and services as they struggle to pay a staggering £52m index-linked "unitary charge" for the new building: this year the Trust is grappling with £15m shortfall - but now it has emerged that next year's financial deficit will increase to a staggering £40 million.
Up the road from Coventry, Derby hospitals chiefs are also bracing themselves for the increased costs when their £330m new PFI hospital opens up, and are also projecting a £40m cash gap.
Meanwhile in South East London the nightmare of first-wave PFI hospitals continues, with two Trusts, Bromley Hospitals and Queen Elizabeth Hospital facing combined cumulative debts of over £120 million, dragging down the whole local health economy.
New Labour has more plans to cut back health services.
So it's clear enough: if PFI and the private sector are the answer, it must have been a bloody stupid question.
And as Gordon Brown reportedly takes over increasing direct control over the handling of health issues, apparently having little trust in Alan Johnson,
becomes increasingly clear that those hoping Brown might bring a break from privatisation and a return to some form of "old Labour" values were cruelly deluded.
It's big business as usual for New Labour - and its back to the campaigning at local level for the rest of us if the consequences are not to be a further massive erosion of our NAS. • More information: www.healthemergency.org.uk www.keepournhspublic.com Prosecution Service not to take out proceedings against individuals because they said there was insufficient evidence to do so.
The trial heard there was a "catastrophic" series of nineteen separate failures in police procedure which led to Mr de Menezes being shot by armed officers on a train at Stockwell Tube station on July 22 2005.
Following the verdict, Blair had the audacity to say that there was no "systemic" failure.
It seems as if the Metropolitan Police, who clearly have a different view about institutional racism from the rest of us, have done it again. Perhaps they have access to a dictionary the rest of us have never read.
It's particularly important to challenge the idea that because the fatal shooting took place 15 days after July 7 and the day after a second failed bomb plot in London that makes the murder of Jean-Charles more acceptable.
And of course there is a more Socialist Resistance is pleased to report that Derek Wall has been re-elected as Principal male speaker of the Green Party.
Dr Wall, a founder of Green Left and eco-socialist activist, beat Darren Johnson AM and Ashley Gunnstok, receiving over 100 votes more than Johnson:
Derek said:
"I am both honoured and humbled to have been reelected as Green Party Principal Speaker with such a decisive and increased vote. am going to have another year of standing up for radical green politics - ecology, social justice, grassroots democracy and peace.
"My job is to trumpet the Green Party's Manifesto for a Sustainable Society and I will do so with renewed energy and vigour.
"Green politics, more than ever, is vital: it is quite literally the politics of survival. We live in a world where another way of living is necessary and green politics is about making
"Just look at the climbing temperatures and the spread of global warfare, the US drive towards global imperialism supported by Brown.
"We Greens must renew our anti-war activism; Iraq must not be followed by the destruction of Iran.
"l am also pleased to have been re-elected (last week) as a coordinator of the Ecosocialist International Network. I believe in ecosocialism without apology and this network will bring activists together from Green Parties, the wider left and grassroots social movements from across the globe.
"Across the globe, but especially in Latin America, people are struggling for a green vision. Environmental protection is about making sure forests, rivers and other habitats sustain strong local economies. A world based on ever increasing capitalist economic growth wrecks the very conditions needed for real prosperity..."
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This is a tricky area for the left. For a long time, probably up until after the miners' strike in the mid 1980s, most socialists and trade unionists regarded the BBC