I like how Littlecock not being able to work his mobile phone is supposed to be evidence that the scheme is a complete waste of time.

I’ve got a lot of personal experience of alcoholism (not me), and I think that’s a really good idea.

Be fair, Littlejohn. Just because you lack the intellect to type some letters into a gadget and hit “send”, it doesn’t mean someone of roughly normal intelligence will have the same problem, even if they have consumed a gallon of Scotch.

He knows full well that it’s a charity he just doens’t let facts get in the way of a good story.

“their funding comes from “perpetual endowment” ”

That endowment coming from selling PPP (good grief! A private health insurance company!) to GRE. So a huge chunk of it should righteously have been paid in tax but the dodged it, no?

Just wait til old richard hears about the scheme in Bradford providing free laptops and wi-fi to kids in care so they can use MSN to speak to youth workers…..

@ 6

Bet the little bastards could even use those laptops to educate themselves if they wished. At the taxpayer’s expense, no less!

Yes, apparently some old codger had his heart re-started by a bureacrat in a non-job last week. These so-called ‘doctors’ are nothing but a drain on the taxpayer – what’s more their failure to allow nature to take its course means the taxpayer will be shelling out for his pension as well for the next 10 years or so.

@ 8 Planeshift

I’m not racist, but a lot of those doctors are forrin-looking as well. Coming over here, healing OUR patients, bolstering OUR economy…

Hold the bus a minute folks. I am with John Ried @ 4. Littlejohn knows his audience, not his subject.

It is no secret that the Tories despise the NHS, but they despise the public’s, including many of their supporters, intrinsic trust of the NHS even more. It is their long-term goal to destroy the later to give them the green light to destroy the former.

They will use any method they can to do this and if just making shit up is not good enough then take a half-truth and cobble it together with outright lies. It was the same with ‘Loony Left Councils’, ‘Politically correctness, gone maaaad’, ‘elf and safety’, ‘asylum seekers ate my swan’ and most recently or course, the welfare state.

To be fair to the Tories, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. If fuckwits keep buying this shit, then they will keep hawking it. If people are too dumbly stupid and/or lazy to check out the real story, who is to blame for this? He can print this stuff safe in the knowledge that he will NEVER be called to account for this sort of crap.

I am all for a ‘free press’, but an openly lying press?

I especially like the way he equates ‘alcoholics’ with ‘drunks’ who are so pissed they can’t hit the buttons on a phone. Evidently in Littlejohnland, alcoholics are just those people you see sitting on park benches smelling of wee and shouting at passers-by; no respectable, working person ever finds themselves needing alcohol to function normally.

@ 10 Jim

“I am all for a ‘free press’, but an openly lying press?”

Should be outlawed. I mean, err on the side of caution, but you shouldn’t legally be able to just make shit up and pretend it’s real just because it doesn’t libel a particular individual.

It is no secret that the Tories despise the NHS, but they despise the public’s, including many of their supporters, intrinsic trust of the NHS even more. It is their long-term goal to destroy the later to give them the green light to destroy the former.

Why do so many on the left (not only on the left of course) feel the need to assign evil intentions to their political opponents? There is such a thing as honest and respectable disagreement – it’s not a dichotomy between my side being noble and honest and your side being evil liars. It’s a profoundly infantile way of looking at the world.

@ 13 Tim J

Well, we know that the current Tory administration is no friend to the NHS, and if I wanted to cut back a service I would be annoyed with people who defended that service for instinctive reasons alone.

The use of words like “despise” etc is a bit melodramatic, but I hardly think the text you quoted counts as demonisation. People going around claiming that the Tories want to get rid of the NHS because they actively enjoy seeing poor people suffering, THAT’S demonisation.

Well, we know that the current Tory administration is no friend to the NHS

Do we? It’s the one part of public spending that isn’t seeing substantial real-terms cuts in expenditure. All parts of the Govt go out of their way to extol its virtues. The Lansley reforms are, in truth, little more than extensions of previous Tory and Labour reforms. The idea that the Tories really want to abolish the NHS and replace it with US-style insurance-paid health care is based on nothing more than prejudice.

Tim J @ 13

Why do so many on the left (not only on the left of course) feel the need to assign evil intentions to their political opponents?

Then why do you people get EVERYTHING so fucking wrong all the time? On every single issue, the Right (Labour and the Tories) always and without exception, advocate the most downright despicable solutions to the most of the Country’s problems. Solutions that always and without exception, mean the poor, the weak, the unemployed and the disabled getting kicked squarely in the balls.

Why is it that you people were continually on the wrong side of the minimum wage debate? For thirty years you people, from Michaels Hesiltine to Howard argued that a minimum wage of two quid an hour would kill of millions of jobs and now we see that the minimum wage is now over six quid and we have more people working than ever before? How did you manage to contrive to be on the wrong side of that debate? Was it because you seriously looked at all the data and studied to every decimal point and called it wrongly, or was it your instinct told you that anything that gave the poor more money was intrinsically bad? Not once in thirty years did it ever occur to look at the data, eh?

How the fuck do you people manage to get Global Warming so fucking wrong? The science is in the public domain and has been for the last fifty plus years, yet for some reason most of the Tory Party, i.e. everyone except a few at the top, have managed to miss the entire canon of peer reviewed science written on the subject, yet you people manage to walk past all those groaning shelves of books, instead finding the hackwork written by debunked and discredited ‘scientists’, PR men, spokesmen, spin doctors and just plain weirdos? How have you managed that? Why are you people STILL, after TWENTY years of this totally debunked stuff, trotting out the same denialist bullshit, regarding snow in February and cold snaps etc? Why are you people still droning on about this crap even though the science is in the fucking public domain Tories?

Take this piece and about two dozen other pieces of this type of crap. Here is a Tory telling downright lies about our NHS. So why is it someone from the Left has been forced to defend the NHS from the scumbag? Where is the Tory Party’s condemnation of such downright lies? The Right NEVER defend the NHS against these lies, they appear to support this man. Why?

Tell you what Tim. Here is your chance:

Do you condemn, without reservation, the lies that Richard Littlejohn has told about our NHS? Yes or No.

Well. Been a few days now. I guess you have your answer Jim.

Cylux @ 17

I expected as much. Everyone on the Left is expected to condemn every brick throwing halfwit, but the Right are never held to task regarding nutters with a half page in a Daily. Anyone ‘stupid’ enough to take a Tory to task regarding the bile soaked wingnuts is immediately condemned as evidence of ‘Left Wing bias’.

…OOPs

Further to that. What is telling though, despite the fact that Littlejohn has clearly made a complete fool with this one and shows us exactly the role of ‘charity’ within the NHS. Littlejohn cannot attack a ‘charity’, he is forced to toe the Party line, he has to go after the NHS instead.

The real issue here is the fact that none of the ‘decent but misguided’ Tories have managed to condemn the man for using a story about charity to attack the NHS. But to be fair to the Tories, less is more, they are anti the NHS and the damage is already done with this story. This will come up in one form or another in the furure and it will be too late to correct it.