Until recently, I worked as a relief driver for a local Pharmacy in quite deprived areas. Obviously most of my time was spent out of the shop, driving about and delivering prescriptions. However, regularly I would see and hear young parents come into the shops I worked in, explaining what symptoms their child had and ask what medicines they could buy. They would then be told what was suitable. The first follow up question was to ask, how much is it? I would then see them dig in their pockets or look in their purses to try to find the money to pay to help their Child get better. Far too often, they didn't have enough and I had to watch them walk out of the shop with their head down and shoulders slumped or as I sometimes did, give them the money they were short off.
I am sat typing this angry as **** with tears in my eyes remembering this.
We have to get these b***ds out of Office, but we also have to put something tangible in place to help and to stop demonising the poor, the disabled and the sick. We can't keep relying on foodbanks and charity and the newly termed Multibanks to help, because quite clearly they are nowhere near enough.
Rant over.