Theresa May backs down on killing Fox's can they stop killing disabled people now too?

May drops manifesto promise to allow foxhunting vote.

Theresa May has confirmed that she has ditched plans that would have allowed the end of the ban on foxhunting, in the latest attempt to repair the Conservatives’ reputation on animal rights.

In a U-turn that will anger some party members and supporters in its rural heartlands, she revealed that she was dropping plans in the Tory election manifesto to hold a parliamentary vote on reversing the ban.

The prime minister voted against the ban when it was introduced under Tony Blair and New Labour. However, the decision to include a vote on the repeal of the ban has been blamed by some Tory MPs as contributing to the party’s disastrous result.

Now that she has backed down and done another this time welcome U-Turn on fox Hunting it would be nice if she backed down on disabled people hunting. 

120,00 DEAD because of Tory Austerity

The consequences of that have led to an accusation of “economic murder” in a paper that has just been published in the journal BMJ Open. Among its co-authors are academics from University College London, Cambridge University and Oxford University, three of the top academic institutions not just in Britain but in the world.

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The drily titled “Effects of health and social care spending constraints on mortality in England: a time trend analysis” calculates that there have been 120,000 excess deaths since 2010 when the Conservatives took power via the coalition and started swinging the axe. 

The study says the over-sixties - and in particular care home residents – have borne the brunt. The critical factors it identifies as leading to so many of them dying needlessly early cut to social care spending and a reduction in the number of nurses. It’s worth bearing the latter in mind because Brexit, of course, is squeezing the supply of nurses as EU nationals resident in these islands understandably vote with their feet. 

By 2020 the “mortality gap” – one of those bland terms that are frequently used to describe brutal truths – could have hit 200,000, even with the extra funding that has recently been allocated to social care.

Toby Young the Eugenicist 

Every day there are 100 needless deaths in England, and they come as a result of government policy. Just think about that figure for a moment. It’s positively chilling. Just writing about it leaves me feeling in need of a valium. I’d imagine that would be true of anyone to whom empathy is not an alien concept. 

If the gap is to be closed, the academics say, £6.3bn a year more is needed.