Latest Army "Step Up" Advert

• The latest Army recruitment advert shows a soldiers boot doing all fun and exciting things. Well they should have mentioned that most injured soldiers lose their lower limbs. Ironic or what!!!!

MP's Get £10,000 Pay Rise, Wage Triple UK Average

MP's getting £10,000 pay rise, for Wales that is a cost of £400,000 of tax payers money. MP's already enjoy salaries most hard working readers can only dream of. I only hope Welsh MP's will do the right thing and refuse the pay rise, for the sake of all low paid public sector workers and low paid workers in general. If they are forced to take the payment then they should donate the rise to local charities and issue the a report as to where the money goes.

An independent Scotland. Could give the people of Scotland an in out referendum in Europe.

This could be one of the messages in the yes / no to Scottish independence referendum. Scottish independence would take back decisions currently made in London and given back to Scotland and its people. Wales should be allowed to follow in a year time. London governments should have a health warning, it is damaging the economy of Scotland and Wales. To me it is like the damage to the lungs of a long time smoker or the liver to a long time drinker.

UKIP the Smoking Gun of Politics

The local council elections turned out to be a disaster for both Labour and the Tory parties. With Labour only making 2 gains in controlling local councils and Tories losing control of 10 councils. This shows the people are not happy with David Cameron cuts and still don't trust Ed Miliband promise of a better future under Labour. In Wales the people of Anglesey Plaid Cymru won 14 Councillors while Labour only won 3 seats. The people of the island seems very un-happy with the Tory London government and the Labour Cardiff government. As Labour promise more than they can can deliver, could this be a beginning of a Plaid recovery. UKIP are the smoking guns of politics, on their website the Immigration Policy is currently undergoing a review and update. 

Gains for UKIP

A sad day in politics when a far right nationalist party can win seats in England. This show me that there are parts of England that are very right wing in their ideas.

Ambulance waiting at hospitals exceeds six years, BBC Wales finds

Ambulances have spent almost 55,000 hours waiting outside Welsh hospitals in six months, according to figures obtained by BBC Wales.

The ambulance service said there has been a "high increase" in delays in admitting patients due to NHS pressure.
This means in total ambulance crews have spent 2,269 days - equivalent to over six years - waiting to transfer patients to hospital departments. The figures illustrated the "crisis" in A&E services in Wales. I think every hospital should have a drop in centre where ambulances can hand over the patients and leave; these centres would take over the responsibility for those patients. To stop bed blocking patients who are no longer in danger should be sent to re-coup rating wards where they can be assessed to go home or stay in hospital. If stay in hospital is the answer then there should be a local place for this to happen. A patient should go through three stages 1 admittance ward, 2 hospital ward, and 3 coup rating wards. This might sound like an assembly line; this to me is the best way to speed up ambulances times and stop bed blocking. Another problem with ambulance times is the distance of the hospital because of closures.

'I wonder if there might be room for another one in the coffin': Labour official's Facebook jibe at Blair about Thatcher's funeral

Senior Labour figure apologises unreservedly over 'beyond tasteless' comments about party's former leader and late PM. A leading Labour Party member posted a Facebook entry yesterday in which he suggested Tony Blair should share Margaret Thatcher’s  coffin.
Later, Darren Williams, an official of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) civil  servants’ union, issued an unreserved apology and removed the comment, which was criticised as “beyond tasteless”.          
Mr Williams, a former aide to First Minister Carwyn Jones and Culture and Sport Minister John Griffiths and a current member of Labour’s Britain-wide National Policy Forum, posted the remark after reading an article by Blair in the New Statesman magazine.
In his article, the former Prime Minister urged current Labour leader Ed Miliband not to veer to the left.

Can’t the Labour party control their members?