I guess I just like chucking pebbles in a pond Graham.Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Mmmh. I like you Oracle (although you skulk behind anonymity)
and as an intelligent and educated chap of broad experience you are an asset to the Forum - but I think what I admire most is that your views are always moderate, well balanced and expressed in such an even - handed way.
But then, Tom bowers doesn’t do “even handed” either!
Like newspapers , he makes a very good living telling the side of the story his audience want to hear.
You buy a bowers book if you really don’t like a person, and you will find the warts you guessed were there.
In as far as he praises, he damns with faint praise.
That is why I am rather disappointed at MikeT not taking all with a pinch such as last weeks times, this weeks panorama. If you look at the cast of panorama they were current or previous labour activists and I recollect the producer is a close relation of a labour MP. So it should have carried party political broadcast headers, except not even Starmer would sink that low! I am even handed. I have equal contempt for all journalists.
Seriously, if you listen to Portuguese TV it is chalk and cheese to U.K. tv. The journalists just try to present what is happening, not gotchas, the doctors express frustration at some of the difficulties but they accept them as a fact of life. Even the opposition are supportive. They are angry and rightly so at EU for the lack of help.
It is too easy to criticise, and the medical profession seem to reserve the right to do little else. So I chuck a few stones back. If doctors were such all knowing people why are there billions in negligence claims? They are fallible like everyone else, indeed the ones they incessantly criticise. I don’t blame doctors for being fallible: I blame them playing for holier than thou!
In the U.K. could you imagine the NHS prima donnas we have now, had they been in WW2?
They would be telling Churchill he could not send armies more than 2000 strong, to make sure the medics are not overloaded, and they will only do that if Boris guarantees protection for them, and all equipment brand new. In short with the doctors and Sadiq khans transport workers we would have lost the war!
