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

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Fed up of the ConDems robbing the poorest and most vulnerable blind? Sympathetic to the squeezed middle? Have you eyes that can see the horrors that await the dismantling of our welfare state and all that is great and good in UK?

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This is our 4th thread now!

Should be something in your inbox Mme :)

Thanks, Christine. Will put it on the blog now.

Now I could be mis-remembering but didn't Scotland contribute huge amounts to the British economy from oil and gas? Far in excess of the large subsidies from Westminister which have historically funded these sorts of things??

Sitting in London I feel quite jealous of Scotland with no student fees, free prescriptions etc etc when I can't afford to have a second child because of housing costs, exorbitant childcare costs and university fees. Plus paying for the bloody white elephant that is the Olympics. I want what Scotland has!

Funded free higher education and other things like free prescriptions I mean. Not these sorts of things.

Are Scotland dwellers also not paying for the Olympics then Isla?

Living here is not like the land of milk and honey believe me, unless you are very sick and go to Uni of course then I suppose it is

here are issues that are devolved www.scotland.gov.uk/About/18060/11552 in laymans terms the only benefits we see on a day to day basis are the tuition fees and free eye tests/prescriptions.

Here is what is not devolved www.scotland.gov.uk/About/18060/11555

Can someone on tmc twitter please tweet about wanting contributers/writers for the blog so I can rt it, there was one the other day but so far gone I can't find it now, thanks!

We're paying extra in London via council tax.

I think I've got a guest blogger. I'm just talking her through it all!

Isla, I suppose the thinking behind it is that Londoners will benefit from the lasting legacy of the facilities?

Well done Knotty :) I'm still waiting to hear back from the person I contacted, or maybe they are just not interested

Someone on twitter is looking interested in guest blogging :) asked them to tweet tmc and someone there will sort her out, hope that was correct!

Have DMed the Womble with my email address.

Good twitter work, ava.

Frothing Angry has been frothing up a storm too today :)

Knotty - FB message waiting for your eye to cast over x

< checking in >

Good going today folks, will get twittering later when I have soaked my feet and boiled my head

Loving the name AF, tis me, Mouseface

hi Mousey

Taking some time out as real life is intruding so will see you all tomorrow and will get cracking on my post.

Great feedback from tweeting for guest bloggers from @liberatedwomble @carerwatch @imalrightjack and rting from some fab charities/organisations.

it's slowly working!
And proof it does make a difference here www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/21/12/2011/117890/Top-five-victories-against-social-care-cuts-of-2011.htm

have a good evening everyone

Hello Mouseface - I recognise you from Woolly threads!

I have read and tweeted a lot about homelessness today, and there is a campaign on the Shelter website that if possible I would like to add to the Petitions page on the blog. Can someone have a look at Shelter and see? It has been going a while but is still going strong.

They are campaigning against Government cuts reducing temporary housing support, changing the rules on council support and restricting free legal advice for those in need.

There's also one asking for emails to be sent to Housing Minister Grant Shapps about rogue landlords. Now I haven't seen that Dispatches programme, it was broadcast in the summer did anyone see it? That campaign is still going on, and could be added too?

I'm out now this evening, but if anyone can have a look at Shelter and the petition, and see what you think I'd be grateful.

Mousey, I've messaged you back, my lovely

Hello I am back. I had to do some RL stuff. I've given DS a gingerbread man so I reckon I have 30 seconds(!)

Ava, re Olympics yes that is what we have been told. Except that many promised local projects have been cut. I say local - I'm in w London so we've seen nothing. There's also allegations of corruption regarding the awarding and purchasing of facilities post games. What we will get is an influx of visitors, road closures, high liklihood of chaos on public transport and an increased terror threat.

Ava - I am SO frothing!!! Have been compliling figures. I thought someone would have done it by now, but can't find 'em so am making charts to show how else the deficit could be met. It's exhausting (daren't get it wrong) but throwing up more nuggets than I have time to tweet!

Looking forward to your post :)

evening all

sorry i haven't been frothing much RL has got in the way and been down a+e with dd this afternoon

just going to catch up now

blackout
What was wrong with DD? Hope she is ok.

oh yeah she is fine the bugger

today was the day where she has managed to pull herself up (she is 9 months). found her eating my poinsetta plant. both me and dp had always thought that the leaves were posinious.

anyway, the lovely doctor told us that she would have to eat her own body weight to have any effect and only then it would be a case of d+v

so came back home looking very

oh God. What a fright.

I heard that poinsettias are poisonous too.