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Fat Cat wrote:

Boxer6 wrote:

Fat Cat wrote:

Doorstop wrote:One wonders why an old Labour minister may wish to advocate such a travesty?

One wouldn't have to look far.

"113. Lord Warner: Labour - Former adviser to Apax Partners, one of the leading global investors in the healthcare sector. Current director of Sage Advice Ltd. Works as an adviser to Xansa, a technology firm, and Byotrol, an antimicrobial company, which both sell services or products to the NHS” and was “paid by DLA Piper, which advised ministers on the £12 billion IT project for the NHS” projects that he was responsible for when he was a government minister. Lord Warner explains his role here."

http://socialinvestigations.blogspot.co ... anies.html

Another snout in the trough.

I was going to call him a daft prick but looks like he's a pocket lining, nasty, blairtite prick.

BTW, NHS IT is in the dark ages. IT purchasers should be jailed.

Can't really argue with that. Hardware-wise, we recently got nice, new, shiny HP PC's installed - running Windoze7. Go to try and access my gmail account, and it tells me I'm running an outdated browser and please update!! I wish I could, but we don't even have the option to change any settings on the screen saver!!

Yup. And woebetide anyone that tries to do some internet banking. I have to access accounts in my job and it [IT] is utterly useless.

edward carolan wrote:Can we put the politicians on the roof of the Red Road flats for the blow down. That I would pay to see.

HelenD wrote:

edward carolan wrote:Can we put the politicians on the roof of the Red Road flats for the blow down. That I would pay to see.

Nice idea, but we're tallking Looney Tunes here. They'll stay there in mid air while the flats collapse underneath them. Dastardly and Mutley will happen along and give them a ride to a nearby airport.

bAzTNM wrote:Still gives me nightmares thinking about the time I went to Cadogan Street with my mum. Mum walks with stick. Cheeky sour faced woman at the front tells her you're not allowed up the stairs carrying a walking stick (?). Grab a ticket off the big bouncers at the door who give you a good growl. Receptionists all have faces like slapped arses too. Sat down and various plain clothes people check you out, waiting to catch you. Fecking nasty atmosphere in that waiting room.

Get in there and some very odd, twitchy doctor gets us. Luckily we passed, didn't think we would because he just so damned odd. Walked in and he said his name, which he then wrote in massive letters on a A4 bit of paper. Don't think he was all there.

RapidAssistant wrote:

bAzTNM wrote:Still gives me nightmares thinking about the time I went to Cadogan Street with my mum. Mum walks with stick. Cheeky sour faced woman at the front tells her you're not allowed up the stairs carrying a walking stick (?). Grab a ticket off the big bouncers at the door who give you a good growl. Receptionists all have faces like slapped arses too. Sat down and various plain clothes people check you out, waiting to catch you. Fecking nasty atmosphere in that waiting room.

Get in there and some very odd, twitchy doctor gets us. Luckily we passed, didn't think we would because he just so damned odd. Walked in and he said his name, which he then wrote in massive letters on a A4 bit of paper. Don't think he was all there.

I had some personal experience of it a year or two back when I went to the local benefits office to basically tell them my mum had died and where did this leave my dad cos he didn't have a clue. But the usual - two big burly G4S bouncers at the door to intimidate, and the usual assortment of surly receptionists (aka remember the one in the sitcom "Bread", and you get the picture)...anyway so much for 'innocent until proven guilty'...!

Fat Cat wrote:

RapidAssistant wrote:

bAzTNM wrote:Still gives me nightmares thinking about the time I went to Cadogan Street with my mum. Mum walks with stick. Cheeky sour faced woman at the front tells her you're not allowed up the stairs carrying a walking stick (?). Grab a ticket off the big bouncers at the door who give you a good growl. Receptionists all have faces like slapped arses too. Sat down and various plain clothes people check you out, waiting to catch you. Fecking nasty atmosphere in that waiting room.

Get in there and some very odd, twitchy doctor gets us. Luckily we passed, didn't think we would because he just so damned odd. Walked in and he said his name, which he then wrote in massive letters on a A4 bit of paper. Don't think he was all there.

I had some personal experience of it a year or two back when I went to the local benefits office to basically tell them my mum had died and where did this leave my dad cos he didn't have a clue. But the usual - two big burly G4S bouncers at the door to intimidate, and the usual assortment of surly receptionists (aka remember the one in the sitcom "Bread", and you get the picture)...anyway so much for 'innocent until proven guilty'...!

Not sticking up for any of these tools but the receptionist is probably on minimum wage having taken a load of crap from people every single day. As an NHS worker, the abuse we get is now at epidemic scale.

Blame the employer, not the employee.

Boxer6 wrote:

Fat Cat wrote:

RapidAssistant wrote:

bAzTNM wrote:Still gives me nightmares thinking about the time I went to Cadogan Street with my mum. Mum walks with stick. Cheeky sour faced woman at the front tells her you're not allowed up the stairs carrying a walking stick (?). Grab a ticket off the big bouncers at the door who give you a good growl. Receptionists all have faces like slapped arses too. Sat down and various plain clothes people check you out, waiting to catch you. Fecking nasty atmosphere in that waiting room.

Get in there and some very odd, twitchy doctor gets us. Luckily we passed, didn't think we would because he just so damned odd. Walked in and he said his name, which he then wrote in massive letters on a A4 bit of paper. Don't think he was all there.

I had some personal experience of it a year or two back when I went to the local benefits office to basically tell them my mum had died and where did this leave my dad cos he didn't have a clue. But the usual - two big burly G4S bouncers at the door to intimidate, and the usual assortment of surly receptionists (aka remember the one in the sitcom "Bread", and you get the picture)...anyway so much for 'innocent until proven guilty'...!

Not sticking up for any of these tools but the receptionist is probably on minimum wage having taken a load of crap from people every single day. As an NHS worker, the abuse we get is now at epidemic scale.

Blame the employer, not the employee.

+1 to the first bit, and 1000% correct on the second.

The dramatic rise in food banks across Scotland is the result of hard-up Scots making the most of their “economic choices”, a UK government welfare chief has claimed.

Neil Couling, work services director at the Department for Work and Pensions, also told Holyrood’s welfare reform committee yesterday that Jobcentre staff received “thank you” notes from people facing benefit sanctions.