22/02/2011 by Dandy.

One again David Cameron re-launches his idea of the Big Society but he didn’t call it a re-launch, he was probably annoyed that people didn’t get it the first time. I have a suggestion for him why not relaunch it a third time with a new title “Big Sobriety”, and new content and then people might just listen.

With over a million hospital admissions every year that are attibuted to excessive drinking, and the total cost to the NHS expected to rise to £3.7 billion. Hospital admissions for alcohol misuse stood at half a million in 2002 and have doubled, now costing the NHS £2.7 billion  every year.

If Cameron really wants to save money somewhere . . .

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05/02/2011 by Fin.

I have been unemployed for the past few years. I was in printing as a typesetter and then retrained as a web designer/administrator. I have been to college doing all kinds of things. I have found no vacancies for this area and have been applying for all kinds of jobs, without success. The last few weeks there has been nothing to apply for most jobs say “for internal applicants only”. My fear is that with about half a million public workers about to join the unemployed how am I ever ever going to get any work. The longer I am unemployed the more disadvantaged I become. It’s things like clothes and fuel I can’t afford. My only outing is to my jobcentre to sign on every two weeks and the people there always make me feel so inadequate, I find them so sarcastic at times. I have had four interviews this year out of hundreds of applications, still not enough to satisfy the jobcentre. Things were relatively ok for the first year but a person can only take so many knock-backs. I’ve picked myself up so many times over these years. And when the news talks about necessary things going up in price and they include air travel, and what with rich people not able to make ends meet, I feel as though I’m actually living on a different planet.

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