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Western Blog: Easy Come, Easy Go
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Friday, 11 May 2007. Easy Come, Easy Go. Well folks, we're living through the greatest display of HMG waste and mismanagement of taxed funds the UK has probably ever seen. They get away with it because the sums are so eye-wateringly huge. It's difficult for the average tax payer to comprehend. Average Tax Revenue from Joe Bloggs Average (based on the average UK salary of 24,000). 1 - £2 billion Gold Sales Loss. 4 - £1 billion Millenium Dome. Easy Come, Easy Go.
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Western Blog: Pray you don't get burned in Cornwall
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Saturday, 9 June 2007. Pray you don't get burned in Cornwall. With the ongoing deterioration in funding for non-profit making hospital services like 'Burns Services' in the Westcountry, people with serious burns must now travel all the way to Bristol to get life saving treatment. This means that a child that burns itself in Penzance must travel 190miles, a journey of at least 3 hours 30 minutes on a good day. What do I mean by 'non-profit making services'?
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Western Blog: Westcountry Politics on the Web
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Tuesday, 17 April 2007. Westcountry Politics on the Web. It's surprisingly hard to find any decent output from local politicians or bloggers in the region, but it's not for a lack of material! In no particular order! Peoples' Republic of South Devon - a community based blog with big plans. Http:/ standup4seaton.blogspot.com/. Devonport Column - A highly promising site that seems to have many birdies in hard to reach places. Who is real Cornish? If a cat is bo...
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Western Blog: May 2007
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Friday, 11 May 2007. Easy Come, Easy Go. Well folks, we're living through the greatest display of HMG waste and mismanagement of taxed funds the UK has probably ever seen. They get away with it because the sums are so eye-wateringly huge. It's difficult for the average tax payer to comprehend. Average Tax Revenue from Joe Bloggs Average (based on the average UK salary of 24,000). 1 - £2 billion Gold Sales Loss. 4 - £1 billion Millenium Dome. Easy Come, Easy Go.
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Western Blog: Out of Hours - OOH
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Monday, 23 April 2007. Out of Hours - OOH. The penny pinching and stealthy privatisation of critical health services continues with the Cornwall 'OOH' or Out of Hours GP contract being awarded to Serco in 2005. It's all going horribly wrong. Patsy Hewitt was surprisingly honest. Recently describing the Serco operation as 'very poor'. This from a BBC report in 2005:. KernowDoc executive director Phil Trevail said he was extremely disappointed by. Is a huge, fa...
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Western Blog: The Power of the Blog
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Friday, 27 April 2007. The Power of the Blog. MTAS is a government computer project that, as usual, has gone horribly wrong. MTAS has been used to centralize and streamline the way doctors apply for their jobs. The result is the creation of some kind of lunatic, with doctors having to re-apply for the jobs they had found quite nicely under the 'read a job advert - send in a CV - get an interview' method. Was taken to close down the MTAS site. Important one, i...
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Western Blog: Bernard Matthews Compensation
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Saturday, 21 April 2007. I, like many MPs that were uncomfortable. With the bootiful Bernard Matthews payout this week, couldn't help thinking back to the summer of slaughter during Foot and Mouth. It was also 'uncomfortable' to see the apparent glee with which MAFF (now DEFRA of course) set about slaughtering millions of livestock using dodgy science. This sort of thing has typified the Blair era, although that's another story. Not Foot and Mouth. Windows xp...
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Western Blog: 1st Annual WesternBlog MP Awards
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Wednesday, 18 April 2007. 1st Annual WesternBlog MP Awards. It is with great anticipation that I open the nominations for the WesternBlog MP awards 2007. The award will go to one of our regional MPs (in Devon or Cornwall) that readers think spends the least amount of time actually in the West Country. Yes folks, the worst 'absentee MP in the region' is to be honoured for disservices to the community. Send in your nominations now! Or comments under this post.
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Western Blog: June 2007
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Politics, Humour and Life in the Westcountry. Saturday, 9 June 2007. Pray you don't get burned in Cornwall. With the ongoing deterioration in funding for non-profit making hospital services like 'Burns Services' in the Westcountry, people with serious burns must now travel all the way to Bristol to get life saving treatment. This means that a child that burns itself in Penzance must travel 190miles, a journey of at least 3 hours 30 minutes on a good day. What do I mean by 'non-profit making services'?
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The book, the website and the last word | save wye
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How an English village fought for its future and won. Project Alchemy … the legacy. The principal players – where are they now? The book, the website and the last word. March 30, 2007. Early January and an iron-cold easterly has given way to the wet warmth of a south-westerly. The post-Christmas week’s heavy dump of snow is all gone save for the odd grey patch piled up in farm gateways, thawing rapidly and leaving a smudged reminder of the beauty of a real Kentish winter. But then there is David Hewson.