Its words I remember hearing once or twice back when I was at school and I feel that it won't be long before these words start getting shouted at us ' Immigrants '. Can't help but feel a bit unwanted and slightly hated by all this anti-immigration rhetoric! 1991 - My Mother and Father moved to the UK from Portugal bringing their four very young children (including me) along with them in search of a better life for themselves and a more promising future for their children. They knew only very basic English, having only worked a couple of summer seasons in Jersey prior to the big move, but this wasn't going to put them off the chance of having a better future. The kids went to state schools and my parents found jobs both working as cleaners, at times working 2 or 3 jobs each just to make ends meet in expensive London. Some time later their careers progressed very well in different directions and a lot of hard work later my parents managed to buy our f
Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor, has called for £1bn in bank fines to be used to fund the NHS . The money has been demanded by the Financial Conduct Authority as a penalty for the banks manipulating currency exchanges . The NHS has gone backwards since this current government took control, not only is it harder to see a GP but waiting lists in hospitals are on the rise again, A&E departments are in crisis, frontline NHS staff have been cut and most recently the Conservatives are trying to privatise the NHS ! If you need any reminding about how important the NHS is then all you need to do is watch Harry Leslie Smith's NHS speech . We need to do whatever we can to safeguard the NHS and protect it from declining any further. £1bn from the banks is a brilliant boost to the NHS but this is only a short term fix to these long term problems . What we need is a long term credible plan to fix the NHS and bring it back to the former glory that it was