Commissioner questions

I found an interesting post on the Labour Uncut site: "Question time for commissioner candidates."

Of course in Leicestershire we are not being balloted about our candidate - Sarah was the only person shortlisted.  However we now know that former air chief marshal Sir Clive Loader has been chosen as the Tory candidate.  I wonder what his view would be on the deployment of tasers and water cannons?

NB: Sir Clive already has his campaign website up and running.  Click here to view it.

NHS Risk Register

The government notoriously refused to release the risk assessment into the so-called reform of the NHS despite the findings of the Information Commissioner.  As usual, someone has leaked part of it and colleagues from the Socialist Health Association have helpfully posted it on their site.  It only covers the West Midlands, but I can't see the risks will be any different here in the East.

I am adding the SHA to the links on the righthand side of this blog.

Branch comments on current affairs

At the May Branch meeting we discussed how the Government is struggling just now. Camerons and Osbornes weaknesses are really showing through, and they respond badly under pressure, as shown at PMQ, where Ed Milliband is certainly raising his game in attacking the Tories.

The Governments seems to ge going from one catastrophe to another: Our economy has shrunk again, with the dreaded double dip recession; huge numbers of young people are out of work; the Jeremy Hunt affair is dragging on; the outrageous suggestion of moving poor London people out of the capital en masse is shocking the voters; and while there are deep cuts to legal aid, there is a planned, unwanted, hugely costly re-organisation of the NHS. What next from this coalition?

The time is right for Labour to take the stage with new policies for a win at the next General Election.