Yesterday, Changing More Than Lightbulbs reported that private healthcare company BMI has funded a private, invitation-only NHS policy seminar at the LibDem conference. This led us to conclude that a vote for the LibDems was likely to be a vote sold to private healthcare companies.
Today, thanks to info from a CMTL contributor, we can report that BMI is also funding private, invitation-only NHS policy seminars at the Labour and Tory Conferences. So in the interests of fairness, it is only right to conclude that a vote for Labour or Tories will also be a vote sold to private healthcare companies.
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A vote for the LibDems looks like a vote sold to private healthcare companies
Exactly who do the LibDems represent? Private healthcare companies or the people?
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World Carfree Day on 22nd September
It’s a bit late to organise a Hebden Bridge celebration of World Carfree Day, which takes place yearly on 22nd September, or thereabouts. But maybe it’s worth planning something for 2014? Any green/public transport/bike folk interested? Or already doing something?
Info about World Carfree Day is that it is a time when
“people from around the world get together in the streets, intersections, and neighbourhood blocks to remind the world that we don’t have to accept our car-dominated society.”
Please contact us if you’re interested in planning a 2014 World Carfree Day for the Upper Calder Valley. Or are already doing something Carfree this year.
Phil Smith, from Calderdale Against the Bedroom Tax, reports on the 7th September 2013 presentation of individual tenants’ evidence to the United Nations special rapporteur on housing, Raquel Rolnick, and the preceding meeting of the Steering Group of the Anti-Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Federation in Manchester.
I attended this meeting, held at Friends’ Meeting House in Manchester, on behalf of Calderdale Against the Bedroom Tax – and what a day it transpired to be!
By Gill Main, University of York – republished from The Conversation
Michael Gove’s recent suggestion that inadequate financial management skills among poor families are to blame for the increasing demand on food banks has, unsurprisingly, sparked an angry response. Critics feel the Conservative Party is out of touch with the pressures on ordinary families.
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Around 60% of the EU population is against fracking, according to European Commission data.
Presumably Members of the European Parliament would have taken this into account when they were due to vote on a proposal to amend the existing EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive, to take account of fracking.
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The Town Hall Terrace Room was full for the Calderdale Green Party public meeting on fracking, addressed by Kirklees Cllr, Andrew Cooper.
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Save our NHS rally & social event on Friday 20th September 2013
Here’s the agenda and time/venue information:
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