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You're listening to the World at Eight with Lynne Mozar
The World at 8 Number one in Nationalist News
Highlights of the news today Wednesday the 25th of April
Older workers to be marginalised once again Social cleansing benefit cap row
Abolition of Primary Care Trusts could endanger childrens’ health
Sarkozy rules out deal with far Right South Sudan accuses Khartoum of starting war
Thought for the Day – our Elderly and their twilight years?
UK NEWS Older workers to be marginalised, once again.
Employers can force retirement if in 'public interest'. Employers can force retirement
of older workers if it is in the "public interest", a landmark court ruling signalled on Wednesday.
The court ruling gave the green light for companies to dismiss older workers at 65 to
make space for more entry-level jobs and younger staff climbing the career ladder just months
after the Government made the practice unlawful. The legal firm, Clarkson, Wright & Jakes,
said retiring all partners at 65 was acceptable as it allowed associates to move up the ranks
to partnership and gave the workforce reasonable expectations on when senior vacancies would
arise. The courts agreed. What is really the difference? For many older
workers finding, much less holding on to a job into their 60’s or even 70’s was and
looks to remain an unrealistic expectation. Also this landmark company is a professional
law firm, partners are always legal professionals. They can set up independently at any age or
sit on executive committees. This ruling is hardly comparable with Joe Blogs working in
a white or blue collar non-professional capacity in the workplace today.
'Social cleansing' housing benefit cap row: Duncan Smith hits back
London’s Labour controlled Newham council is trying to find homes for some 500 families
160 miles away to meet the Government’s housing benefit cap.
The council has been accused of "social cleansing" after Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan
Smith said there were "thousands of houses" within five miles of Newham which fell within
the cap. Newham Council, which runs one of London's
poorest boroughs in the east of the city and is home to much of the new 500-acre Olympic
Park, has written to Brighter Futures Housing Association in Stoke-on-Trent, offering it
the "opportunity" to lease it homes for up to 500 families on housing benefit.
Brighter Futures chief executive officer Gill Brown says she will not agree to the request:
"I think there is a real issue of social cleansing going on.
"We are very anxious about this letter which we believe signals the start of a movement
which could see thousands of needy people dumped in Stoke with no proper plan for their
support or their welfare." Westminster council are looking at similar
proposals. It makes one wonder just who they are looking to remove from our nation’s
capital.
Abolition of Primary Care Trusts could endanger children’s health
The NHS Confederation warns the bewildering structural reforms that will see the abolition
of primary care trusts by 2013 could place vulnerable children at risk. Child health
care be divided amongst 4 different organisations with no clear lines of accountability.
Jo Webber, deputy director of policy at the NHS Confederation.
"We know through painful experience that it is between the gaps in responsibilities that
the most tragic and difficult cases fall. With nothing making these organisations work
together in the way they should, we have to be honest that the risk of us failing is more
likely. "The time has come to be honest with government
and together now resolve these issues before a policy problem becomes a tragic failure."
The Guardian states “Responsibility for safeguarding children is currently shared
between local authorities and primary care trusts (PCTs). When PCTs are abolished under
the reforms in 2013, that duty will be shared among the NHS Commissioning Board, Public
Health England, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), and local councils.”
Was there ever a better recipe for disaster?
EUROPEAN NEWS Sarkozy rules out deal with far right. French
President Nicolas Sarkozy, whilst insisting that far-right supporters should not be demonised,
has ruled out any deal with Le Fronte National. Marine Le Pen, their candidate, captured 18
per cent of Sunday’s vote in the presidential elections. This is the highest ever vote gained
by a far-Right candidate. Sarkozy is desperate for the 18 per cent of
the voters who voted for Le Pen and is tilting further to the right. He has said he will
drastically reduce immigration and secure France's borders to “defend the French way
of life". He was quoted as saying “We need to speak
to the 18 percent who voted for Marine Le Pen. There will be no deal with le Fronte
National, no Ministers for them, but I have to take them into account and not feel I have
to hold my nose."
It may be time for the far-right to withhold their vote in the next round of presidential
elections and concentrate on June’s parliamentary elections.
WORLD NEWS South Sudan accuses Khartoum of declaring
war. On Tuesday South Sudan accused Sudan on Tuesday of mounting bombing raids against
the newly independent country's oil-producing border region claiming they were tantamount
to a declaration of a war. Weeks of cross-border fighting between the
former civil war foes have threatened to escalate into a full blown conflict in a region that
holds one of Africa's most significant oil reserves.
The disputes have already halted nearly all oil production, choking the two countries'
largely oil-dependent economies. The major external power interested in the
Sudan is China, naturally with the UN’s blessing. It is Chinese investment driving
oil production in the Sudan and the promises of new piplines to deliver oil to the eastern
markets. This must be the reason that the UK, US and
Europe are not really interested in the Sudanese blood being shed. The Chinese have the oil.
Thought for the Day – Our Elderley and their twilight years.
I have recorded the Panorama Undercover – Elderly Care which was shown on the 23rd but not yet
seem it. This subject is too close to home for my liking, not only am I getting older
thankfully, the alternative doesnt appeal but my Mother suffered similar abuse, not
the physical lashings that Ms Worrell’s Mother suffered (unless you count being lifted
by a broken wrist until spotted by me) physical abuse, but the lazy, ignorant, stupid and
greedy people we seem to attract to this industry.
Now I am not having a go at any ethnic ‘carer’ or the good carers of many ethnicities, I
know they are hard working and do the very best in often the worst circumstances, under
staffed and under paid. My youngest son is currently working with the elderly in dementia
care and has to operate under strict guidelines, and even he says that they would do more if
they had more staff.
We have to understand that nowadays the elderly and infirm are marginalised, not only by lack
of money, but by general lack of respect for those in their twilight years. We live now
in an age of built in obselecence, once it is broken do not mend, buy another! Sack them
at 65 and expect them to get another job and work till they are 70? This seems to apply
mainly to our indigenous population growing older. I saw in a daily a couple of months
ago a ridiculous picture, that of a young girl wearing weights and whatever around her
body to ‘feel and show’ what moving around felt like when you were ‘old’. What a
nerve, there are many poor people who feel pain every day of the week moving around and
they are not always elderly – but it shows the amount of respect they are shown nil.
We are encouraged as a nation to look out for lack of memory in our old relatives and
then joy oh joy we can shove them into a home and sell their houses, preferably to a large
immigrant family to breed more youngsters for our country!
I am sure you get where I am coming from, we are, as a nation killing off our old people
to justify the media predictions ‘the elderly population will be a drag on our economy and
the young will never earn enough to keep paying for them or indeed themselves in their older
years’. Well good for them, if you believe that you are well on the way to contributing
to yet another form of social and ageist engineering taking place in the UK.
Old people homes, care homes or whatever they call themselves are neither. Whether private
or NHS – nowadays they mostly seem to operate under the same structure, no Matron or person
to crack the whip, a mishmash of white and ethnic workers and no respect whatsoever for
their patients or clients or customers or whatever the buzz word is for the poor dears
now.
I can sypmpathise with Ms Morrell, it must have been terrible for her to actually observe
her mothers so called ‘care’ but even worse for those who have not got a camera
put into their relatives rooms, it is always worse to imagine even in hindsight, than to
actually see.
My mother died weighing less than 4 stone. The 5 years it took are a long and awful history.
Suffice to say she was fit and well up to a stay in the private wing of a local hospital.
I removed her after 6 weeks of their ‘care’ and she could not walk even though she walked
in. We had to take her to a private care home. In both her homes this care really went downhill
when both homes took on Filipino staff straight of the boat. Now I am not going to have a
hymn of hate against these people, because many I am sure do a very good job, but their
people ethic more than the West Indians is not of our culture as indeed the African one
is not. I remarked on many occasions that my mother, who had always been slim was getting
gaunt, the Filipino cheerfully remarked ‘in my country I have seen people thinner than
that’. There you have it in a nutshell, when so called carers come into the country
nowadays they bring their culture with them. They do not adapt to our culture. This Jonathon
Aquino is I would presume Filipino and rightly deserves to be deported now and serve his
sentence in the Phillipines.
I noticed as did Ms Worrell that food was changed for my mother as well. One would think
that we daughters do not visit, take food or care but we do. The awful thing is you
have to trust the poeple who you and your parent pay to do just that. I reported my
mother’s last home to the CQC and they did a notified inspection after 6 months. The
report was huge and apparently this home was exlemporary.
Could anyone tell me if we have any sort of arrangement with the Phillipine government
to take their semi qualified nursing staff away from their country? I remember when my
grandmother was in a home in outer London about 40 years ago and we use to visit her.
There were the usual white drongos doing *** all but I do not think that the scenes I will
watch on Panorama were endemic in those days as indeed they seem to be now in our hospitals,
nursing homes and care homes. Is it really a cultural or ethnic problem? It would seem
so.
We have changed as a society but our elderly have not. I had a small fir tree in a large
pot, it was not growing well so I put it in the ground near to other fir trees and it
grew better and bigger. The moral? People whatever their age still want to be looked
after by their own tribe preferably their own blood. You do not see many immigrant elderly
in our care homes, just their children ‘caring’ for ours.
And finally, You could only see these headlines in the
western world! 'Dull' is to twin with 'Boring'. The Scottish village of Dull is to forge links
with a US town called Boring. This odd partnership came about after a cyclist
from Scotland, Elizabeth Leighton, who knew of Dull, in Perthshire, pedalled through Boring
in the American town of Oregon. News was relayed back to villagers in Dull
- who immediately made contact with their US counterparts in an effort to set up 'Dull
and Boring'. Tourism agency VisitScotland - tasked with attracting visitors to Scotland
- said the move was yet more evidence of the world-famous Scottish "sense of humour". You
can just imagine the road sign required here can’t you? Dull twinned with Boring!
You have been listening to the W@8 I am Lynne Mozar and I wish you all a very good night.