Sleaze the symptoms
Is there a pecking order of political sleaze? Is it worse to be politically sleazy, sexually sleazy or financially sleazy?
Surely, for a politician the political sleaze is the thing that should matter most. Poor old Patricia Hewett being booed by nurses. Maybe it’s because we all recognised the challenging time the NHS is going through in the face of the government’s meddling rather than anything else. The reforms seem to have created another social class of managers reliant on the government for their livelihood. It’s happened all the way up from GP level. Or at least that’s how it seems to me.
Then there are the constant stories of how unworkable the NHS is. Despite all the funding, it won’t succeed, and the leader writers and commentators of every persusasion wring their hands and mumble ‘nothing to be done’ while paying into their private health scheme.
Maybe we should take our lead for the people on the ground rather than the shamen of spin.
Posted by Cptn
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