As always, when funds are short, the most vulnerable in society pay. Our local council has cut funding for disabled children in the past 5 years drastically. Ofsted is currently inspecting their SEND provision. They won't enjoy my comments. I have a friend who has already had her PIP removed, with devastating consequences. As a benefit, it is nigh on impossible to obtain, folk don't realise how hideous the process is. And once you've waded through all 20 pages of the form you go for an assessment with some snot nosed "medical professional" (a paramedic in my case) who knows nothing whatsoever about your condition, who then lies in her report.....I went to Tribunal, and won the first time, couldn't face it the 2nd time. You're made to feel like a criminal for applying. It's not welfare, it's punishment.
Yes! It's actually a rather tedious and petty process. It's not what these ghouls claim it to be. Besides that, it's chicken feed compared to other apparently less dynamic countries.
Off topic: I'm hearing Khan may have lost London. How hilarious would that be?
Rubbing my hands in glee at the thought....spare a thought for us poor sods in Yorkshire - we now have a Labour mayor. I would have voted, had any of the paperwork I received from North Yorkshire Council told me a) when the election was b) when postal votes had to be posted by. As you can tell, publicity of this momentous occasion has been non existent. Fuming.
Tbh I think that comes across in your writing. Me? 100% cynic. Definitely. Didn't start out that way, 53 years on this planet and the stuff I've seen, experienced.....hard to be anything else. Working class roots. Apparently I'm now middle class, but I don't think I am. I'm too right wing for a start 🤣
Mr. Gage, could these folks have vaccine injuries? We have that same issue here in the states. Of course we have spent so much money and lost so many business and allowed so much cheap labor in we might have different issues.
I do hope these folks get better, but we are due for another round of bird flu that cows and humans are going to get.
Of course that will force us to spend more money and close down more businesses and import more cheap labor.
I don't know about vaccine injuries, but I'd say the vast majority of anxious and depressed claimants took a beating during the pandemic. I know many such people whom the pandemic (or rather, the insane reaction to the pandemic) broke into pieces. It's scant consolation, but I'm glad I never played along and always said exactly how insane I knew those measures to be.
Yes, I think the jabs have a lot to answer for, and our government is studiously ignoring the issue, having pushed them so hard. We just lost another friend, dead at 52, suddenly. Another is in a specialist unit for stroke patients - all the other patients are aged between 20 and 30. They are dying, not recovering. His wife has decided, no more jabs.
I hope so. So many friends of our age took them, some are still taking them. They are deaf, dumb and blind. Until its too late. Glad I resisted and resisted for my kids, best decision I ever made.
Yes, I believe it was. I personally believe that it was planned. The left is a religion masquerading as a political ideology. Much like their allies in Islam, it is a death cult.
Thanks for the explanation of “taking a piss”. When we were heading to the UK once, a friend stocked us up with a few bits of Cockney slang, but not that one. We never did get to use Joe Baxi or apples and pears. And our Aussie friends have their own obsfucation lingo. Yiddish also has a similar joy in sideways talk. Schmearing the Schmutz with the schmatta. And we have made up our own. Farfen-tubben, for example, referring to the hot tub (adapted from the Volkswagen fahrvergnugen commercials back in the day.)
Sounds like the Conservatives are taking lessons on how to be the Stupid Party from our Republicans.
As always, when funds are short, the most vulnerable in society pay. Our local council has cut funding for disabled children in the past 5 years drastically. Ofsted is currently inspecting their SEND provision. They won't enjoy my comments. I have a friend who has already had her PIP removed, with devastating consequences. As a benefit, it is nigh on impossible to obtain, folk don't realise how hideous the process is. And once you've waded through all 20 pages of the form you go for an assessment with some snot nosed "medical professional" (a paramedic in my case) who knows nothing whatsoever about your condition, who then lies in her report.....I went to Tribunal, and won the first time, couldn't face it the 2nd time. You're made to feel like a criminal for applying. It's not welfare, it's punishment.
Yes! It's actually a rather tedious and petty process. It's not what these ghouls claim it to be. Besides that, it's chicken feed compared to other apparently less dynamic countries.
Off topic: I'm hearing Khan may have lost London. How hilarious would that be?
Rubbing my hands in glee at the thought....spare a thought for us poor sods in Yorkshire - we now have a Labour mayor. I would have voted, had any of the paperwork I received from North Yorkshire Council told me a) when the election was b) when postal votes had to be posted by. As you can tell, publicity of this momentous occasion has been non existent. Fuming.
The First!
But... I bring good news. 1) Turnout figures suggest Khan might have lost. 2) Sky projects a hung parliament.
Hung parliament. PR voting system. Resurrect the Liberal Party. Boris PM for life. Reclaim America. Colonise the moon. Oh, and smoke in bars.
Such boundless optimism! You'll go far.....🤣
People think I'm a cynic. I'm really a broken idealist.
Tbh I think that comes across in your writing. Me? 100% cynic. Definitely. Didn't start out that way, 53 years on this planet and the stuff I've seen, experienced.....hard to be anything else. Working class roots. Apparently I'm now middle class, but I don't think I am. I'm too right wing for a start 🤣
Mr. Gage, could these folks have vaccine injuries? We have that same issue here in the states. Of course we have spent so much money and lost so many business and allowed so much cheap labor in we might have different issues.
I do hope these folks get better, but we are due for another round of bird flu that cows and humans are going to get.
Of course that will force us to spend more money and close down more businesses and import more cheap labor.
I don't know about vaccine injuries, but I'd say the vast majority of anxious and depressed claimants took a beating during the pandemic. I know many such people whom the pandemic (or rather, the insane reaction to the pandemic) broke into pieces. It's scant consolation, but I'm glad I never played along and always said exactly how insane I knew those measures to be.
Many of us did. Many well known people did too. Sadly, we weren't listen to.
It's always the same. Not to blow my own trumpet, but most people are cowards.
Agreed. There are so many examples one could write a column on it.
Yes, I think the jabs have a lot to answer for, and our government is studiously ignoring the issue, having pushed them so hard. We just lost another friend, dead at 52, suddenly. Another is in a specialist unit for stroke patients - all the other patients are aged between 20 and 30. They are dying, not recovering. His wife has decided, no more jabs.
I am so sorry for your loss. I believe the truth on the vaccine will eventually see the light of day.
It is already happening. The law suits are in the works.
I hope so. So many friends of our age took them, some are still taking them. They are deaf, dumb and blind. Until its too late. Glad I resisted and resisted for my kids, best decision I ever made.
Yes, I believe it was. I personally believe that it was planned. The left is a religion masquerading as a political ideology. Much like their allies in Islam, it is a death cult.
Thanks for the explanation of “taking a piss”. When we were heading to the UK once, a friend stocked us up with a few bits of Cockney slang, but not that one. We never did get to use Joe Baxi or apples and pears. And our Aussie friends have their own obsfucation lingo. Yiddish also has a similar joy in sideways talk. Schmearing the Schmutz with the schmatta. And we have made up our own. Farfen-tubben, for example, referring to the hot tub (adapted from the Volkswagen fahrvergnugen commercials back in the day.)
I love Yiddish. I've noted 'Schmendrik' for future use.
And I thought I could be bleak! Powerful writing, Sir.
Ha! I long for the days when this crisis era is over, and I can write Thurberian whimsies about fountain pens and cats. Cheers, mate.
Yes, I too long for a time when Thuberian whimsy is feasible!
One day... right now, you'd appear mental.
"...only to install Rishi Sunak, a man with the social nous of a dive bar handjob." That's the Gage I know and love!
I almost bleached that one, Boychuk. You taught me well.