Question of Timing
As the NHS stumbles from one funding disaster to another sacking thousands of nurses, a rather ill-timed press release arrives in Guido's email from Rosie Winterton MP (Minister of State for Health Services) and Patricia Hewitt, the Secretary of State for Health. This week sees the 60th Birthday for the NHS and they have baked a cake. Hope it tastes better than the usual hospital food.Is it really a good time to be celebrating and sending out smiling pictures, with the current news? You would think that they would want to keep a low profile.
27 comments:
very clever......
Ah! But will they be allowed to serve it?
Weren't the Wallmington-on-Sea WI banned from handing out home baked cakes at their local hospital because they hadn't got all the 'elf and safety certificates?
Will Patty and Rosie be breaking their own department's rules if they do serve this cake to people?
RM
Thanks for the biographical link, I was keen to learn about her educational background!
Yes very interesting linkage
Normally I believe that we grammar school types ought to stick together, but....
A Rosie by any other name.....or did I mention that?
Her education be damned. I found the fact she was MD of Connect Personal Affairs far more amusing. Or am I reading more innuendo into this thread than I should?
RM
What was it that Marie Antoinette said about cakes shortly before her execution ?
Let's hope sweet Rosie doesn't become a scape-goat for bad news stories affecting the government. Sacking a junior minister can help to prove your sincerity about righting wrongs.
In the NHS of course.
Like the advert - "Give my love to Rose"
Do you think they'll be playing that at Cabinet this week?
or perhaps something by Garth Brooks?
"Johnny grew up on the darkside of the law
Living in the shadows of the light he never saw
And Rosie came around in the way that good love does
Just when you're looking elsewhere for the thing that never was"
After the pressure she's been under, i'm surprised her profile isn't positively two-dimensional.
There's a file in that cake. (Prescott's grace-and-favour has bars on the windows).
SERO
Have some sympathy. It can be easy working your way up the greasy pole.
Guido,
Hate to be a pendantic old bore, but isn't the NHS actually 58 this year?
John
Are they even lying about that - for fucks sake they won't even tell the truth when you ask the time.
They are referring to the 1946 NHS act,Govenments being as they are the whole thing didn't actually kick off until 1948, I think this is known as "lead time" and this article is know as" political spin to disguise a right fuck up"
I reckon Crippen has them bang to rights:
http://www.nhs.uk/england/aboutTheNHS/history/default.cmsx
You know I bet Rrosie would have been a bit of alright 26 years ago, not only that she was a NURSE and we all know about them,Blunkett, Prescott how do they do it?
Personally cant wait for the memoirs of Carol Caplins Mmummy, she has already been hinting that "toblerone" was getting a happy finish with his massages, and who can blame him.
They celebrated the 50th anniversary in 1998, along with a new 50 pence piece being minted, and a Royal Garden party etc. So that means the 60th anniversary must be in 2008. Maybe Patricia Hewitt thinks she won't be around in 2008?
Maybe the cake wasnt to celebrate 60 years of the NHS but rather just to rub all our faces in the fact that they can all retire at 60 on a big fat gold plated pension while us lesser mortals in the private sector slide into aged penury.
Trust NuLabour to spin two birthdays out of one event.
Lying, scum sucking, b'stards.
RM
Whose are the hands on the right of the picture, clad, it would appear, in a dirty raincoat?
Patricia Hewitt may well be an ace at cooking the books, but able to bake a cake...... don't make me laugh!
Let them eat cake.
Are silly me, not only is it the best year ever, it is the 60th year as well. Of course it is.
Looking at the picture, the girlies both look like they have been varnished. Maybe they are auditioning for "Desperate Housewives"
John
You're all being so unfair. Two sweet smiley old grannies from the W.I. celebrating their 60th birthday in the North Horsham Society's village hall. Both so justifiably proud of their baking skills, and so gleefully looking forward to a well-deserved retirement; And both so well preserved - neither looks a day older than 59. Though the lady on the right looks a bit pale and horsey, the one on the left seems very suntanned, which rather surprised me; it hasn't been a sunny spring so far - not in Britain, anyway. (I noticed that in his photo in the press recently, young working-class hero Dave Prent also looked extremely suntanned. Perhaps they all have sunbeds now; the government has improved the lives of ordinary people so amazingly, hasn't it.)
The proud grandmother on the left seems eager to get off to press cot-linen.
Wm.
Is that Hemlock Cake Rosie ?
Yes Ma'am, baked it myself
I'll have a very big slice please ROsie for you to try out for me
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