tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post8367955368703760610..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: The next time someone tells you the NHS is underfunded, shove this under their nose (hat-tip: Old Holborn)Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-78616473097568180112017-01-11T01:10:04.353+00:002017-01-11T01:10:04.353+00:00Farage is too jolly and bumptious to play Van Hels...Farage is too jolly and bumptious to play Van Helsing, I think. Enoch Powell? Now you're talking! Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-29552899784181441822017-01-08T19:45:05.018+00:002017-01-08T19:45:05.018+00:00He isn't everyone's cup of tea, but Nigel ...He isn't everyone's cup of tea, but Nigel Farage has a distinct air of Van Helsing about him. He answers questions with the directness I last saw from that other demon, Enoch Powell, and I doubt he would hesitate to be honest about the NHS, rather than deliver the usual coached prevarications.<br /><br />As for Salem's Lot, I'm starting to think more of I Am Legend. We might conceivably all be just doomed...GCoopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-87843174830542630772017-01-08T16:19:33.809+00:002017-01-08T16:19:33.809+00:00I'll never forget a (now retired) teacher frie...I'll never forget a (now retired) teacher friend of mine explaining the profusion of ridiculous non-jobs to me about 15 years ago when I asked why he'd got himself involved in some ridiculous non-academic project at his school: "The only way to get ahead in teaching these days is to stop doing any actual teaching." I once volunteered for a similarly silly project at the BBC, and my stalled career was instantly back on track! <br /><br />It's one of those odd but familiar situations - everyone (apart from a tiny handful of deranged cultural Marxists) knows this sort of thing is bullshit, and yet it continues. It's the same as local councils banning any reference to Christmas or judges refusing to deport foreign criminals because of their inhuman rights. Vampires is a good word for them - but where are the Professor Van Helsings who should be driving stakes through the fuckers' hearts while the rest of us celebrate? Or does Britain inevitably continue to morph into Salem's Lot? <br /><br />The BBC's reporting of the Red Cross nonsense re the NHS yesterday was typically hysterical. They've gone from refusing to voice any criticism of this failing organisation to blaming its failures on - wait for it - underfunding! Because, you see, the solution to any public sector problem is to throw more of our money at it. Pass the sickbag! (Only there aren't any, because they spent the money on hiring an utterly vital Assistant Director of Equality and Diversity.)Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-83572363279550085732017-01-07T21:20:07.563+00:002017-01-07T21:20:07.563+00:00My sympathy to your relatives (and you, of course)...My sympathy to your relatives (and you, of course). I am currently in the thick of this myself, with a close family member of extreme age who is being treated worse than I could have imagined possible by a succession of GPs and A&E departments, none of which seem to wish to take responsibility for a difficult case.<br /><br />As for the diversity zombie, I have a friend who has recently retired from the Care Quality Commission with whom I was discussing a similar appointment. In this case it was another NHS area and the pay was similarly outrageous. <br /><br />Apparently the woman in question was a well known trouble maker who had simply elbowed her way through the NHS structure and this sinecure was her 'reward'.<br /><br />If you consider the number of these vampires fastened to the neck of the the NHS, it isn't hard to see (combined with Bliar's Las Vegas style 'reforms' of GPs' contracts) how we can be in such a mess.<br /><br />The NHS is going to be the toughest nut of all for realists to crack, so imbued is it with the near-religious worship pumped out by the BBC and others. GCoopernoreply@blogger.com