Immigration

OK so this isn't going to be a well researched blog its just going to be me having a moan.

Now your probably thinking that I'm going to moan about immigrants but I'm not.

I'm taking a different look on it than most people do when you mention immigrants people automatically think of them coming over here and "stealing" British jobs.

Lets look at this logically you have the immigrants that are highly trained and come over here to be able to get a job in whatever area they specialise. I.e the NHS yes there are loads of foreign nationals working for the NHS some of which have moved here to be able to work some may have even been recruited from abroad.
Why has this happened? Due to the fact that there isn't enough British people who want these jobs. They aren't qualified and find it to hard to qualify in this country to then work the rubbish long hours.

You also get the low skilled immigrants that come over as well. Now the other jobs that the immigrants "steal" are low paid manual labour jobs.
They were there before the immigrants came here and people didn't want to work them then. So why all the fuss when someone who's not British wants the job?
OK so do people pay the immigrants less to do that job? No that's what they were offering in the 1st place and the British people thought they would have a better deal if they sit on their ever increasing in size lazy arses and claim benefits.

I'm my eyes we don't have a problem with the immigrant work force coming over here and "stealing" jobs.
If it wasn't for them then most of Britain would come to a stand still because for to long we have allowed people and easy ride to claim benefit that they have forgotten what the idea of hard work is.
Some people can go their whole lives living off the state. Costing the country more than an immigrant that have moved here to work.

But who gets the bad reputation?

I wouldn't blame the rest of the world as viewing the British population as free loading work shy idiots. I know I'm starting to

Depression: Would you admit to it?

Today I'm going to cover the sensitive subject of depression. Why do we have such problems talking about something that affect so many people.

New research that has been carried out by Turning point shows that around 75% of people will suffer from depression in the UK at some stage in their lifetime. Of these only a 1/3 of them seek professional medical help. With another 1/3 turning to other resources or means of help. That leaves at today's population 15,250,000 people that will suffer from depression at some stage in their life and suffer in silence.

Now maybe you have been one of this 75% already or maybe sometime in the future you might be. Have you or would you seek help?

Is there enough done to raise the awareness of Depression and other mental health problems that cost the country billions a year? But more importantly the cost to the people who suffer is much greater?

Most reports that are done highlight how these illnesses affect the economy etc. But how often do the reports in the news focus on the human cost of them and how it affects the individual?

The effectiveness of treatments for depression vary depending on who you talk to. Some believe that it can be treated with anti depressants while other believe Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is the best option. These are the ones that are mostly recommended by doctors due to them having their hands tied by both cost and time restraints.

31 million prescriptions for anti depressants are made up every year. Can they really be the best way forward....

While they may work for some people they won't for everyone. Are anti depressants just a short term stop gap. When will the NHS offer more services for the long term treatment for depression and start devoting more time to helping those who suffer. So much is done to raise the awareness of the health risks of smoking and helping people give up smoking why is more not done to help protect peoples mental health.

A good article on depression was recently done for the Guardian by Luiza Sauma

I will be covering more on depression in the following weeks as its a subject that i feel strongly about.

Charities

This blog is going to focus on charities and what can be done to help them.

I have take part in many fundraising events and activities with the latest one being growing my beard for the whole of January for Chestnut tree house hospice. They care for terminally children and young adults from 0 - 19 years old.


It costs £2 million a year to run their services with the government contributing none of that. It is all made up from donations and fund raising.

Why when the government can spend billions a year to fund wars in far off lands, can they not find at least some money for charities like this that cover for the short fall in the NHS.

Now i am not criticising the work that the NHS do as for the resources of man power, equipment and money they do a great job. Or the people that are in armed forces fighting in Afganistan.

But the government use our money to bail out the banks, fight these wars on terror in different countries and forget that the basic things that we need and pay our taxes for like heath care and education for the future generation.

Now back to the main point that charities out there need our help and our money. As they need our support to keep running and to help all those causes that deserve it both domestic and foreign. There are many ways you can help them and not just by donating money.

My friend has a blog called FreeGiving on just this type of thing check it out for more ways you can help charities without donating money.