Dear All
Just the facts ma’am just the facts!
You may if you’re a film buff recognize the
quote from Diehard 2, Bruce Willis, Franco Nero and William Sadler!
I amended it, just in case I am nabbed for
being inaccurate by the quotation Polizei.
It seems that Scotland’s unpopular Deputy
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon ignored “warning bells” about how health boards
were meeting her waiting times targets.
This is according to the Auditor General
for Scotland.
So, after failing at one task, Alex Salmond
moved her to be the ‘face of independence’, and as we currently see by poll
after poll, she is failing that task too!
Time for a quote by Alex Salmond:
“My problem is that I have too many
talented people and not enough Cabinet positions”!
Maybe in future, he should removed the word
‘talented’ and replace with ‘ass licking cronies’, call me visionary!
Anyway, back to the disaster of health
under the SNP Government, Caroline Gardner told MSPs that the former Health
Minister Nicola Sturgeon should have investigated why the proportion of
patients marked as "socially unavailable" for treatment had risen
from 11 per cent to more than 30 per cent.
Seems that the eye for detail isn’t there and
it should be.
Instead of making the health service work
better, we had a spin operation to make Ms Sturgeon look good and paint the NHS
as a flagship policy.
As well as having a pop at Ms. Sturgeon, Ms
Gardner appears to contradict Alex Salmond’s claim the problem was caused by
NHS computer systems. This was the line parroted out by SNP list MSP Bob Doris
who trotted out the scripted line in front of Gordon Brewer, who then nailed
his ass to the ceiling.
Bob’s not one of life’s great thinkers, a
dull man of limited potential which he eagerly shows it off, a human sandbag to
take the Political hits, a patsy, a provincial man, a man of the land, you know
……. a moron!
By contrast, Jackie Baillie during the same
interview was calm and collected, however Bob has learned to stop waving his
arms about, progress, limited, but credit where credit is due.
Still got politically ass raped on
Newsnight Scotland tho, but he didn’t wave his arms about!
The decline in standards prompted me some time
ago to state on this blog that Alex Salmond needed to send SNP Ministers back
to their desks; sackings are needed in the SNP Cabinet. Unfortunately, Salmond
is so short of talent, there is slim pickens sitting behind him.
Audit Scotland first raised concerns about
patients being classified unavailable in 2010, so why didn’t Nicola Sturgeon do
something?
Did she realise that a house built on spin
can’t stand up to facts?
Opposition parties said Audit Scotland’s
evidence showed Scottish ministers have questions to answer about the
management of waiting lists.
On the shop floor, GPs have claimed patient
care was being compromised by politically motivated targets.
And just to mention, the case of Anne
Fisher who needs the drug, Ipilimumab highlights another aspect of the failure
of Nicola Sturgeon.
But less we forget, Ms. Sturgeon and her
husband the SNP Chief Executive Peter Murrell have to cope with a joint income
of £200k.
And that’s pressure, because what do you
spend it on?
Anne Fisher and her family don’t seem that
important to Ms. Sturgeon and her husband, and the Swiss Family Sturgeon aren’t
known for sticking up for working class people.
Speaking after Ms Gardner’s evidence,
Tavish Scott, a committee member, said:
“The Auditor General made clear that the
warning signs were there but the government didn’t listen. We only found this
out because of an NHS Lothian whistleblower. That in itself is a scandal. The
government hid the fiddle.”
Jackie Baillie, Scottish Labour health
spokesman, added:
“Caroline Gardner also blew a hole in the
most recent waiting times "success". Even after the waiting times
scandal, the most recent statistics, published just this week, can't be relied
upon.”
The SNP mantra is that in an independent
Scotland, ‘we can make it whatever we want it to be’!
Well this SNP Government stinks in this
term, its Ministers need a rocket up their arse and need to get more personally
involved in their work.
The ‘cult of personality’ which Alex
Salmond is using is now so toxic; I think it won’t be long before he is dubbed ‘Chemical
Ally’.
As to Ms Sturgeon, a real leader would step
up to the plate and go back and fix the health service, it’s about integrity,
it’s about character, failing that there is always the £200k to spend as a
Champagne Socialist.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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