Revealed on Byline Times: How the DWP manipulated the pension figures to exaggerate the costs of helping the 50s women.

Originally posted on Westminster Confidential:
Department for Work and Pensions – still misleading the facts on 50swomen pensioners. The Department for Work and Pensions has produced statistics to frighten the public into believing that compensating 3.8 million women born in the 1950s who lost out through the rise in the pension age from 60 to…

While Tories distract us with Brexit, the NHS has just slipped out its first price list for treatments

Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
Please don’t say you weren’t warned. Because you’ve been warned time and time and time again the Tories are stealthily privatising the NHS. This doesn’t mean just handing over hospitals and NHS services to private firms. It means stealthily introducing actual charges to NHS patients at point of need.…

I am losing my mind and no bloody wonder

Over the last many months I have been battling with losing the plot completely. Every day has become an unbelievable battle with constant panic attacks, heart pounding anxiety and barely contained, and almost impossible to restrain, livid fury. The most ridiculous banal things trigger an explosive rage that I have never previously experienced: the loo […]