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The elderly
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Showing posts with label
The elderly
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20 November 2014
Cheese-paring the winter fuel allowance
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The government is always cheese-paring towards those of pensionable age. The population of people of pensionable age is likely to have a h...
05 November 2012
Fast Track to losing your freedom
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The time it takes to diagnose dementia is to be slashed from 18 months to just three following a scientific breakthrough. David Cameron will...
11 July 2012
Tax the pensioners till the pips squeak
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Attention continues to be focused on the population of pensioners. This is a group with an average IQ above that for the population as a who...
31 December 2011
Who cares?
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Recent remarks by the Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow, express the warmest goodwill towards unpaid carers who help elderly relatives. B...
29 December 2011
The welfare wolves close in
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As has been pointed out, pensioners are fair game for anything because they constitute a population with an above-average IQ. At the start o...
12 May 2011
Herded into mega care homes
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Why should the state provide ‘care homes’ anyway? Because it is nowadays theoretically responsible for keeping everybody physically alive, ...
11 April 2011
The mansion tax
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One of the principles of a fair and sensible tax system, says Philip Collins [in The Times ], should be to avoid taxing effort and work, and...
23 December 2010
Benefits Christmas
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The Daily Mail has an article about a mother with four children, living on benefits, who is planning to spend a large sum on giving the chi...
01 March 2007
"The over-60s are not worth treating"
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Recently the Daily Mail reported that 1 in every 2 GPs said that patients (victims) over the age of 60 were not worth diagnosing or treatin...
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