I had occasion to go to this NHS hospital yesterday to accompany someone else who needs weekly treatment to alleviate excruciating pain from a long-term disorder.
When I attend the NHS now, two things hit my mind instantly, what would we do without this fabulous institution and why are the nursing & ancillary staff paid so very little for the life-enhancing work that they do daily.
For those who think it socialism it's not; at its simplest level it's a sensible economic and societal policy to have a fit, healthy workforce and society.
No one asks you for a credit card when you need treatment or what your worth. Introducing profit to medicine will instantly go to what should always be protected - the fundamental trust at the heart of the relationship between doctor and patient - and destroy it.
Only a few months ago our nurses had to take to the streets just to get a paltry pay rise promised yet unpaid by politicians for years.
Today, with Covid 19, these wonderful human beings put their lives on the line day and daily with a smile. Wow.
Those politicians, who voted down their long overdue, paltry pay rise just a few months ago, now heap them with praise.
They have the temerity, and the gall, to praise and to applaud them on Thursday nights as has become our way to say thank you to the best of us, yet many of these rancid hypocrites voted not to increase their pay.
In fact one UK prime minister believed there was no such thing as society. The outworking of Covid 19 disproves this for the palpable nonsense it was.
Most emetic of all is that these politicians enjoy considerable pay increases year on year.
Of course, they rig it by appointing a panel of 'safe hands' actually interdependent, not independent people - and they say their pay & pension increases are decided independently, but they neglect to say that they can always say no, which isn't a word they have ever used when grabbing as much dosh as they can get their ferociously greedy mitts on.
They neglect to say that when these 'interdependent' bodies also recommended pay increases for low paid public sector employees the same MP's did say no.
And back to Covid 19 and a health service that was already wilfully starved of resources and intentionally driven to its knees by politicians - the staff can't get testing nor adequate protective clothing yet early on in the crisis the politicians awarded themselves £10,000 each to assist their having to work from home. There's about 650 of the greedy bastards.
It takes no time ever, no matter what the event, for our self - serving political class to whet their insatiable greed for our money. The world is not enough for these people.
So let's hope, as we come out of this, that they applaud less and pay more to the best of us and put themselves last just once. For the first time. read more
