Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to Damian Green’s comments on the Andrew Marr Show that the
Tories £8bn NHS manifesto pledge involves reallocating existing budgets, said:

“Damian Green has let the cat out the bag.
The Tories are offering no new money for the NHS at this election, but instead
their offer involves reallocating existing budgets. In 2015 they said they’d
give the NHS £10bn and it turned out to be untrue. They’re up to the same
tricks again.

“As part of Labour’s fully costed manifesto, we are offering the NHS
a cash boost of £8bn this year, including money for urgently needed
capital works, and we’ve said how we will pay for it. Only Labour will give the
NHS the funding it needs to deliver a truly modern, 21^st Century
service for Britain’s patients. Under the Tories the NHS will continue to be
underfunded and overstretched and it is patients who will pay the price.”

Labour will
stand up for older people and has made five key pledges to ensure older people
have the security and dignity they deserve:

1.     
Secure pensioner incomes with the Triple-Lock on state pensions.

2.     
Protect the Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes for
pensioners.

3.     
An extra £45 billion for the NHS and social care.

4.     
No rise in the state pension age beyond 66.

5.      Justice for women born
in the 1950s hit by five year rise in pension age.

Theresa
May’s government has failed older people, their cuts to social care have
resulted in over one million older people not getting the care they need.
Labour will spend an extra £45 billion on the NHS and social care over five
years.

The
Conservative Party manifesto has promised three major new burdens to be placed
on older people:

1.     
Scrapping the ‘triple lock’ on state pensions so that pensioner
incomes are no longer protected.

2.     
Means testing Winter Fuel Payments to remove support to heat the
homes of ten million pensioners  

3.      Forcing those who need
social care to pay for it with their homes.

Pensioners
would be at least £330 worse off under the Tories’ new Double Lock had it been
in place between 2013/14 and 2017/18, compared with the basic state pension
being uprated by the Triple Lock. Under Theresa May’s plan, ten million people
– five out of six pensioners – are set to lose their Winter Fuel Payments,
worth up to £300.

Jeremy
Corbyn, Leader of the Labour party, said:

“Not
satisfied with plunging our social care system into crisis, Theresa May’s nasty
party has promised more attacks on older people:  scrapping the
triple-lock on state pensions, removing the Winter Fuel Allowance and asset
stripping the ill by forcing those who need social care to pay for it with
their homes.

“Labour will protect the Winter Fuel Allowance and Triple-Lock on state
pensions to deliver a secure and dignified retirement for all, and spend an
extra £45 billion on the NHS and social care over five years, so that older
people can get the care they deserve.

“Theresa
May and the Conservatives won’t stand up for pensioners, their only concern is
their billionaire friends. Labour is proud to stand up for the many, not the
few.”

Yesterday I visited Grazeley to talk to residents. Three main issues came up.

The first was future development. I explained that I have not offered support for a major new settlement adjacent to the village. The Council is currently consulting on this possibility. I have urged them to consider how much infrastructure this would require, where the money would come from to provide it and what impact it will have on the local area. The Council’s bargaining position on behalf of the local community is strongest before it offers planning permission.

I have also pointed out that there would need to be express guarantees of protection for other parts of the Borough if that is the idea, as under current planning rules seeking to place a lot of new homes in one place does not prevent developers getting permission on appeal to build elsewhere in the Borough as well. I will help them negotiate with government over where future development should go and how much we should provide, and will back a sensible plan.

The second was the speed of traffic on the local road through the village. This is a matter for the Council, but I will also take it up with Councillors.

The third is aircraft noise from light planes out of White Waltham. I will also take this up with the airport.

Published and promoted by Fraser Mc Farland on behalf of John Redwood, both at 30 Rose Street Wokingham RG40 1XU

Experts in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have developed a Mongolian language database containing over 19 million words and phrases in an effort to protect ethnic culture and language.

The program, based on cloud computing technology, was initiated in 2012 by Mengdong cloud computing center of Chifeng City and Inner Mongolia University.

Yan Xiaofeng, an engineer with the program, said the university started to collect Mongolian language documents in the 1980s, which has helped contribute to the database. The database covers a wide range of content including lexicons, grammar and literature.

Nashunuzhitu, a professor at the university, said the database’s Mongolian-Mandarin electronic dictionary is open to the public. The database also includes a dictionary for scientific terminology featuring Mandarin, Mongolian, English and Japanese.

In 2016, the region designated the big data and cloud computing industries as new engines for local development, vowing that the regional big data industry’s output value will exceed 100 billion yuan (14.5 billion U. S. dollars) in 2020.