KHOODEELAAR! TOLD Cameron so!! Now Cameron's 'return' 'Blitz' to Debts-role-playerr Crossrail-funder Brown MUST specify Crossrail as crass example of Brown's folly..... [458]
1255 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 31 December 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! No to ‘Crossrail hole scam’, No to ‘Big Business touting by Govt at the expense of ordinary people’, No to ‘CRASS role by Boris Johnson abusing the post he holds in the name of the people of London’ ……
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD David Cameron SO!
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD David Cameron to declare HIS position on the wasteful, irrelevant, obsolete, over-hyped, over-sold, over runner CRASSLY conceived Crossrail……..
We have also extensively shown the utter stupidity of Cameron's transport fronter Chris Grayling [before Grayling was found to be too useless and moved to show his additional stupidity as the alleged shadow on ‘Work and Pensions’] KHOODEELAAR! Did tell Cameron so over the past more than a year….
In de facto comments and in the direct comments and in the published comments…..
It has taken Cameron over a year now to begin to understand [or to show ANY understanding of] some of the concepts and words and their economic, social, democracy-linked implications that the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign had been focussing on and drawing to the attention of all who claimed [or claim] to belong to the school of responsible, ethical representation in the UK……According to today’s London DAILY MAIL [Wednesday 31 December 2008], Cameron has begun to understand at least SOME of the fallacies, errors, flaws that we have pointed out in the Gordon Brown-fronted Blaired regime in the UK…….
KHOODEELAAR! Will be examining these in the course of this week…… and beyond….. We shall also update the link between the analytical statement we had originated and published about the Crossrail hole scam, Big Business agenda-flaunting Ken Livingstone as the ‘corrupter of London’ and the ‘cosy’ acceptance [NAY! Even the appropriation!!!!] by Boris Johnson of the worst ‘legacies’ that Livingstone had left behind in May 2008….. [To be continued]
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! For 5 years now, and on a daily and more frequent basis, KHOODEELAAR! has been arguing against the POVERTY
0720 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 31 December 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! For 5 years now, and on a daily and more frequent basis, KHOODEELAAR! has been pointing out and arguing against the POVERTY-creating policies of the UK Govt......
Now, even the likes of Max 'Hitler' Hastings are 'sort of' catching up.... up... that the UK GOVT is letting people down... ordinary people down... The brazen demeanor of some of the Ministers when they boast and brag of creating debts and poverty while they fund Big business scams like Crossrail, is to be seen to be believed.....[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! For 5 years now, and on a daily and more frequent basis, KHOODEELAAR! has been pointing out and arguing against the POVERTY-creating policies of the UK Govt......
Now, even the likes of Max 'Hitler' Hastings are 'sort of' catching up.... up... that the UK GOVT is letting people down... ordinary people down... The brazen demeanor of some of the Ministers when they boast and brag of creating debts and poverty while they fund Big business scams like Crossrail, is to be seen to be believed.....[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! Updating the evidential references on the poverty-creating policies of the Crossrail scam-funding 'regime' [455.b]
0650 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 31 December 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! told you so! That CROSSRAIL was a strange ‘priority’.
In that it was being funded by taking public resources AWAY from priority areas...
That the Brown-fronted Blairing regime that was doing it was engaged in CREATING poverty overall.…..
That the Govt. was acting in a crass way.. Its crass role has again been highlighted today...This brings to focus the KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of the behaviour of every Crossrail agenda backer having been vindicated during 2008..
As it had been in the years 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.......
With today's disclosures [Wednesday 31 December 2008] about the Scrooge-like treatment of poor pensioners on the UK, we again draw attention to the core demand of our campaign against the poverty-creating CROSSRAIL scam: drop Crossrail and use the money instead to combating the poverty of the Brown-fronted Blair Government's policies.…
[To be continued]
"
Alan Johnson MP, Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle
voted strongly for the policy
Crossrail - In favour
by scoring 100.0% compared to the votes below
Summary Full description Policy comparisons
House Date Subject Agreement with policy above
Commons 19 Jul 2005 Crossrail Bill agree
Commons 19 Jul 2005 Crossrail Bill [Instruction] agree
"
KHOODEELAAR! told you so! That CROSSRAIL was a strange ‘priority’.
In that it was being funded by taking public resources AWAY from priority areas...
That the Brown-fronted Blairing regime that was doing it was engaged in CREATING poverty overall.…..
That the Govt. was acting in a crass way.. Its crass role has again been highlighted today...This brings to focus the KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of the behaviour of every Crossrail agenda backer having been vindicated during 2008..
As it had been in the years 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.......
With today's disclosures [Wednesday 31 December 2008] about the Scrooge-like treatment of poor pensioners on the UK, we again draw attention to the core demand of our campaign against the poverty-creating CROSSRAIL scam: drop Crossrail and use the money instead to combating the poverty of the Brown-fronted Blair Government's policies.…
[To be continued]
"
Alan Johnson MP, Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle
voted strongly for the policy
Crossrail - In favour
by scoring 100.0% compared to the votes below
Summary Full description Policy comparisons
House Date Subject Agreement with policy above
Commons 19 Jul 2005 Crossrail Bill agree
Commons 19 Jul 2005 Crossrail Bill [Instruction] agree
"
KHOODEELAAR! Updating the evidential references on the poverty-creating policies of the Crossrail scam-funding 'regime' [455]
Quoting from the website of the Daily Mail, London at 0625 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 31 December 2008:
This 75p insult: 'Pay rise' for thousands of poor pensioners in care homes leaves them worse off than convicts
By STEVE DOUGHTY
Last updated at 12:22 AM on 31st December 2008
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'An insult': Alan Johnson has announced elderly people in care homes will receive an increase of just 75p a week from April
Tens of thousands of elderly people in care homes are to be given a spending money increase of just 75p a week.
They will have no more than £21.90 a week to pay for everything from clothes to toothpaste, books and phone calls.
The below-inflation rise was condemned as 'Scrooge-worthy' and 'an insult'. It means vulnerable elderly people will have less spending money than prisoners in jail. The spending limit applies to all care home residents whose bills are being paid by the state.
Any income they receive - normally a state or private pension - must be handed over to help fund their care. The spending allowance is the only part of their own money they can keep.
At present it is £21.15 a week but Health Secretary Alan Johnson has announced an increase to £21.90 from April. That is a rise of 3.5 per cent - with inflation running at 4.1 per cent on the Government's favoured Consumer Prices Index.
The decision provoked outrage among MPs and charities. Age Concern said the increase was 'barely enough to buy a packet of biscuits' and complained that a string of Government promises to review the system have been broken.
By contrast, prisoners can spend £33 a week of their own money on products available in jail, which include food, cigarettes and toiletries.
Age Concern director Gordon Lishman attacked the Health Department for slipping the news out during the Christmas-New Year holiday.
He said: 'This Scrooge-worthy increase is barely enough to buy a packet of biscuits. It is an insult to the vulnerable care home residents who rely on it.
'It is humiliating for them to have to go with a begging bowl to family or friends just to buy essentials. Ministers should be ashamed of themselves.'
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£7.5m reason why pensions crisis isn't troubling ministers
Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow said: 'This derisory increase is symbolic of the Government's attitude towards elderly people and care homes.
'The Government promised a consultation on this. They told me in January they would do it during the year. But they have chosen not to.
'They are happy to trumpet a one-off £60 bonus to the state pension, but they haven't said anything about the decision to keep the care home allowance low.
'There is no doubt that to remain a decent society we need to pay far more so that older people can have some dignity.'
The row is the latest twist to the deepening crisis over the care of frail and sick older people, highlighted by the Daily Mail's Dignity for the Elderly campaign.
A squeeze on spending is cutting back state help for three-quarters of a million people who need either help at home or a place in residential care. A means test system forces more than 70,000 people each year to sell their homes to pay care bills - while the state covers the fees for those who have never saved or worked to buy a house.
Care home residents who have more than £22,250 in assets must pay their own bills, which in England are rarely less than £450 a week and can reach more than £800.
When their reserves dip below £22,250 the state takes over their bills, but they have to surrender their pensions and remaining savings - that is where they run into the limit on how much of their own money they can spend.
Around a quarter of a million care home residents are limited to the allowance - just over £3 a day - to pay for all items that are not part of the state-funded care package.
That covers toothpaste, chiropody, toiletries, phone calls, books and magazines, hobbies and transport, shoes and clothing and presents for family and friends.
Ministers have given three undertakings in the past 18 months to organise a consultation process of the allowance.
Outside analysts say it should be at least £40 a week.
'It's my 75p pension rise from the PM - he says "Don't spend it all in the one shop!"'
The Department of Health said last night that the long-promised review of allowances for care home residents would happen next year.
A spokesman said: 'The Department of Health will increase the personal expenses allowance in line with changes to all other state benefits.
'In addition, in 2009, the department will issue a consultation document which will consult on a range of issues related to the charging for residential care.
'This commitment to consult has been made earlier this year, to a range of organisations.'
The row over care home allowances comes in advance of a Green Paper on the workings of the adult social care system, which was promised by Gordon Brown for next year.
The current means test system has been widely criticised for penalising those in care homes who have worked and saved and denying any state help at all to another 300,000 middle-class people who would benefit from assistance with washing, dressing, cooking and coping in their own homes.
A Health Department consultation on paying for a revamped care system ended last month.
One suggestion from ministers was an 'ageing tax' in which every worker would have to pay an extra tax to cover care in their old age.
Sceptics among charities and pressure groups believe the Green Paper may be delayed beyond the next General Election because the Government cannot afford either to levy a new tax or find the billions that would be needed to pay for refor
This 75p insult: 'Pay rise' for thousands of poor pensioners in care homes leaves them worse off than convicts
By STEVE DOUGHTY
Last updated at 12:22 AM on 31st December 2008
Comments (0)
Add to My Stories
'An insult': Alan Johnson has announced elderly people in care homes will receive an increase of just 75p a week from April
Tens of thousands of elderly people in care homes are to be given a spending money increase of just 75p a week.
They will have no more than £21.90 a week to pay for everything from clothes to toothpaste, books and phone calls.
The below-inflation rise was condemned as 'Scrooge-worthy' and 'an insult'. It means vulnerable elderly people will have less spending money than prisoners in jail. The spending limit applies to all care home residents whose bills are being paid by the state.
Any income they receive - normally a state or private pension - must be handed over to help fund their care. The spending allowance is the only part of their own money they can keep.
At present it is £21.15 a week but Health Secretary Alan Johnson has announced an increase to £21.90 from April. That is a rise of 3.5 per cent - with inflation running at 4.1 per cent on the Government's favoured Consumer Prices Index.
The decision provoked outrage among MPs and charities. Age Concern said the increase was 'barely enough to buy a packet of biscuits' and complained that a string of Government promises to review the system have been broken.
By contrast, prisoners can spend £33 a week of their own money on products available in jail, which include food, cigarettes and toiletries.
Age Concern director Gordon Lishman attacked the Health Department for slipping the news out during the Christmas-New Year holiday.
He said: 'This Scrooge-worthy increase is barely enough to buy a packet of biscuits. It is an insult to the vulnerable care home residents who rely on it.
'It is humiliating for them to have to go with a begging bowl to family or friends just to buy essentials. Ministers should be ashamed of themselves.'
More...
£7.5m reason why pensions crisis isn't troubling ministers
Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow said: 'This derisory increase is symbolic of the Government's attitude towards elderly people and care homes.
'The Government promised a consultation on this. They told me in January they would do it during the year. But they have chosen not to.
'They are happy to trumpet a one-off £60 bonus to the state pension, but they haven't said anything about the decision to keep the care home allowance low.
'There is no doubt that to remain a decent society we need to pay far more so that older people can have some dignity.'
The row is the latest twist to the deepening crisis over the care of frail and sick older people, highlighted by the Daily Mail's Dignity for the Elderly campaign.
A squeeze on spending is cutting back state help for three-quarters of a million people who need either help at home or a place in residential care. A means test system forces more than 70,000 people each year to sell their homes to pay care bills - while the state covers the fees for those who have never saved or worked to buy a house.
Care home residents who have more than £22,250 in assets must pay their own bills, which in England are rarely less than £450 a week and can reach more than £800.
When their reserves dip below £22,250 the state takes over their bills, but they have to surrender their pensions and remaining savings - that is where they run into the limit on how much of their own money they can spend.
Around a quarter of a million care home residents are limited to the allowance - just over £3 a day - to pay for all items that are not part of the state-funded care package.
That covers toothpaste, chiropody, toiletries, phone calls, books and magazines, hobbies and transport, shoes and clothing and presents for family and friends.
Ministers have given three undertakings in the past 18 months to organise a consultation process of the allowance.
Outside analysts say it should be at least £40 a week.
'It's my 75p pension rise from the PM - he says "Don't spend it all in the one shop!"'
The Department of Health said last night that the long-promised review of allowances for care home residents would happen next year.
A spokesman said: 'The Department of Health will increase the personal expenses allowance in line with changes to all other state benefits.
'In addition, in 2009, the department will issue a consultation document which will consult on a range of issues related to the charging for residential care.
'This commitment to consult has been made earlier this year, to a range of organisations.'
The row over care home allowances comes in advance of a Green Paper on the workings of the adult social care system, which was promised by Gordon Brown for next year.
The current means test system has been widely criticised for penalising those in care homes who have worked and saved and denying any state help at all to another 300,000 middle-class people who would benefit from assistance with washing, dressing, cooking and coping in their own homes.
A Health Department consultation on paying for a revamped care system ended last month.
One suggestion from ministers was an 'ageing tax' in which every worker would have to pay an extra tax to cover care in their old age.
Sceptics among charities and pressure groups believe the Green Paper may be delayed beyond the next General Election because the Government cannot afford either to levy a new tax or find the billions that would be needed to pay for refor