Healthy response
Hullo viewers, Thin White Duke here. We’ve had a lengthy email from a PRSD citizen called David Howard about our NHS story. He’s obviously gotta load of stuff to get off his chest - waaaay more than we have room for. Nevertheless, we’ve decided to post an abridged version below. Hey, if you can’t have a lefty moan in the People’s Republic where can you have one?! Get in touch and let us know what you think.
Anyhoo, here’s what David has to say:
It is not just the NHS that is in trouble, the bloody setup has gone up the wall. Wherever one looks in this country, there are big problems.
Who is to blame for this? Politicians keep telling us it’s the people but we voted for them to run the country. We have a Prime Minister who either can’t or won’t do what is required to correct the situation.
“Give me 10 years,” he said. Well he’s had his 10 years and it’s worse than before he came to power. Perhaps he needs reminding that when in opposition in 1990, he suggested the minimum wage. The rate he said it would be was £5.00 per hour. Now, 17 years later, it’s still at the same level.
I read in the paper about naming and shaming those who commit fraud against the system. Why then don’t we shame employers who are so tight that they cannot pay a living wage for the work they expect?
And let’s also pull up those directors who say, “If these rules are going to apply, I will sell my business.†If they can only run their business on what is little more then slave labour, give the business to someone who can pay decent wages.
If genuine understanding and proper care in the community can’t be won through discussion and demonstration, there’s no choice but to fight for the right to be equal with one another.
How can it be right to pay pensioners the measly amount they receive yet pay over £1,000 per week to keep someone in prison? How can we stand by and watch disabled people pressganged into work where they receive 95p per day?
We have a useless Prime Minister but he is about to go. A rat leaving the sinking ship. I think his passport should be withdrawn until we know if war crime charges are to be brought against him for his part in the killings of innocents in Iraq.
That is going to leave us with dear old Mr. Brown. Have you thought about the reasons no-one is coming forward to stand against him for the premiership? I don’t think anyone wants it, so he is well and truly lumbered. Long live the revolution, may it be bloodless.
If you liked this story, you could buy us a coffee --------------------------------------------------------------------March 6th, 2007
