Does anyone out there remember when the public, encouraged by the government and Britain’s supine media, clapped like demented amphetamine-fuelled seals for the NHS. Well you clapping morons, this is what you clapped for, more completely avoidable deaths of newborn babies.
Sky News said:
The chief executive of an NHS trust at the centre of a maternity scandal where there were at least seven preventable baby deaths has warned staff to prepare for a “harrowing report” into what happened.
In an email seen by Sky News, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Tracey Fletcher told her staff to expect a “harrowing report which will have a profound and significant impact on families and colleagues, particularly those working in maternity services“.
The investigation into problems with East Kent hospitals maternity service is examining problems going back at least a decade and which paint the hospital in a very bad light indeed. The report is reported to contain criticisms of the hospital including that the hospital failed to implement recommendations made after numerous other NHS maternity scandals.
Even what has been released about this report so far is quite rightly described as ‘harrowing’ and it has had an enormous impact on the families who have lost newborns due to yet another incident of NHS utter and complete incompetence. It’s had far more impact on those who’ve lost children than it will ever have on the incompetent and uncaring staff who are likely to be criticised. It’s disgraceful that the hospital’s chief executive is whining about the ‘significant impact’ on maternity staff of the forthcoming report. After all they’ve got off relatively lightly from this latest NHS disaster. The maternity staff at East Kent are still alive, unlike the babies in these medics dubious ‘care’.
When you consider our failing government, failing police, failing NHS and increasingly failing local government I think it’s reasonable to ask is UK about to become another failed state? We used to laugh at countries like Italy but now we are the same. A while ago I heard an Italian politician on the radio who said the terrible things done in UK are the same as the things terrible things done it Italy. He then added that the real difference was that in Italy they were illegal.
I don’t think that we would become a failed state like Somalia but there’s little doubt that there are a lot of aspects of our society and governance that is failing. What worries me is that economic disruption will bring with it social disruption of the sort that we have not seen since before the Great Reform Acts when Britain started the process of becoming a fully democratic state or during the Depression when desperate people looked to Communism as a solution. It’s quite possible that people will cleave to the sort of people and parties that in normal and better times don’t get an electoral look in.
As regards Italy, yes we did used to laugh at them in the eighties and early nineties with their forty five governments since the end of WWII, but we seem to be going one better or rather one worse with three Prime Ministers in a year.
As an aside I believe that the MSM has behaved disgracefully over all this. Outlets like Sky are now so obviously not reporting on politics but have become political actors themselves.
No need to worry after all, today the government put things right by putting up alcohol so that will save the pubs. Scrapped the cap on domestic gas and electric so that will help everyone. Raised real doubt that the triple lock will be honoured so that will help pensioners. Just what we needed as the crashed pound is to put up petrol and diesel again. A real budget (if we can use that term now) for the ordinary folks at last. I just can’t understand the calls for people to take to the streets and protest, starting in London first of all places it seems.
“As an aside I believe that the MSM has behaved disgracefully over all this. Outlets like Sky are now so obviously not reporting on politics but have become political actors themselves.”
I think that this goes back to Donald Trump. Like him or loathe him he was subjected to a continuous barrage of negative press coverage both in the US and in the UK as well.
Anything anti-Trump was accepted uncritically (remember the “peeing hookers” dossier? The outright lies about Russian interference?) and anything pro-Trump (or even said by Trump) was ridiculed (remember when Trump said that “the evidence” pointed to COVID-19 coming from a lab leak? He was instantly ridiculed, but that is now seen as quite likely – still not much talked about given that it’s China who are to blame).
And then Trump went onto lose the election (no surprise there. If the dems could not win it in the middle of a pandemic after that much press support they’d never win again imo).
Now I think the leftist in the press (a majority) suddenly thought “Hey guys! Look at this, we can greatly influence the outcome of elections!”
And they need bear no responsibility for doing it either “Watcha mean?! We just report the news!” Except they don’t. I can’t think of a BBC political reporter who does not editorialise his/her/its every report (Chris Mason, I’m looking at you).
So the British press decided to gun for Boris and now Truss (though I’ll grant she is largely the author of her own problems) with their constant catastrophising of events and “lookit that!” largely brought Boris down.
In a way I almost hope we do get a Labour government. It will be interesting to see if the press in the UK continue to catastrophise all events or whether all of a sudden the hype is turned down, the chosen “experts” (think of the bias against Brexit) are agreeing with Government policy and projections etc.
The worrying part of the above is that, IMO, the Labour party (riven by anti-Semitism, woke and identity politics) would be (hard to believe though it might be) even worse for the Country than the shambles we have at the moment.
I think it is possible for the Tories to get themselves back to being fit for government, but I see Labour as intentionally trying to divide the Country (to shore up their machine politics) on the lines above.
And don’t, DON’T, get me started on the Liberal democrats (two lies for the price of one).
I heartily agree that the media has been an overt political player since Trump first came on the political scene but there is a case for saying that such behaviour goes back further. There’s the very obvious bias from the BBC in the run up to the Brexit Referendum to be considered of course but we also need to look at the kid gloves way they treated Blair and Brown when compared to how they treated Cameron and other Tory PM’s. Going back further there’s the media’s opposition to Thatcher, which was not wholly confined to the BBC. I don’t know about you but I’ve seen the broadcast media in the UK go from being ‘liberal’ in the classic sense of the word to being identifiably Left.