Just seen the paper front page at the start of the BBC1 news - all of the bed is photoshopped out Seems they are going to attack BoJo in a moment
Just wish we could get it over and done with so that I don't have to watch/listen to Laura Kuenssberg on the news every night and we can go back to calling Ireland, "Ireland" and not "The Island of Ireland"
Who is this? A wicked mother who took her child out of a hospital bed and slung him on the floor for a photo? Even some of the cold hearted barstools on here wouldn't do that. I don't think this an everyday occurance to many kids at A&E, but it certainly does happen. The Tory government are in charge of the NHS. After ten years and doubling the waiting times, they should accept responsibility.
and not a single person in here has suggested that so I'm not sure where your mind got that from? They certianly do have somethings to answer, this isn't one of them but let's see if we can summarise? NHS doctors see's child, calls NHS ambulance NHS ambulance blue lights child to NHS hospital NHS hospital paediatric assess child and whilst not urgent, plan for a night of observation NHS takes in child overnight NHS discharges child the next morning labour says this is a shit service
The Conservative party’s own Diane Abbott? General election 2019: Javid's homelessness statistics queried https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50721308
Agreed.. Just a non political statement here.... A few years back the snow came down heavy and I cancelled my my team to work on the roof of the An African Embassy in London... however I still need to move a couple of ton of scrap blocking an alley way. Working solo just off the main square in London it was very cold, windy and quiet (circa 2 or 3am), a Sally Army member stopped me and gave me bread rolls and a cup of hot soup .... I really must dress better. A big shout out to the Sally Army.... and I can confirm that on the streets of London there are genuinely more homeless than I can ever remember. +200 people hanging around that soup kitchen.... +£100M households next to people with literally nothing (and me)! Sally Army (and other charities) are the charity that get my money... I'm not religious... but they do very good work down here. No one else out helping... just a charity... I was disgusted, but have never seen a political party that said they'd do anything about it.
The homeless figures and how they are accounted for did change. They used to account for those genuinely were homeless like street/rough sleepers/tramps etc. Now Homelessness figures covers not just people sleeping rough but also those in temporary accommodation, sleeping at friends’ houses or sofa surfing, living in unfit dwellings, or who are soon to be without a permanent home. That said, javid did get it wrong and is likely to be replaced after they win the election in the reshuffle
Surely that fact would have been born out by the challenge to the Statistics commission... and it wasn't
Thing is it’s not just the BBC that have called him out on this. I just posted the BBC version. Pretty much every news outlet has called out all the Conservative untruths, as well as them questioning Corbyns wild claims. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again........both sides of the divide are despicable. You just have to decide which is less despicable than the other.
The Tories admit Sajid Javid wrongly claimed homelessness rose under Labour " He misrememebered" apparently... Homelessness hit a peak of 135,590 in 2003 when Labour had been in office since 1997, but then fell to 42,390 by the time it left office in 2010. While the way the situation is recorded has changed, Government statistics say that rough sleeping has increased by 165 per cent between 2010-2018. I haven't seen a single paper or news report say anything to the contrary. https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-javid-misremembers-homelessness-stat https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/sajid-javid-homelessness-labour-misremembered-a4306056.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...es-labour-election-brexit-trade-a9234171.html
If reading is your thing https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/ukhomelessness/2005to2018
Shelter say 320,000 people are spending Christmas homeless in the UK. https://england.shelter.org.uk/
