Don't Believe the NHS Hype

I read an interesting article the other day.

Daily Mail reveals the "truth"

It's nice of the Daily Mail to take a fresh look at the Government cuts to the NHS. You can always depend on the Daily Mail to take  an objective view on, well,nothing really. There were a few things in the article that made me really think.

They point out that the NHS isn't actually being cut (Probably best to disregard this article then). In fact, it turns out that the NHS is advertising 6,175 vacancies on a single day. Now that is a lot of jobs available, it's almost like the economic crisis has been invented by the left wing media. Those bastards!

I'm assuming that the reason the article doesn't mention the fact that the NHS is one of the biggest employers in the UK or the fact that 6,175 jobs make up less than 0.5% of the total jobs in the NHS was just an oversight on the journalists behalf.

They then go on to expose the unbelievable wages that NHS are paying to people with jobs that are a total waste of time. Such as an Associate Director of HR. I know, I don't understand either. How can the NHS, with 1.7million members of staff need a HR department. They cover such stupid things human rights, equality, pay services, performance and productivity. Sounds like a waste of time to me.

It gets worse. Kingston Hospital NHS Trust is going to pay their new chief operating officer a “staggering” £120,000. Unbelievable!

Oh, just one quick thing. Did you know that the editor of the Daily Mail had a pay rise this year of 70% to £2.8 million? Probably deserves it much more than an Operating Officer of an NHS Trust though.   

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Some very nice people have started an organisation called Action for Happiness.  It is a charity aimed at refocusing society's attention away from the fact we have no money and concentrating on the more important things in life.

Happiness all round!

So what generous persons would fund such a charity in this economic climate?  Well it turns out it's those that tell us there is no money.  It's Dave and his "Big Society" Cronies over at the Office of Civil Society.

So instead of making massive cuts to vital organisations in education, health, childcare and emergency services and telling us to get it on with it, they have done their chopping and used the spare cash to tell us if we aren't happy it's our own fault for not surviving on love and puppy dog tails.

To add insult to injury the charity isn't run by three aging hippies living on a commune doing their best impression of The Good Life.  No they are all Oxbridge graduates.

Mr Richard Layard, a baron no less, who sits in the House of Lords, Geoff Mulgan, former Director of Poilcy for No. 10 and Anthony Sendon, Tony Blair's biographer.  Now could you ever find three men more suited to tell us how to be happy without wealth?

Well Dave,  heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Feminists Hate the Poor!

Feminism. It's a good thing right? You know, the whole women getting treated as equals thing? Well I can understand why you would think that but no, you're wrong.  You see the lovely Minister for Universities and Science,  David Willets has been doing a bit of poking around and figured out why working class men can't get a decent job and he wants to share it with us all.

It was the ladies wot dunnit!

Now I don't want to be petty about this Mr Willets but there are a few little flaws in your arguement aren't there.  Please don't feel embarrassed, I understand the pressure you're under. Your government is ripping the country to shreads and your scared aren't you?  All those angry, young, unemployed men with nothing better to do than direct their anger at you and the rest of your corporate groupies.  Best to destract them hey?

We can all see your hard work at making sure immigration is still right up there -  lowering student visa numbers was a great idea!  Make them think that all those foreigners are sneaking in and not only stealing our jobs but stealing our education!  How dare they?  OK, you will have to lose some of the £5 Billion that students on foreign visas will bring in to the economy but it's definitely worth the message it sends.

Then you come up with a blinder!  Not only will we blame the immigrants,  we can blame the women too.  Its been years since you've had a proper go at them, they won't see it coming.

The fact that you are comparing middle class women with working class men does make the argument hard to follow.  You would think to make the point you would compare middle class women and middle class men or working class men with working class women,  you know, comparing something that actually makes sense.

I understand if you did that your argument wouldn't really stand up. Issues like poverty will start cropping up and all the people are going to start moaning that you're just for big business and hate the poor and its best if that didn't crop.  OK, maybe you don't hate poor people but they just aren't very important are they?  Pretty safe to say they aren't going to vote Tory isn't it! 

And all those university places those woman have stolen,  who do they think they are!  Let's keep quiet about the fact that the amount of university places has increased dramatically since the 1970's when the university was a male domain (ahhh the good ol' days hey Dave.)

We should probably just brush over the fact that women are still not paid the same wage as men or the fact that unemployment is rising faster for women than men and that women are far more likely to work part time.  You don't want anyone to dwell on that or your just going to look like....well, exactly the man you are - an out of touch, over privileged, sexist bigot.

No shit Sherlock

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