public be moved to keep bureaucracy off the graves you care for

change.org/p/oppose-removal-of-grave-ironworks #westlothiancouncil #disgustingbureaucrats #bureaucrats #oppression

This type of arrogance where it hurts can move the public to react against bureaucrats as they need to.

A 16 year old boy dead from some road accident, which itself is evil enough and attests the world to be so, his family set up on his grave some honouring structures that are made of iron. 26 years later, out of the blue, arbitrarily without consultation, West Lothian council arbitrarily declares new rules to ban and remove them.

learned of from Nextdoor, 17 Jul 2025

rollout of health hubs: believe that ?

Labour supporting Youtube channel "A Different Bias", Phil Moorhouse, has made a video on a new policy for local health hubs, for the NHS in England. "Revolutionising mental health: the NHS's game changing plan" but it's also about returning some aspects of physical health closer to communities than to overloaded hospitals. So what is it, a kind of cottage hospital able to do more than a surgery ? Surgeries are already a type of hub.

In their best imagined multifunctional form, these hubs could be one stop shops, and the videoer mentions so. He says"if the reality matches the vision, then what we are talking about here is lots of key public services in one one stop shop accessible for everyone"

"although this is a 10 year plan, they are going to need some of it to be very visible before the next election ... in terms of political strategy, what I would be wanting to do is setting up some of these centres in key Red Wall areas, you call them pilots I suppose, set them up in key Red Wall areas really quickly, Now that would not only provide a lot of useful learning opportunities for rolling them out across the rest of England ..."

Scotland's experience with the autistic one stop shops is a cautionary example. It had this rollout aspiration. Oh we will start with a couple of them and roll them out to everywhere. How many olans never get completed, rollouts most of all. More red flag than red wall - if they go this rollout way, they roll down the same rabbit hole as we have seen autism service in Scotland roll down. Regional unfair disparities and long term stuck inertia towards filling in the gaps.

Thus, this comment on the video - "Experience from autistic one-stop shops in Scotland. Pilots leads to a sense of ticked boxes to have done it in some places, leads to deferring to aspiration and never reaching the ideal of serving everywhere, leads to incomplete coverage with negative issues from postcode lottery unfairness. They are still this way 20 years after they began, and in some places outside the big 2 cities, the autistic charities chosen to run them closed them down, either at term ends, or even sooner to replace them with their own simpler services !"