Spiderplantland

Thoughts and posterings from The Shire

Spiderplantland - Thoughts and posterings from The Shire

Proof that the Conservatives plans for the NHS will hit the vulnerable hardest

Yup, you heard me right. Proof. Proof that this Conservative government has started to implement a plan for the NHS that is dangerous to vulnerable people and runs the risk of leaving many of them behind.  This isn’t a post of hyperbole or hysteria. Its cold hard facts straight from the pages of the Governments very own Healthcare reform Bill. The one so lauded and trumpeted by Andrew Lansley and David Cameron. the very same bill which we, as Liberal Democrats have, until now, backed and pushed through parliament.

The LibDem Peer’s debate in the House of Lords is all the more important and it’s why I am calling on LibDem MP’s in the commons to reject the bill in its current form. You can read Continue reading

The great Tory referendum hypocrisy

I cant help but be struck by what appears to be blatant hypocrisy on the part of David Cameron and his Conservative party on the matter of a referendum over Scotland remaining in the UK.

Only a few months ago, Cameron and others whipped their MP’s into an utter frenzy over the prospect of an EU referendum which was well and truly smacked down in the Commons. Now I am no fan of the EU in many ways but I am not convinced that coming out of it altogether is in the best interests of the UK, but if the public overwhelmingly Continue reading