Sorry Folks not all of us had it so good!

Make sure you all begin and carry on the fight for justice in 2011, everyone has a story be wary this could also very easily become yours.

The 12 Days Of Cripmas is a topical take of a classic carol listing the benefits and services currently being removed from disabled people in Britain.

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The lyrics were written by a user of the Ouch messageboards, sent to Where's The Benefit and the track produced and directed by BendyGirl of The Broken Of Britain. We're all incredibly proud of Imana our 11 yr old singing star who is a child carer for her mum who has Multiple Sclerosis. Please share this track everywhere and let's see if we can get it some national media attention!
Thanks, Kaliya aka BendyGirl

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Happy New Year 2011

May love, light, peace and joy waltz into all your hearts in 2011 (hug)



Another year has passed, bad memories put to rest,
The good ones holding promise keep safe unto the breast,
If not all that has been said has not been duly done,
Be thankful for a new year when more progress can be won,
What ere man’s inhumanity to man has been the costly sum,
Another chance is here again to fight for better things to come,
May the voices of the angels rally those who care,
To make this world a better place in which we all can share,
Righteousness and love for all not just for the favoured few,
Universal love and kindness will build a kingdom that is new.
Pamela V Hall

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Shortfall of Over 20,000 Carers in UK now

It is well to remember that there is already a huge shortfall of carers in the UK now and it is no surprise that the figure will rise dramatically to a shortfall of 250,000 family carers by 2041

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332215/Family-breakdown-leaving-generation-elderly-parents-isolated-lonely.html



It would be wonderful if by remembering the true meaning of Christmas if family and neighbours would decide that as well as of spending money on celebration in order to forget for a short while things they would prefer to forget, and spending money on gifts that may possibly lead to debt, that everyone would do an act of kindness for the elderly, disabled, and those in need without asking for payment, as Jesus said “If you do it for the least of these you do it unto me”

It is true that financial payment should not be expected to be given to those who give freely from their heart to those they love and care for, but it is essential that all carers in this world should be in circumstances that enable them to live in order to give, “We are not always given what we want but what we need in order to grow” all carers need to live and survive to be able to do that and the UK government are not providing the means.

Those who are wealthy and comfortable may regard themselves as winners and the rest as survivors, or losers, rich or poor it is the survivors who are the winners in the end it is vital how we choose to be one. All our bodies eventually become dust and it is our choice to leave behind only good energy to remain and continue, as good and bad always reaps what it sows.

Make the meaning of Christmas count and be at peace and enjoy, for inward peace lasts, happiness and unhappiness doesn’t. May life smile on you all with good health and strength and many heaven sent blessings now and in the new year.

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Are we Allowing Ourselves to be used as Guinea Pigs?

Meat and milk from cloned animals has now been cleared for sale in the UK without safety checks. The Food Standards Agency ruled the food is not a danger to health and does not need special labelling; this is happening worldwide, meat can now be sold in the UK without safety checks, in spite of high levels of miscarriage, organ failure, and gigantism among clones. There seems to be little concern of possible dangerous steps towards inhuman factory farming. Caroline Spelman Environment Food and Rural Affairs secretary has rejected a ban on the sale of food from clones or their descendants, and her department also opposes labelling denying people choice. Many are afraid about eating cloned food because of concerns that there has been far too little research to guarantee its safety. Even if it tastes good do we have to consume it and trust to luck? We have all been given from the beginning of time the gift of choice, the right to choose, if we are not given that right to choose do we not then become a bunch of robots? How can we know without adequate research what physical effect this will have on us and our children in the future, are we to wait until a period of time has lapsed and when it is too late to realise that there are bad the effects on us and our offspring because not enough research was done, please! Consider the animals suffering an RSPCA spokesman said “Cloning has huge potential to cause unnecessary suffering and distress that cannot be justified by purely commercial benefits Peter Stevenson Chief Policy Advisor to Compassion in World Farming rejected the claim that it was too late to stop clone farming and food, He said “Yes cloning is with us but we are still at a stage where it is possible for us as a society to say we don’t want it on animal welfare grounds. The FSA’s line is an utter scandal, it is bogus to say clone animals cannot be traced, The FSA is betraying it’s founding principle of representing consumer interests.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336678/Food-Standards-Agency-gives-clone-food-final-ahead.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335516/Cloned-meat-gets-ahead-Minister-rejects-ban-despite-health-animal-welfare-fears.html

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pam-create@hotmail.co.uk

UK Government Manipulation by Stealth

Mr Cameron now states that he intends to spend 2 million pounds of tax payer’s money on getting government statisticians to measure what makes people happy. The Behavioural Insight Team led by economist David Halpern claim that they will find intelligent ways to encourage people to make better choices for themselves, it will build on the ‘Mindspace’ report commissioned by the previous labour government. This looked at ways of changing people’s behaviour by influencing not just what they consciously think but also by influencing their automatic processes- cues from the subconscious, from the behaviour of people around them, and from emotional situations that affect their decisions. This is frightening! Ministers say public well being increases if people are given the impression that they control their lives. Ministers by manipulating choices will then give people the impression that they are in control of the choices they are making.
Cass Sunstein President Obamas regulation czar an ultra-left radical with seriously anti-democratic ideas has advocated that the government should secretly feed apparently independent commentators with information in order to dupe the public into believing such government propaganda because it purports to be the commentators own opinion. Beware, why is David Cameron taking notice of ideas from such a source?

Please read Melanie Phillips full article in the Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1333922/Camerons-happiness-index-just-cynical-attempt-control-minds.html

Link Ministers still claiming and exploiting

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334884/MPs-exploit-loophole-profit-second-homes.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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Mental Illness

Little or nothing has been done in the last fifty years to improve mental health in the UK. There are new labels for mental problems some we never heard of years ago and an incredible increase in forms of depression, addiction, and personality disorders. New drugs maybe helpful to some patients and electric shock treatment is still available. Anyone who has had electric shock treatment knows it is not pleasant and has side effects which include short loss of memory and headache, sometimes severe. Although this may well have proved to have good results in some cases surely there has to be less barbaric treatments in this day and age for successful results. Expediency is not the answer and even if cut backs and under funding maybe responsible the person suffering is most important and should have the attention and correct treatment and medication that is best for them.
There are very often those who would benefit greatly from group therapy and more provision should be made available both for the patient and those who care for them. Waiting lists for treatment should be cut to the minimum as no one should have to beg for help as I personally know some have had to. Meanwhile many people with mental problems, plus addiction are living with their family, or worse still on their own. There are those being cared for at home by families, or a family carer who are inexperienced, they are not psychiatrists, trained psychologists, or mental nurses and have a great responsibility with little or no outside help. While more patients are now allowed to live at home or in outside accommodation it is important that more help is given to carers of the patient and to the patient themselves now or the consequences of having more mentally ill people in the community can only be of further concern in the future.
The carers at home are coping with an unstable situation because of some patient’s unpredictability and find it difficult to always get the help at the time when it is needed; this should not be ignored till it is too late. This is yet another priority that should be top of the list for the health of the nation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3625009.stm

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Carers Continually ignored

Not so long ago it was being considered that carers should be paid £110 per week for their valuable work which saves the government £86 billion pounds per year, now because of the terrible financial state the last government left us with it seems unlikely that carers will get the payment they so desperately need and deserve. When will everyone realise that until the carers of this world are put first nothing of significance will ever be lasting, it is those who put others needs at least equal or above their own instead of greed that change for all humanity will build a world society fit for all to live in.

It is good news that NICE has now made available the drugs costing two pounds fifty a day for those in the early stages of dementia, any medical advances are hugely welcome with regard to helping these sufferers bearing in mind that there will be an increase of many thousands of these sufferers of dementia and Alzheimers in the future, it also follows that what ever progress is made thousands of carers will also be needed many of whom are middle aged parents, also grandparents who having brought up and cared for their children and now find themselves also giving caring help for grandchildren at which time also due to us all living longer find their own aging parents in need of caring help. Because of the great burden placed on middle aged carers and grandparents the great- grandparents are then in a situation where one aged great-grandparent is left caring for their aged partner or one or both have to be placed in a care home many of which are being closed down, or are still unsuitable, or substandard such as was reported in the Daily Mail that at Parkside House 5 elderly people died of neglect in two weeks.
Daily Mail Dignity for the Elderly
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1318232/Five-care-home-residents-died-weeks-severe-neglect.html

We are left now with so many important priorities in society to be considered it is difficult to choose which should come first. Those who care should always come first, not greed or those who say I’m alright jack why should I care bout you. The Coalition government must pay attention to this now before the continual ill health of carers at home caused by being ignored drop from exhaustion or die as one in five are already doing so now, too soon who will be left to care for anyone.

Pam-create@hotmail.co.uk