I’m in a ‘safe’ Conservative seat but I’m definitely using my vote on 7 May - I always use my vote but this time around I really hope that all the non voters in this constituency get off their backsides and vote this time. I hate Cameron’s smug face and I hate the local Con’s smug face. He’s been our MP for 28 years and I’ve emailed him several times about the welfare cuts over the past 5 years. He sends me some patronising reply that is just waffle.
They spout their ‘we’re all in it together’ lies but they have no idea what it is like for those of us who have experienced their austerity measures.
I’m in work but on Working Tax Credits as I can only work 30 hours per week due to the fatigue. I’m scared witless that, when my DLA is transferred to PIP, I won’t qualify. This will mean a reduction in my WTC (the disability element) which has already been pared back thanks to the freeze on that too. I work in local government but I’m not one of the top or middle managers who was on a very high salary. I’m an admin assistant at the bottom on a modest income. Thanks to the 4 year pay freeze, I’m now very much worse off in real terms than I was 5 years ago. Every summer, I and my colleagues wait to see who still has a job or who has lost some hours as the threat of redundancy is a constant threat. Whenever I see Cameron’s smug face on TV telling me how many people are better off under his government, I just want to punch his lights out. The only thing stopping me is I don’t want to ruin my TV!! Grrr, he makes me so angry.
I dread to think what will happen to the most vulnerable people in our society if these toffs get back in power. To them, poverty is having to buy cava instead of champagne! I hope karma catches up with some of them big time.
I am VERY confused about this (noticed you have said it before). Who told you this about “no DMDs in Wales”?
Because I know, from personal experience and knowledge that it is NOT TRUE!
I moved to Wales in Autumn 2012. I was not on DMDs before I moved but my new Neurologist (in Wales) was keen to start me on DMDs from the first time she saw me. I was offered a choice of DMDs and plumped for Tysabri.
I have been on Tysabri for 18 months+ now and every time I attend for my infusion I see people - new faces as well as familiar ones - who are on Tysabri and other monitored medications.
My Neuro is heavily in favour of “aggressive” treatment but I know that some Neuros have a different view. My first Neuro in London, for example, was reluctant to start treatment with DMDs “too early” because he felt that there was a law of diminishing returns with any treatment and if you “wasted” the benefit too soon there was “a real possibility that you might not get the benefit when you needed it” (I don’t know either - if I was cynical I could think that, as he knew that a move was on the cards for me, he wanted to keep the cost of starting me on the medication off his London budget).
Is your Neuro a bit more on the “timid” side or is s/he unwilling to tell you that DMDs are not appropriate in your case? Let’s be honest, some supposed “experts” do bottle out when they are faced with telling the truth to informed and demanding patients. (BTW “demanding” is not meant in any negative way - it’s just that some people don’t like being faced with people that know what they want rather than people who are just grateful for what they are given!)
I am certainly not saying that everything in the Welsh NHS is fantastic - I know that it certainly isn’t - but there are lot of untruths and excuses given to people about what are actually problems with the NHS throughout the WHOLE country.
I am in South Wales and come under the Cardiff and Vale area.