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Saturday 30 April 2011

One in 20 families living with their grandparents. Would you believe it?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382104/One-20-families-living-grandparents.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Last updated at 2:04 AM on 30th April 2011

Thousands of young mothers and fathers still live with their extended family, a study has found.
One in 20 families under the age of 30 – couples with children and single parents – live with their parents or other family members.
This equates to more than 100,000 young parents across the UK living this way. And as many as 35 per cent of the couples living with relatives are married, researchers believe.

All under one roof: More and more families are living together as financial pressures and the need for support and childcare take their toll
The study of 2,000 families, by insurance group Aviva, suggested financial pressures and the need for support and childcare may be behind the trend.
There has been a 29 per cent increase in the number of multi-family households since 2001 –  up to 1,262,000 in 2010 – according to the Office for National Statistics. 
Louise Colley, head of protection marketing for Aviva, said: ‘A few decades ago it was quite usual for several generations of a family to live under one roof. 
‘Over time this has changed, but our research suggests  this trend could return – possibly temporarily while people are  saving up for their  own homes.’
The average age for a first-time buyer is now 31, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders

Scottish Election Main Party's sums don't add up. Now there's a thing.

We are fed up telling you this. Free prescriptions, free student fees are great if we can afford it but where is the money coming from to replace it. From you the low priority people on their list like Grandparents, Pensioners, Families, and the disabled.


They are election gimmicks that Alex Salmond will whine it was not our fault we could not keep our manifesto promises.


http://www.scotsman.com/news/Scottish-Election-2011-39Sums-don39t.6760528.jp

 

 

Scottish Election 2011: 'Sums don't add up in party promises'

By Tom Peterkin

Published date 1st May

SCOTLAND'S political parties have failed to explain how they will fund expensive manifesto pledges and are loath to admit that tightening budgets will cost jobs, claims a highly respected think tank.
The election manifestos of the main parties steer clear of the difficult decisions required to turn round the economy and "largely ignore" the problem of rising unemployment, the Centre for Public Policy for Regions (CPPR) suggests.

Analysis of party promises suggests that commitments such as the council tax freeze will not be met by the efficiency savings that have been built into future budgets, calculating the SNP pledge to freeze council tax for the next five years would cost £700 million - the equivalent of £140m a year.

The report adds that such a freeze "simply adds pressure" on other parts of the budget. 

"It means that this money is unavailable to invest in hospitals, schools or roads," it says.

The SNP has promised a five-year council tax freeze, while Labour has committed itself to a two-year freeze. Both the Conservatives and the Lib Dems also favour maintaining the levy at its current level.

The report states: "At best, the 2 per cent generic efficiency savings that the parties are dependent on will only meet new demand, new inflation and new wage-cost pressures. It will not fill emerging funding gaps in costed manifesto pledges, neither will it pay for 'uncosted' manifesto pledges."

Yesterday report author John McLaren said: "This has been a disappointing election for those voters looking for a clear insight into how the different parties intend to deal with the unpalatable consequences of a tightening budget."

The report says that youth unemployment is to rise sharply, and that some sort of student fee arrangement, fewer universal benefits (such as the SNP's free prescriptions policy) or taking Scottish Water out of direct government control will have to be introduced after the election.

According to the CPPR, the parties are also reluctant to talk about the impact of efficiency savings on voters. 

The report said that the savings would "inevitably" cause job cuts, with a reduction in non-health-related jobs by up to 8 per cent by 2015. Those who remain in jobs will suffer up to a 12 per cent reduction in spending power by 2015.

"The manifestos of the four main parties have little (and often nothing) to say about productivity, how to boost innovation and research and development, and what is needed to tackle youth unemployment," the report adds. 

The Campaign trail for Jimmy Deuchars to be elected to the Scottish Parliament via the ‘All Scotland Pensioners Party’


It was a beautiful day in the sunshine and we worked for about 5 hours yesterday. Myself and Margaret from Glasgow.  Margaret leafleted Argyle Street and thanks to Bill McDonald from Galston who is passionate about getting more contact for grandparents  gave out leaflets in the Sauchiehall Street Glasgow on Saturday afternoon and Brian McNair from Stirling who is our man for Dads, Mums, and families accompanied myself to leaflet the Barras’ and the Parkhead market. Once we got the SNP out from under our feet we got a tremendous reception from the older people in the market who are fed up with all the main parties’ promises to us that are forgotten once they are elected. 

With more help before Thursday we could flood the whole of Glasgow to get the message across that the power of Grandparents, Families, Pensioners, Disabled are on the march and are exerting their influence before they introduce culling at 65 and leave us without any rights at all. One young guy said to me they should shoot all you old b------- at 65.  That is the way they view us and is reflected by the low status on their priority we have in all the other party’s list.

Are we going to take that or are we gonna fight back. Use your vote for Wisdom not Folly and vote for the ‘All Scotland Pensioners Party’ throughout Scotland for a change that must be better than we are getting at the moment. 

Maggie Tuttle to be investigated by Thurock Council.

 Because of my 36 years as a campaigner and having set up a few well known charities, Thurrock Social Services have asked Thurrock Council to do an investigation into my 36 years of campaigning, because they do not believe I have done all I did, they are trying to discredit me, as I am applying for guardianship of my grandson, that is if I am allowed,  my Aunt has just paid £1,200 for a lawyer to apply to the courts for me to be party to the proceedings. Sadly for the council they will find out that I have done no wrong, and that my 36 years of self supporting all of my campaigns are true. So another waste of the tax payers moneys to try and discredit me, so I am deigned my grandson, should his father lose the right to his son.
They have also stated in their letter to the council, that I have or not asked for any psychiatric help in my life check it out, what a bloody cheek, as I am not party to the proceedings as yet, but they have given a date for it to be heard on the 27th July, my lawyer has said this is a joke, as the full case is to be heard in September, so he will be in the courts this week to try and change this date,  so why are Thurrock social services and the council investigating me, when at the moment I am a nothing in the case.  Ligia Birdici from Rumania who is my grandsons social worker, on the 15th March 2011 she stole my grandson in front of me in the school playground and with many parents and children present, yet with her lies and deceit she had the right to steal a little 10 year old boy who was on his knees begging and crying to let him stay for one more day with his Nan (me), i have so much evedence of her lies told on the day. Four days later she was signed on sick leave for 3 weeks, why????? did they think i would bring in the press, and so she was not available for comments.
 
 
 
Maggie

Friday 29 April 2011

English MPs are a sorry rabble of an excuse.

Subject: FW: URGENT CALL FOR EVERYONE'S ATTENDANCE TO HIGH COURT ON MONDAY 9TH MAY 2011 at 10.30am! (Vicky's case)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:16:36 +0000

Finally, Liz it looks like your work is starting to pay off and that these County Councils are acting thoroughly illegally.
 
Now then - you MP's who have sat there with your thumbs up your rectum doing NOTHING, YOU ought to be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves . You cannot say you did not know this appalling corruption was going on as I have emailed you about these cases. And what have you done? Sweet FA! With the honourable exception of John Hemming. How many questions have you all tabled about this corruption? None! How many of you have raised these points with other MP's ? None! How many of you have even bothered to reply to me on the subject? None, not ONCE!! You are totally useless rubbish and you should all resign your seats. You are only there to pick up salary and expenses and the public can go stuff themselves as far as you're concerned. You sorry rabble of an excuse for human beings! Despicable is my word for you. 
 
Nick Chance
Foxwell Street
Worcester

Thursday 28 April 2011

Jimmy tries to get arrested at Silverburn Centre Pollok Glasgow.

George Galloway would have been proud of me.


Silverburn Centre Pollok Glasgow

I was at Silverburn today handing out leaflets for the All Scotland Pensioners Party and was approached by a security guard who said I was not allowed to hand out leaflets for a political party as the centre was private property. I agreed not to hand out leaflets but told him I was waiting on my wife to come out of Debenhams.

As I was waiting another security guard approached me and said I was on camera and being watched. I said “so what I’m waiting on my wife” you will have to move said the guard.  By this time I was getting pissed off and said I am not moving. I am waiting for my wife. Phone the cops if you like I have people here to take photos of it.

Then a manager of some sort came up to me and told me to move. I said no, so get me arrested. He got on the phone and a couple of moments later my wife turned up and I got a belt in the ear and she made me move. We started to leave. As we were leaving the Manager George Reader and a beefcake female minder stopped me and pleasantly said he had come down to meet me and I needed permission to hand out leaflets. I said well give me permission just now. No you will need to write in. What’s the difference?  I told him I did contact them by phone and I did not get a reply and I have also written to them about a day for Grandparents Apart UK stall but was ignored. It was a complete hassle I thought I could not wait for Margaret to finish her shopping.

He refused to have me arrested and offered me his card to write in. Can you imagine me getting permission now?  Anyway the people in the centre were telling me that they had all got my leaflets through the post that morning so I don’t need to go near Silverburn now at all.

Onward to the next battle.

Jimmy

Wednesday 27 April 2011

Free Legal advice required Somerset area.

Taunton Social services have objected to a relative (grandparent I think) looking after a child on flimsy grounds  Free Legal advice on how to defend is required.

If anyone can help please contact myself Jimmy Deuchars on 0141 882 5658 or via this item and I will Pass it on.

The stolen and sold children in the UK by Government laws. Press Release The Media



On the 4th May 2011 starting at 12 o’clock demonstrators will be meeting and marching from Richmond Terrace to10 Downing Street. at 12.30 we will be handing in a letter inside of a specially made little coffin to the Prime Minister David Cameron, the coffin is to represent all the children stolen abused and sold via the government’s agent’s social services and their army of different government bodies set up to supposedly stop abuse of children. 
John Hemming MP needs the support of the press; he is fighting in the House of Commons for justice and change to the laws, for our children and families, and the opening up of the family courts to bring them in to line with the Crown and Magistrates Courts, so that truth can be told.
Mr Hemming is supporting this march, we ask you to please support Mr Hemming MP.  
Christopher Booker has been writing many articles in the Daily Telegraph of the truth of the family courts, and the stolen children, do you think for one minute Mr Booker would put his good name on the line, if there was no truth in the plight of these stolen and sold children. We need more journalists like Mr Booker who are not afraid to report the truth. 
Gary Walker of the Walker Brothers, is the manager for a young singer Jordan Gray, together they are writing and recording a song for the stolen and sold children
Gary is in talks with other celebrities with the view for a Live Aid Children’s Day to bring to the attention of the Nation of what is a major problem and concern for the children and families in the UK.
Jordan Gray at the age of 23 has shown great concern for wanting to help and support the stolen children.    
We are thousands of people and organisations working very closely to help the children and families, and for laws to be changed to open the family courts, and end forced adoptions and fostering where there is the option of keeping children with their birth families, if there was no problem then why are there thousands of people, MPs and journalist who are constantly battling to save the children.  
On the 4th May, we will be marching and carrying little coffins, as we pass the Cenotaph we will drop a flower to represent the stolen and missing children.
If we can march, then you can give media coverage and support the thousands of children.
Ends

 
Yours sincerely 
 
Maggie Tuttle, 211 Carlingford Drive, Westcliffe on Sea, Essex, SS0 0 SE, Mob 07767710756 Email maggietuttle@btinternet.com

All Scotland Pensioners Party. Jimmy Miller.



Jimmy Miller is the candidate for the West of Scotland

Monday 25 April 2011

Royal College in call for overhaul of hospital care for children


http://www.cypnow.co.uk/bulletin/cypnow_daily/article/1066930/royal-college-call-overhaul-hospital-care-children/

By Lauren Higgs Thursday, 21 April 2011
Children's hospital care must be radically redesigned to make it safe and sustainable, a report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has warned.
RCPCH president Terence Stephenson acknowledges some of the recommendations would be unpopular. Image: RCPCH
RCPCH president Terence Stephenson acknowledges some of the recommendations would be unpopular. Image: RCPCH
The Facing the Future report outlines how underinvestment and an increase in demand for children’s hospital services has resulted in dangerously low levels of staff and situations in which trainee doctors are left to manage wards due to a shortage in senior-level consultants posts.

To remedy this "huge pressure across paediatric care", RCPCH is recommending reducing the number of inpatient sites for children to create larger centres, significantly expanding the number of registered children’s nurses and boosting the number of GPs trained in paediatrics.

The college also believes there is a need for at least a 50 per cent increase in the number of consultant paediatricians, combined with a decrease in the number of paediatric trainees from 2,929 to 1,720.

To help health professionals provide better continuity of care, the college believes hospitals should adopt a "consultant of the week system", so that each week a named consultant is freed from other clinical duties so they can be completely available for the management of acute admissions.

This is because the implementation of the European working time directive and the consequent transition to shift patterns of working has made it harder for professionals to provide such continuity for patients.

Professor Terence Stephenson, president of RCPCH, admitted that some of the college’s recommendations would be unpopular, but he argued that radical action is necessary to safeguard health outcomes for children and young people.

"There are huge pressures on paediatric services and it is crucial that standards of care for children are not compromised," he said. "The alternative, of making small, piecemeal changes, is simply not viable. If we are to have any prospect of making sure children in this country have the same health outcomes as other leading Western nations, it is time to face the future and redesign children’s health services so they meet the standards that children and their parents rightly expect.

NSPCC abuse referrals hit record high


http://www.cypnow.co.uk/bulletin/cypnow_daily/article/1066820/nspcc-abuse-referrals-hit-record-high/


Grandparents are exceptional for early detection of abuse.

By Janaki Mahadevan Thursday, 21 April 2011
Calls to the NSPCC helpline reporting suspected child abuse and neglect have reached record levels, the charity has revealed.
Biggest increase in referrals was for neglect. Image: NSPCC/posed by model
Biggest increase in referrals was for neglect. Image: NSPCC/posed by model

Between April 2010 and March 2011, counsellors working on the helpline referred 16,385 serious cases to police or social services. This is 37 per cent higher than the previous year and the biggest recorded annual increase in referrals.
The NSPCC is now calling for a major shift in UK child protection policy towards earlier and more effective intervention in child cruelty cases.
John Cameron, head of the helpline, said: "The increase in referrals over the past year shows more people want to play their part in keeping children safe. We refer only the most serious cases to local agencies for further investigation. More than one in three of these cases involve families previously unknown to local authorities.
"We must pick up on children's problems as early as we can to stop their abuse. Social workers cannot be in the community all the time, but members of the public can be their eyes and ears."
Last year, the NSPCC made 12,296 referrals regarding suspected child cruelty following contacts from neighbours and members of the public – up 4,588 from the previous year.
Other people contacting the helpline included parents, other family members and professionals such as teachers or health workers.
The biggest increase in referrals was for neglect, which rose by 81 per cent to 6,438 cases. Other referrals included 4,113 for physical abuse, 1,520 cases of sexual abuse and 2,932 cases of emotional abuse.

Children with SEN will be abandoned under new rules, claim teachers

http://www.cypnow.co.uk/bulletin/inpractice_bulletin/article/1066946/children-sen-will-abandoned-new-rules-claim-teachers/



By Lauren Higgs Thursday, 21 April 2011
Children with emotional and cognitive learning difficulties are being abandoned under government plans to overhaul special educational needs (SEN) provision, according to the teaching union NASUWT.
Report found teachers regard training on SEN as less important than access to specialist support. Image: Phil Adams
Report found teachers regard training on SEN as less important than access to specialist support. Image: Phil Adams

The claim came as the union published its interim research report into teachers’ experiences of the SEN system and inclusion.

Teachers warned that the government’s SEN green paper seeks to redefine special educational needs as purely physical and medical, which could leave children whose needs relate to emotional, cognitive and social factors with little or no support.

The report also finds that teachers regard training on SEN as less important than access to specialist support, from professionals such as educational psychologists.

Effective inclusion of pupils with SEN in classrooms is dependent on the availability of support from teaching assistants, the report claims.

But the coalition government is putting this at risk because of its austerity measures and the decision to abandon the work of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body, teachers said.

Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said parents are likely to view the government’s plans for SEN as a cynical and callous attempt to cut costs.

"Children’s special needs don’t just disappear because a government decides to change the definition of who qualifies," she said.

"The views expressed by teachers in this interim report cast doubt on the effectiveness, appropriateness and viability of many of the other strategies proposed in the coalition government’s SEN green paper. The cause of SEN cannot be advanced in the context of the coalition’s austerity measures."

She added that children and young people with SEN rely on teachers being given the time to work with them, schools being able to access specialist advice from professionals and in-class support from teaching assistants.

"All of these are either being cut or removed as the deep and savage cuts bite in local authorities and schools," she said

We need to act now or you will be forever lost and poor.

Pensioners, Grandparents, Family’s, Disabled are all at the lowest priority of every political party. People who have given their life to this country are treated abominably.


Did you know 6.1% of the nation’s wealth is spent on this but 19% of other European countries are use for this purpose? £30 million a day is spent on the Libyan war, £45 million a day is spent on the common market and shortly another four countries will join and it is expected that refugees will flood Britain for all the benefits we are entitled too. Non elected quangos like the House of Lords are costing the tax payer billions for the MPs that have outlived their usefulness and have been kicked upstairs to collect fat fees for dosing in retirement while we scrimp and scrape.


Waken up people!!!! Have you not taken enough? Greypower voting is here. Use it or you will forever suffer. Vote for people like yourself that know your problems. And not millionaires and fat businessmen and fat lawyers who only increase their wealth and power using you hard earned cash.

My vision for the future.by Jimmy Deuchars if elected to the Scottish Government.


The motto from Grandparents Apart UK where i have been voluntary manager of for 11 years is “Bringing Families Together” with the real best interests of the child at its core. I firmly stand by that.

Every person who is a member of a child’s family and registers an interest will be listened to. Family group conferences will consider the facts needs and wants to prevent a child going into care, foster or forced adopted which destroys a child’s self esteem and leaves them bitter and unmanageable which in turn often makes them non achievers and join gangs for that family feeling they were deprived of when they were young.
I want to encourage kinship care, more use of grandparents and extended family rather than care or adoption. We must establish firm stable happy roots if children are to grow up into good law abiding citizens that older people are not afraid to open their doors to.

The Glasgow social services say what is contained in the Charter for Grandchildren is already enshrined in law and is already practised by them. Thousands of grandparents/families all over the UK have contacted me with problems of being ignored by social services they can’t all be wrong. The complaints range from meetings that have not taken place, falsification and fabrication of reports and telling children their family doesn’t want them any more. We must examine this to find out why there are so many complaints and why the social services are feared by families rather than looked upon as a helpful service.

Not all grandparents are pensioners or older people but they have a lot in common regards family. Pensioners are the main focus of the All Scotland Pensioner Party and my joining them with families, grandparents and disabled has created a wider expanse. I am prepared to fight fearlessly to improve what I represent.

We need a spokesperson in parliament or we will forever get the run-around from the other parties promising this, that and the next thing that never materialise. “We gave you this they say” but what have they dropped or taken away? we are at the bottom of the priority list of every party and our plans include a redistribution of the national wealth for a fairer system.

They tell me the disabled laws are adequate and practised. We will look into that for I am a wheelchair user and have some horrible stories to tell you about that. Holidays are a nightmare in so much that I only go to caravans or like so I can recharge my wheelchair. If the facilities for disabled are there I want them tightened up and improved.

Friday 22 April 2011

We have 15000 glossy printed leaflets to be handed out and we're looking for volunteers tomorrow in Glasgow City Centre George Square 11am.

We really need help now. Margaret and myself have working very hard handing out leaflets but we are feeling the stain and if anyone can spare a couple of hours we would be very grateful.

Jimmy

jimmy on the Campaign Trail. Rutherglen. Twice this week.



We had a tremendous reception here.

jimmy on the Campaign Trail. Shawlands Arcade.


Jimmy on the Campaign Trail Partick. (Morrisonn's) And Maryhill Shopping Centre. Tesco's

Family Justice Review - consultation events


Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:19:58 +0100
From: partners@justice.gsi.gov.uk
To: partners@justice.gsi.gov.uk


As many of you are aware, the Family Justice Review panel has launched its interim report and invited responses to its proposals for reform. The panels' interim report sets out proposals to tackle problems faced by the family justice system.
Its recommendations aim to bring greater coherence through organisational change and better management, making the system more able to cope with current and future pressures, reducing duplication of scrutiny and diverting more issues away from court.
As part of the consultation process, we are holding four open discussion events in England and Wales to provide an opportunity for individuals to hear more about the review and debate and discuss the proposals set out in the interim report. Details of these events are below:
Wednesday 18 May (approximately 2pm – 4pm) London
Tuesday 31 May (approximately 2pm – 4pm) – Cardiff
Wednesday 1 June (approximately 2pm – 4pm) – Manchester
Tuesday 7 June (approximately 2pm – 4pm) – Birmingham

Please register your interest at partners@justice.gsi.gov.ukstating what date you are interested in. Further details about the venue and times will be sent to you closer to the date. 
The interim report and online survey can be found at:www.justice.gov.uk/publications/policy/moj/family-justice-review.htm 
Follow us on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/FamJustReview 

‘All Scotland Pensioners Group’ Manifesto for 2011


A -Abolish Pensioner poverty by giving Senior Citizens an index linked Pension of £180.00p per week.
B- Banish Means-testing which is demeaning and intrusive and very costly to operate.
C- Council tax to be replaced by a fairer system linked to the ability to pay as an interim step- reduce Council Tax for all pensioners by 50%.
D-Demand an end to the sale of Pensioners homes to pay for residential care!

In order to raise the priority of who we represent and to pay for our proposals we will distribute the national wealth in a fairer manner like removing Trident nuclear and non elected guango’s (house of lords) and a taxation on bankers bonuses and illegal wars.
  There are countless other problems facing Pensioners and as     well as pursuing the above we will also actively campaign on the following issues:-
Health and Social care.
We want realistic hospital waiting lists that are not dressed up or doctored. Reduce the time waiting for appointments. More patients centred as we are hearing more and more that the patients feel they are just lumps of meat.
Free travel by Rail Ferries and Trams.
This is a must as it is a way of getting out and combating loneliness and isolation.
Benefits generally but Carers in particular including respite.
We will fight for better benefits and carer respite. It is huge stress on relationships when one is caring for someone.
An end to Age discrimination and compulsory retirement.
If a person feels they can carry on working then in our opinion they should be allowed to carry on. When some people are forced to retire they feel they are thrown on the scrap heap and lose interest in life in general. When they do retire we would like to see programmes set up for the transition from working to retirement.
Housing and Fuel Poverty.
Improvement of housing adapted to a persons needs should be a priority as they spend most of their lives in them. The price of fuel is making us isolated as the cost is rocketing and reducing our visits to family, outings etc and adding to our isolation.
Law and Order.
Attendance at clubs and places of entertainment or interest are dropping because of the fear of attack at night with the increase in gangs. Most of us are wary about opening our door at night for fear of gangs. We must start at the bottom of this one. Children should be treated right and kept in a family environment and not force adopted or snatched from parents so they can grow up happy and content. The motive for authorities is to reduce cost but in the long run the cost is multiplied as being taken away from their family destroys their self esteem and leaves them with no respect for older people. They are aggressive hard to handle and when they grow up they choose gangs for that family feeling they were robbed of when they were young.
Student Fees (Theses are our Grandchildren)
Free student fees, free prescriptions. We would love this to be realistic but we need to point this out to that you all the financial experts are telling us that this cannot possibly be maintained and that it is being used just to win  election. Open minded people would rather believe the experts as SNP are well known for failed promises
My personal Goal is to make Family Law fairer and pursue the legislation of ‘The Charter for Grandchildren’
A huge fortune is made in family lay and massive savings will be made when this is sorted out. The government has lots of lawyers and they are members of the Scottish Law Society and their first oath they take is to fellow lawyers.
The Scottish Law Society advices the government on varies policies and every time the do it is always for the benefit of their members. Family law in Scotland is such a mess and it is to the benefit of lawyers who are making a fortune from the misery caused to families. it would not suit lawyers for the family laws to change. The mainstream of problems is for contact with children. The criteria is for the best interests of the children but it often turns out to be they best interests of lawyers, social services and other professionals who deal in the welfare of children. Grandparents Apart UK due to their constant lobbying convinced the Scottish that something needed to be done. The executive created the Charter for Grandchildren with a stakeholders group with Grandparents Apart UK as part of it. The Charter was intended for all to look more closely at the role grandparents can play in s child’s live rather than forced adoption or fostering or care but is was made advisory and now it needs to be mandatory as it is not being complied with as it is.
     Children can be used as weapons in relationships and Grandparents Apart UK policy is that the best interests of a child would be served by both parents being relevant provided there is no proven violence in the relationship and grandparents and extended family should have a say in a family group conference to resolve disputes again centred on the real best interests of the child/ren.
Stop paying Brussels £45million a day.

Regain control of immigration and our borders.
Pull out of the Common Agricultural Policy, which costs every family in Britain £950 a year.
Safeguard
Britain's armed services from being absorbed into the so called 'European Army'.
Save
UK businesses up to £120 billion a year (estimated cost of complying with thousands of EU laws), and avoid paying in the future for unfunded EU pensions.



Scrap the Human Rights Act (the 'criminal's charter' preventing us expelling terrorists back to
their own country).
End the obsession with wind farms, which only work at 30% efficiency, and are secretly subsidised by everyone's domestic fuel bills.
Pull out of the Common Fisheries Policy, the ecological disaster where thousands of perfectly good fish are thrown back to die in the sea.
Give the British people a right to binding local and national referenda on major issues.
Stop paying £billions to bail out the collapsing eurozone, when we are making huge cutback here at home.