I am pleased to hear you won't be affected by the uts--always want my friends to not have to go without specific needs that you might have because of money, but it's still bad when others are suffering.

These sorts of cutbacks are happening all over the world, some places worse than others, but it all boils down to one thing, and that's somebody (or many of them) somewhere is making money off your 'belt tightening' 'Austerity' or whatever other stupid label the politicos love to toss about as though everyone is going through the same thing. I had no idea that there was talk about privatizing the BBC & the NHS---from the bitter experiences here, regarding the prison systems and privitization, all I can see is that it's just money and nothing else and that makes it a bad idea for the people who are at the bottom of the pile. I'll read your links and watch the vids and pass them along.

What a world.