I never believed that this Government would be so momumentally incompetent.
Have they learnt nothing from the mistakes of past governments? They are both mad and Maoist while being wimpish and weak when challenged. They have given their critics the stick to beat them. Climbing down on free books in their latest U-turn. They have fed the hope that they will always surrender when challenged. This will intensify future outcries.
Their health revolution is insane. The NHS is enjoying great public approval nationally and internationally. They were warnED today that they are heading for multi £billion shortfall or savage cuts. This is a major managerial problem for any government to solve. Certainly this is no moment to waste £3billion on an unwinnable gamble of reorganisation.
Michael Gove has performed more cartwheels in reversing policies than any other minister. Still he presses on with unproved major changes to a service that is demanding stability and a break from political interference. It must end in tears.
Right wing Tory MPs and left wing LibDems are openly contemptuous of the coalition stitch-up. Can it survive a poor result in Oldham and Saddleworth?
The Government stagger on in Afghanistan into certain failure with mounting deaths of civilians and soldiers. Public patience and credulity is being stretched to breaking point. No-one in the Cabinet has the guts to recognised the futility of the mission.
All opinions polls are moving against the Tories. The beloved idea of coalition has lost its popularity. Elections are lost by Governments and not won by oppositions. Labour should not rush into new policies. The Tories will rapidly and spectacularly destroy themselves.
Recent tweets
"Their health revolution is insane. The NHS is enjoying great public approval nationally and internationally. They were warnED today that they are heading for multi £billion shortfall or savage cuts. This is a major managerial problem for any government to solve. Certainly this is no moment to waste £3billion on an unwinnable gamble of reorganisation."
My own recent experience of the NHS is that the very best thing that could possibly happen to everybody's health would be huge cuts in State health expenditure.
In the words of Leonard Cohens song
he entered a hospital
"where none was sick and none was well"
is an accurate reflection of the NHS.
My own bench mark of radical wisdom is that
of Ivan Illich, the Mexican Marxist thinker and former priest (d 2002) who wrote the work
"Medical Nemesis, the expropriation of Death"
Anybody who has got a pain... go for it, and they will expropriate yours, at their convenience and not the sufferer's.
Complements of the season to Paul.
Posted by: Gar | December 28, 2010 at 08:30 PM
The problem with radical thought that is not based on statistics, is that it is mere conjecture.
Conjecture with evidence, theory and proof, is what the NHS management has to work with.
The statistics drive the business of pain relief, rather than the other way about, pain relief driving the statistics.
In that way decisions are made which are entirely out of context of the good health of the individual, and entirely in the context of the health of the state.
If you want personal attention, Forget it!
Posted by: Gar | December 28, 2010 at 08:35 PM