It was richly enjoyable.
Our own prime minister has, likewise, spent some time in Tuscany. He will have had all the benefits of internet access, and will have kept his finger on the pulse of what is going on. Maybe he just had a little too much Chianti Classico wine. I think I did.
So when I returned from my break to survey what is going on, I came across this comment today in the magazine "Pulse"
Apparently all the professions are all behind the new Government changed bill on the NHS. I cannot decide whether Mr Cameron has taken leave of his senses. Either he is a knave or a fool, as I cannot find any groundswell of support in my profession at the grassroots level at all.Most of my colleagues have a view that the Government are railroading this through, without listening to anyone except through the filter of hand-picked supporters.
This is a complete disconnect with reality.
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For a government that said it had spent the years of opposition working on this they appear particularly inept. Communication is non existent.
"This is a complete disconnect with reality" - you seemed to have diagnosed a form of political psychosis, JD?
There does seem to be at least a degree of selective inattention to reality?
Those of us at the coal face can only speculate as to why, or how such inattention has arisen - fortunately we have the likes of Allyson Pollock and John Appleby to shed some light on the matter
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d566.full
One of the "skills" required to be a successful politician is to only hear the voices you want to hear.
Private Health care companies have the PM's ear; doctors, nurses etc do not.
Those who wished to bring Andy Coulson into Number 10 ha the PM's ear; those who warned him against it did not.
Read Chris Mullin's latest diaries from the early days of New Labour, and see how he warned his party about Murdoch and News International, to no avail. Murdoch and his acolytes had Blair's ear; Mullins did not.
Maybe he heard this opinion from his GP friends at dinner parties, huh?
For another example of the kind of 'having the ear of' set-up that Anon 10.43 pointed to, one need look no further than the intense enthusiasm of our deeply unimpressive Education Secretary Michael Gove for free schools, seeded with govt cash via a special hidden inside track whilst the same govt was cancelling school builds in the state sector.
For a visual representation of who supports the NHS reforms (and who does not) see the wonderful: http://www.whosupportsnhsreforms.org.uk/
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