Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The whole of the EU should hang its head in shame that one of its members, Greece, is being subject to the blackmail and coercion to which this impoverished country and its people are now subject. The Euro Group will be condemned by history for defying the principles of fair and just capitalism which it is founded to uphold, in order to disguise the huge losses its own defective governance, lax diligence and plain stupid rules has brought upon itself. To hoodwink its restive voters it has now embarked on a type of Soviet command economics with representatives (commissars in plain English) in all Greek ministries enforcing draconian and cruel financial repression upon a browbeaten population, whose primary sin was to believe a tawdry procession of lying and corrupt Greek politicians, with whom in happier times their repressors in the Euro Group were more than happy to deal.

Just look at some of the list. Top VAT rate 23%, VAT on fresh food, energy and water at 12% and 6% on medicines. These are tough for everybody but pulverizing in ferocity and cruelty for the less well off and potentially fatal for many of the poor. Now this craven bunch of finance ministers, for the most part blind to the enormity of what they do, led by Germany regressed back into a dark past and doing what it does best, subjugation of the weak, meets to cough up more loans so that it can pay itself back for the money it has already lost. It beggars belief.

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This Blog backs the Tory government one hundred per cent in its determination to make hospital consultants, who are employed by the State and paid with taxpayer’s money, work to a pattern that suits the ailing, the sick and the dying, even if it does not suit them. It implores Jeremy Hunt to stand firm in the face of the wrath of the conservative elements of the medical profession and not to back down. He must recall the determination of Thatcher against the miners; a cause less worthy and in some aspects shameful, but an object lesson in execution.

Hospitals are like the fire, police or ambulance services. They must be fully operational 24/7. This blog believes there should be a three eight hour shift pattern bringing about the end of waiting lists for anything. It also  believes that the notion that many of these consultants can and do moonlight in private practice, giving the minimum permissible hours to the NHS and the maximum to private treatment in order to make themselves rich, is morally bankrupt and should be stopped. Barbara Castle, the redoubtable favourite of Harold Wilson, tried and failed to end this abuse in the early 1970s. Time to have another go.