The TV program "24 hours in the NHS" (or something like that) was an illustrator of that last week, following various consultants and doctors in their jobs on a given day last year in lots of different hospitals, the camera/editors all concluded each piece when a patient was referred to a different department or successfully treated and sent home with the question "Have you ever stopped to think how much your treatment of that person has cost today ?" and to their credit each of them didn't know, and nor should they ever be in a position to have to stop and think about it either.



Thats not to say that they go on treating for ever, there was an example of an old lady who was in for palliative treatment and who died several weeks later, she still deserved their full attention even though they had all agreed to stop fighting her cancer and no-one knew how much she was costed out at.



Only an accountant with a heart of stone and a head full of idiocy would try and cost out each individual consultation anyway - its the same with all of the emergency services, they are there for their twelve hour shifts anyway whether they sit on their backsides or rescue forty cats from forty trees, we've already paid for them !

When a Telegraph columnist and an NHS doctor (the same person) concludes that [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9962195/NHS-reforms-From-today-the-Coalition-has-put-the-NHS-up-for-grabs.htmlThe NHS is up for grabs[/url, you just know the job's fooked

An interesting article. Although I don't believe for one moment that a patient would be refused revision surgery on a botched knee replacement.



Today also saw legal aid go for pretty much everything but criminal law.

She sounds like she has smoked 50 a day for the last 20 years. Which she probably has.

Then let the scales fall from your eyes because each and every change that comes into being today is linked. The common link has little, if anything to do with saving money. No ones taxes will reduce, apart from those earning more than £150k per year. The state will continue to spend, the only difference being that somewhere someone, or more than one, will be taking a profit.



The poor will end up poorer, the sick will end up even more sick. This bunch of evil bastads are going further than even Thatcher would have dreamed possible and the frightening thing is: it is happening by creep. There will be no big bang, just a relentless chipping away at the social compact that we've enjoyed since 1947. I cannot even begin to explain how deep my hatred of the Conservative party and their supporters is but I do know that the hatred grows as each day of this government continues.

Not unexpectedly, there could be worse to come: [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9965039/Minimum-wage-could-be-frozen-or-cut-if-it-starts-to-cost-jobs-or-damage-economy-Government-suggests.htmlMinimum wage could be frozen or even cut[/url



Is there really no end to what this bunch can dream up?

Sadly, no, there really isn't.

The last rise to the adult minimum wage was 11p per hour.



We'll ignore the fact that most employees on the NMW are employed on zero hour or short term or part time contracts and assume a worst case scenario that they are working a 40 hour week - thats a wage rise of £4.40 a week or £228 per year, taxable.



I don't know how employers can keep a straight face or stop themselves from blushing when they state that such lavish and extravagant behaviour will ruin the business and crush the economy.

Given another stated aim of this bunch of miscreants is: "to make work pay". It seems a bloody strange way of going about it by proposing to reduce wages

It's the passivity of all of us that should know better that is fooking killing me!

Where have all the soldiers gone?

By the coalition you mean?

To you and me 'making work pay' means you get a decent living wage over and above what you get in benefits (without them being slashed first), to this bunch of scumbags it means slashing benefits first, then reducing the NMW, still making work pay over benefits.



Maybe at the next GE enough of the idiots on low pay who voted Tory will not do the same again (such as my mother in law who has always maintained that ruling should be left to those who know how to rule, such as royalty, aristocracy and the Tories while scraping an existence on a low paid menial job followed by basic pension for the last 10 years

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Without trying to pick a fight with those on here who think that laws should never be broken, no matter what, what we need is some good old fashioned civil disobedience, or better still a f'cking revolution with a brick wall and guns at the end of it.