Philip Hammond - "To build a stronger, fairer, better Britain." (576)

To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary,
and
To the Health secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 576.

576) Philip Hammond - "To build a stronger, fairer, better Britain."

Dear Mr Clark and Mr Hunt,

We thought the Philip Hammond saved his best joke for the end of his speech when he suggested his budget would help to, "build a stronger, fairer, better Britain."

Just exactly how breaking Conservative Party Manifesto pledges exemplifies; strength, fairness and betterness in post-Brexit Britain, he didn't say but today's excuse seems to be that,
"Circumstances have moved on."

Circumstances always move on but things seem to inevitably remain the same for many struggling under the Chancellor's Policies For Austerity.

Q. Mr Clark, isn't a Conservative Party Manifesto in the hands of a Chancellor like Philip Hammond very much like A Full Structural Survey in the hands of an inadequately regulated RICS surveyor - ie not worth the paper they're written on?

The Chancellor told us that,
"everyone should enjoy security and dignity in old age."
Yes they should. So why don't they?

Q. Mr Hunt, isn't the reason why the sick, the elderly and the dying do not enjoy security and dignity in old age, due in large part, to the appalling, inhumane, barbaric extortion racket that masquerades as The National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care?

Philip Hammond stated that,
"we are ensuring that local authorities and the NHS work more closely together."
The information I received under the data Protection Act would suggest that that can't come quickly enough for Plymouth City Council, Livewell Southwest Ltd., the "inadequate" NEW Devon and, most importantly, the people of Devon, where it would seem that,
"of course this is only about the money."

Otherwise things would be different. Circumstances need to move on. Rapidly.

The market in social care needs to be embedded in society. It needs to be totally transparent. The healthcare professionals working in it need to be totally accountable when demonstrating their, "duty of care" to the sick, the elderly and dying. At present they hide behind a cloak of anonymity.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert.