Within a week of Labour winning the election with the promise of privatising our public services, refuse collectors in their flagship city of Brighton are getting a taste of what Blair and co have in store sackings, attacks on working conditions and profiteering as services get poorer. It is a place of wonder and life. Caroline Lucas, Green MEP Star Wars is back but with a new twist. Back in 1983 under President Ronald Reagan we were told it was the Soviet Union, dubbed the evil empire , whom the world needed to be defended against. Problem is the Soviet Union is no more, so in order to justify spending billions of dollars the States needs to find a new bogeyman.
Rogue states come on down.
For the first time in history, they have cancelled one of their meetings because of the prospect of people power rising up against them. On the surface the Act sounds innocent enough, with its creation of Care Trusts , and gently-worded intention of Building on existing health or local authority powers to integrate care . But read between the lines and you witness the beginning of the end of free healthcare. The government is preaching modernisation of the health service. Democratic Health Network One of the last acts of the Government before setting off on its Bore the Nation election tour was to pass the Health and Social Care Bill.