There is a general feeling of Fin de Siecle about the whole New Labour project. They have been savaged by one of their own senior ministers, and the weakness of the prime minister is indicated by the fact that Hazel Blears will not be sacked.
She has criticised the Government's 'lamentable failure' to get their message over. This is, of course, code for her criticism of the lamentable failure of the Government. The Parliamentary Expenses row continues with a Government Peer claiming an allowance over an empty flat, and MPs still trying to censor their expenses to cover up corruption. They were defeated over the vote on the Gurkhas.
We are in the middle of a nasty recession, that is hitting my patients badly, and a headless chicken response about the swine flu pandemic that is probably less severe than ordinary seasonal flu.
Yet they continue on their project to upload everyone's private medical details, largely without their consent, and are squandering our money by the billions on stupid ideas in health policy (see posts passim). We have every year more and more managers and non-frontline staff doing what they do (whatever that is) and we see more white elephants being built with public money that doesn't really benefit front line services at all.
Ho Hum!
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I do agree JD. It has taken the steam out of blogging because you get the impression that nobody is listening and they are just going to blunder on into the abyss.
Like Alice Mahon, Dr G hoped that Gordon Brown would see the error of the Blair ways but he just seems to have been a partner in crime.
They have made very many mistakes. If it had been just healthcare they had cocked up at least your patients would have jobs. But sadly their focus on giving free rein to markets has been damaging on a wider scale. But I don't really see that the opposition has ever pointed out the error of the New Labour ways. In fact they have colluded. When the blue team takes over I fear it may be more of the same.
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