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724 days ago
Since I started to take an active role in England’s interests I have come across numerous articles about how the English are becoming second class citizens but the most startling article I read was one about how much not only are the English hated but also Christianity. I am not a religious person but think about how other people love their religion. Their religion is a way of life in some cases to the point of death. We wonder why we are ruled by yob culture and complain that the Police do nothing about it while we (the English) sit back and do nothing, yes we can blame the government but really we need to start blaming ourselves. Our family values have almost been wiped out. How do we stop this isle turning into a cess pool of crime? The answer lies within us. Promote family values and promote a healthy religion. Maybe a large majority of us have forgotten what family values are; well this is what I believe to be good English family values. ...
763 days ago
10:00 - 25 October 2007 English hospitals are shedding services while Wales can offer cheap prescriptions and Scotland free care for the elderly because of the out-dated Barnett formula. This formula, created at the end of the 1970s, awards a greater proportion of public funds per head of population to Scotland and Wales than to England.Eighty per cent of the UK's wealth comes from England, allowing the devolved bodies now set up in those countries to provide generous benefits to their populations. The Barnett formula has allowed the Scottish Parliament to introduce free long-term care for the elderly and abolish university top-up and tuition fees. The Welsh Assembly froze prescription charges two years ago and has done away with them to those under 25. It also intends to scrap all prescription charges as soon as possible. The Barnett formula was intended to be short-term only, but 20 or so years later, it's still going. Its creator, Joel Barnett, has called for it to be ...
767 days ago
Should English taxpayers fund Scottish healthcare? Posted at: 00:01 While millions of patients in England and Northern Ireland are expected to pay for lifesaving drugs, Scottish ministers have joined their Welsh counterparts and pledged to abolish prescription charges north of the border. Scots already have access to free eye and dental check ups, free personal care for the elderly, extra central heating grants and a number of drugs deemed “too costly” for the NHS in England and Wales. Critics claim the Barnett formula, the calculation which allocates Treasury funding to Britain’s regions, and currently gives Scotland £1,500 more per head than England, forces English taxpayers to subsidise Scottish largesse. Even Joel Barnett, the inventor of the formula, has called for his system to be re-evaluated. Should prescriptions be free for all or should they be means tested? What can the Government do to fix the “extreme form of postcode lottery”? With all of the ...
