Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Gordon Brown's Unravelling Relaunch: Part 1

Oh dear. Gordon's New Year relaunch is unravelling day by day. This morning it was health policy. Compare and contrast these quotes...
"If you go into hospital you will get screened by next year for MRSA or for C.difficile.
Gordon Brown, Sunday AM, 6 January

"Screening for colonised patients is inappropriate."
Alan Johnson's Clean, safe care report, 9 January

"We will also examine how all these changes can be enshrined in a new constitution of the NHS setting out for the first time the rights and responsibilities associated with an entitlement to NHS care."
Gordon Brown's New Year Message, 1 January

"Johnson discloses that he does not want the constitution to be enshrined
in legislation..."
Interview with Alan Johnson, The Guardian, 9 January

So who's running health policy? Gordon Brown or Alan Johnson?

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just seen the short list for Maidstone. For the right fee, will take 'em out for you, then you'd be in wiv' a chance.

Anonymous said...

I take it it's a typo, but I quite like 'Goron' - a conflation of 'Gordon' and 'Moron'. Very appropriate!

Gareth said...

Alan Johnson and Lord Darzi are conducting the review into the ENGLISH Health Service.

Gordon Brown concerns himself with the BRITISH NHS, which doesn't actually exist anymore but no one has had the heart to tell him.

Old BE said...

I think it's pretty obvious that Alan Johnson wants to get into a fight with Gordon. Will Gordon have the Golden Balls to sack him?

Anonymous said...

God, I don't know how you Britons stand it - this constant fiddling around with law and the constant avalanche of new laws and initiatives. Britain has enough laws and rejigged "initiatives" to see the country through to the end of the world.

I would put this forward as a serious, non-jokey, proposition: socialist goes against human nature and should be outlawed. It is vile.

Anonymous said...

There's no contradiction between the last two statements.

Brown says there will be a constitution, Johnson agrees but notes it will be a code rather than a formal piece of legislation.

Anonymous said...

Is it finally dawning on the English that this communist foreigner rules ONLY ENGLAND?, and why are newspapers, supposedly run by intelligent people, like the S*N printing in their "newspaper" that Broon is working on the "British" NHS????.

Broon only has say over the ENGLISH NHS!, he has NO SAY over hisw own country scotland because his OWN COUNTRY has its OWN Parliament! - he has NO mandate in England and should be told to shut his mouth everytime he talks about what he "proposes" for England!, go back up North to the Scots region of EU!....England does NOT WANT YOU!.

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Anonymous said...

Verity,
You hit the nail on the head. Now someone should use the same hammer on Gordo.

Man in a Shed said...

Brown is just headlines - no substance. His world view changes from day to day - the only consistency is his lying about the past and denying he's got anything wrong.

The man is unfit to be prime minister and the Labour party is unfit to govern when they put such a deeply flawed man forward to lead our nation.

Anonymous said...

"Britons".

Sounds like a detergent or something doesnt it! - yeah thats how all the people of this island who arent "Welsh" or "Scottish" are described is it! - not me pal im ENGLISH from ENGLAND!.

Anonymous said...

Has anyone ever noticed that the American president of 300m people and chief executive of the most powerful nation in the history of the world, does not spend his days announcing "initiatives"?

Has anyone noticed that weeks and months go by without the president announcing any new plans for governing? In fact, weeks go by without the president trying to get his face on the evening news?

The constant, constant, constant, impertinent intrusion of Brown and Blair before him into the lives of the citizenry is absolutely unbearable. Who are these dwarfs who presume to run the lives of 60m Britons?

Who the hell are they?

God, I hate Gordon Brown almost as much as I still hate Blair and the manatee.

The government should not be in people's lives at all. People's lives are their own. Let them regulate traffic and trade tarrifs and otherwise STFU.

Brown, try shutting your mouth for 24 hours. You are ugly. Your mouth is ugly. You are not bright enough to be regulating the minutiae of 60m lives. You are a human emetic. Shut up.

Mulligan said...

Man In a Shed.

Couldn't have put it better myself (well without resorting to gratuitous profanity about the evil Scots dictator)

Julian the Wonderhorse said...

Go Alan Johnson!

This remember, was one of the possible leadership challengers. I thought he and John Hutton had been a bit quiet of late.

Maybe the revolt starts here. And dissent from the Health spokesman, right in the icy heart of Gordon's realm!

Yak40 said...

Goron is already in use - dedicated to Al Gore aka Goron, Goracle etc :)

Anonymous said...

I predict that Johnson will not try to take over NuLab before a General Election.

Verity - how right you are! This country is gripped, bedevilled, riven and sodden with/by insanity at virtually every political level.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said:-

"he has NO mandate in England and should be told to shut his mouth everytime he talks about what he "proposes" for England!, go back up North to the Scots region of EU!....England does NOT WANT YOU!."

Bluster all you want, pal-we Scots will continue to rule over all you sassenachs until you can muster your own folk who have the abilities to rule yourselves. Please let it be soon, so that we Scots can head back up north to do some more interesting things!

Anonymous said...

I think the reason Gorgon appears on tv so often is that if he doesn't tell us how well he is doing we might not notice.

Love the "You are a human emetic. Shut up."
brilliant and Im English too not British(thanks for clarifying this gordo you fool)

Anonymous said...

"Bluster all you want, pal-we Scots will continue to rule over all you sassenachs until you can muster your own folk who have the abilities to rule yourselves. Please let it be soon, so that we Scots can head back up north to do some more interesting things!"

That would sound a bit like a threat if it wasnt so hilarious lol.

And to correct you, the EUSSR rule us....all of us, the difference being the EUSSR will ALWAYS rule the scots region, whereas England has the means Politically and financially to be truly Independent as England needs neither the scots region OR EUrope.

Heres looking forward to the return of scottish irrelevance as prior to 1997!, these two pictures ilustrate perefectly the future to come.

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http://tinyurl.com/2setw4

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said:-

"whereas England has the means Politically and financially to be truly Independent as England needs neither the scots region OR EUrope"


More bluster! You lot have needed the Scots AND its wealth for 300 years-Your inadequacies are now clear for all to see which is why the Scots will continue to look after your parliamentary affairs until you pick people of the appropriate calibre to govern yourselves.

Now-go and lie down-think of England!

Anonymous said...

"More bluster! You lot have needed the Scots AND its wealth for 300 years-Your inadequacies are now clear for all to see which is why the Scots will continue to look after your parliamentary affairs until you pick people of the appropriate calibre to govern yourselves".

LOL, please post more! MOREEE!!! very entertaining lol.

Anonymous said...

Anon said:-
"More bluster! You lot have needed the Scots AND its wealth for 300 years-Your inadequacies are now clear for all to see which is why the Scots will continue to look after your parliamentary affairs until you pick people of the appropriate calibre to govern yourselves".

LOL, please post more! MOREEE!!! very entertaining lol.

Sorry dear-don't have time! Must rush-busy day ahead governing you lot!

Don't forget your horlicks before beddybys! And REMEMBER your happy pills!

Anonymous said...

"Sorry dear-don't have time! Must rush-busy day ahead governing you lot!"

lol, scots will probably think they are "governing" the EUSSR when Brussels own them completely.

William Gruff said...

Iain Dale wrote:

'"If you go into hospital you will get screened by next year for MRSA or for C.difficile."
Gordon Brown, Sunday AM, 6 January'

Surely this is a misquote?

The Tartan McReich's Führer cannot plausibly have said anything other than 'if you go into hospital in England you will get MRSA or (perhaps and?) C.difficle'.