'Alarming job cuts put Hull's vulnerable children at risk'

“Unions are typical scaremongerers, the targets they choose, suggesting lives/children are put at risk particularly distasteful. Particularly given their own comrades in the ambulance service and teaching unions are voting to strike-but that action wont harm health or children will it? Hypocrites.”

“I don't see the laying off of the only and best Crime Prevention Mentor from RAPP as saving money as the cost of locking up any single offender is far more expensive than keeping this guy in his job. Plus why are Hull City Council refusing to let people work for free on a voluntary basis in Crime Prevention Programmes if as they say they're so skint?”

“unions trying to scare every one again ,the money that is paid in wages ,is very good on the council ,my sister works for these groups , they pay workers the min wage yet charge council 18 pounds a hour , plus expences ,look at the private care companys and see how much they are worth , and look at the jags they drive ,time this council looked at the money paid to these private care companys”

“Cllr Steve Brady (Leader - Sept 2012)

"What we are doing now is only what the Lib Dems should have done at the time. The key difference is we have brought in consultants to make sure we can achieve savings without having an impact on frontline services.

That would be a double fail then”

“Love the photo caption! I'm sure he was at the KC on Saturday”

“August 2012:

Cllr Phil Webster, cabinet portfolio holder for finance and business change, said the latest restructuring plans at the Guildhall would not involve staff delivering frontline services.

"There is going to be another round of the voluntary redundancy programme but it will be managed much more sensitively than the last time when 1,000 staff were effectively shown the door," he said.”

“Patrick Neewman.

Councilloers and councils can write to the government until they are bluein the face, and nothing will happen.
Who do you think got the poll tax scrubbed, residents taking to the streets thats who.

The problem with todays objectors, is they want every one else to object and not them.

Those who just last week objected to the stopping of free bus passes to take children to the church school of their choice, or who argued that all librarys should remain open are the same ones complaining because these services are closing.

When will we all realise, that to strip £13 million from anyones budget can not be done by continuing to spend the same. It is not logical.

The last Tory government spent so little on our servfices that when Labour took over, nearly every school needed rebuilding, all hospitals where in a terrible mess, patiants waiting for heart operations died before seeing the surgeon, the homeless numbers just grew and grew.

All our power supplies where sold off to foreign companise, shipbuildoing disappeared car factories and steel mills closed overnight.

Hospital were no better than the old work houses

Pensioners were on the bread line, there wasa no such thing as the minimum wage or paid holidays for millions of workers.

Those working full time did not earn enough to even pay tax so could not get rebates. The Labour Government introduced working tax credits and penioner credits to gaurantee a minimum income they also got free travel and TV licensces along with free prescrptions

Ask any pensioner if they are now better of. Yet all of this was put right by Labour and it had to be paid for somehow.
If the bankers had not paid themselves millions, borrowed trillions of pounds to buy toxic mortgages that bankrupted them, if the Labout government had not dragged the car industry out of the financial mess, or reduced VAT to 15% of made sure the interst rates remained at .5 % we would not have had to suffer this mess now.

Its the bankers who created this mess and its this Tory Government who is taking the opportunity to make hay while the sun shines by devastating the Health service.

They have even blocked moves to limit the bonusses for bankers probably because they get such a good donation from them

When you blame the real culprits then you may make progress, but if you continue to blame the Labour government that recruited 80 thousand new nurses, 40 thousand doctors, bulit 4 new medical schools refurbished thousands of schools, and spent millions on new schools in Hull alone and looked after the very poorest in our society then im afraid we will all get what we deserve and when Labour do get back in power, and when you have all suffered enough they will, they again will be faced with having to borrow billions to put right the mess we are heading for and no doubt will face the same complaints from some pewople for spending too nmuch on nour crucial facilities

Think of this. If Labour had not built so many hospitals and recruited so many nurses, how could the tories make the cuts they are making.”

“I can think a few they can get rid of - the one in hull behind this poor families ordeal as seen on ITV calenday in 2011 (west Hull Child & Family) http://tinyurl.com/caul42u

If social workers blame parents for autism what is the world coming to.”

“Unfortunately the government only has a certain amount of money to spend so cutbacks have to be made.

The present government has to make cuts to pay for the Last Labour government's incompetence.

If Tony Blair had been a bit more frugal with our money then we wouldn't be in this mess.”

“@susieb10, You sound like a typical tory lap dog, The fact is the country is in a mess and yes labour have to take a massive part of the blame for the mess, but what makes me sick to the stomach is the tories way of getting out of this mess is to make the poorest and most vunerable pay the biggest price. You can bleat all you like about how were all in this together but you and i know thats rubbish. The last time the tories were in power they destroyed the moral fabric of this country along with jobs and communities, and thats had a devastating effect on our society. The labour party spent 13 years ruining this country but the foundations were layed by 18 years of a tory goverment who destroyed our society. And guess what, there at it again! Ask yourself this, will our society be better off when these muppets have finished their handy work?”