tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post1738693963158537348..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: Lower than vermin - a Tory muses on "Our NHS"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-74932976421479127292011-09-08T05:44:13.279+01:002011-09-08T05:44:13.279+01:00At long last we are seeing the great monoliths of ...<i>At long last we are seeing the great monoliths of British socialism - a sclerotic health system, a school system that fails the poor and a planning system that favours the rich - gradually moved aside in favour of the patient, the parent and the worker.</i><br /><br />Very gradually. In fact it's so gradual that I'm still betting that the whole sorry mess will implode long before any government gets round to adequate reform.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-13056883829989864262011-09-07T22:36:46.083+01:002011-09-07T22:36:46.083+01:00I recently had a conversation with someone who com...I recently had a conversation with someone who complained about repeatedly having to wait an hour or more at the hospital pharmacy, sometimes to then be told there was a problem, sometimes she'd travel in after being told her prescription was ready, to then be told it wasn't... a long list that was capped off with the complaint that the service was soon to be outsourced to Lloyds Pharmacy.<br /><br />So whilst you're right, trying to overcome the "logic" that would rather accept poor service from the public sector than better service from the private, could prove difficult.Phil Rusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13040474351783645703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-77351666776621586852011-09-07T22:18:53.510+01:002011-09-07T22:18:53.510+01:00I can't tell you how much I like this blogpost...I can't tell you how much I like this blogpost Simon. You're spot on about the way defenders of the status quo frame the argument. If you disagree you must have some nefarious reason. If you're an economist opposed to the 50p tax rate you're in the pockets of big business, and if you favour NHS reform you're out to make money for your mates in private healthcare. It's pathetic really.David Chivertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00632967271133369933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-70197294808744645962011-09-07T21:30:05.126+01:002011-09-07T21:30:05.126+01:00A Pict Song
Rome never looks where she treads.
Al...A Pict Song<br /><br />Rome never looks where she treads.<br />Always her heavy hooves fall,<br />On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads;<br />And Rome never heeds when we bawl.<br />Her sentries pass on—that is all,<br />And we gather behind them in hordes,<br />And plot to reconquer the Wall,<br />With only our tongues for our swords.<br />We are the Little Folk—we!<br />Too little to love or to hate.<br />Leave us alone and you’ll see<br />How we can drag down the State!<br />We are the worm in the wood!<br />We are the rot at the root!<br />We are the taint in the blood!<br />We are the thorn in the foot!<br /><br />Mistletoe killing an oak—<br />Rats gnawing cables in two—<br />Moths making holes in a cloak—<br />How they must love what they do!<br />Yes—and we Little Folk too,<br />We are busy as they—<br />Working our works out of view—<br />Watch, and you’ll see it some day!<br /><br />No indeed! We are not strong,<br />But we know Peoples that are.<br />Yes, and we’ll guide them along,<br />To smash and destroy you in War!<br />We shall be slaves just the same?<br />Yes, we have always been slaves,<br />But you—you will die of the shame,<br />And then we shall dance on your graves!<br /><br />We are the Little Folk—we!<br />Too little to love or to hate.<br />Leave us alone and you’ll see<br />How we can drag down the State!<br />We are the worm in the wood!<br />We are the rot at the root!<br />We are the taint in the blood!<br />We are the thorn in the foot!<br /><br />Rudyard KiplingJon Beechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18190254638197352778noreply@blogger.com