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Autumn Statement and the "Just About Managing"

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JessM Wed 23-Nov-16 17:09:34

Much noise made about the Just About Managing families prior to this statement. This is of course the phrase the Tories have come up with to replace the overused Hard Working Families. But not a lot of joy for lower income families to get excited about.
And nothing whatsoever in acknowledgement of the vast hole in NHS funding and the desperate need to give more money to the social care that helps to keep frail people out of hospital.
It could be a grim winter for the NHS. Anyone on an operation waiting list, don't get excited.

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durhamjen Sat 26-Nov-16 10:58:53

I see that Theresa May got her pet project in, despite there being no call for more grammar provision.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-grammar-schools-backlash-240m-a7439716.html

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durhamjen Sat 26-Nov-16 11:02:12

Jess, regarding your OP...

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/26/send-patients-to-private-sector-to-avert-winter-crisis-hospitals-told

We won't know if there is a winter crisis because hospitals have been told not to flag up black alerts, which happen when hospitals are too full so they have to close all departments.
Hopefully there will be whistleblowers for this, too.

Time the government stopped digging its NHS black hole.

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durhamjen Sat 26-Nov-16 11:26:49

'The 1990s saw Hammond combine his growing political ambition with buccaneering business success. He teamed up with Moynihan at CMA, an energy consulting group which exploited Moynihan’s own experience in government to win a series of lucrative international deals; and he made a second fortune with the builder Castlemead, having spotted, in the technical detail of forthcoming healthcare reforms, a money-spinning opportunity to build doctors’ surgeries.'

This is why he is one of the richest MPs in the commons, and why he does not want to put money into the NHS. I wonder if he still has shares in Castlemead. If he has, they'll be offshore in a blind trust.

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TriciaF Sun 27-Nov-16 10:20:38

Many people are just about managing with borrowed money. Debt levels rising constantly:
UK - personal debt levels
Will that money ever be repaid?
We still have a small mortgage (small by today's standards.)

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