“Among some Tory delegates the atmosphere was a little tense. In an email to conference delegates last week, the Conservative party chairman, Lord Feldman, said it was “particularly important” this year for activists to take the Tory-branded identification badges off when around town due to safety concerns.”
That “Northern Powerhouse” centred on Manchester not quite taken off, it seems!
“David Cameron’s bid to extend right-to-buy to people in housing association homes has been branded unworkable on the eve of the Conservative party conference by the Tory-led body representing councils across the country.
The Local Government Association (LGA) will today publish the first independent review of the controversial policy, which finds that the policy will cost councils £6bn over the next four years, at a time of huge cuts in funding for local authorities.” …
Right-to-buy extension branded unworkable by Tory-led council group
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“Government ministers have buried NHS statistics that show the service hurtling towards an unprecedented £2bn deficit to avoid overshadowing the Tory party conference, say top NHS officials.
One senior figure at the health service regulator Monitor said his organisation had been “leaned on” by Whitehall to delay its report, which shows that NHS finances are worsening.
Neither Monitor’s quarterly report on how the NHS is faring, nor equivalent data from the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), have been published, as they usually are around the time of the organisations’ board meetings last month. Hospital trusts passed their information to the two regulators two months ago.”
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Well, we all know that the crisis in Devon is being covered up by the fragmented way bad news on bed closures is being fed to the media and residents hospital by hospital over a period of time instead of all at once. And we know that positive spin takes the place of real numbers and total lack of information and transparency in press announcements.
It is never too long before the excrement that hits the air circulation system starts dropping down on us all.
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