tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post978806726095523311..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: PFI HOSPITALS: THE DEBT THAT KEEPS ON COSTINGMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-36054911724673074192010-06-04T12:33:41.578+01:002010-06-04T12:33:41.578+01:00Aye Conan's herbal cigarettes could probably m...Aye Conan's herbal cigarettes could probably make you forget most stuff.... or so I've heard.<br /><br />Amazing what a wee bit of bergamot and chives can do. Mind you I prefer them on a piece....<br /><br />Yes, Peggy Lee has an amazing smouldering esxy voice, and did even when she was old. She remained glamerous even when she was in her 70s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-58371397051047295532010-06-04T12:21:18.412+01:002010-06-04T12:21:18.412+01:00tris,
I nearly missed it as I was very busy or sm...tris,<br /><br />I nearly missed it as I was very busy or smoking one of Conan's herbal cigarettes.<br /><br />Hasn't she got a gorgeous voice!brownliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09690872114535168567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-75438760079860465752010-06-04T11:29:21.326+01:002010-06-04T11:29:21.326+01:00Yes, I guess so brownlie... you know, I never thou...Yes, I guess so brownlie... you know, I never thought about that. How naŃ—ve is that?<br /><br />I'm not sure how we'd find that kind of thing out. I don't expect their Wikipedia pages carry that kind of stuff.<br /><br />BTW did you like "Fever"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-33944116099498215502010-06-04T09:57:42.815+01:002010-06-04T09:57:42.815+01:00tris,
I'm not so sure that they were "ta...tris,<br /><br />I'm not so sure that they were "taken for a ride" and suspect it's more that they went along for the ride with the promises of lucrative employment being dangled in front of their greedy eyes. It would be interesting to find out how many of the decision makers find employment with the PFI profiteers.brownliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09690872114535168567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-54152201901551773942010-06-04T00:01:05.969+01:002010-06-04T00:01:05.969+01:00The Money Pit. Yes. That sounds about right. Let&#...The Money Pit. Yes. That sounds about right. Let's hope that the Government in Scotland, and the Liberal/Tory lot in England can get it right and start to repair the damage that this idiotic government has left.<br /><br />You might have guessed, I suppose that I'm a left of centre kinda guy, and would perhaps in anotehr world be a Labour supporter, but Labour has been untre to its roots, untrue to its followers. They've pretended that they knew what they were doing [playing with the rich boys, the bankers and the city of London, and they were taken for a ride by them.<br /><br />Now all these prats that left us in this mess have gone to the House of Lords with bloody titles and a job for life.<br /><br />What justice.... why should we love this country?<br /><br />I mean... what's to love?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-10028191070931071122010-06-03T23:54:33.027+01:002010-06-03T23:54:33.027+01:00Tris
Everything Labour have done over the past 13...Tris<br /><br />Everything Labour have done over the past 13 years has been glossed over. They remind me of a comedy film called The Money Pit which is about a couple who buy a huge mansion for an unbelievable cheap price but only to find that when they moved in all was not what it appeared to be.<br /><br />By the end of the film the whole house had collapsed and they were left with little more than a door knob. <br /><br />The same will happen with the NHS and UK PLC over the coming years and everything Labour patched up (north&south) will start to unravel all fall to pieces.Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12264783996137140609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-28563564182357265722010-06-03T23:34:14.476+01:002010-06-03T23:34:14.476+01:00And yes. Wherever you go in the NHS there seem to ...And yes. Wherever you go in the NHS there seem to be pen pushers. Of course everyone would agree we need good administration. Lost papers could mean all manner of problems for patients but it's all the bloody managers who don't kinow anything about patients, about medicine, or frankly about management that worry me.<br /><br />With half of them I'd do what the tv companies did with the big "stars". Offer them to carry on in their jobs but with a 50% reduction in salary, or they could just leave.... with the other half, I'd just sack 'em.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-62949033492068176282010-06-03T23:30:55.301+01:002010-06-03T23:30:55.301+01:00I agree Allan. Of course the money had to be borro...I agree Allan. Of course the money had to be borrowed from somewhere if we were to have so many new hospitals all at once. <br /><br />It doesn't grow on trees and we aren't allowed to levy taxes, but to allow this mortgaging of the future in order to allow it to look like Labour was doing a brilliant job was plain wicked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-90698600545283980572010-06-03T23:28:40.644+01:002010-06-03T23:28:40.644+01:00Sophia. I was in ERI last year and compared with N...Sophia. I was in ERI last year and compared with Ninewells, from where I'd been transferred it was spotless I have to say.<br /><br />Ninewells is one of the dirtiest places I've ever been. I lay watching some dirty cleaners, that smelled of unwashed sweatiness and stale fag smoke, move dirt around on the floor and shout at each other across the ward. They went from bed to bed wiping the bedside cabinets with the same cloth spreading whatever germs there were straight from to the other.<br /><br />I watched nursespick their noses, or drop patients' stuff on the floor and pick it up and put it back on these filthy bed trays that they have.<br /><br />All in all ERI may be less than perfect but it makes Ninewells look like the Black Hole of Calcutta.<br /><br />Back there next week for a check up and sooooo glad it's not Ninewells.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-45524521509521131002010-06-03T22:36:03.128+01:002010-06-03T22:36:03.128+01:00I'm watching the STV news and the report said ...I'm watching the STV news and the report said 70% of Health budgets are spent on wages. I find that astonishing! So 30% goes towards everything else? They do need cuts and it should start with the bloody pen pushers who know nothing about health.Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12264783996137140609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-15236110963168553692010-06-03T22:33:22.024+01:002010-06-03T22:33:22.024+01:00Andy Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Wishaw and Hairmye...Andy Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Wishaw and Hairmyers Hospitals should hang his head in shame. In the short term PFI might get results but in the mid to long term we will be paying through the roof while a few fat swines will be raking the money in.Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12264783996137140609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-40062903182354356412010-06-03T20:45:46.924+01:002010-06-03T20:45:46.924+01:00If there's any flair-washin' tae be done i...If there's any flair-washin' tae be done it should be up at the new Edinburgh Infirmary. As well as bein' calamitously dear, it's mockit!Sophia Panglosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089164117446635962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-9393368397632183842010-06-03T18:24:14.123+01:002010-06-03T18:24:14.123+01:00Yeah, come on Niko. Be fair. It's a nonsense t...Yeah, come on Niko. Be fair. It's a nonsense that we are paying a rent far bigger than the original cost of the building. <br /><br />It's not the owners' faults. It's the fault of the stupid system where the private sector big bosses made mincemeat of the civil service and the then Scottish Executive.<br /><br />As Brownlie says, this is making the rich richer. And money that could have been going into medicine is going into their Swiss bank accounts... again!<br /><br />I've not heard FMQ yet SR. I'll catch it later. It's not like Eck to miss a chance of washing the floor with wee Iain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-40351155148019350802010-06-03T17:43:48.600+01:002010-06-03T17:43:48.600+01:00Niko,
Good value for money then? I suspect you w...Niko,<br /><br />Good value for money then? I suspect you would not feel the same if the SNP had been responsible for such profits making the rich richer and, inevitably, making medical treatments and facilities poorer in the long run.brownliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09690872114535168567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-70159402248972294182010-06-03T17:32:54.221+01:002010-06-03T17:32:54.221+01:00Any figures on how many people have benefited from...Any figures on how many people have benefited from the medical treatment at those hospitals before and during the periods of time mentioned.<br /><br />Uh no thought not typical snp spin.Nikostratoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06581441869560921339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-36537351139874390122010-06-03T13:19:09.437+01:002010-06-03T13:19:09.437+01:00Such a pity that Eck hadn't read out these fig...Such a pity that Eck hadn't read out these figures to Iain Gray when he questioned the nurse situation Tris.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.com