Thursday, 16 July 2015

How to Govern in 2015

I twigged it tonight when watching channel four news. The usual story, NHS is falling apart at the seams and the government is doing all it can to make sure it does:
Piss the Nurses and Doctors off with endless meddling and never ceasing to shift the goal posts and avoid the real problem the NHS has which is what to prioritise on a finite budget.
They could start with the fact that their are not enough psychiatric beds but plenty of money for IVF and other life style medicine. Need I go on? Im sure you have a view.
The Government would never do that, because it might upset the gay vote or the single mothers or some other single issue pressure group only to willing to shout "human rights".

So, what they do is constantly deflect onto other less vocal or popular groups by for example reminding everyone that we have and increasing old age problem bed blocking. While ensuring that local authoritise have insufficient funds to care for them in the community and thus its not their problem is it..

Basically the government drip feeds the agenda to the press or drive the debate to achieve the outcome the they desires. You must be so used to it by now that you have been brain washed. You know the blurb goes like " its all because of austerity and sponging benefit low life, plus elderly bunging up the social housing". These are always good punch bags and deflect the problem of actually giving some solutions to all this overcrowding that is causing the demand on the public services and the culture of everyone being able to get it all on the NHS. We cant and we must face it. We can expect to be looked after to a degree but what that degree is, IS the problem we must face and Government is not facing it. We cannot keep milking the cow without giving it grass and expecting it to deliver chips as well. If you cant have children, my heart goes out to you, but if you want them you should pay. If you want to be a man and your name is Doris then why should a person have to die because the NHS will not pay for a drug that person cannot afford. Moral problems we must face and soon. Before the government makes the perfect storm and case to privatise the NHS and there by duck their number one head ache. What to do with the NHS.

Of course 10% rise in their pay today didnt do any harm either did it... not while the NHS has had no pay rise in five years.
They are getting expert at it, well you would with an ex PR man as PM. You just ignore the stuff you dont like, pretend to do something about whatever this weeks story is and do bugger all that could upset the chancellor of the exchequer. Last week The Home Sec went to Dover and when she got back she said she would put a fence around a bit of Calais (enough to go around 250 trucks) and that would keep all those hopefuls out! Naturally, its just a background noise to most folks. We are used to being over crowded and we only bang on about it when we have to go to hospital in a taxi or spend a day on a trolley because their is no bed due to some poor old sod being unable to go home or into care on account of the sad fact their isnt any.

Well, you to will be old one day and you to could be that person blocking that bed. I hope by then we have a government that can do more than blame it on you for being old.

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