The NHS

I keep seeing the government saying that a patient can see their doctor 8am till 8pm seven days a week !!!, that is an impossibility, no young just qualified doctor is going to sign a contract that says this, some people say that a GP has it all to easy!, I know mine works very hard is always understanding and is accessible, unless you a seriously ill why would you need to see your doctor on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon?, some say they are at work, but then I have to ask why do you expect your doctor to bend his working week to accommodate you, would it not be better that you select a GP that suits your needs rather than expect GP's to have to change their working week to suit you!!, reality says that we have a massive shortage of GP's young doctors do not want to do such a job,  I know of surgeries that are short of one if not more GP's with no hope of replacing the vacancy,  many are under so much pressure that they are retiring early to escape the system, and  I for one do not blame them at all, so in reality a shortage of doctors is a reality so how can they increase the work load on the ones that are left, to make things worse those that are close to retiring might just go even earlier then what??. I also notice that at one point it was thrown about that we should pay £10 a visit, well now some bright spark is suggesting  £30 a visit, the world has gone mad!!!.

The UK

I have to ask just what the demonstrators in Manchester really want, yes the NHS still needs more money but much can be saved by stopping fraud, it is surprising that many managers in the NHS have no clinical qualifications at all, so if you have a CEO who is clinical trained he/she does not have a hope in hell running the hospital, it has often been said to me that the staff working in a hospital resemble an upturned triangle, the clinical staff are out numbered by admin staff, why do we need so many admin staff?, I understand we need some, but so many it makes you spin, if you look  at the staffing requirements of a hospital, not counting the clinical departments there are many, many Business departments each having a compliment of staff, and of course a manager, it makes no sense at all, it is all well and good having targets for the hospital to meet, so when they don't meet  the set target the hospital unit becomes involved in trying to get back to the target, meaning other things go by the board, that is not acceptable situation to place hospitals in, not very often do you hear good things about a hospital and when you do the media loves it when they unintentionally fall below their usual standard the hospital and staff are pilloried and hung out to dry, who in their right mind would get involved in this mad house?, not me. 

So yes support the NHS but look at it in a manner that looks at the whole situation not just argue about pay levels, be realistic we need the NHS we do not need UNIONS to destroy it!!. 

Syria

I hate to go  about this conflict but I feel the need to have a go, what is it with Russia?, we lost good men supplying them with stores during the 2nd world war with the dreadful Artic
convoys , and all they have done ever since is slap us in the face, not only us but the majority of the world, how can one man be allowed to dictate his will on every one else, I am sure we are fed some disinformation by our spin doctors, but we can see on our  TV sets destruction virtually as it happens and I do not believe that it can really be spun at the time of transmission, what is seen  is disseminated by the person watching it, attacks are obvious they, I do not believe be staged managed, so where are we in all this?, well we have a despot dictator hanging on by a thread at one point but now has the backing of the little man in Russia, so the Russians are supporting a vile dictatorship that has been known to use poison gas on its own people, how is it possible to justify support for such a man?, the west is now deep in trouble, the air space that the west uses to bomb IS is now taken over by Russian aircraft a sure recipe for disaster, how long will it be before a mistake is made and someone's aircraft  is shot down, it is possible for it to happen just remember the Ukraine a civil aircraft but still blown out of the sky, the little man has the drop on the US, the UK and the rest of the world, not one leader is strong enough to say to him it is time to stop playing games and for him to direct his time to his own country he has enough problems at home to be bothered about before interfering in others

Syria

I see that the Little man has decided to join in this conflict, they say they that they are helping the West but as usual do something totally different, they have chosen to bomb the Free Syria Army, the Foreign Minister said that a terrorist is a terrorist that's it, so they being it seems on the Government of Syria's side they see everyone else as a terrorist group,   so what has happened? the little man is once again playing games with countries and peoples lives, lives it seems to matter not to him he is playing a game with the USA and the West winning is the end nothing else matters to him, truth does not come into it, he will support an oppressive regime no matter what, he has had some fun with the Ukraine, he has gotten his way with lies and deceit, so where next? why not the middle east, put Assad in control of the whole country and he will be very close friends with them, and of course Assad can go on with his oppressive regime, it is a very delicate situation for the West as none of us know just how irresponsible the little man actually is, he has tried his best under the cover of his countries deceit  in everything that they become involved in, we should be very aware as to the danger this man might plunge the world into, I just hope that some one takes the presidency away from him and put him where he belongs in my mind a mental hospital prison.

Refuges

The news says that all these thousands of  people seeking a life in Europe are not refugees at all but four out of five are economic migrants not fleeing oppression or war but jumping on the Syrian band waggon denying their proper residency to access the back door to Europe, many would not gain access by normal means as they don't qualify for acceptance into European countries, the whole blame for this  debacle has to be laid at the door of Germany, their stupid statement that they would allocate refugee status to Syrian people fleeing the war in Syria was an invitation to all and sundry to attempt to get there did they make this statement with much thought or did they set this massive problem up deliberately? who knows, but this statement has triggered a people movement of thousands of people both Syrians and others who purport to be Syrian to overwhelm countries such as Hungary and Serbia, this has put massive strain on Austria, non of them coping with the mess that the Germans have managed to put on their shoulders, this has placed a ridiculous problem on the people of Europe, Germanys idea is to farm the refugees around states of Europe so many to each one, it is lucky that we are not involved in this mess, we are taking 5.000 a year from Syrian refugee camps so I believe that we will be helping the people who most need help, the alleged refugees in Europe seem to have money and surprisingly food, they can afford bus tickets as they can train ones, it seems to me that if you are fleeing war you flee with nothing at all, all you want to obtain is freedom and safety in a safe place, you do not dictate just where you will live, most wait for the war to end to return to the land and community to start life once more where you know how to live and prosper, the world has to be very careful that by moving so many people about Europe in countries that the migrants have no idea as to law and custom, it just might cause more problems than they can cope with!!!!!.

Hospitals

I find it sad to see the CEO  of Addenbrooks Hospital Cambridge, A clinical qualified Australian much was expected of him, and he seems to have given much, he was well known throughout the hospital as he was for once a visible head who was seen all through the hospital, and more positively liked and respected by all the clinical staff, he has run big hospitals before so he was aware of the pit falls that are in the NHS, he brought a breath of fresh air to the hospital but something has happened, I know not what but  it seems to me that anyone who happens to take on the job of a CEO  at a, NHS hospital must be mad because as I see it is not worth £265,000 a year just to end up with a breakdown or a nightmare to work in, what is it that destroys a CEO?, trying to keep within a too small budget decreasing year on year, you just cant keep squeezing hospitals or the time comes when you squeeze to tight and the only way is to reduce patient care, it seems that we are at a cross roads with the health of the nation about to come second best,  I have said many times if you are young get health insurance now as  later might be too late!!.

The Labour Party

They Used to have a question on BBC radio Cambridgeshire and it was " has the world gone mad " now seeing the result of the party leader contest I have realised it has, here we have a man who will destroy the armed forces, befriend IS, I could go on and on but I just can't believe that the country will be mad enough to elect him as the PM. so many of his own MP's failed to support him and are unlikely to in the future whatever the whips might tell them to do, I do not want to see my country in the hands of the unions, we went through that in the 70's, "the winter of discontent" seems to ring a bell, however you look at it the PM has to present a certain aura and this leader just does not cut the figure of a senior member of Parliament, it does not surprise me that some of the outrageous members of the party are all for him, the possible saving grace for the UK is that we the population are not fooled by these type of people so I am sure that we are or should I say intelligent enough to see that the good parts are far out weighed by the massive downfalls that the country would suffer if stupidity should reign, we have to be sure that we are not bullied by party atavists and tell them to go run.