It was my last ever shift on the ward last night, and today Gordon Brown visited the and i am pretty furious what was wrong? they spent hours titivating the place and they paid extra staff double time for the two hours he was likely to visit to make the numbers look good the ordinary day staff never got any extra pay.
really wish id been there would have loved to given him some home truths!!!! >:(
Can't you email him. Perhaps he needs to know. Are you moving on to pastures new.
Janet.
How aggravating that they did that, but I think its common practice >:(
I remember many years back when Prince Charles came to my college and they painted all of the walls of the corriders to which he would be led down and completely left the rest of the building >:(
yes but only within the same hospital so would be a shotgun to my career to say anything and got many more years to work there yet. the reason the ward was picked was because we have been one of the pioneers for the thrombolysis treatment of stroke but even so the staff on that and all the other wards in the hospital work extremely hard how is he gonna understand that the rest of the time we are understaffed and under equipped!!!
Ah ha, the RD&E???
Debster this is one of many reason I left the NHS!! Sorry you have more years to do.
Hi nippie do you know the r d and e where do you live?
debster, when somebody like gordon broon visits anywhere the place is filled with like-minded knacker scratchers.
You would not have been allowed within striking distance of his 'entourage'. Especially if you had the effrontery to disagree with him and his 'policies'.
After the disastrous local elections on May 1st, broon has pledged to 'listen and learn'
One can live in hopes, or, as we used to say die in despair.
valmarg
I worked with a bloke who was in the marines. He said when prince Charles visited their base one autumn all the leaves got hoovered off the trees to make sure of no mess.
Did Brown get out of there without MRSA? No offence meant but RD&E has a bit of a rep for that I'm told.
Know what you mean.
About 4 years ago we had the Dutches of York come to see a new community centre that houses a community theatre in it.
Management had everyone in the area just concentrating on cleaning the route she was coming in by.
The rest of the area was left dirty for the day.
Quote from: debster on May 09, 2008, 20:54:18
Hi nippie do you know the r d and e where do you live?
Born and brought up in Exeter, did part of my training (midders) at Heavitree the rest at Torbay, where I still live.
cool nippie, no dont reckon i would have got within amile of him lol, actually mrsa figures much better at the mo, though none is the best figure
Gordon Brown visited your ward? It's a psychiatric hospital I assume. How did you let him escape ??
Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on May 11, 2008, 19:22:27
Gordon Brown visited your ward? It's a psychiatric hospital I assume. How did you let him escape ??
Lol ;D
one nurse offered him an enema but one of the others said he is so full of it would take ages to clear him out lol
good grief...................another lot of blinkered folks who cant or WONT see reality.............Gordon Brown is the very best hope,all of us have for fairness and justice
But they only see it as a photo-opportunity. We had a cabinet minister though our school a couple of decades back - can't remember her name, but they change so often that you don't need to - and she just stamped across and out again as if we didn't exist. Politicans don't live in the real world, just the one they've invented for themselves.
Debster I do sympathise and understand your frustrations but ....
Quote from: valmarg on May 09, 2008, 22:12:56
filled with like-minded knacker scratchers.
LOLOLOLOL at this ^^^^
geomet i would have said the same for any party of politician that visited i dont do politics
Quote from: Geomet on May 11, 2008, 20:10:11
Gordon Brown is the very best hope,all of us have for fairness and justice
I thought that was Batman ?
Quote from: Geomet on May 11, 2008, 20:10:11
good grief...................another lot of blinkered folks who cant or WONT see reality.............Gordon Brown is the very best hope,all of us have for fairness and justice
Geomet, you really are extracting the urine+++++++
valmarg
Fairness and Justice.
There is no fair in this life and Justice is a luxury only the wealthy have access to.
DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY CARE ONE LITTLE IOTA WHAT YOU THINKOR SAY?
Quote from: valmarg on May 09, 2008, 22:12:56
filled with like-minded knacker scratchers.
LOLOLOLOL at this ^^^^
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Glad it gave you a laugh SavageBlue. Unfortunately I can't claim to be the originator, but it's so much more descriptive than 'hangers on' ;D ;D
valmarg
Did he tax you for it?
I,m entirely serious Valmarg............a very sound track record for 11 years..............I also believe he will over the next year convince the great majority of the current deceit and distortion by the torys which is taking place
A sound track record? Originally living on a the sound economy he inherited followed by by booming world economy, the chickens have come home to roost. £5 bn a year taken from pension funds and he wonders why pensions schemes collapse. Massive increase in the tax credit system with added complications to ensure a new army of bureaucrats has to be paid for and also that those who need it the most cannot work out their entitlement and are terrified of getting overpaid and having to pay it back.
800,000 more on the state payroll with index linked pensions. Failure to govern the City. A raft of stealth taxes so that we've become the most highly taxed country in Europe. Tax and red tape for businesses so that it's harder for us to compete with rest of the world. The gap between rich and poor wider than 10 years ago.
Surely one or two of these things have been noticeable?
Sorry about the rant. I think I must have taken a grumpy pill - will go and tend my garden with a soothing glass in hand. :-[
comical how an 11 year superb record can be attempted at being destroyed by jibber.............get real
Not to offend anyone... but the amount of folk that complain about the government... do they actually do anything about it and stand up for election??
They reckon a majority of folk in this country don't vote, as they think what's the point they all the same!!.
Quote from: Geomet on May 12, 2008, 18:23:09
a very sound track record for 11 years..............
like the bloke who fell out of a skyscraper. Eleven storeys - doing all right so far.
I'm sorry, I'm completely disillusioned. I'd rather chop a testicle off than vote Tory, I just don't see the point of the Liberal Democrats anymore, and unless I develop a deep hatred of Europe or black people there's no one left to vote for
It's not Iraq or even spin and lies, it's just the monumental incompetence and waste
Part of the problem is that because we don't make anything anymore we have had to create hundreds of thousands of virtual reality jobs, but the wages and pensions necessary are very real indeed.
The Banks have got no more money left.
Food and petrol at all time highs.
I hope I am wrong but we could be in for a bumpy ride. Time to batten down the financial hatches and put an extra row of spuds in ;D
Quote from: Geomet on May 12, 2008, 18:23:09
I,m entirely serious Valmarg............a very sound track record for 11 years..............I also believe he will over the next year convince the great majority of the current deceit and distortion by the torys which is taking place
Nah, you're havin' a laff.
You are trying to defend the indefensible.
His track record is tax, tax, tax and more tax.
I think his biggest challenge will be his own party. They are beginning to realise just what a liability he is. Its taken them 11 years, but eventually the penny drops.
valmarg
Quote from: Geomet on May 12, 2008, 18:49:03
comical how an 11 year superb record can be attempted at being destroyed by jibber.............get real
It might have been a rant but I don't think it was gibberish.
I can only think of one good decision while GB was chancellor: putting the Bank of England in charge of interest rates, something I think the Tories promised but never delivered. As you probably know the interest rate is the main economic control over our economy and it wasn't in Gordon Brown's hands so he can only take so much credit for that.
Tax credits are a bit like the poll tax - some good looking aspects in principle but rubbish in practice (check out the latest report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies or Parliament's own Public Accounts Committee).