STRIKING JOURNALISTS AT BBC

Well I hear BBC News journalists are on strike! Brilliant ! This is just what we want. Hopefully they will stay out long enough for someone somewhere to take action and get rid of them for ever.  

Once upon a time we could be sure the BBC would try to be objective. It would not  express its own political views willy nilly, or slant its presentation of the news. Now we cant be so sure. It used to report the facts of a matter. Now it comments upon them in such a way that even the fortunate-well-educated could be forgiven for thinking the comments are representations of fact.

And while the strike continues it's another great opportunity to weed out the lefty element at all levels in the Beeb.Maybe even introduce more than just The Guardian for recommended reading? 

And what if, as seems most likely, the lefty trend continues when the strike and its consequences are forgotten? Well then let's get rid of the Beeb. If they wont change it's up to the licence fee payers and the government to make them change. Plenty of other news channels manage to present a balanced version of the news notwithstanding their political leaning.  

Why not get your act together, Beeb before we do it for you?

PLASTIC KATE MIDDLETON ? OR IS IT HILARY MANTEL?

How sad that #Hilary Mantel should have let her rather confused feelings surface.  Her rude observations on #Kate Middleton might be welcomed by a few but will be unwelcome to most.  That is because people who care generally think more than twice before uttering unkind remarks about strangers;  and of course the same goes for me.  

Maybe, Hilary, #psychologists would observe in you just a tinge of troubled background?  Maybe a childhood tarnished with chronic guilt which is now bugging your adult life and sadly may do so for ever? A brilliant person drowning in their own #intellect?

How hard it must be for you to share the admiration most of the U.K has for #Kate.  Look at yourself, #Hilary, and then examine your description of Kate ! Recognise anyone?    

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TO BE ABOLISHED

It was recently announced that many people suffering from what could be a serious illness refuse to see their G.P. or make a visit to hospital because they are too embarrassed. And who makes such announcements?  Well, of course, people in the Health Service.

Now it might well be true that many illnesses could be cured, or the effects of them reduced, if earlier visits were made.  Why such visits are often delayed may have something to do with embarrassment, but it might have a lot more to do with a complete loss of faith in and respect  for  the National Health Service.

Who would doubt that workers in the Health Service, without exception, genuinely care about the well-being of their patients? Unfortunately recent astonishing hospital events appear to give another impression.

Accordingly there is a continuing and growing unwillingness to let the National Health Service get its questionable mitts on us Brits!  The Elderly fear above all else ending up in a hospital where they have a very strong belief that whatever may, or may not be wrong with them, will be aggravated by a lack of care, mis-diagnosis, lack of food and drink, and verbal abuse.  They know that many patients end their days in hospital -  not because of what they went in for, but because of death by superbug. They fear lack of care. And if that doesn't do for them, they fear superbugs will. Wonderful.

On a slightly different tack many Brits report difficulty fighting their way past G.P receptionists. Receptionists who give the impression of being  more highly qualified than the G.P they serve!  Nurses who ignore patients pleas for water; Consultants who seem to have forgotten that patients are human and not exhibits to assist the teaching process. Administrators promoting unnecessary bureaucracy in the belief that it's helpful !

When it comes to the need for investigative or curative surgery is it any wonder many Brits fear the worst? If you can't trust the NHS to feed you and keep you clean, how can you possibly confidently relax on the operating table while some (generally arrogant) bugger cuts you up, after a lesser mortal has rendered you unconscious?

No.  It's time for the National Health Service, and all of its workforce, to change attitudes:  from the nurses who claim to be overworked and understaffed, to the consultants who might well be over-paid whilst underachieving;  from the army of ineffectual administrators to  the plethora of unhelpful political "support". Yes. This is a perception. Regrettably the perception is reinforced by the never-ending NHS stories reporting alleged neglect.

If the NHS is going to survive it must show at every staff level, and in every doctors surgery and hospital, in every political party, a harmonious willingness to change for the better in the interests of  patients' wellbeing. Equally important it must have the guts to recognise it's seriously ill and seek, and swallow, early treatment. 

Alternatively the NHS should not be surprised if it is abolished.