As the Government prepares to give Britain a higher pension age than Libya, it turns out that by the age of 75, 90 per cent of the few men in the North East who are still alive, and well over 80 per cent of the women, have at least one chronic disability. The figures are scarcely better for the North West or for Wales.
Like last week's unshocking revelation that teenagers from less economically or socially exalted backgrounds were routinely having their A-level grades underpredicted, this non-news comes nine years after the end of the three-term Government of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. For 10 years, the Prime Minister was the MP for Sedgefield. 12 years later, we have this.
All in all, so much for New Labour. The New Labour to which most Labour MPs, most or all Conservative MPs, and all Liberal Democrat MPs are devoted to the point of fanaticism. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration.
I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. Buy the book here. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. Buy the book here. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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