please empty your brain below
If you don't, she will...

http://www.channel4.com/news/emma-harrisons-tax-bill-casts-doubt-on-50p-tax-analysis

Dan | 20.03.12 - 7:19 a.m. | #

"Rest assured, this is a genuine copper-bottomed no-risk investment opportunity."

So, hidden in the small print, I see you have plans to privatise the police service too?

Can I Gift Aid my investment?

Blue Witch | Homepage | 20.03.12 - 7:41 a.m. | #

It is important for this scheme to work that you give assurances that absolutely no NHS vehicles will leave the premises so as to avoid all road tolls applied to the new access roads to the old road infrastructure.

B | 20.03.12 - 8:49 a.m. | #

I can see that there are widespread concern about changes to the NHS.

On the other hand. I have been run ragged trying to deal with quafque-esque processes in some parts of Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust over the past few years....

The view that the current NHS set up is perfect is rose tinted.

IslandDweller | 20.03.12 - 8:49 a.m. | #

I'm in!

RogerB | 20.03.12 - 9:13 a.m. | #

Pretty funny that, until I realised it's not a spoof.

kev hennessy | 20.03.12 - 9:29 a.m. | #

Great dark stuff there DG, the problem is your irony is probably uncomfortably close to the truth.

Island Dweller, no one said that the NHS was perfect but that is no reason to turn it into another EON, SERCO, Greater Anglia (shudders) etc etc.

After all, all those other privatisations have gone so well for us haven't they (I)?

Babies and bath water.

CF

Chingford Flaneur | 20.03.12 - 9:35 a.m. | #

By the way DG - love the scarily accurate business speak: "Low hanging fruit", "Stakeholder paradigm" . "The new way forward" .

Going forward I feel that we should all interface like this, creating synergies between likeminded individuals and driving growth in the bovine scatolology sector.

CF


Chingford Flaneur | 20.03.12 - 9:42 a.m. | #

If I want a Labour party rant, I'll go to a Labour party blog, thanks.

Stick to what you're good at, please.

David | 20.03.12 - 9:49 a.m. | #

David - I feel the same about the BBC lately, I don't pay my licence fee to listen to unadulterated, uncritcal paroting of the Tory line.

Unfortunately I'd probably get the same line from Auntie as you deserve from DG, in other words...

Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you.

CF

PS - Love how you make the usual lockstep righty error of assuming all progresive folk = Labour

Chingford Flaneur | 20.03.12 - 10:02 a.m. | #

The Howard Government did very similar in Australia in a number of contexts - not just healthcare, but also welfare services. The impact has been huge, not just on service provision, but also on workers. Previously guaranteed reasonable wages and conditions many workers now face more basic wages and deplorable conditions in employment from the private / charity sector. Mind you, the university I teach them in faces similar demons. I'm unashamedly a leftie because I've seen the right, and I don't like it.

Antipodean | 20.03.12 - 10:17 a.m. | #

Coruscating and laugh out loud funny - thank you DG.

s | 20.03.12 - 10:43 a.m. | #

As a "fat lump" where do I sign up for "DOSH"'s services?

Great article and love the reference to profits being squeezed as a result of patient expansion.

PC | 20.03.12 - 1:43 p.m. | #

Great piece. I've been getting depressed about the whole thing but this is cheering me up a bit. The NHS is not perfect but these changes are being steamrollered through for the benefit of a few to the detriment of the many who will ultimately pay more for a lesser service.

Health provision should be given according to one's needs, not the size of one's wallet.

Random Bloke | 20.03.12 - 2:20 p.m. | #

At least someone's paying attention to the bill. Give the Tories credit, it's been very impressively news-managed, with all the bollocks about road privatisation whipped out at the very moment the public eye should have been on the final vote. Smart move scheduling it right on top of the Budget, too.

swirlythingy | Homepage | 20.03.12 - 9:19 p.m. | #

I agree with all the above. (Except for the one which accused DG of a Labour Party rant - perhaps forgetting that Labour under Blairism were complicit in the privatisation racket).

But I also wanted to congratulate DG on the long string of consecutive nouns which form the title - making a meaningful if shivery combination. The longest I had ever come up with, was an imaginary headline: Miles Platting Car Boot Sale Price Hike Storm.

Malcolm | 21.03.12 - 9:56 a.m. | #

Flaneur; you can't even spell "progressive"

David | 22.03.12 - 9:31 a.m. | #











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