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Off Topic: Mark Steel on austerity, James Hunt, & The NHS...

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The NHS collapsing isn’t a ‘crisis’ – everything is simply going to plan

One doctor writing to Jeremy Hunt said ‘120 patients a day are being treated in corridors’. This shows how under-used corridors are

Mark Steel independent.co.uk/voices/nh...

...This is all a measure of the extraordinary ability of our Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Because he’s dealing with nurses and doctors, who have spent their entire professional lives training to be calm under extreme pressure, barely raising their voices even when surrounded by blood, fear and calamity. And he’s got them fuming and spitting and writing furious letters, which is a skill few of us could master.

To be hated by the entirety of a profession known as “angels” is the sort of specialised ability someone like that is paid for.

Next he should be put in charge of full-time meditators at Buddhist retreats, to see if he can get them to go “I’ll SQUASH the bastard with my yogic tantric flow” and spend all day chanting “arsehole arsehole arsehole” on a mat...

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A little balance

news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote200...

It matters not one jot who is in charge. The nhs is a money pit. The end.

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Blair was a Thatcherite. :(

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Make them relinquish their private health care when they get elected. Might focus their minds a bit.

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