chemotherapy patients & "fit for work" tests

[derick]

At least we can read them. (the minutes)

 

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^ He has not aged at all.

 

ah, but he haes an aaful owld pictir in his laft.

 

Osborne is a bit fresh faced also.

 

As opposed ta da Fiberals, wha ir joost two faced.

[shetlandpeat]

The Risk Register has been leaked.

 

http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102665899193-912/Health-Bill-Transition-Risk-Register-NC-15-Oct-10-Dept-Bd-Version-v1.pdf

 

Though a clever bod has linked it to here via meta data

 

Document metadata all traces back to Roy Lilley – see http://www.roylilley.co.uk

 

Who to trust?

[scoots]

Brilliant, that has fixed it.

 

Does it matter, the problem is now, regardless of who did what. The doctors are making the point here, I have no idea of their party politics and nor do I care. Shame on you perhaps for detracting from the issues facing folk right now.

 

:rofl:

 

Ah me, 'peat. You get me every time! (snif! ahem!)

 

YES, paulb (getting all po-faced, stuffed up and self-important, chin to chest and peering over me spectacles, in the best tradition of middle-aged tinpot politicians the country over) SHAME on you! In fact, cut your tongue out and HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME, man, lest ye sin against the Great Church of Toh-nee & Co again!

 

Do me a favour, 'peat, pull the other one! Why SHOULD we forget? 'Cos lets face it, The Weasel has gone to beef up his suntan in the middle east, 'Stalin' has been shipped back off to his Fife gulag, no doubt to pen some "devastating" memoirs (yaaaaawn) - if he can find some young male aides to help - while Ed & Edd sit waiting for Eddy to join them. But nothing's changed.

 

It's like they're action(!) figures, with interchangeable heads. Be they Red, Blue or Yellow (ah, Mr Clag... was ever a party colour so apt?) other than the duff ones that didn't get moulded quite right (Millipede and others) that nobody REALLY wants, but you've opened the wrapping now, so you're stuck with him -until you can save up enough to buy a new one, that is! - they're all the bloody same!

 

And let's not forget, 'peat, that Ravy Davy Gravy Train and the Clag are only inflicted upon us because of...

 

No! What am I THINKING?! Of course, in the best tradition of 'BlairSpeak' - also the language of weasels, rats, and other verminous creatures, y'know - let's all "draw a line under this and move on. Vital lessons have been learned...yaddah yaddah!".

 

Dear Grud, how many times did we hear THAT when yet another scandal or sh*tstorm broke during 3 consecutive terms of office? (and at the end of that time, they were STILL blaming Maggie & co for all their problems and broken promises!!)

 

So, let's try summat new 'peat. Let's NOT forget. Let's REMEMBER. Y'see, far from "distracting" us, memory HELPS us understand and is critical in making rational decisions. Otherwise you'd keep catching "little 'peat" in your fly, when you visit the men's room, y'see??? (Tell me, do you even believe your own spiel? Honestly? If so, you need a break from politics. Try a job with "Meals on Wheels". That way you're helping your community a damn sight more and not being rewarded for it, other than in the spiritual sense!)

 

Let's all remember how Toh-nee and 'Stalin' sold off half our gold bullion reserves, for a massive loss, at a time when no one else was doing so (on the advice of...? Ed & Edd, of course!! ) Or throwing billions at the banks - "our" banks, of course - when a bubble of greed, not seen since the Yuppies, began to burst. Or shoehorning their old-school, university-educated, degree-wielding, Guardian-reading, otherwise unemployable chums into key strategic roles throughout the public sector, massively draining the public funds, the pension funds and ham-stringing every public sector agency with a layer of bureaucracy not seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall!!

 

Bloody hell! At least when Robert Maxwell rooked his company pension funds, he went for a swim with water wings provided by the Mossad, old 'Stalin' just sat back and poured another brandy as he beggared countless people who'd spent all their lives working - many voting Labour and really believing that "things can only get better"! Ha!

 

The problem with politics now - national or local - is that, I believe, in order to make any real sustainable change in the utterly corrupt and useless system we have at present (regardless of which of the pigs are at the trough) you would have to strip out and remove every one of them that is self-serving, or who doesn't vote with their conscience, or in the interests of the constituents for whom they're meant to speak; who accepts the doctrine pushed by their masters in the party, or their owners who pad out their "paltry" wages; those who sit on the board of private companies, or act in the interests of friends and relatives that do; who invite and accept lobbyists, who accept "donations" from those who have no more interest in politics than how it can be twisted to benefit them; those who court the media to serve their purpose through disinformation - whether it be the broadsheets, the tabloids, the lickspittle television hacks, or media moguls (Rupert & Toh-nee, up a tree, k.i.s.s.i.n.g!); those who develop an attack of middle-class snobbishness, suddenly dressing bespoke, rather than off the peg, attending the spa, developing a "love" of English classics and operatic arias, while looking down on the little people they have left so far behind - along with their roots, their morals, their identity - and chuckling over brandy and a cigar in the Commons bar, or the Lords, if they bend over enough times, or grease enough palms...

 

And, if we get rid of all of them - as we so desperately need to, in my opinion - who have we left? You, 'peat?

 

'peat?

 

'PEEEEE-EEAT?!

 

Anyone seen 'peat? He was here a minute ago. Y'know, about that height, so wide, looks a bit like a galley head?

 

No? Damn! I'd best go looking for him, he'll only go upsetting someone. It's all that "forgetting" things, y'know. It's fried his memory!

 

After that, I'm going to try and push my dystopian/utopian dream and found a fresh, new government, clean from corruption. (Which way to Forvik? ).

[shetlandpeat]

I forgot it was all my fault.

 

Perhaps after rinsing the Turks Head put it back so someone else can use it, they are most valuable in forwarding discussions as you are well aware.

 

 

 

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[scoots]

No one is saying its your fault, 'peat. Stop drumming for sympathy, you poor, poor wee soul

 

However do you cope with public "service"?

 

All barbs aside, 'peat, I recognise that you have highlighted a thoroughly worthy cause here, and kudos to you for doing so (although the cynical might suggest its your "public duty" to do so ).

 

Lord knows, this needs fighting. I've signed it, BTW.

 

But then to take this opportunity to beat the party drum and suggest Labour might - might, mind - wave Ed & Edd's magic wand and make things aaaall better if folk only see sense and vote them in? To demand that we all forget how this began, and try to shame those who point this out?

 

Shame on you, 'peat.

 

This topic is not a political one, 'peat. It's a basic humanitarian one. And ALL sides have now failed on that issue. Stop trying to score political points, and look for more such good causes to promote.

 

It's more worthy of a "public servant", wouldn't you agree?

 

("Turks Head"? You've lost me again. Care to explain? )

[shetlandpeat]

I was not asking anyone to forget, or suggesting others have wands blessed with fairy goo, I have yet to find that bit in my post. We learn lessons from past mistakes, well we hope anyway. The problem is folk having to jump through ever decreasing hoops to have a decent standard of living.

 

Turks Head, is the name of the brush, anyone who works on the roads will know that, us poor labourers have to put up with much that folk do not always know.

 

Companies are now putting pressure on employees to return to work, some use the same company, Atos to do this. Although originally contracted by a previous government, it seems that the new one can see further advantages of using them.

 

There are things I have not been happy with, that have been introduced or actioned from the last admin. Not much I can do about it except use my voice at times when I am able.

 

I am not sure who you may have spoken to about this subject, though I guess everyone will know of someone who will loose out. I certainly have met a few.

 

I sometimes wonder if folk fail themselves. Any post about elections I encourage folk to get involved, I hope I have not suggested any bias in suggesting folk should make a stand for any reason but to address any complaint. There are many who can find reasons not to get involved, that is a shame. The more who get involved the more diverse the thought of the body they have become involved with becomes.

[scoots]

"Does it matter, the problem is now, regardless of who did what."

 

That's glossing over the problem with the Opposition, asking folk to draw Blair's bloody line & forget if you ask me.

 

As for the Turks Head, still none the wiser. And road workers putting up with a lot? Join the queue.

 

But, once again, credit to you for the points made highlighting this and how others are trying to fight it.

 

As for electioneering? It's not for everyone, you should know that. At one time, in my past, I sat on a union national executive, representing thousands. I did it because I could, and had a small ability for oration and putting others collective thoughts into words. I always knew that there were so many who could not - for whatever reason - do as I did. And then my circumstances changed and I wàs no longer able to carry on with this post.

 

It does not mean I care one jot less. Same goes for all the others you are wont to dismiss, demean or criticise because they do not have the freedom, wherewithal or ability to do as I did, or as I hope you do.

 

Please bear that in mind.

 

It's the reason we have a government, union reps, spokespersons, councillors even! To speak FOR us. To REPRESENT us.

 

And that's more important now than it ever was, it seems. Political scores ànd agendas need to be set aside, and action carried out for the good of those who need it most.