UK Special PM Countdown

[Griffin NoName]

More likely BNP delayed action to show that relying on foreign doctors was going to make the NHS collapse. I could have proved that with no harm to life as three foreign nationals I got allotted couldn't speak enough english for us to understand each other. Oh, except for one exchange: me: are you going to be here for my next appointment? doc: not if I can help it.

Reassuring to know that the NHS checks on foreign national applications for positions as doctor is so thorough "because it involves human life", although this only applies to human life if one is ill. Does this mean that ill people who get blown up are not expected to die?

[beagle]

Perhaps blowing things up is the new strategy for MRSA, but it doesn't feel totally consistent with the Hippocratic Oath.  Or maybe waiting lists are so low now they need to drum up trade.

Maybe you should sneak a few questions into the conversation via an interpreter next time you see your doctor:

"Had your holidays yet? Villa in Tuscany or training camp in Pakistan?"

[Griffin NoName]

Or maybe waiting lists are so low now they need to drum up trade.

You could be onto something there. One of the doctors being held is said to have been planning to go back to country of origin when qualified in the particular specialty he'd come here to study. Perhaps the specialty is treating bomb vicitms.

[beagle]

I'd gathered labour's marvelous web recruiting system had totally pissed off junior doctors, but not quite how badly.

[Griffin NoName]

The recruitment papers for position of PM appear to have reduced the office to a 5 day working week. Great cut in hours. Maybe that's pissed the doctors off too.

[beagle]

He's from the Treasury. It was probably a seasonally adjusted number based on preliminary figures collected via the Office of National Statistics using revised central government guidelines on counting.

[Griffin NoName]

Should have smelt a rat when he said he wasn't going to use Chequers at weekends.

At a slight tangent, do they play croquet in Scotland?

[beagle]

Don't think so. Wasn't any in "Trainspotting" as I recall.

[Griffin NoName]

Alice in Wonderland wasn't set in Scotland either.

[Pachyderm]

Yes, some people play croquet in Scotland.

It is difficult, as the balls tend to run to the bottom of the hill, leaving you with a thousand foot, double handed overhead swing to get back to the next hoop.

And for the sake of stopping all the arguments we have to make sure the Glaswegians play with the yellow ball.

[Griffin NoName]

Ah! Indeed. I just found where to play !

[Pachyderm]

The things one learns....

What a wondrous world we live in.

Pity I am moving to Coventry in a month or so...

[Griffin NoName]

I expect there are things to do in Coventry

[Pachyderm]

Going to be too busy studying for any fun.

[Griffin NoName]

You could study something fun. Isn't study fun anyway, or why bother?