability you have."  The impact that this will have on all disabled people will be enormous.  No matter how the Tories wrapped this up it is still a cost cutting exercise.  It has always been a key Tory dogma that those who not have will have even less. 

When will the British electorate come to their senses and get rid of these awful people once and for all!  Although I haven't seen the full results yet an update on the News webpage seems to show that at least here in Dorktown has made a start and voted out a number of Tory councillors.  Time to look at doing the same with the Muppet Person in London!  

Things are still not settled at the Hussy Hospital.  Even though there is now just one option on the table the controlling body want a period of 'consultation' to take place.  Why?  Why does it need to be done?  Are they looking for a reason to do what they wanted in the first place and ignore local opinion and close the place anyway?  As one person said, "It's a farce!"

Did any of you watch that programme on Channel 4 last night, the one on the hoarder in Liverpool?  I've always said that you never know what goes on behind closed doors.  That man had lost his partner and he just fell apart.  It was that loss that casued him to become a hoarder.  Same as the lady with an arm she can't use.  No doubt she received compensation for the injury but did it take into consideration the way that her life has been changed by the car crash that caused it.  Yet again there was a clear incident that casued a change in her life. In here case it was crash that was the key to her starting to hoard. 

The London Marathon has changed their rules so that only those competitors who finish the course on the day get a medal for having done so.  That is a great shame seeing as there is a disabled woman who is still walking the course right now.  Methinks it's time to revisit the rules again!

There's a website called birdforum.net that we both use.  We went to Bird Fair one year and joined it properly while we were there.  At that time there was something like 2500 members; now there are over 112,000.  They claim to be the largest bird related site the web; it wouldn't surprise me at all.  Anyway, today's photo ... 

is of Jan and GreenGrass as she joined the group.

And today's funny ...       

    

A housewife takes a lover during the day, while her husband is at work. Unknown to her, her 9-year-old son was hiding in the closet.  Her husband came home unexpectedly, so she hid her lover in the closet. The boy now has company.
Boy: "Dark in here."
Man: "Yes it is."
Boy: "I have a baseball."
Man: "That's nice."
Boy: "Want to buy it?"
Man: "No, thanks."
Boy: "My dad's outside."
Man: "OK, how much?"
Boy: "$250."
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the mom's lover are in the closet together.  Boy: "Dark in here."
Man: "Yes, it is."
Boy: "I have a baseball glove."
Man: "How much?"
Boy: "$750."
Man: "Fine."
A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove.  Let's go outside and toss the baseball. "The boy says, "I can't. I sold them. "The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?" The son says, "$1, 000." The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that. That is much more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and make you confess. "
They go to church and the father alerts the priest, and makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door. The boy says, "Dark in here." The priest says, "Don't start that sh-- again"