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May 08, 2005
The lie at the heart of Whitehall.
The true colours of this government and their "caring" image are revealed in this item from the BBC. So much for "equality and fairness", so much for their proclaimed intention to give the "best health care money can buy, free and equally to all"! Even our closet communist Chancellor, Mr Gordon Brown, has now been forced to admit a bit of "smoke and mirrors" on funding the NHS - and that he will have to cut spending on it after the election.
This disgraceful proposal by the usual bunch of Whitehall whallahs, "NICE", the so-called "National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence", to restrict treatment and drugs to the elderly, betrays the fundamental dishonesty which now pervades the entire Civil Service. Typically they propose to hit the very people this hugely expensive, mismanaged, and totally unworkable monument to the incompetence of Civil Servants and politicians was set up to provide help for! Naturally they will not themselves be affected by this! Senior Civil Servants (the ones making this proposal), and the political elite who will rubber stamp it are all protected by private medical care plans. Only they can afford it - Chancellor Brown has seen to that by his raids on pension funds, incomes, and stealth taxes on savings schemes - leaving the vast majority of middle income earners unable to make these same protective provisions.
The election will have raised hopes in the minds of a small minority whose grasp of reality is always going to be suspect that somehgow re-electing Labour, or perhaps voting in more LibDems - or, even more wildly - electing a Conservative Government, would change this. It won't. Whitehall exists entirely for Whitehall's benefit and no other. The elderly, those who make a commitment to work, to pay their own way, are the very ones this bunch of thoroughly dishonest and immoral bureaucrats have no hesitation in betraying at every opportunity.
Anyone who still believes that politicians or the Civil Service (another brand of politician!) have their welfare or interests at heart needs to check the number of moons they can see in the sky. They are probably not on the same planet as the rest of us!
Posted by The Gray Monk at May 8, 2005 10:29 AM
Comments
Whitehall does NOT have a heart; never did have one, either !! Plastic bean-counters do not have an ounce of caring in their pseudo-people carcasses !!
Posted by: MommaBear at May 8, 2005 12:17 PM