I am grateful to the Daily Mail for exposing this story. I have to say that it beggars belief that when swathes of the NHS are being broken off and being sold into the control of the money men Lord Carter is expected to oversee the process impartially. He who has potentially huge financial interests in the very process he is supposed to be overseeing.
We are told that he steps down from any investigation where there is a conflict of interest.
Are there no depths to which our ruling classes will not sink below in order to privatise the National Health Service?
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No, none what so ever.
Surely it is a conflict of interest just being paid by a private organisation if he is going to be making judgements between private and public?? Surely that's a conflict of interest in itself whether or not it's a company he is involved in.
I note that he is keen to stress that this will all be transparent. I'm just wondering whether that will be "risk register" type transparency or "there will be no more top down reorganisations of the NHS" type transparency??
Yes they will transparently get away with everything.
"Are there no depths to which our ruling classes will not sink" - how do you think they got to be the ruling class?
Such people have been pissing on our back for centuaries - yet the public are taken in, time and time again because their betters speak with a posh voice, or posses a title.
I blame ordinary people for being so terminally gullible.
"I am grateful to the Daily Mail for exposing this story"
Now there's a line I never thought I would see on your blog, JD! But it is interesting that the Daily Mail has printed this. I think grass roots Conservatives are coming out against the HSCB and this is a sign of it.
I hope the HSCB becomes Cameron's Poll Tax and that he'll resign in November as Thatcher did in 1990. In disgrace.
So he recuses form any discussion where he might have a conflict of interest? Looking at the current agenda that basically means that either we're paying him for nothing (because he has a clear conflict in every matter) or he's a liar.
Obviously a fine example of government commitment to value for money. As in: government giving firms value for the money they hand over in donations and lucrative "consultancy" posts.
"We are told that he steps down from any investigation where there is a conflict of interest"
And presumably he steps right back up again afterwards.
It's worth reading Paul Corrigan's insightful post on he appalling BMA position reagarding the bill:
http://www.pauldcorrigan.com/Blog/bma/if-the-bma-really-believe-that-government-reforms-will-be-irreversibly-damaging-to-the-nhs-why-are-they-only-balloting-about-industrial-action-over-their-personal-pensions/
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