The government announces today there is simply no money for a pay increase for NHS workers. Yet we have 320 billion spare for new Trident missile systems. Highly skilled NHS workers need to investigate just how deep it is possible to insert a nuclear warhead into Danny Alexander’s colon.
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YES, Ben. Management is engaged in a constant discussion as to how it can insert more layers of redundant management, preferably without any experience of the field of interest, in order to sop up all the gravy. I’ve just had a reorganisation myself (not quite public sector, but near enough) which has replaced a highly capable line manager – without promoting her, naturally – with an ex- junior academic, and inserted another, specially recruited and better-paid, manager on top of him. They’re running half-a – dozen staff.
B: That’s the way bureaucrats think. A bureaucrat is nothing more than a politician without a constituency, and we know how accountable politicians are. 🙂
Come the revolution, Ben, those suspected of management will be handed the order for their execution, written in managementese. If they understand it, it will be explained to them that the cost-benefit analysis of using a firing squad did not stand up. They will then be beheaded with a rusty hacksaw. If they do not understand it, they will be awarded official citizenship.
Another question; As a closet smoker, I am concerned that higher premiums will be levied. It’s my dirty little secret and I lie out of shame and disgust with meself. 🙂
Does NHS simply ask, or do they test blood for nicotine?
Coming eventually to the UK.
Medical Bills Are the Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies: Study
25 Jun 2013
Bankruptcies resulting from unpaid medical bills will affect nearly 2 million people this year—making health care the No. 1 cause of such filings, and outpacing bankruptcies due to credit-card bills or unpaid mortgages, according to new data. And even having health insurance doesn’t buffer consumers against financial hardship.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148
The Scottish government ignored the prick. NHS workers in Scotland will get the rise.
To put it into perspective. All nurses along with members of the armed services, prison officers and judges will get a 1% pay rise. Some nurses will get more than 2.5%.
I’m self employed, commodity prices have fallen drastically while other prices have risen. I’m taking a pay cut and a hefty one. I honestly don’t think only getting a 3% rise instead of a 4% rise is going to make that much difference to the nurses, it aint gonna break them. Not when a nurse’s average pay is over £30,000. They’ll still manage to put bread on the table which is more than some can say. They won’t be queuing up at any food banks, lots of people who work will.
In response to Mary’s comment about the vanishing charity pages of Arseniy Yatsenyuk (reminiscent of Atlantic Bridge methinks) I’ve linked a video I only discovered today which says very much what my NJP article says about what we are not being told. It’s on the appropriate page.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/03/stating-the-obvious/#comment-445813
@Fred:
‘I’m self employed, commodity prices have fallen drastically while other prices have risen. I’m taking a pay cut and a hefty one.’
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You could always try getting a regular job…
“You could always try getting a regular job…”
And those people who have regular jobs, on zero hour contracts with supermarkets, what do you think they should try. Or the disabled who just can’t get a job but have seen their benefits slashed. Or those with the extra bedroom tax which they have to pay because there just aren’t any single bedroomed properties available what are they going to try?
The nurses are getting the same rise as the armed services, prison officers and judges. Some are getting more. They already get better pay than those in the private sector and a very good pension as well. What is all the fuss about?
Nice one Craig…
Its good to get a wee Chuckle ..even on a blog that deals up shit n Corruption n evil n truths
But because Ben taught me about Louis XIII cognac; a hundred bucks a shot…. And i bought a bottle… to shower it oot after reading great comedy ..is a Moratal Sin….
NR …. You owe me a small Fortune Lol
” The derided, foil-hatted, conspiracy theorists are proving more right than wrong recently.
It would not be a surprise if David Icke is also correct about the Reptilians. The next time anyone is lucky enough to stand beside a Royal, firmly grasp their ears and give a sharp tug upward. Their humanoid outer covering should slip off easily.
And more Smiles… Welcome back Mary.
DomesticExtremist 9.13pm.
Stupid fucking comment.
Brian; You bought a bottle? Now I have to visit. 🙂
BREAKING:
Another helicopter down in Norfolk.4 feared dead.
Helicopter apparently civilian,reports of heavy fog….
Is Beccles in Norfolk or Suffolk??
Beccles is in Suffolk but right on the banks of the river Waveney which is the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. Lord Ballyedmond’s statley pile is near Gillingham which is just the other side of the river, in Norfolk.
Just been confirmed that his Lordship is one fo the deceased which will no doubt get the conspiracy theorists going; ignoring the sheer foolishness of trying to fly through thick fog.
A great parliamentarian and good man, Tony Benn, has died. Rest in Peace, Tony Benn, because peace was one of your best-remembered campaigns. And thank you. There are not many politicians you can say that of.
I think the death of Tony Benn pretty well spells the death of Socialism in the Labour Party.
Socialism died in the Labour Party the day Tony blair became leader.
Kempe; “Socialism died in the Labour Party the day Tony blair became leader”
Yes, New Labour, Thatcher boastful “greatest achievement”.
A real sad day; Tony Benn was the most passionate of persons, yet never said a personal bad word about anybody, and is the only politician I can recall who admitted that he was wrong about a policy he once supported, namely nuclear power.
We will not see his like again.
Father forgive them….
Felicity Arbuthnot writes of the change in Iraq law where nine year old girls can now legally marry. Another side effect of Bliar’s legacy.
The US and Britain’s Paedophile Colony
by Felicity Arbuthnot / March 13th, 2014
Less than a month before the 11th anniversary of the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, the near destruction of much of the country, heritage, culture, secularism, education, health services and all State institutions, the country is poised to revert “two thousand years” say campaigners.
On February 25th, Iraq’s Cabinet approved a draft law lowering the age of legal marriage for females to nine years old.
Iraq was, prior to the invasion, a fiercely secular country, with a broadly equal male, female workforce and with women benefiting from a National Personal Status Law, introduced in 1959, which remained “one of the most liberal in the Arab world, with respect to women’s rights.”
The legal age for marriage was set at eighteen, forced marriages were banned and polygamy restricted. Cohesion between communities was enhanced and fostered by “eliminating the differential treatment of Sunnis and Shiites under the law (and erasing differentiation) between the various religious communities …” Women’s rights in divorce, child custody and inheritance were an integral part of the Law, with Article 14 stating that all Iraqis are equal under the law.
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http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/03/the-us-and-britains-paedophile-colony/
“….ignoring the sheer foolishness of trying to fly through thick fog.”
….after dark. Jesus. And owned a helicopter charter company, too. Must have been pissed.
RIP him, anyway, and Tony Benn too. The latter was always a ray of hope in the encircling gloom of Bliarism, but sadly ineffective at dissipating it. His like will not be seen again, as politicians these days are mass-produced from PVC by immigrant labour on a special homogenising machine. In Oxford, I believe.
I thought it was Neil Kinnock who started “New Labour” in the wake of the Tory landslide of 1983. In fact we could go further back to the internal party soul-searching that led to the creation of the SDP in the wake of Maggie Thatcher’s victory in 1979. Then there’s Joe Gormley being a Special Branch informant in the 1970s …
Two things about Tony Benn which I found unforgiveable. Otherwise I agree with what is being said about him.
He picked up the phones for Blair in the 2005 election although he had condemned the Iraq War then of two years’ duration.
‘Little wonder that Benn was easily recruited by Blair to canvass disillusioned Labour voters, during the recent British General Election, for the imperialist Labour Party. The standpoint on imperialism in Socialist Register cannot combat Benn’s reactionary position but rather tends to reinforce it.’
That was from Robert Fisk in The Independent in May 2005.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-let-us-rebel-against-poisonous-academics-and-their-preposterous-claptrap-of-exclusion-6146243.html
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It’s a pity Benn did not support the move to have Blair arraigned as a war criminal when he was president of STWC. A letter was signed by over 4000 people which sought the arraignment of Blair and his cabal for war crimes. It was addressed to Kofi Annan the Secretary General of the UN. A meeting to make a final decision was recorded thus in Tony’s new diary:-
‘Lindsey German and Nicholas Wood came to see me about the next stage in the campaign on the war crime question, about how we could advance the cause of the letter. There’s been no coverage in the press, although Kofi Annan has replied. We went on to discuss the whole question really of whether we were demanding a war crimes tribunal. My view is that you shouldn’t do that. I think it’s a complete waste of effort trying to put Blair and Bush on trial : (a) it won’t happen; (b) it’s so negative: ( c) it’s all about personalities.’
He should have stood with the 4,000.
Ben – ‘Does NHS simply ask, or do they test blood for nicotine?’
While it has been frequently suggested that treatment should be withheld or surcharges applied to smokers, the guiding principle of equal access for all, free at the point of delivery, still applies generally as far as I know. Anyone you meet in the NHS will ask you if you smoke, with a view to discouraging you, and, frankly, there’s no need for a nicotine test, as the aroma is quite distinctive. Me too, Ben. Wish I didn’t 🙂
Lord Ballyedmond RIP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26573893
The BBC are impressed that he was one of Northern Ireland’s richest men. Pal of Haughey.
His entry on the Lords register. Extensive interests.
http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-ballyedmond/3693
“I thought it was Neil Kinnock who started “New Labour” in the wake of the Tory landslide of 1983. In fact we could go further back to the internal party soul-searching that led to the creation of the SDP in the wake of Maggie Thatcher’s victory in 1979. Then there’s Joe Gormley being a Special Branch informant in the 1970s”
Sure, sure, but Blair actually got in, in part trading on Kinnock’s remaining , and Benn’s consistent, Left credentials. I was referring to the despair that set in within weeks of Blair’s triumph, on realising that we(1) had in fact elected another bloody Tory.
(1) Loosely speaking. I’d voted SNP…
If Ed Milliband gets rid of Union power in Labour (which ironically pushed for his leadership over the now Kissinger protege David) will it mean the only organised group remaining within the Party will then be the FOI? Mebbe thats been the plan all along only the mancunian meat-pie eaters are fast asleep.
Mary; “Two things about Tony Benn which I found unforgiveable”
Although an inspiration to millions throughout the decades, as Ba’al Zevul mentioned he was rather ineffectual at causing decisive change, and this because he was too much the gentleman in confronting the ruthless individuals that stood in the way. The reality is that believing that it’s “all about policies not personalities”, is only half correct, because if you exposed the hidden real reasons & the hypocrisy of these venal types that are supporting the bad policies, you ARE attacking the bad policies.