They Are Trying to Destroy the Country ...but Failing!

We the public must recognize that we have a parliament of charlatans who have been bought and paid for and who are hell bent on destroying the public services.  We vote for them as individuals and suddenly discover that they are all part of a huge EU package.

Take my own MP... Nicky Morgan who I have often criticized because she is typical of this generation of our MPs.  She supports the EU, she supports Common Purpose and she stood as a Conservative!  Her opponent Andy Reed lost his seat on a false premise.  She is an out and out socialist! She was hoist on us as an opposition candidate to Gordon Brown! Well frankly Andy Reed never stood a chance because even the British public realised that there was something seriously suspect about Gordon Brown. 

So what has happened since? This Coalition Government is destroying us socially.  People are still dying in hospitals, the schools are still failing so many of our children, the elderly are being abused too often.  Far too many local councils are cutting back on vital services while we squander money on Foreign Aid. 

Nicky Morgan does all the right things.  My wife is amazed at how many letters that I receive from the House of Commons! Let me make it clear that Mrs 'Meldrew' is a slave to the mainstream media. If you tell her that the Royals and Margaret Thatcher were 'friends' of Jimmy Saville then she goes ballistic!

She would never contemplate that the Royals were possibly involved in the death of Princess Diana because it would not happen.  She does not find it strange that the evidence from the 'Dunblane Massacre' was buried for 100 years!  The parents of Madeleine McCann are innocent victims. Doctor David Kelly committed suicide?  There is significant comment on the World Wide Web to 'hint' that many of our senior politicians are 'bad' people.  In these modern times we have far too many 'mysteries' that cannot be explained away by officialdom.

If I talk to my wife about Justin Fashanu, Gary Speed and Stephen Milligan then I am being ridiculous!  She is probably right but I cannot help myself.

Never mind.... the economy is improving and I suspect that is much to the chagrin of the EU. How can our economy be improving when every effort has been made to destroy it? How can the economy of the UK be improving when all the other countries in the EU (except Germany) are dying on their EU feet?

I sometimes amuse myself by imagining an Illuminati boardroom meeting when Cameron, Clegg, Osborne and Miliband are being carpetted... 'We told you fools to ruin the economy of the UK and it is growing.  How is this happening?"

"We don't know because we are doing our best and the public hate us."

"Then you are just as stupid as the people think you are! We need a person with attitude who lies with a smile on his face.  We need a servant who has proven that he hates the British.  We will replace all of you with Ken McLusty because he KNOWS how to damage the economy and get away with it!"

India Enters the Space Age!

Well isn't this nice to know.  India have launched a satellite into space and so many people appear to be overjoyed! Isn't it nice to know that our foreign aid has been so well spent? At least they are not buying up the more fashionable areas of Paris!  They are at least more novel in squandering our tax payer's money.

In the meantime back here in the real world Nottinghamshire County Council will be laying off 800 workers and inevitably services will be cut. The elderly are having their remaining care homes available cut to the bone.  The services which some of us have paid for all of our working lives are being destroyed to make way for the Indian Space programme and the greed of African despots.

I remember when that arch socialist David Cameron first came to power that one of his first promises was that Foreign Aid would be 'ring fenced'. At the time I did not realize the significance of that promise.  It is criminal, almost traitrous, that tax payer's money should fund a the space program of a foreign power.  I cannot prove that this is a fact but why are we giving money that is desperately needed at home to a country that can afford a space program

People... you are in the hands of politicians who are spitting in your face.  Sit back and accept it if you want!  They are incorrigible, they are laughing at you and most of you will still vote for Con/Lab/Lib at any subsequent election even though most of them appear to qualify for a sentence normally associated with Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker).  Foreign Aid just squanders our money and should be stopped now!

Apologies are simply not Enough!

The inhuman treatment of so many patients at the Stafford Hospital is inexcusable.  There has to be a real witch hunt which must expose so many of those concerned. When we hear details of what was tolerated it is unbelievable that the man at the top of this dung heap, Sir David Nicholson, is refusing to step down. What must happen for that man to develop a conscience? What must happen for David Cameron to despatch him into obscurity? Why is he not in court?

There just has to be a paper trail to the perpetrators of this abomination. They must all be made accountable. I mean every member of the Trust, the administrators, the consultants, doctors, sisters and nurses. A special court should be set up to deal with their evil. Every person who served at Stafford Hospital during the period under review should be dragged kicking and screaming before a court and publicly be made to explain why they allowed this hell to happen!

Now don't get me wrong I do know that not all the medical staff are heartless but for heaven's sake what has happened to nursing, to care and to common decency? Whatever happened to Human Rights when it concerns honest, hard working, indigenous, common people who have no political agenda to trumpet? Yeah right! 

Today David Cameron actually (can you believe it) supported Sir David Nicholson and kept him in his job. This man was in charge of a system which murdered so many people because of their callous neglect. In modern Britain what does it take to impose accountability within the Political Class. It sums up modern politics...if you are in 'the club' you can commit murder and nobody cares. Cameron is a disgrace! He apologises and then supports the guy in charge of everything!

This is the tip of the iceberg. I saw at first hand the treatment that, at times, (and I repeat ...at times) my very aged mother received particularly at the Royal in Leicester. Now 5 more trusts have been indicted as being under the microscope...hell what is going on?

I believe that the government should look at the activities of the NHS unions and their opposition to every and any change to practice. They oppose every change and clearly something must change. Julie Bailey who has led the campaign to expose the neglect of the NHS is a heroine.  She should receive an honour for her tenacity. She has exposed these bastards for what they have done. The members of this Trust MUST all go to jail!

Sir David Nicholson must be the first to go to jail!

In Mourning!

I have always retained a personal aspect to this blog because it is  also my link to families and friends.  Yes I know that I go on a bit but it is purely my way of telling people how evil our mainstream politicians and media have become.

However, on Saturday evening my 96 year old mother breathed her last.  I was regrettably 15 minutes too late but then I could not have made a difference.  It was her time to go. 

As usual our small but close knit family have rallied and supported one another. This is why I believe that the family unit is so important to our society. Nothing can replace a family unit which until the last few decades was the bedrock of our society. 

We hand down moral values from one generation to another. We preach loyalty, responsibility and love. We instill a code of behaviour. In my household nobody swears. Yes we allow the 'bloody' and the occasional 'shit' (if it slips out) but the rest of the vernacular is not practiced. I know that my lovely grandchildren learn the words at school but to teach sex education to 7 year olds is frankly treasonable.

My mother was fortunate. She past to another world without realising what her generation had lost. She was the last of her generation who courted in the 1930's and produced children in the 1940's. They survived the Second World War and most of their parents remembered the First World War.  The Rothschild bankers were alive and well in those days as well as today.

So farewell Mum, you lived through an amazing era. You kept the family together even though both my brother and my father passed away in the 1970's. You set the rules and the standards that I maintain today.  You did your job and I just hope that there is an after world which you can enjoy because you deserve a wonderful afterlife.

I promise you that what you taught me will be passed on. Unfortunately I am faced with an army of officialdom who will do their best to oppose my values. At this moment I cannot trust any politician or public official (Nigel Farage perhaps?) but my lovely family will rally together. I won't need to rally them because my mother left a legacy that everyone will attend. Farewell Mum you were the best! 

Care for the Elderly

I am currently watching the Politics Show and Ann Clwyd MP is reciting the story concerning the death of her husband.  It is a tragic episode and a scandal which taints the NHS. Firstly I have to respect the views of Grumpy RN and other medical professionals who inhabit the blogosphere but we cannot ignore the torrent of complaints that are in the main justified.

I have seen with my own eyes nurses only doing the very minimum which often includes dispensing medication and routine checks on blood pressure and heart rate.  After that they do not go near the patients and care involves mental as well as physical care.

Communication is minimal.  They don't even inform the nearest relative if they if the relative moves wards or even hospitals!  I find it difficult to get someone to give me a progress report. Something must change.  It may be staffing levels and it may be time but it is also attitude.  I do wonder if the number of nurses obtaining degrees affects attitude.  Is it now beneath them to attend to the needs of the patient. Whatever it is something has changed the attitude of nursing staff, not all of them of course but...far too many!

Perhaps a leaving proforma would be the answer but only if it is not ignored.  If the family or the patient is concerned about their experience whilst in hospital then we should be able to name and shame.  It would also highlight the nursing staff who are doing a good job which is just as important.

Care for the Elderly (Continued)

So my poor mother who is 96 years of age broke her hip and had to have an operation!  You remember the plot?  She is now in the care of the NHS.  Lucky Mum!  She was operated on yesterday after 30 hours of pain from a broken hip.

I got a call from Leicester Royal at 10.40pm asking ME for the number of her care home because she did not have a fracture and they were sending her home!  Consequently I went down to her home on Saturday morning to be told that she had not arrived!  Leicester Royal (bless 'em) were keeping her in because at 11pm Friday evening (she arrived at 8am Friday morning) they discovered at the second attempt that she actually did have a fracture!

Of course nobody thought we might be interested.  In the end the Care home rang me and eventually there was a follow up call from the Royal. By now it is well into Saturday.

We live in Loughborough so there was no point in visiting Mum in Leicester after she had been operated on late on Saturday afternoon.  We arrived today armed with evidence that I was her Power of Attorney which had been requested.  I handed it over to the charge nurse to be photocopied.

We then discovered my mother lying in a lot of discomfort (she is 96) and she cannot swallow pain relief tablets. We suggested liquid pain relief but we were informed that there was no liquid pain relief on the ward and it had to be requested!!! I repeat this lady is 96!!! Eventually we suggested soluble pain relief and eventually ... and I mean 30 minutes ... somebody decided that they would put themselves out to help her!

In the meantime the document proving that I was her Power of Attorney had been given to the charge nurse to be photocopied. Oops the photocopier was not working and so they set off to find a photocopier that was working. It was Sunday so they tried office and office to find a photocopier that was available. This is one sheet of paper folks! You cannot believe that this took almost an hour!

I have yet to comment that when we arrived my mother was lying in bed with no false teeth. Now what does it take to ask an old lady if she wanted her teeth back in?  Did none of them realise that this little bit of dignity was important?  To be honest this was the straw that made me realise that the NHS has forgotten how to care. They actually don't care!

They have been taught not to care.  They ignore all the important aspects of care.  Don't get me wrong because they are all pleasant and they are all courteous but they don't actually care. They don't know how to care because they spend most of their days either in front of a computer or on the end of a phone. Please don't ask them to go and talk to a patient because that is beyond their remit! No it is not because at a designated point they deliver drugs!

They have a delivery system when a senior nurse actually comes around and ...gives you your pills.  The other point of contact is when a consultant, first thing in the morning, comes around with his entourage and that is your only chance to actually talk to a human being.

It was bad when I was seriously ill but I that was 12 years ago. My mother has me and my wife to cater for her.  We ask questions and try to ensure that she is looked after.  In the next room to my mother today was an old lady who clearly had nobody.  She was deranged and was  continually asking for some kind of assurance.  It was pathetic but nobody considered that she needed any kind of consideration!

Care is clearly a dirty word in today's society!  

Care for the Elderly

This morning my 96 year old mother did what she has done frequently in the past 10 years...she forgot to use her walking frame and fell over.  The system then kicks in.  She is in a Nursing Home that she pays for but no member of staff is ever available to take her to a hospital.

In our case the nearest hospital is the notorious Leicester Royal Infirmary. Don't get me wrong the staff are really helpful but they have to deal with probably the most multicultural society in the UK.  They also have the most multicultural staff in the UK and probably would not survive without them

I arrived at the hospital at 8.30 am having battled through the early morning traffic and my mother was in X-Ray. By 11.30 no doctor had been near her...she is 96! A couple of nurses did their best to alleviate the situation but when a doctor did arrive he then decided that her skull required a scan.

I had to leave.  Four hours in A&E is enough for anyone and I could do no more to assist. So I had to leave her requiring a scan to see if she had fractured her scull (her head was spectacular). She has a sort term memory problem but communicates well. That means that she sounds lucid but in five minutes cannot remember what she has said! If you don't know that then she sounds remarkably good for a 96 year old. 

She has conned people for years with her act so it was no surprise when I get a call at 10.40 pm to inform me that she is being sent back to her Nursing Home. Outside the temperature is well below freezing. The hospital rang me to find out the telephone number of her Nursing Home (no directory?) so why are they discharging her now?  Can she not remain until breakfast?

I am pleased that she is not seriously injured. She is my mum but she is not the mum that I remember.  She is paying for care but they let her get out of bed without supervision. When they fail in their care they ring me. Can anyone tell me when this responsibility will end?  When do I become too old to care for my mum?  

Am I alone in this?  I suspect not but it is a problem that is part of the modern society which frankly sucks. Our elderly are being treated with contempt and what worries me most is that I will be next!  Sorry but this post came from the heart.

Is UKIP on the Move?

I have long since lost faith in the accuracy of the prediction polls. I have never been asked my opinion on any election and a random straw poll of my friends and relatives confirms that nobody else has been canvassed for their opinion prior to an election.  So the news that UKIP has stolen ONLY 10% of the people who voted Conservative at the election comes as a surprise.


All over the blogosphere I see people defecting from the Conservative party. The Tory grass roots have lost faith in David Cameron and his europhile, socialist supporting Cabinet. I therefore suspect that the defections are considerably higher than being reported. The people are waking up! They thought that they were getting rid of Gordon Brown and his loony left and have discovered that they have just elected a different version. NONE of the promises of the Tory election manifesto have been followed up.


I admit that the British electorate are complacent and to be honest, not well educated, but most of them still have inherent decency. It is almost impossible to destroy centuries of tradition by indecent government. The people still know that rule from the European Union is indecent. They recognise as each day passes that our society is under attack. There is never any good news. 


The students pay too much for their 'education' and cannot get jobs. British companies are being sold off. We cannot even harness the mass of water which falls on our country! We are famous world wide for our inclement weather and yet we now have a drought scenario. 


Our justice system has degenerated into a joke where those prisoners who have eventually deserved a prison sentence are treated better than our elderly who have paid their taxes all their lives and in many cases fought for the country.


Some hospitals are allowed to treat their patients with contempt. Medical care has never been better but compassion is at an all time low not only in the NHS but also in companies charged with caring for the elderly and infirm in their own homes. The profiteering from care for the elderly is a national scandal as each 'carer' is 'timed' and 'managed' until they no longer care or can care.


We must return to traditional British values. We can only do that if we vote for a body of people who campaign on traditional British values. We have tried the union funded and driven Labour party who had 13 years to ruin the country and probably succeeded. 


We then returned to the Tories who in the 1990's we could not get rid of soon enough and so far they have demonstrated that they are incapable of joined up government. They have actually abandoned every one of their core manifesto promises. Every promise that they made which gained them 'a share' of government have been abandoned.


The LibDems are worse! They are communists in disguise. They are much further to the left than the Oxford educated toffs who lead the Labour party because they are so committed to the European Union and they actually want Moscow to reappear in Brussels which of course it has.


I cannot forecast the future. I have no crystal ball but I have my hopes. George Galloway played a trump card because he had researched the Muslim passion. We need an English Messiah. Someone who can carry the public into the next election on a wave of national hysteria (where is Princess Diana when you need her?) but more than that we need the public to recognise that the major parties are actually poison for most of us!

Care for the Elderly?

This morning live on BBC television a care worker from Norfolk burst into tears at the complete madness of her care industry. It would appear that she was on the verge of insanity at her inability to change a system which is clearly rotten to the core.

At the centre of this mayhem are heartless Town Hall fatcats who are trying to cut costs (so that they can claim their bonuses) and reduce care for the elderly to a time management issue. The care worker in question had just revealed that she did not have sufficient time to care for her clientele unless she worked unpaid in her own time!

Clearly care for the elderly has become a local government cost issue and consequently the fatcats will be determined to cling onto their monstrous salaries, expenses and bonuses. In my opinion it is time that Westmonster layed down guidelines but then where do we start? Nobody with a hint of compassion can stipulate rules for care in the community. Only the care worker can judge each individual situation as it arises and if they are employed as a care worker then they should be trusted to deal with each individual problem.

Greed is the problem. I would suggest that whenever we discover an example of neglect then we immediately sack the appropriate manager. If they were under this type of threat then it might just encourage them to care slightly more for the people on their books!

This never happened in the days when town hall employees were paid a reasonable salary and everything else was spent on the public. Until we return to sanity and end the greed culture our elderly and everyone else will continue to be deprived of the services that we need. 

Libya... the aftermath...and the Political Class!

As the rebel troops take Tripoli and drive Ghadaffi underground the captured documents begin to indict the former Labour government.  Some of the leading Labour politicians are beginning to squirm because they were part of this awful regime which cosied up to Colonel Gaddafi and his dreadful family. Let's face it they cosied up to almost every form of wealth that they could get access to.


Top of the list is of course Tony Blair who kissed Colonel Ghaddafi at every opportunity and close behind him comes Peter Mandelson who has  ready access to Russian obligarchs. Today I heard Harriet Harman readily endorsing Foreign Aid to East Africa conveniently forgetting that here at home we cannot support our own elderly.


Today I visited my mother in hospital at Leicester General and it is sorrowful. The staff who are almost entirely from a foreign nation (thank you all) must cope with wards full of the pitiful elderly because there are very few care homes left. The money has all gone to Ethiopia, Somalia or Zimbabwe. Why doesn't Harriet Harman visit the wards in Leicester? Why does she not face this line of questioning from the mainstream media?

These leading socialists are one by one being exposed. First Tony Blair who most people agree is a war criminal, then Gordon Brown a useless Chancellor and even worse PM and on and on it goes... the lecherous Prescott, the venomous Balls (and wife) the duplicitous Ed (and his betrayed brother David) Miliband, they have all been at it and now the charges are coming home to roost. I haven't even mentioned Jacqui Smith and the jailed MPs!


Then look at the LibDems...are they not even worse? Nick Clegg lied to everybody on his election manifesto. Chris Huhne is facing serious motoring offences which everyone suspects that he is guilty of and that is the least of the charges against him. He comes across as a very unsavoury character. Then we have David Laws and his dodgy sex life...who cares apart from him and his family? Not to mention Lembik...!


Our Political Class are crass! Most of them have been corrupted long before they enter the hallowed corridors of Westmonster. Everywhere they are at it. Every office of state has been corrupted. In almost every department we have Ministers who have an agenda which does not support the English people. They are desperate to squander our taxes on projects which do not support the elderly or in fact any of us.


We all know it. Everytime we meet and discuss, usually in hushed voices, our mistrust of our politicians and police we all agree. The people know that they have been let down, the people know that we cannot trust them but as yet they don't know how to respond. I believe that one day somebody will harness this resentment and when they do then the Political Class, and the Bonus Class will feel the full force of the public anger!

Care for the Elderly

Two days ago I posted about the situation regarding my 95 year old mother who despite being so frail and forgetful was pronounced by Social Services as not being 'substantially' in need of care. I informed the assessor at the time that her decision was likely to cause my mother suffering in the future.

This morning we received the inevitable call that she had fallen overnight and her morning carer and found her on the floor. This had the knock on effect that the home had to call the paramedics who had to admit her to hospital. This will mean an extra strain on A &E and the additional resources required to process her through X Ray and a ward before we, once again, have to bring her back to her room (a round trip in this day and age of 30 miles). This is the fourth time this year that we have gone through this procedure!

The politicians and their Bonus Class employees in the public services are happy to squander our taxes in this way rather than keeping the essential care homes open. The manner in which we treat our elderly is not worthy of a third world country and remember we will all get old.

Billions is spent on the workshy some of whom have never earned a taxable income in their lives but the elderly must suffer even though they have probably worked all their lives, never mind fought in the wars that the politicians revel in. The inequality in modern day society is a scandal that those in Westmonster should be ashamed of. The problem is that only those involved seem to care.

The Elderly and The Coalition.

My mother is 95. She has paid into the system her whole life but has never become rich. She lived in a council house for the best part of sixty years but has frugally saved just over £20000 which she believes is a huge sum! Now she requires care, not a lot of care because she is still lucid, she can still get around courtesy of her frame and she has no continence problems.

She does have a problem however, because she has lost her short term memory. This is so important because she forgets to drink, she cannot remember to take her medication and sometimes she forgets to go to meals. She is in a residential care home and the terms of her residency depends on her being independent. She already has a morning carer who gets her up and an evening carer who puts her to bed.


Today she was assessed by a Social Service employee because we know that it will not be long before her memory loss will become a real problem. We have already in the last six months had to call out the paramedics three times becuase she has dehydrated. Even her GP does not want to become involved.


It would appear that she is not a priority because she cannot be assessed as a 'substantial' case. In their world of government targets and financial cutbacks she is not a priority so we must wait for her to have another 'incident' before she can be reassessed. What an indictment on our politicians!


These are the same people who pour money into the abject EU, who readily involve us in wars which have nothing to do with us, who shower African property developers with Foreign Aid and allow public service employees to abuse some kind of public service credit card.  It is absolutely despicable. There are vast sums of money in the system but they are spending it on anything other than the welfare of our citizens. Someone somewhere has an agenda which is definitely anti indigenous population.


So what can we draw from this? Well the obvious conclusion is that we will all get old. If we do not improve the horrendous system that currently exists we all stand the chance of fading into a very uncomfortable old age. The care homes are decreasing and the care professionals are so poorly paid that nobody can guarantee care which is what we would wish for. If we don't vote for a revision of the current system for catering for the elderly then one day we too will lose our house! Think about it folks!!!

A 95 year old woman and the NHS!

My mother is very frail. She is 95 years of age. Her residential home phoned for the GP today because they thought she was dying. The on call GP refused to come out because he had a meeting! We are with Bridge Street Surgery Loughborough. The doctor who failed to respond to the call out refused to talk to my wife even though he knows her personally. My wife in desperation dialled 999 and the paramedics arrived. They decided that she be admitted directly to a ward. Seven hours later an ambulance arrived and took her 15 miles to the Royal at Leicester!! This is how we look after our elderly in the modern world. It is frankly disgraceful!


I actually doubt if there is a family in this country who have not suffered from the administrative incompetence of the Health Trusts in this country. The doctor who refused to attend knows my wife as she is a former Medical Receptionist. He is normally a wonderful doctor and almost a family friend but today was inexcusable.


Our socialist politicians, those that like to make political capital out of their own mistakes, often like to highlight those in poverty. We are constantly reminded of the poor in Africa and the poor in the government created ghettos like Tottenham and Hackney.  Believe me the only genuine poor in this country are the elderly trying to survive on government pensions. They have paid into the system their whole lives and now must face a miserable old age. They are also the last people to be represented by the likes of Ed Miliband. There is no glamour or political prestige in the elderly. Old age is not for cissies!


I have often blogged about the decline of civilization in this country but today really brought it home to me. The young are out of control and the elderly are ignored. Our politicians hand billions to the unaudited EU and millions to African property developers in Paris but they cannot get an ambulance to take my mother to hospital when she is dying and her own GP cared not a jot!


It says it all!

The BBC and Foreign Aid



Chief Fritterer of Taxpayer's Money
Andrew Mitchell 'International Development Secretary'

This morning a regular event happened on the BBC. Their presenters brought on Andrew Mitchell the so called International Development Secretary to explain and defend how he squanders so much of our money that we don't have sufficient to care for our elderly.

This morning they employed the well known tactic of the pretty teenager who speaks English and 'wants to be a doctor' (accompanied by soft music) so that we will continue to pour money into East Africa just like we have been doing for so many years.

This morning however, Mitchell went even further by declaring that it was in 'Britain's national interest' to throw this money at East Africa (and not check how it is spent). He mentioned the threat of terrorism and immigration almost in the same word conveniently forgetting that Britain is an island and nobody could arrive here without the connivance of the Home Office and our politicians!  He specifically mentioned Ethiopia and Somalia highlighting the threat of the coastal pirates as if these countries were on our doorstep. Now fortunately not too many Somalis or Ethiopeans have penetrated the rural areas of the East Midlands so far but they have swamped communities in the London/Southall areas and I cannot find much evidence to suggest that they are contributing to the economy. From what I hear they do however enhance the crime statistics.

I would therefore suggest to Mr Mitchell that he should spend some of his aid budget on OUR coastal defences and OUR elderly and leave the East Africans to cope with their own demise like they have done for centuries. Andrew Mitchell is not batting for Britain and his constituents should remember that once they open their eyes and take their hands off their ears!

Care for the Elderly

The debate about the care for the elderly in this country continues. There is little doubt that many of our elderly live in appalling circumstances considering the so called democracy which is supposed to support them. These are the people who have worked and paid taxes for most of their life. In the main they have reared families and 'done their bit' for their country never realising that when their turn to receive support arrived they would be abandoned in favour of 'poppy growers' in Afghanistan and black kids from the 'Horn' of Africa.

Once again our despicable politicians were all over the BBC this morning promising support for almost every useless cause in the world except of course our own elderly. David Cameron is on a high profile tour of Afghanistan promising foreign aid to that benighted country even long after the troops have left. Will he never learn? Afghanistan will always be Afghanistan and no amount of bribery will change it.

He was followed by Baroness Amos promising further aid to the kids from the Horn of Africa. Another utterly useless cause which happens in cycles largely down to their inclement climate and ignorance of the people. Our money will not change that! Contraception might change it, more modern agricultural methods might change it but that is down to them and their governments.

Here at home our elderly are our concern and one thing is for sure...we will all get there. If we don't stop wasting money on useless causes elsewhere and start investing in a welfare system which supports the vulnerable at home then we will all regret it. Foreign Aid and our contribution to the toxic European Union is a modern scandal when more money is desperately needed at home. I just don't know why the electorate keep voting for more of the same. You can shut your eyes and stick your fingers in your ears but it won't go away!