Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Frothy and Triumphant! Oh Come Lefties, Come Ye to anti ConDem-nay-tion!

A piece about the Scotland reaction as referred to above www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/12/21150319

If anyone wants an example of how not having a SureStart centre is actively compromising some community health services do please pm me.

To give you an idea: we don't have SS in my town although there are some geographically nearby. There were plans afoot to move child health, antenatal and postnatal services including breastfeeding support to the nearest SureStart. Unfortunately the area currently being served by existing provision is not accessible on direct public transport and would mean anyone unable to drive (lots of people don't run a car in London and c-section prohibits driving for a while) would struggle to get there.

The idea of having to take a train/bus and another bus plus potentially walk a long distance with birth injuries, older children and then fold the buggy on a packed bus that runs half as often as other services and is full of elderly users because it's their only means to get up a very steep hill is ludicrous. The reasoning? The SS centre is in an area of deprivation so gets the funding. The original area is not although there is a clinical need and considerable evidence that early intervention in child and maternal health leads to reduced nhs costs later. This area has a higher maternal age than most and consequently an increased risk of postnatal depression, c-section rates and other factors associated with older mothers.

We've got another bit in a "paper" paper.li/shan_bally/1292610308

Point me in the right direction, I'll add to it Knotty x

I have volunteered to do the Surestart blog for the Twelve Days of Christmas, maybe Mousey's paragraph and my bit could go together?

I'll be out of action for Christmas eve, day and Boxing Day, I'm afraid.

Have all the family descending. Festive chaos!

So, if anything more needs doing, I'll need to do it tomomorrow!

Mousey's post is now in drafts.

I haven't spilt it into two. Could be possible although it would need more about Surestart. At the mo, that is a short paragraph really.

That's a brilliant post garlic - the bit where the amounts are compared to time is really helpful. I am useless with big numbers. God it's scary stuff isn't it? :(

MrsH, have you a link to that?

EXCELLENT work GC !! "£19,608 per UK adult" am in

How about for Xmas Eve and Xmas Day we take a break. Post up a nice festive picture of a Christmas past - Dickensian maybe - could make a point without having to actually write anything? And then crack on with 12 days? Mousey's post could it be split into 2, one for DLA cuts and one for Sure Start cuts to fit in with the plans?

We've all encountered Froth-rage I think and I for once don't fancy being frothy over Christmas - I know I should care because it's important and I do but Christmas and peaceful time off with your families is important too.

What does everyone think?

I am having the most horrific problems with my internet connection and fear that I'm not going to be able to get the xmas eve blog written let alone posted.

sorry all.

Has anyone else seen that the Scottish Parliament wants to block the introduction of UC because they deem the new system to unfair on the most vulnerable?

Fantastic blog post this morning. It really helped me visualise the scale of it all. Thank you.

Mme - you are certainly none of that!

and Te - many thanks for adding the Shelter campaign to the petitions

Okay all done, if I've missed one let me know.

I was going to tell you something Mme but can't for the life of me think what it was.

oh, I am tedious.

And wrong.

And unreasonable.

And cannot be bothered arguing any more.

Going for a shower, then got an appointment with DD's teacher.

Everyone is just magnificent.

Thanks Te, that was next on my list.

Am currently in discussions with those who state that the poor bankers, they shoudl get their bonus cause it was in their contract.

Caught up on the blog and it's going so well - tax avoidance and the numbers concept going next to each other really worked.

I had false labour again last night so feeling pretty blue. Will update the petitions page now.

(if anyone else wants to add a petition there is an edit button - a little pencil - at the bottom of that page which can be used to add things)

I've got a blog post from our lovely Mouseface.
I'll upload it to draft/edit section later on today. It's about DLA and how the cuts could impact on Mousey and her family. She also talks about how Surestart has made such a difference to their lives.

It had me rather weepy reading it. Consider yourselves warned.

Blog direct is fine on bog standard Internet Explorer. Good job, lady!

Garlic, that is brilliant! I finally get the numbers thing. You are a genius

oh, and good job on the blog redirect. I must admit that it is Frothers in my head, and I forget that the blog has a different name.

Fab blog post, Garlic. And ties in well with this story today

We should perhaps start MN blog posts on the theme of the day, being careful not to be blog spammy though.

I'm overjoyed (and surprised!) to get a reply at this time, Isla - welcome to Insomniacs R Us

Haven't 'designed' the mobile site, just used one of the presets. Mine renders the full site, so I haven't seen it for real. Maybe try some of the other mobile templates and pick the one your wank phone likes best?

Hope you slept well. x

Blog redirect works beautifully on Chrome. I have some issues with the mobile site but I don't know what's the best thing to do. Some of the text looks cut and paste and it's white words on black background so it can be hard to read. I can't go to full site from my iphone which is a shame. It looks beautiful on the full site though.

Great blog post garlic. Really clearly show what these incomprehensible numbers actually mean and nice clear actions. 10/10

Now away to my bed.

fuck you're and tasks

Oh ... after seeing MmeLindt's faux pas on the blogging thread, I set up frothers.blogspot.com which should redirect straight to the real blog. Will be grateful for a couple of tests.