What kind of fucking assumptions were made then; quote:
“We did make assumptions about lifestyle and we accept that we got that wrong. We will be implementing further training across the whole organisation. We abhor racism in any shape or form and we know that we have a responsibility to all our communities.”
I bet their What’s App chats would make ‘interesting’ reading.
I really would like them to publish their fucking “assumptions” because one could be forgiven for wondering if there could be some crass racial stereotyping.
And the lovely tories voted that that is ok, whilst taking money away from councils and forcing them to use these scummy private landlords and taking money off the people living there as well
Estate Managers as well. What passes for one where I live is somewhat less keen to visit our block.
This might be due to my response to a communication issued by this person a couple of years ago.
In this communication, this person appeared to target two neighbours; making unfounded accusations. The following incident was mentioned in the subsequent email in which I copied our Local MP:
When I asked this person what they were doing about the rat infestation, I was shouted at.
That was not a very good idea. I acknowledged the polite response of the rather uncomfortable looking Contractor- who said hello- and said that I do not appreciate being spoken to like that, and that I’ll be waiting by the front doors to talk about this.
I also mentioned Safety Critical repairs required on the stairs- loose and broken tiles; hallway, staircase and car park lighting and damage to property by contractors.
Oh, and as there was a comment about storage in “Common Areas” of bicycles and prams- permitted in the Title Deeds- being a “Fire Hazard” I asked when last Fire Safety Inspection was carried out and why this (three storey mid 'eighties) block had no Fire Extinguishers…
I got quite the response and oddly enough the Estate manager tends to avoid talking to me.
Quite frankly, I feel that a lot of this shit is related to an extremely weird Class System that appears to view people who rent as somehow inferior.
I’ve always challenged cunts on this and I did ask if I was being treated differently because I rent in the above mentioned email.
Cockpunch to whoever has left the ambulance service to get to breaking point. For example today:
First incident, young lady jumped in front of a car on purpose. She was hit, went over the bonnet and up and landed in the road. Broken shoulder, head injuries etc pretty bad, took two hours for ambulance to arrive even though the call was the highest priority they have. Couldn’t be moved by us safely and transported due to the level on injuries etc.
Second incident:
Person calls ambulance themselves at 2300 due to the level of pain they are in. At around 0530 they call the person back to try and tell them they are on route now 6 1/2 hours later. She doesn’t answer the call so they cancel the ambulance and call police to cover their back.
We have to go as anything could have happened causing this person to not answer the call. When I arrived I had enough grounds to force entry to the house from what I could see through the window. On finally waking the person it turns out they didn’t hear the call back as they were passed out due to the level of pain they were suffering. Call back ambulance asking them to attend on the hurry up as they kept slipping in and out of consciousness, struggling breathing etc. Still took another 2 hours before they could attend so total time from the first call to them to attendance of 9 hours. Again due to what was wrong with them we couldn’t move them safely so couldn’t just take them ourselves.
It’s not right, I feel sorry for whoever has to make these calls at their comms, and the crews who really must be so overrun at the moment.
So of my shift last night, literally half of it was waiting for ambulance and of that time 2 hours of it where paid over time for a double crew. Which at the end of the day is nothing as it meant the second example got the help they needed, however it is wasted tax payers money that shouldn’t be needing to be spent.
It is so common now for us to end up transporting people ourselves to hospital due to the waiting times and being so busy ourselves that we can’t get tied up just waiting for ambulance arrival.
It is bloody terrible at the moment. No doubt even when summertime does get to AE they are waiting on a corridor on a trolley. One of this issues is that hospitals are backed up with well and largely elderly who have no where else to go, adult social services having been ground down to a trailing service in many local authorities. Add to that the shortage of medical staff, the reduction in available beds due to cuts in capacity and the increase in demand for hospital services post Covid and you have a perfect storm.
Yes, its definitely a vicious cycle, people who aren’t engaged by services now will end worse and clogging them up rather than interventions preventing it.
I honestly can’t remember the last job I went to when I didn’t have to put in some sort of referral.
CP to Manchester arena and northern trains. Going to see Alter Bridge next month. Last train from Manchester is 22.40. No end time on the arena website but odds are it’s after 11 so no choice but to drive. Car parking is shit and getting out after will be rubbish. Gigs are a perfect scenario for public transport - loads of people wanting to leave at a similar time. And the ao area is practically in the bloody station.
You’re right about the agenda - it frustrates me immensely that little of the media and less of the opposition (not only Labour), are calling this out.
I struggle to forgive ‘New Labour’ for doing nothing to halt the piecemeal privatisation initiated by the tories - in particular moves to decentralise management and drive wedges between different delivery systems and specialisms is a typically tory scheme that has never been slowed in the slightest, has absorbed insane amounts of funding, and made it easier for the tory propaganda machine to shift blame onto entirely the wrong people.
