[theo_luddite]

Let me try this again - my laptop suddenly went into auto backspace mode whilst editing the above (and since then below), how the hell does that happen?

This week is supposed to be NHS Week - you know, the NHS where 40, which are now seemingly 48, new hospitals were going to be built and 10's of thousands of new staff were going to be recruited to replace the 10's of thousands of staff not replaced or sacked/made redundant or basically went home thanks to our racist Government during the austerity years and after Brexit? Let's not mention the 25,000 beds lost too. Mainly due to the policies of the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (and would be new PM wannabee - Hunt) bloke that Nadine Dorries so brilliantly reminded was so incompetent that he left the NHS totally unprepared for the Covid pandemic, without apparently noticing it was actually a major Conservative Government cock-up too? Just when she thought she'd played a trump card she didn't realise she was actually Trump in women's underwear.

So that's now reframed as apparently 48 "new projects", which means anything from fixing wonky wheels on beds and gas cylinder trolleys to repainting lines on the corridor floors so you can spend 48 hours disappearing up your own arse while trying to find the X-Ray, CAT & MRI scan depts, let alone the Vampire Dept. A&E is now really easy to find, just join the 48 hour queue behind the ambulances. What do you mean you want an ambulance for a serious illness? Ambulances are the new A&E, you need to buy one to get in.

Try not to get seriously ill over the next few years folks, you know it makes sense.