Is anyone a fan of the ConDem coalition? I was scared and unsettled in May, and I am still scared and unsettled now. Particularly with this list of quangos to be axed.

In another time, I’d perhaps have agreed that there were too many, and certainly some replicate the work of other bodies.  And this may still be true. However; the ones I know about (and the ones which affect me. Directly) do make a difference by providing practical/financial support.

This government is obsessed with paid work, and certainly it is a tragedy that so many people who could and who in the main want to work do not.  However; I do work, and so does Dr Usfun.  I need social care regardless of whether I’m working or not, it isn’t an income replacement benefit.  (For which there is a need, but that’s a different rant)

Being able to go the loo when you want, being able to eat/drink when you want, these aren’t luxuries.  Why are those under even more threat? Already there is charging for such services; yet not for refuse collection, or for education in schools? Of course there shouldn’t be a charge for that either, but either way the system is utterly broken. And I feel rather sick.