As is the case with most drugs and most patients. The type of drugs I am on at the moment list the side effects as TB and lymphoma to name a few. Do I worry, of course I do but without these drugs I would be literally bed bound with joints that completely (and literally) fall apart. I also take a drug called methotrexate which is a chemotherapy drug but I don't have cancer, so you can imagine the side effects of this powerful drug.



When I was on my clinical trial the nurses told me that if anyone had anything wrong with them, developed lymphoma or other cancers, even if it was something mild like headaches, then the drug company by law has to list them as a side effect of that drug whether it was or not, as the patient was using the drug when they got that illness.



I would only go back on Vioxx if my current anti inflamatory caused me problems and there was nothing else suitable. Taking powerful drugs like this is a gamble in so many ways. It may or may not work for your condition and you may or may not experience side effects. I suppose currently, I am very lucky in that the only side effect from any drugs at the moment seems to be high blood pressure which is controlled by medication, which in turn has side effects

The RA drug I am on now is fairly new on the market, so we'll have to see in 10, 15, 20 years time what the long term side effects are. I look at it from this angle; if the effect of the medication outweighs the side effects then carry on, if the side effects are just too much and are making you just as ill, come off.

UKIP will probably take votes of all parties. To say they will only take votes from the Tories is simplistic.







To dismiss peoples genuine concerns about Europe / Immigration as nonsense is a very wrong.

It's looking like a worryingly comfortable Tory majority to me. UKIP are doing well in the opinion polls but come the general election most of those people will vote Tory, especially as the Tory party will continue to talk tough on Europe. They've managed to get away with pretending to be anti-Europe for 30 years despite being pro-Europe. They'll do so again. As I have said umpteen times and someone has just said above, Labour's leadership will make them unelectable.

As I said on another thread, Osborne today started the PR machine rolling with his covert attack on Cable and his overt attack on Labour and despite spinning the last five years of depressed world economies so that it appears to be all Gordon Browns fault, he got away with it and had his soundbites all repeated verbatim.



After twelve more months he'll be able to sell horsemeat as prime beef and none of us will notice the difference.

What about the Lib Dem vote? I can't believe anyone will fall for whatever they say again and I don't see antone who voted Lib Dem last time but not in 2015 as defecting to the Tories.



Where I live in a marginal seat , two way fight (UKIP is nowhere) the Lib Dems should be toast whereas last time IIRC they affected the result letting the Tory in.

They will take hugely from the Tories compared to everyone else. Massively. There are very few who voted for Gordon Brown in 2010 whose concerns about Cameron are now solved by UKIP. There aren’t many who voted for Nick Clegg in 2010 who wont vote for them again because the Lib Dems haven’t gone far enough to the right.



I don’t dismiss peoples genuine concerns about Europe and Immigration. Lynton Crosbys dog-whistle isn’t however a representation of genuine concerns.