Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP and Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru shouting down Nigel Farage is the only thing that gives me hope for British politics in the future
So glad someone GIF’d this
It’s also important to point out that what Farage said simply isn’t true.
According to Public Health England, which collects and analyses HIV statistics, 62% of people newly infected with the virus in 2012 were born in the UK. There are almost 100,000 people living with HIV in Britain.
Of the 53,000 heterosexuals with HIV, according to Public Health England, 11,000 were African-born men and 20,700 African-born women. Levels of HIV infection in these migrant groups are lower than in their country of origin.
Nor is there evidence that visitors come to the UK purely to get HIV treatment. Few of those later diagnosed as HIV accessed testing as soon as they arrived in the UK, according to the National Aids Trust, suggesting that they did not know of their status.
A House of Commons report on HIV in 2005 found that HIV-positive migrants tended not to turn to the NHS until the disease was well advanced, usually years after they entered the UK. This, it said “would not be the expected behaviour of a cynical ‘health tourist’ who had come to the country solely to access free services”.
Until relatively recently visitors to the UK from outside the European Economic Area could be charged for HIV treatment, an anomaly to established practice that anyone with an infectious disease should be able to access NHS treatment for free.
A rule change in October 2012 extended the right to free HIV treatment to all overseas visitors regardless of nationality, including asylum-seekers, students and tourists, bringing HIV into line with diseases such as meningitis, tuberculosis, cholera, food poisoning, and malaria.
The change was defended by the coalition on the grounds that it was essential to protect public health and prevent the spread of HIV. Free treatment would encourage testing, reduce levels of late diagnosis and the spread of infection, and cost the taxpayer less in the long run.
Despite opposition from a small group of Conservative backbench MPs, the move had widespread mainstream political support. Lord Fowler, who was Margaret Thatcher’s health secretary in the 1980s, described the case for change as “overwhelming in human terms”.
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What the fuck
Aylesbury Crown Court was played a video from the in-car camera of the officers laughing before PC Thomas chased Mr Ali on foot, in Luton.
PC Thomas, 33, of Welwyn Garden City, denies racially aggravated assault.
On 20 February, PC Pitts was driving when the two officers saw Mr Ali and they were heard laughing as he started jogging, the court was told.
PC Thomas was seen by a neighbour to get out of the car and attack Mr Ali by the bins, the jury was told.
He is then alleged to have struck Mr Ali again on the floor of his home.
Mr Ali ran from the hall to the back of the house, followed by the officer, but was stopped by his sister who got in between them.
PC Pitts left the car and also went into the house.
When they were asked what they were doing, the officers said Mr Ali may have been a burglar, or a robber and could have had a knife and stabbed someone. (x)
Faruk Ali, 33, was wearing flip flops and a long green coat when he was spotted by PC Christopher Thomas who is accused of calling him a : “F….. P…” (x)
this was also racially motivated, don’t forget that
the UK is no safe haven, pigs are universal
Jesus Christ. I was born in Aylesbury. :(
Police right now are fucking terrible.
I had a perfectly coherent post typed out regarding this, but I can’t really get the words out, it keeps coming back to THIS IS FUCKING DISGUSTING over and over again:
Fergus Wilson, who with his wife Judith owns nearly 1,000 properties around the Ashford area of Kent, made headlines at the weekend when the Guardian revealed he had sent eviction notices to 200 tenants who paid some of their rent with welfare payments.
On Monday night he told Channel 4 news that the decision was purely based on financial reasons, and that rent arrears were running at more than 50% in the homes he let to those receiving benefits.
“If I am heartless all the other landlords are heartless, because we’re all doing the same,” he said. “All the landlords will tell you that there is so much default now with housing benefit tenants that you are just simply better off with somebody working.”
Wilson admitted he did feel guilty about the people he was evicting, suggesting that some could be in dire circumstances. “It is very, very sad,” he said. “Particlarly, I feel sorry for battered wives who have come to us because we are very much consigning them to go back to their husbands to be beaten up again, but the situation is it cannot go on.” [x]
This man and his wife own nearly a thousand properties in the UK, are number 453 on the Sunday Times Rich List, and they are deliberately and cold-heartedly throwing people out on the streets knowing some of them will have to return to abusive spouses. And they don’t care, or they wouldn’t be doing it. (They also once attempted to sue a gas engineer for reporting that one of their properties was dangerous).
Fuck them. Fuck what this country’s becoming.
With Tumblr focusing so much on world politics right now, there is one British thing I haven’t seen much about, which is the news that a police smear campaign was set up to target the Lawrence family, and obstruct their chances of getting justice for their son.
Basically: a young black teenager was murdered, and the police sought to silence his friends and family – to make them out to be the villains, even – to take attention away from the calls for police reform.
It’s horrible. (And that’s not even the last of the police corruption stories coming out at the moment.) I have absolutely no idea how anyone would go about fixing a thing like this, so just…bear it in mind, I guess.
I love the royal family. It’s just like the best soap opera ever. You know, you’ve got two sons, one of whom is the perfect prince; he’s the heir to the throne and is expecting a child. The other is on the front line of a battle but spends his time with half nude women in Vegas. Then mum died tragically in what some people still think is a conspiracy. And then at the top you’ve got a doddery old bloke and a woman who doesn’t take any shit. If you threw in three dragons and a dwarf you’ve got season 2 of Game of Thrones.
Comedian Adam Hills on the Royal Family. (via youknowyourebritishwhen)