Cutbacks and more cutbacks.....

[cats hammers]

paying for pescriptions

You remember 1951?

 

[sihhi]

What suprises me a bit is that so many people seem disappointed by NL, What the fuck were they expecting? I prefer NL to Old Labour myself. Old Labour were the party of broken promises.NL of stealth taxes,not that good but better than the bullshit of Old Labour.

Targets are NL-update verison of promises.
It means NL can blame the " system as it is" / "there's not ehough money iun the pot" when targets are missed.

And NL continually misses its version of promises- targets.

For instance:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2564613.stm

After five and half years in power, Labour has made virtually no impact on poverty.

 

[cockneyrebel]

You remember 1951?

Charging for prescriptions started in the late 1980s.

 

[cats hammers]

Charging for prescriptions started in the late 1980s.

No it didn't. Legislation introduced to allow it in '49, decision confirmed in '51 and implemented in '52.

Within three years of its creation, the NHS, which had been conceived as free of direct charges for everyone, was forced to introduce some modest fees. Prescription charges of one shilling (5p), which had been legislated for as early as 1949 but had not been implemented, were introduced in 1952

http://www.nhs.uk/England/AboutTheNhs/History/1948To1957.cmsx

 

[treelover]

Belboid, do you have a link for that?

Btw, does anyone else remember the scandal of the individual learning accounts (ILA's) created by Brown where anyone could set themselves up as a trainer/training agency and tens of thousands of scammers did just that. Billions of pounds was lost on that one, but a weak and disorganised opposition did/could not make an issue of it. It seems to be erased for the history books/records.

you've obviously missed todays reports saying that Sure Start has almost ottally failed and actually made life worse for the most excluded children!

 

[sihhi]

Btw, does anyone else remember the scandal of the individual learning accounts (ILA's) created by Brown where anyone could set themselves up as a trainer/training agency and tens of thousands of scammers did just that. Billions of pounds was lost on that one, but a weak and disorganised opposition did/could not make an issue of it. It seems to be erased for the history books/records.

I remember it. Add it to another in the list of Capita's Cock-Ups.

http://www.computerweekly.com/Article113891.htm