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I have a concern that some joint boards are taking on more than we envisaged; the thing is growing arms and legs. One council that I will not name is now nine months down the road of not setting a budget, and we are going into 2017.
This has just floored me. It’s like having my legs taken away. Help.” That is an upsetting account, as are others that I have received that use similar words.
In his articles, he referred to carers as his arms and legs—his independence. I am pleased that, as a result of his campaign, carers are now paid a living wage.
All of us can probably remember things going on in our own school days, such as someone pulling the legs off spiders in the schoolyard. We look back on such things with horror and think, “How could that have happened?”
The Liberal Democrat motion calls for mental health to be treated in the same way as physical health, but we all know that that does not happen for a variety of reasons. If you break your leg tomorrow, Presiding Officer, we will all know about it.
If the operators do that, we will take that percentage of coverage off their coverage obligations, because that is a win-win for everybody. We think that that idea has legs now. It is about everybody putting their best resources together.
It all got really quite dangerous, with people getting their legs broken. In the end, we had to go to the local papers and say, “For God’s sake, will you put it on the front page that not everyone is getting switched?”
The code has been built on since then. It seems to be growing arms and legs. I was a councillor in the days when we did not have the nonsensical restriction with regard to planning.
Common sense would say, as Sony has invested probably £7 million in it, it is leaving a great legacy and the guy has had a fantastic leg-up to continue as a studio—and so he should.
People will lose their automatic EU right to healthcare elsewhere in Europe on the same terms as the local population—a broken leg in Benidorm will become an extremely expensive business.