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stella41b -> RE: Whistleblowing Nurse Struck Off (4/17/2009 4:58:46 PM)
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Sadly today the NHS is about anything other than patient care, especially when it comes to hospitals. Today's top priorities for the NHS in hospitals appears to be over management, underfunding, and as we can see from the OP hiring specialist cleaning agencies who hire migrant workers on minimum wages not to do the cleaning they're contracted to do. This is what the NHS has become about in hospitals - cleaning, and cleaning operatives (as they are now known).
Yet another clear example of where we Brits appear to have screwed up over our priorities as a society and another reason for genuine anger from the people.
Don't get me wrong Bruv, I see it all the time, and it's like we're all being dumbed down by the media, innit? it's not just the NHS, this goes right through the media, other public services, central government, the media and local government... it's like a malignant cancer spreading through society.. It starts with the media and journalists telling young people and kids how to behave (don't listen to your parents) and parents who either haven't got the time, energy, or it to bring up their kids. As a society we are becoming rude, arrogant, obnoxious, in yer face, aggressive, no consideration for anyone else and no comprehension of anything which doesn't directly affect you - just like proper loonies.
The NHS is full of advice - eat healthily, give up smoking, drink only 2 units of alcohol a week, have you got a dose of the clap, do you wear condoms, you get fobbed off when you go for a doctor's appointment (we can see you in a week if you're dying, otherwise please contact NHS Direct or visit your local Accident and Emergency Department), you get tests, referrals, X-rays, oh and only the standard 10 minutes to discuss anything at an appointment with your GP who is restricted to one topic per patient.
So what is this? Is this really the 'stiff upper lip' and 'mustn't grumble' attitude, where it's the whistleblower who is seen as the problem and not the problem itself which is brought to the attention of people.
Yeah right, well bollocks to all that, and I mean it. The writing has been on the wall ever since the Liverpool Dockers and SOGAT 82, it's been on the wall ever since the Miner's Strike in 1984, the Tube strikes, and the accession of the poorer former Eastern European countries to the European Union. Rupert Murdoch is still the longest serving Prime Minister in this country, Margaret Thatcher never was your friend, and now you have the real bastards - and bastards they are - and I'm talking about the same ministers today as who I marched with at Aldermaston and Greenham Common in the 1980's, the fuckers who did the dirty on Ken Livingstone and Len Murray, and who are now doing the dirty on you dear people from their offices in Westminster. They were never interested in selling the Socialist Worker outside the Tube stations nor with the simplistic 'Smash Thatcherism! Troops out of Northern Ireland' message, they were only interested in themselves, and what they could get out of it.
And just like they sold those Liverpool dockers down the Mersey they are selling you the country out right left and centre for whatever they can get out of it. And the sooner people start waking up to this fact and coming together and showing some real solidarity the better it will be for everyone.
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