Where's Gordon?™ Day 25
Today Gordon Brown was getting heckled by the mother of a cystic fibrosis patient over the removal of free TV sets from a PFI hospital ward. Linda Smith was held back by police at the entrance to the Heartlands Hospital, in Birmingham but was later allowed to enter the building and had a five-minute talk with the chancellor.
Mrs Smith, 56, complained to the chancellor that it was not right for children on the ward for hours on end to have nothing to amuse them "Children spend their last weeks and months of their lives on that ward... They can't go out because of the risk of infection. The fact that they have pulled the plug is criminal."
Mrs Smith, 56, complained to the chancellor that it was not right for children on the ward for hours on end to have nothing to amuse them "Children spend their last weeks and months of their lives on that ward... They can't go out because of the risk of infection. The fact that they have pulled the plug is criminal."
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Just came across this petition to stop the police keeping DNA data for people not convicted of a crime and thought Guido might be interested?
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/StopDNAbystealth/
Q. Where's Gordon?
A. Spreading infection.
I hear references to Gordon and Stalin continue...from another distinguished civil servant on R4 PM this evening.
We seek him here,
we seek him there,
we bloggers seek him everywhere,
is he in eleven,
is he not well,
that damned abusive n'er do well.
Yesterday he was scheduled to meet President Mikheil Saakashvili - presumably @ # 11 in London.
Not sure if he turned up or not.
Meanwhile, at No. 10, Bliar provides the best Private Eye cover for years:
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?showme=1183
Doesn't the idea of children spending their last days slumped in front of a TV sound pretty depressing? Besides which...
When I was 12 I broke my arm playing rugby and was compelled to spend the night in a ward of St Helier Hospital, and two...gentleladies (who were staying with the son of one of them in a bed opposite)...decided it would be very nice for me to spend a night watching...some soap or other. They did it the next night too. Ever since then I have held that hospitals should never provide televisions unless you have a room to yourself.
Sorry to go off topic into policy, but I'm afraid I see it as looking like another good way to save money. The NHS is not a de luxe private service.
Hospitals rife with MRSA and other infectious diseases are somewhat more of a problem.
Thank God the Labour Party don't seem to realise just how utterly despised Brown is throughout the length and breadth of Britain. The revolting creature literally makes people's skin crawl.
That means they will elect him as leader and will go into meltdown at the next General Election.
I shouldn't be surprised if we don't see another Labour admnistration for another 10/15 years or perhaps never again, thanks to the vile Brown.
I think Gordon Brown is one of the most handsome men I have ever seen.
D Blunkett
Gordon brown has the sex appeal of foot, the personality of kinnock and the social skills of filthy rich and cat flap.what more could we ask for in a leader of the ...............opposition hahahah for twenty years or until anyone of voting age now is dead or senile.
"Do you know what it's like to clean up your own mother's piss ?"
"Minister looks a tit!"
To CELEBRATE tony blair's 10 year anniversary shold we all trudge past downing street and throw eggs?
A Flashmob sort of thing?
evesham woman [7.37 PM] You say: "I shouldn't be surprised if we don't see another Labour admnistration for another 10/15 years or perhaps never again, thanks to the vile Brown."
Your view is privately shared by a number of Labour supporters with whom I accidently come in contact.
'they will elect him as leader and will go into meltdown at the next General Election.'
What next general election Evesham? Brown's chamging the rules.
anon at 7.21
you are a complete and utter fuckwit. A child dying of cystic fibrosis can barely move around because he/she is so short of breath. To relate your experience of a broken arm in this context is truly offensive.
I hear Gordon has made a scaled model of David Cameron out of chewed nails, dried snot and is held together with hair grease.
The neighbours have complained because he doesn't have planning permission.
Gordon has happily said he will dismantle the model, as long as he is allowed to eat it.
Cassandra said...
anon at 7.21
you are a complete and utter fuckwit. A child dying of cystic fibrosis can barely move around because he/she is so short of breath. To relate your experience of a broken arm in this context is truly offensive.
9:35 PM, April 27, 2007
I agree with Cassandra. My grandson has CF. Anon's comments quite upset me although I was not going to comment. Cassandra's changed my mind. Nothing further to add.
Quite right Dang - hospitals defraud patients by charging by the minute for TV about £7.00 a minute to use a telephone and about £50 a day to park - basically nurses are filthy and infectious killing everyone with c dificile because they are just glorified money collectors. Hospital managers are scum. Who pays? the poor of course.
guido - please please may we have some coverage of this event on 'Guy TV' if at all possible ? I am sure it would be a big hit !
javelin 9:40 PM, April 27, 2007:
Poor cunt! Is his wife's cooking really that fucking bad?
javelin 9:40 PM, April 27, 2007:
i think the neighbours were just jealous
it's quite tasty actually
you know how it is
i ate quite a lot while i was making it
@ mutleythedog at 10:40 PM, April 27, 2007.
I'd take issue with that. I'm currently undergoing long-term treatment at Ashford Hospital (South of Heathrow) and at both of the Royal Marsden hospitals. In all 3 hospitals whenever an overnight stay has been necessary they have allocated a parking space for me at zero cost and telephone calls have been at 'normal' BT rates. Royal Marsden even allowed to log into one of the wireless networks at no cost. As for the nurses, I have nothing but the utmost respect for them; they are certainly not filthy or infectious.
My only hope is that the phantom nosedigger doesn't pay a visit to any of hospitals I attend and demand to shake hands ...
javelin 9:40 PM, April 27, 2007:
the neighbours are gonna be really screwed now if they want to make one
nick "nothing gets past me" robinson 11:31 PM, April 27, 2007:
yep nick now they've gone and spoilt it for everyone
seeing as he's already masterminded my victory at the next general election, i really wanted to erect one to him in order to show my appreciation for his superlative efforts in support of the conservative party
julian 11:29 PM, April 27, 2007
My only hope is that the phantom nosedigger doesn't pay a visit to any of hospitals I attend and demand to shake hands ...
don't worry, I'm sure sister would make him wash his hands, clean out his mouth with soap, give him a jolly good lecture on hygiene and spank him soundly before letting him anywhere near patients
anyway that's what I do before he get's through my front door
I know you can't be sure where he's been can you, dear?
tony's getting quite a big boy now isn't he, cherie?
i may soon be able to stop checking that he's wiped his bottom
"All the studies on which the Chancellor bases his claims that PFI offers good value are shown in a new report by Edinburgh University's Professor Allyson Pollock to be worthless. The evidence shows schemes funded through taxation and public sector borrowing are cheaper and more effective. But then the studies the government quotes were written by the very consultants who have made billions from PFI (PwC, the late Arthur Anderson and Mott MacDonald)."
It's worth opening and reading Private Eye too, not just viewing the cover.
Taking away sick kids' TV is penny-pinching in the extreme. Disgraceful.
Patientline phone and tv charges are considerably more than a normal Sky TV subscription. 71p per minute for a connection by mobile is OTT. Add on £6 per day for the car parking charges?
Is there conclusive evidence that mobile use by patients has caused problems with medical equipment? Patientline is a scam, and I wish I had bought shares in the firm...
Brown deserves all the flak for raiding pensions, raising taxes, and stifling enterprise.
More than happy to support the "Where's Gobshite?" feature. However, what about a "What's a Prescunt For?" feature? Come on conspirators, what is a Prescunt for?
Television should be banned from hospitals. They even have it on, loudly, in wards where patients are dying. Can you imagine? Passing your last minutes on this earth with Eastenders, ("Leave it aart, e's not worf it") blaring in your ears.
He's not writing another book is he?
The Hitch said...
Mike
Just who is gail?
'Morning fatso,this warm weather and your obesity causing a bit of a pong throughout the forum,you are obviously a chubby who does not rate personal hygiene highly enough I feel.
So Gordo's commitment to all those social concerns that wants us to believe that he believes in is a bit tattered round the edge eh?
Well, what a suprise. No doubt he will find another overseas worthy cause that we will be compelled to support by his no-choice taxes.
Gordon has children of his own you know, he's a charismatic man of courage.
"mike"
you are ronald f simpson ?
Married to janet a simpson?
cherie 11:55 PM, April 27, 2007
gordon can almost count to eleven now
he'll soon be able to find his own way to tony's
Ju, 11:29 PM, April 27, 2007:
You may interested to know that, at weekends, in order to help keep a lid on nhs expenditure, Gordon Brown loans himself out to St Thomas's Hospital for use as culture dish.
During the week, Mr Brown fulfils his main role as a top secret experiment into germ warfare for the research establishent at Porton Down.
I agree Guido, it is indeed criminal to prevent these kiddies from enjoying TV shows.
They, along with other patients, would benefit immeasurably from being able to watch some of the fantastic comedy on offer - I think particularly of a hilarious sitcom where a character named Gordon Brown bites his tongue for for 11 years in order not to spoil his chances of becoming Prime Minister, but unfortunately during this period manages to totally undermine the UK economy to such a critical extent that the premiership, when he finally gets it in his grasp, is a poisoned chalice which to drink would end his political career.
Mutleythedog. 10:40PM
I agree. My mother went into hospital for a minor operation and never came out. Can you believe it, the fucking incompetent NHS have lost her. We have been searching now for three years and have just about given up any hope. She was last seen on CCTV. being pushed around in her bed by a 'Porter' My father suspects she has been abducted, but that may be just wishful thinking.
ratty [4.28 PM] That's nothing. My Dad worked for a shipping office before the war and they lost a whole railway train for three weeks.
Mr trumpeter lanfried 4:37 PM
Did that include the driver, guard and all the passengers? Spooky.
ratty 4:28 PM, April 28, 2007
my condolences, I empathize deeply
i to have lost somebody very dear and cannot find her
maybe there's been some ID mix up and she is now living as a different person?
Very careless person indeed.
That is a distinct possibility.
My mothers case is somewhat different. Her fluffy slippers were found and the hospital suggested that she had been completely digested by a 'Superbug'
We think they are trying to palm us off with a plausible excuse.
that was no earthquake that was winston churchill spinning in his grave over the thought of snotty getting into downing street.
that was no earthquake that was winston churchill spinning in his grave over the thought of snotty getting into downing street.
Gordon is said to be deeply distressed and deep in his bunker. His planned glorious ten year Reich is going to last no more than 2 years before the long suffering voters throw him out at the next election.
He is only cheered by the thought of all the extra damage he can do to this country in that time.
Ratty. said...
My mothers case is somewhat different. Her fluffy slippers were found and the hospital suggested that she had been completely digested by a 'Superbug' ...
But did you get the slippers back from the NHS?
Mr. Julian.
Yes the slippers were returned after 18 months - they'd kept hold of them in case they found her and her feet were cold. They are now in a bag ready to go to the local charity shop.
ratty 5:01 PM, April 28, 2007:
Although it is estimated each year that as many as 50 to 60 thousand patients are completely consumed by Superbugs, I think you should look into the 'id meltdown' theory to explain your mother's disappearance - this problem is largely the fault of Gordon Brown's Tax Credit system being riddled by organised fraud both on the inside and out; I have a friend whose mother disappeared following an operation for an ingrowing toe-nail - she'd had her id stolen and whilst under sedation in hospital she found herself taking part in an unwitting life-swop with an illegal African immigrant: she ended up as a poor Ngizim farmer in a remote part of Yobe State, Nigeria with the difficult task of satisfying the needs of five troublesome and energetic wives whilst he became an aromatherapist married to a retired Yorkshire coal miner; strangely enough, when the woman's family discovered the awful truth about the administrative error and made contact with both her and the former Nigerian farmer, neither of them wanted to return to their previous lives.
Gordon Brown has a lot to answer for.
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