Arturo was so disturbed that he hissed and spat at the monitor in front of him: "Just take a look at the blog, The Green Benches, written by Dr Éoin Clarke. That says it all! He's done some digging around and discovered things about Hunt that would make any future patient of the NHS shiver."
Naturally I scurried to the nearest laptop and looked up the blog. I found a post headed:Jeremy Hunt co-authored a book in 2009 calling for the NHS to be dismantled & no longer relevant. The very title is alarming. If accurate, then 'Boy David' has given the kiss-of-death to the NHS. The blog states:
Hunt's derision for our NHS is also evident in a book he co-authored in 2009. In that book, Jeremy Hunt called for the NHS to be dismantled. Hunt is also reported to have argued that the NHS was "no longer relevant". His co-author in the same publication entitled Direct Democracy was Daniel Hannan who sparked outrage when he called the NHS, "A 60 year mistake" .http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/jeremy-hunt-co-authored-book-in-2009.html
It seems as early as 2009 that Jeremy 'Gormless' Hunt's negative view of the NHS was well known. The Mirror ran the following headline: 3 top Tories call for NHS to be dismantled. The article stated:
David Cameron's claim to back the NHS was shot down again yesterday as more Tories attacked our healthcare system.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/3-top-tories-call-for-nhs-413096
Three of his Shadow Cabinet - Michael Gove, Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt - called for the health service to be dismantled. They claimed it was "no longer relevant" in a book, Direct Democracy, co-authored with Tory MEP Daniel Hannan.
Mr Hannan sparked outrage last week by calling the NHS a "60year-old mistake" on US TV.
And Health Secretary Andy Burnham last night challenged the Tory leader to withdraw the whip from the MEP and remove anyone from his frontbench who opposed the NHS.
Tory MP Douglas Carswell, co-author of another book with Mr Hannan called The Plan, said he stood by his words, branding the NHS the "National Sickness Service".
What I find hard to square is the fact that 'Boy David' Cameron harped on and on, before the election, just how much he valued the NHS! Some Valuing! Value? - I don't think so! If he valued it so much, he would have curbed that twit Lansley from doing his best to wreck the system. Now, Cameron has compounded it by appointing a declared NHS-phobic to be Secretary of State for Health! To coin a Pickles' expression - 'Boy David' Cameron is living in 'la la land'!
On 6 September, Brian Reade wrote in the Mirror: A dumb, on-message patsy: Why Jeremy Hunt's health job is such a sick joke. The article stated:
Our most precious institution, which could be charged with saving your life tomorrow, is wrestling with the most complex pressures in its history, and the PM wants it to be run by a man who lacks brains, guts or gravitas and is on record as wanting the NHS dismantled.
Can this get any worse? Jeremy 'Gormless' Hunt 'lacks brains, guts or gravitas'. And this is the man who has been made Secretary of State for Health!
Briane Reade continued:
A few weeks back I told of a writer friend who, after several meetings with Hunt, described him thus: “He is, without doubt, the thickest man in a suit that I’ve ever had a conversation with.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/why-jeremy-hunt-as-health-secretary-is-such-a-sick-1306533
"There is nothing going on behind the eyes. It’s like trying to get through to a mollusc in a coma.”
Wow! That's really letting him 'have it'! Even Arturo would not have thought up the 'mollusc in a coma' phrase - I like it!
Fleet Street Fox has been even more vociferous in his column in the Mirror. He wrote : Jeremy Hunt is the man with nine lives - and now he's looking after yours. Not too bad a headline, are you thinking? Well - read the article! Here's a flavour of it:
So a man who charged the taxpayer for Mandarin lessons the same year he married a Chinese wife, whose job was to oversee the shambolic security preparations for the Olympics, who blamed the Hillsborough disaster on hooliganism, and who had a non-partisan role overseeing the takeover of a broadcaster by a media company with whose owners he was surprisingly chummy, with whose lobbyist he played tennis, and with which the multi-million pound company he still owns shares in did business, who was hauled before an inquiry and called a liar, doesn't get sacked.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fleet-street-fox-column-jeremy-1302938
He gets promoted to a more important job looking after an organisation which saves lives. Never mind that he's as ham-fisted as a clown juggling greased pigs, never mind that he ignores medical and scientific fact to support homeopathy and voted to slash the abortion time limit; no, the best person to be placed in charge of your stupid lives is the man who has nine of his own.
By my reckoning Jeremy Hunt's been through eight already, so hopefully he won't be in charge of the NHS for too long.
Ouch! Ouch! And ouch again! Being a cat who desperately hopes all nine of my lives are still intact - I wonder about the validity of Jeremy 'Gormless' Hunt having already lost 8 of his own! A very dodgy situation to be in, I would say! One false step and he'll need all the help the NHS can give him. Maybe, as Fleet Street Fox suggests, 'Gormless' Hunt is a reincarnation of a cat - in which case he'll be needing the RSPCA, the Blue Cross or the PDSA.
Arturo and I padded down to watch the Athlete's Parade through the Mall - we scampered away at speed when we saw the familiar faces of 'Boy David' Cameron and Mop-Head Johnson preparing to 'speak'! Couldn't face it! But, at least we saw neither hide nor hair of the 'Gormless' one! And that, I can tell you, was one thing to be grateful for!
'Bye'
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