Reply To: The Moronic Nature of the Left

[Bucksiron]

“Missed the point deliberately again.”

On the contrary, Heath, but let me spell it out for you. According to the article, which I had read btw, poor pay and working conditions were among the main reasons for junior doctors wanting to leave. Yet in the same organisation, i.e. the NHS, GPs are retiring at 60 on massive pensions while consultants are going part-time, having a ball playing golf, or complaining because their million-pound-plus pension funds attract too much tax.

Any company run in the same way would have gone out of business years ago. But there are many more things wrong with the NHS than just this. Anyone can see that the NHS is broken. What’s more — and I’ve said this elsewhere — I completely agree that the Tories have to take a lot of responsibility for this, but it isn’t all down to them. The seeds of many problems were sown by Labour, especially GP contracts; and if anyone tries to claim otherwise then, in the immortal phrase used on this board so often, “they are lying”.

What is staring you and your left wing mates in the face is that the most popular destination for junior doctors according to the article is Australia; and does Australia have an NHS equivalent? No. But it hardly needs a genius to work out what your reaction would be if the UK attempted to go down the same path.

NI, I don’t for one moment think I know it all, though of course you’re happy to make such comments. Just like TW and his daft “supercilious” remarks. As for your question, I thought I had answered it by referring to my time as a gardener at Scunthorpe Hospital. Obviously I should have added that this was the closest I’ve ever come to working in the public sector and it was the only one I’ve ever applied for. Absolutely loved it.

Gurny, I do wonder what planet you’re living on. I don’t have any ‘problems’. You seem obsessed with the fact that I’ll happily talk about mental health. It’s people who won’t talk about mental health — or use it as a weapon, as you’ve done in the past — who have the problems.

Your comments are so way off that they’re ridiculous. Like most people I’ve had to cope with all sorts of stresses throughout my life and I know better than most the worry of whether the mortgage could be paid or not. Ask many people who have run businesses and they’ll tell you how tough it is. Far more businesses fail than succeed, but you conveniently forget about that. According to you people just make a lot of money, try to avoid taxes and exploit others. Well, Gurney, it doesn’t work like that in the real world, although you’ll always find exceptions; and, of course, it’s those bad ones who you’ll always claim are typical. You seriously don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.