How to make sure you are re-elected
- 5 August 2013 15:13239795we can't accuse him of neglecting his constituents.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384771/Treasury-minister-Danny-Alexander-accused-funneling-millions-shore-votes-Highlands-backyard.html - 5 August 2013 15:31239796Why else would you want to go into politics, if not to better the lot of your constituents? I really don't see why this is news.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 5 August 2013 16:25239802the first case i have seen of an m.p. doing something good for his constituency and his career simultaneously so definitely big news i would say.
- Keith Sansum1
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6 August 2013 20:10239909just watch him join the tories when lib dems get slaughtered in 2015ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 6 August 2013 20:21239913he is one of them already irrespective of how the country votes in 2015, been on the cards for a long time.
his constituents won't mind what party he is in if he continues to deliver fpr them. - Keith Sansum1
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6 August 2013 20:24239915some would say they voted for a left wing lib dem party
at the next general election the lib dems will be slaughtered
as you say alexander could easily fit in to the right wing tory partyALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 8 August 2013 08:45240109Something for the next election that would help...
"In the last week there have been more media stories about yet more apparent incompetence in NHS healthcare, including on the 111 service for acute and short-term directive contact (Report, 30 July). What we are witnessing is the loss of a healthcare culture of personally invested connections and understandings. This has happened through attempts to emulate industrial manufacture and commercial trade. Before 20 years ago there was much good practice that was free of the current errors. For example, I was part of a GP out-of-hours rota which - together with our telephonists - provided a much more skilled, competent and personable service with little administrative clutter or expense.
Likewise, when I worked as a psychiatrist I was able to offer personal continuity of care over many years with the commensurate containing, and healing effects: this was humanly rich yet financially economical. These lost patterns of healthcare extended beyond sensitive and sensible care for patients, they were - indirectly though substantially - sources of human nourishment and enlivenment for healthcarers too: the doctors I know may now be paid more, but they have less personal work satisfaction.
In complex human welfare, if employees do not really like their work they are unlikely to ever do it well, whatever the strictures and structures. A commercially or industrially modelled system becomes humanly disconnected, then harmful and economically wasteful. The evidence for the failure of this approach is now ineluctable: it is a doomed project. We need to largely dismantle these well-intended but corrupting devices: autarkic and competing trusts; commercial subcontracting; payment by results; hegemonic goals and targets, algorithms, care pathways and statistics-before-sense. We need to understand and reclaim the underlying motivational and vocational psychology of our work: why and how should we care for one another? Our complex human bonds may then be better honoured.
Dr David Zigmond (GP)
London"
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/07/doctors-more-sense-statisticsIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 8 August 2013 09:28240116i wouldn't like to play scrabble against dr zigmond.
- 8 August 2013 10:49240157Howard, that is so funny, and so true.
A 'partial' glossary...
- ineluctable:
"not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable"
- autarkic:
"AUTARCHY: absolute sovereignty"
- hegemonic :
"HEGEMONY: preponderant influence or authority over others"
- algorithm:
"a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation; broadly : a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end especially by a computer "
All definitions from...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Brian Dixon
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8 August 2013 15:28240186hogmany,
a drunken night out with a haggis and a lump of coal for company - 8 August 2013 16:11240193Theresa May accused of covering up parts of border controls report
"The home secretary, Theresa May, has been accused of a cover-up after she used legal powers to keep parts of a critical inspection of UK border controls secret.
Fifteen sections of the report into controls between France and the UK have been redacted - including part of a passage revealing that staff and managers fear resources in Calais are stretched - for national security reasons.
But politicians and campaigners have accused May of hiding "her own failings" exposed in the report by John Vine, chief inspector of borders and immigration.
In unredacted sections of the report, Vine warns that thousands of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the UK through France have not been fingerprinted by border officials for nearly four years..."
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/08/theresa-may-border-controls-reportIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 8 August 2013 17:37240205yet another cover up from the home secretary, not finger printing illegals is an open invitation for them to make another attempt at entering the country.
- Jan Higgins
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8 August 2013 18:12240206I doubt that taking finger prints would deter the illegals, all it would do is tell the officials the illegals had tried to enter previously......of course that is assuming they are ever caught.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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