RESPONDING to news that headteachers have written to 23,000 Thurrock families about worsening school budget shortages after the Education Secretary refused to meet with them, Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Thurrock – John Kent – said:
“Thurrock youngsters are paying the price for austerity.
“I am proud of Thurrock’s schools and all those who work so hard with our young people – and I am proud of the improvements we have seen in local schools. From 2013 – 2016 the amount of our youngest children attending a school rated as “Good” or “Outstanding,” by Ofsted, went up from 33% to 95%. It is really worrying that recent poor inspection outcomes has seen that progress dropping back.
Funding may not be the only reason for poor performance but it is a disgrace that in one of the richest countries in the world headteachers are sending begging letters to parents to ask for money for basic supplies.
“It is, also, incredible that the Education Secretary won’t meet with headteachers. After all, what could be more important for any Education Secretary than the education of our children and meeting with teachers who are concerned about school budgets?
“The Government needs to listen to these teachers instead of repeating dodgy and misleading statistics about school funding.”
If Labour hadn’t adopted a spend, spend, spend policy we wouldn’t need to have such austerity measures in place.
Blame Labour if any one.
Actually it’s not just the young who are paying for austerity, it’s the poor, the sick and the disabled. It’s a real pity that there are morons out there who still blame Labour for a global financial crisis that started in the US and ignore the fact that they only bailed out the banks that started failing in the UK with the support of the Tories who have since claimed they had no hand in the bailing out of the banks that left the coffers empty. Those same morons probably don’t realise that the UK debt has more than doubled since the Tories took power and are so financially inept that a single minister, Chris ‘Failing’ Grayling, has made so many mistakes that he’s cost the taxpayer a total of £2.3 BILLION on his own and that doesn’t even include the money some other Tories have wasted on the Universal Credit debacle and costing more than they saved with their welfare ‘reforms’. But let’s not let facts get in the way of smearing the Labour party, eh?
One of the problems society faces is the parasites that claim benefits claiming to be unfit for work. Mental health is the new “bad back” and they know it. Some even prepared to put pitiful video’s on line, and I mean pitiful.
We need to start weeding out these workshy spongers and allocating the money to the real needy, even more so put it into the education system to fund those who will can contribute to society and not just drain it week after week.
Let’s start getting the once great country back on it’s feet and start by making the workshy pick up the litter along our roads and the fly tipping that blights out streets. I’m sure they could manage that to start.
Some people think that mental ill-health is a cause for abusing sufferers because they have absolutely no knowledge of the conditions they abuse people for having or empathy for the sufferers.
A major report stated that major depression is thought to be the second leading cause of disability worldwide and a major contributor to the burden of suicide and ischemic heart disease. [Whiteford, H. A. et al. (2013) Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet. 382 (9904). pp. 1575-1586]. And in the UK, depression was ranked at number three in terms of years lived with a disability.
Commenting on a study on depression, Dr Daniel Chisholm, a health economist at the department for mental health and substance abuse at the World Health Organization said depression was a very disabling condition. Experts reporting in the peer-reviewed open access journal PLOS Medicine stated that depression must be treated as a global public health priority.
Dr Alize Ferrari from the University of Queensland’s School of Population Health who led a study into depression stated that “Depression is a big problem and we definitely need to pay more attention to it than we are now,” and that there’s “still more work to be done in terms of awareness of the disease and also in coming up with successful ways of treating it. Dr Ferrari continued that “There’s lots of stigma we know associated with mental health,” and that “What one person recognises as disabling might be different to another person and might be different across countries as well, there are lots of cultural implications and interpretations that come in place, which makes it all the more important to raise awareness of the size of the problem and also signs and how to detect it.”
In 2013, the World Health Organisation launched a global mental health action plan to raise awareness among policy-makers because not enough was being done at that level to address the causes and potential treatments of depression.
Dr Raj Persaud from the Maudsley Hospital stated “The illness depression is a serious medical condition with biological changes in the body and definite brain changes. This is why those who experience depression need professional help. The danger of this public perception is that people may leave it too long before seeking help – when depression has an excellent prognosis if recognised early and treated properly.”
In the UK, due to Tory cuts, access to psychotherapy is severely curtailed meaning that people who may be able to be helped by such therapies aren’t able to get that help so their disabling condition will not improve or may well worsen. And, due to the harsh and discriminatory benefits assessment process that some sufferers are being subjected thanks to the Tories, the prognosis is that their conditions will worsen more often than not. The same harsh disability benefits assessment process has also driven people with no history of mental ill-health into depressive illnesses and anxiety due to the stress meaning that the over-stretched mental health services are being called upon to treat people they would not have had to treat.
Of course, the above situation only covers depression and doesn’t even consider the other mental health conditions people may have instead of or in addition to depression. Some people with depression also have other mental health conditions that cause complications in treatment that further disable them and a mentally unwell person tends to have lower levels of physical health as well leading to a vicious cycle adding to depressive symptoms.
Thanks to the Tories, some people with mental ill-health are also suffering from Victorian-era physical health conditions that further disable them.
Of course, the UK needs funding increases for education so that today’s pupils can learn the essential things needed for communication (such as sentence structure and proper use of contractions) and some history to put delusional ideas such as the UK being a once great nation out of their minds.
Some people might think that the expert testimony and reports that I have quoted from or referred to above don’t make the case for depression being a disabling condition but until they can quote scientifically-backed facts or expert testimony for their contrary case on depression they only show themselves to be ignorant, discriminatory morons. There couldn’t be anyone that stupid, could there?
Oh, here we go – more cut and paste to try and justify why the new “bad back” is draining the taxpayer.
Put all these work shy people on a work program,re-educate them to understand real life and not a parasitic one, give them skills to get back in the work place and contribute to society. Use the money saved to fund education, that way we can get people in work, with skills and in one generation get rid of the ‘sponger’ mentality.
Some people don’t like being confronted by quotes and facts that totally destroy their pathetic attempts to push the myth that mental ill-health isn’t disabling. They also don’t understand that to quote someone requires, on computers at least, the ‘copy and paste’ method on occasion. It is proof that a person can’t counter an argument when they provide no facts to back up their case and resort to attacking a necessary method someone uses to provide expert testimony and facts to bolster their argument. But there couldn’t be anyone that desperate, ignorant, and hateful enough to do that, could there?
looks like TGDH’s calling you a parasite, Valen?
TGDH
“draining the taxpayer. ‘sponger’ mentality.”
How many times Have I told you about the 2.1trillion national debt and corporate debt bubble that those banksters caused. How many times have you had the chance to do the above. Banksters are KILLING this great country. they still take billions and lose it and make losses. they are insolvent anyway. Its time to kill the banksters and let the real banks take there place. It’s called Capitalism something you AIn’t.
TGDH
“Put all these work shy people on a work program,re-educate them to understand real life and not a parasitic one, give them skills to get back in the work place”
They were around but the government cut them. which was suicidal. I am all for schemes like this that get everyone possible into work. and not just work but self employed as well.
Catching the Bus – I don’t really see how TGDH can possibly be referring to me in the comment you refer to as I don’t see myself described in the comment. True, TGDH has called me a parasite in the past but, if he was referring to me, I’m sure he would have said so. He’s not backward in coming forward with personal attacks against me that are completely groundless and cannot back up with any evidence whatsoever. As you know yourself, I have lots of medical evidence for my conditions and have passed multiple disability benefit assessments despite the fact that they are designed to be overly-harsh to people with mental health issues so TGDH obviously can’t be referring to me.
If, on the extremely remote chance he was talking about me in his comment, he must have seen something that made him think that I was talking about him and his views in my comment that didn’t refer to him in any way and set about trying to attack me. However, I can’t believe that his comment was aimed at me because it ignored the point I was making about the groups who are equally affected by the austerity measures and that there is a large proportion of the electorate who ignorantly blame Labour for a financial crisis that started in the US and who ignore the obvious financial incompetence of the current bunch of Tories. I’m sure he’s not the sort of person who would ignore facts just to make a personal attack on poor old me.
I did notice that he posted another attack on someone regarding mental health and such but, again, he can’t have been referring to me in any way as it didn’t contain anything to counter the facts and expert testimony I gave as proof of the disabling nature of depression. I doubt he’d ignore facts and expert testimony to launch a childish attack on me because he doesn’t have any counter-arguments to use.
I actually alluded to the mountain of debt that has doubled since the Tories took power in 2010 but didn’t give a figure because I still had the £1.9 trillion figure and I knew it had increased since that was released so thanks for updating me on the actual figure. So, and correct me if I’m wrong, that means the Tories have added about £1.1 trillion to the national debt as I’m sure the debt level as of May 2010 was about £0.9 trillion. Or, at least, between £0.9 and £1 trillion. Makes you wonder why people think the Tories are financially competent, doesn’t it? And begs the question – if the Tories have borrowed £1.1 trillion, why are public services and the welfare budget so underfunded and being forced to make even more cuts? Where has all the money the Tories have borrowed to increase the debt to more than double its size gone? I wonder if anyone can offer any suggestions that don’t include blaming Labour?
I congratulate you on remembering Remploy as it is a shadow of its former self thanks to Tory cuts and, don’t forget, the cuts to the Access To Work scheme which has made it harder for disabled people to get into work. I know there were cuts to the scheme that provided reasonable adjustments to workplaces to aid disabled people to get into work but I can’t remember if that was the Access To Work scheme or another one. Perhaps you know?
Thanks for worrying about me, CTB, but, like I said, I don’t think TGDH can be talking about me. Yes, he’s an extremely angry man who hates everyone and everything that isn’t him but, on this occasion, I don’t think he was having a go at me. He’s just aimlessly hitting out at a world that he doesn’t like and, quite possibly, doesn’t like him back. Sad really. I’ve even been trying to ignore him when I’ve posted comments but he seems to see himself in my comments and that’s just paranoid thinking in my honest opinion.
Access To Work was one scheme. It did help with costs for employers to get the adaptation equipment.
Which was an investment as the disabled person then paid back with income taxes. So it was a win win.
“I congratulate you on remembering Remploy as it is a shadow of its former self thanks to Tory cuts”
Yes I have alot of time for them as they were setup after WW2 to help Blind WW2 veterans gain employment after the war.
The large scale Factory closures have been devastating for the blind most of the people didnt gain employment afterwards and are still on benefits.
I am worried for them because I fear someone like TDGH will say kill them they are a burden on society and you cannot help those kinds of people.
Catching the Bus – Yeah, I can’t remember if they were separate schemes or the same one though.
I had a plan for a mental health service user-led organisation that would have offered employment and voluntary placements for people with mental health issues that had support amongst progressive service users but it failed to get beyond my initial plan because the MH commissioners refused us funding for a few public meetings to drum up enough support in the service user community to push the plans forward. Just another example of discrimination against people with mental health problems. The commissioners probably thought we couldn’t be trusted to run our own organisation. It’s the kind of mentality that virtually gallops through the population, the same mentality that believes that mental ill-health can’t be disabling.
As I have mentioned before on here before girls – I am all for helping the genuine in need, disabled or not. What you don’t know is in fact I do in my job most days. It is the fakers and the parasites we need to deal with so the genuine can get the help they need.
I hope that clears up my position for you.
Some people just can’t admit that they personally attack others because they lack the intellect to construct arguments with facts and just want to hit out at someone they perceive to be weaker than themselves to make themselves feel stronger. Those same people also can’t admit to being totally and utterly wrong and admit their error because they don’t want to reveal their utterly abhorrent nature to the world or their inferiority. They also tend to backtrack so fast and hard that they risk injuring themselves to try to minimise their humiliation. And to think, if people like that actually thought before they mouthed off, they wouldn’t look such utter morons.