Something positive about this government

daphne am finding your posts very strange indeed.Thought you may well live in another country as you know so little about all the house building here, and why on earth should I be bitter about what your grandchildren get financially?Your posts are very personal indeed which is a great irony as you accuse me of that very thing, are you an escapee from Mumsnet, they all sound a bit like that on there.
No Whitewave the houses are all different prices, from terraces to large detached, and in our village alone there are already over 700 built with more to come, which has doubled the size of our village.
I wish that the left wingers on here would at least listen to some even one other point of view now and again, read what * kitty* has just written for a start.

Kittylester, How does that work out? Genuinely interested.

ds has had his mobility allowance taken away but is, never the less, better off than he was on the old system.

I'm scratching my head here, re the OP.
Education - nope. Hell bent on academies and free schools with no proven benefit. They are doing no better than LA schools. Unnecessary upheaval of exams. Uni fees up. Funding for uni's right down - now expected to pay their way.
Health - nope,nope,nope. Just strikes.
Justice - nope prisoners up and prison funding just about to plummet
Science - nope
Environment - nope, they have gone backwards
Local government - rapidly being dismantled
Transport - well Crossrail is making good progress but that was started in the Blair years. HS2 - is anyone a fan other than Gideon? We just need rail, not HS rail, we are not a big spread out country like France.
The Economy - national debt steadily rising
size of national debt uk since 2010 - steadily increasing - just how many zeros is there in a trillion?
Because the deficit (difference between spending and tax take) is only reducing very slowly
Productivity embarrassingly bad
EU - got us into a potentially disastrous referendum (having fanned the flames of anti-immigrant feeling consistently)
Refugees - shameful lack of compassion and/or action.
Position of women in society - cuts affecting them disproportionally. But whoop de whoop - the final 5% of VAT on sanitary products is disappearing. What an achievement.

Wilma the social housing money? Really? Trouble is that they will allow right-to-buy tenants to buy at a heavily discounted rate - so the money that is obtained is not enough to buy land and build like for like, nowhere near enough.

Is DC still saying that? I bought it for about 6 months, about 6 years ago but that was it.

obieone your comment is not helpful. This is a political decision, otherwise why for example, will the threshold for paying the 40p tax rate rise for the next two years? Nobody expected that to happen and it's the biggest change since Margaret Thatcher's time. Aren't we all supposed to be in this together? We are one of the richest countries in the world and we should not be taking money away from the vulnerable, especially not to give it to the better off.

Nonnie the statistics released yesterday for claimants transferring from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) show 26% of claimants do not get an award of the new PIP. Up to the end of January 2016, 54,200 DLA to PIP claims were processed, so more than 14,000 people have lost their benefit so far. We don't know how many get a reduced award, but the number of claimants losing their Motability cars is running at over 100 per week and this is because their new awards of benefit are at a lower rate (or have been stopped altogether), so they no longer qualify for a Motability car.

This is separate to the changes being discussed in the media at the moment which will start to affect around 640,000 people with disabilities from next January (Government estimates).

Hope this helps.

I am pretty astounded that anyone would expect or think otherwise.

I am going to say my point again. When a country is trying to save money, it is not nice.

Can it be whitewave there are sod all achievements to list . To be fare I will list Cameron likes to hug a husky and feed an orphaned lamb

Can't find what isn't there, whitewave.

Well it has taken nearly a whole day and precious little has so far been posted relating to the Tory achievments.

Something positive?
Only 32,000 people have claimed universal credit last month. It was supposed to have been rolled out everywhere by now.

Well a young girl with MS was interviewed on BBC News this week, her transport was taken from her

Who are you talking about, Nonnie?
If it's me, I have never claimed to have been a head teacher.
Once again you deflect from the fact that you have been given information you asked for but can't be bothered to read, or even say thank you for.

Just what I expect. And I do not expect miracles.

Bloody hell!
Cameron is a patron of Motability! Among other disability charities.
Excuse my exclamations, and I never swear in real life.

dpac.uk.net/2016/03/operation-torydump-lobby-disability-charities-to-reject-esacut-mps-nameandshame/

A list of Tory MPs who voted for cuts to ESA and are patrons of disability charities.

I have said it before and will reiterate, I never respond to nasty people who are rude and who don't apologise when they are shown to be wrong. Such childish behaviour beggars belief from someone who claims to have been a head teacher!

It's how it goes dj no problem

Your thread appears to have been highjacked, whitewave.
Sorry but I'm angry.

Is it a good thing that the EU has now agreed to governments being able to set their own tampon tax?
Should the government have any brownie points for that?
I could in a convoluted way make a case for it, but I'm still angry that people can try and pretend that benefit cuts are not happening.

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/15/disability-cuts-cutbacks-destroy-independent-living-budget

Real people on here who have had disability benefits cut.
PEOPLE HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF HAVING THEIR BENEFITS CUT.

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/507166/government-response-aids-and-appliances-and-the-daily-living-component-of-pip.pdf#page=19

In the meantime here are the new guidelines for you not to read.

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Annie why did you think I thought you cared a jot?

Has anyone disabled actually had any money taken off them yet? Can anyone tell me what the guidelines for doing so are?