Do you ever wonder to yourself what world our polititions are living in? I'm so confused, I really am, I don't get it.
Today I have been told that myself (and quite a few others) have been waiting for a series of double-dose medicene for over 6 months. Now this medicene will dramaticly change my life, I won't say it'll fix me, nothing can, but it will elivate my symptons to the point where I can be a normal mostly fully functioning member of society; one who can work more and thus earn more money and thus pay more tax. The doctors and nurses involved all want me to have the stuff. My bosses at work want me to have the stuff, so I can be more productive. I want to have the stuff, too. It would be great to do things for a few days on the row without being exorsted. Most evenings I am so tired that I don't know whats happened the next day (currently I can't tell you much about Hollyoaks or The Apprentise despite watching them sevrel times for each showing), there are some days where I can't even say how I got home. This is not an exasoration.

This isn't an OH WOE IS ME post, my situation is a damn site better than a lot of people, I'm content with life... it's just that it could be better, and the only reason my health has deteriated this year is because of politics and finances... and that is by all definition of the word 'wrong'.

Yet, the goverment can supply high range iPad 2s (£550 = 64gb Wifi model, or 32gb 3G one, the later coming with contracts that hasn't been mentioned... deffo 'iPad 2's as I've seen video/pictures of them). They say it'll save them £200kpa in printing costs. They bought 17 of them, so that means these 17 people use up around £12kpa in printing each. Let's round up the price of printing one page to 1p, which means they use up PER PERSON 1.2m pages per year (or 3300ish pages a day).

------ I wrote this a little while ago and then had to go off to do things, I'm back now and completely and uttlery besotted with my nurse, but I'd hate for a good rant to go to waste.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:06, 160 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Send it to your local MP and get them to ask the question in the house
Or maybe submit a 'freedom of information act' request thingy to find out how much printing the custodians of the iPads were responsible for.

Does the nurse have big tits?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:11, Reply)

I got a letter back from my MP after I emailed him.
Daughter was quite impressed until I told her the first thing I thought was when I saw the little black portcullis on the yellow envelope was "What the fuck have I done now?!"
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:15, Reply)

I wrote to my MP a few years back and was impressed with the speed in which my suggestion was dismissed.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:20, Reply)

I was somewhat dismissed too, however I may hear back from Kenneth Clarke when he pulls his head out of his arse.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:24, Reply)

Ken Clarke is my sister's MP
for now
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:28, Reply)

My suggestion (about 5 or 6 years ago)
Was for people to be able to register with 2 different doctors, meaning you could have a surgery near both home and work. Seeing as most people have a trek from home to work and back again, if you could nip out during the working day to the doctors, rather than taking the morning/afternoon to go it would be better for the employer and the patient.

I also suggested the stopped giving out fully subsidised prescriptions before 10am and after 5pm, meaning those who pay towards the cost of their medication have a better chance of getting a convenient appointment. Nothing to stop the retired/kids from having appointments at the most convenient times, but they should be expected to pay towards prescription costs if they choose to go at a plum time*.

*Common sense exceptions would apply.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:30, Reply)

I read that a bit too quickly
And thought you were requesting a freedom of information request about the nurse's tits.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:27, Reply)

I want to hear more about the nurse.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:12, Reply)

Well, she's quite tall, as a dark skinned asian complextion, very kind, pretty smile, nice laugh.
OH GEE OH GOSH OH MY. BESOTTED
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:19, Reply)

And she makes your boo boos all better eh?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:23, Reply)

I'll bet he has thoughts of said nurse kissing his boo-boo.

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:25, Reply)

you are yogi bear
aicmfp
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:28, Reply)

Darth said I was spiderman earlier.
Make your bloody minds up!
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:29, Reply)

We've exhausted the list of former B3tans you might be
Once we've accused you of being every fictional character ever created, we might accept that you're a Real Person.

At the moment I think you might be Long John Silver.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:32, Reply)

Shiver me timbers, yee've got me!
Aaaaaaargh'll have to invent a new name now.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:34, Reply)

You fucking do that then

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:36, Reply)

No.

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:38, Reply)

Oh, go on
You've got my hopes up now.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:40, Reply)

Ok, you choose a good name.
As long as it isn't something like "Dave the sparkle fairy" or some gay shit like that.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:50, Reply)

Bear in mind that I know absolutely nowt about you other than that you play Portal
I will therefore have to conjur some appropriately geeky suggestions

Gordon Freeman
The Luggage
The Unkillable Rory Williams
Dave the Sparkle Fairy
The Witch-King of Scunthorpe
Mr Kelly Brook

Any of those float your boat?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:55, Reply)

You spelled 'Angmar' wrong.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:56, Reply)

I put it to you that I was being very cruel indeed
Scunthorpe is worse than Angmar
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:01, Reply)

Sounds a bit like Nottingham
Turns out that was originally called Snottingham, or home of the Snotts. However, when the Vikings came over they couldn't pronouce the 'S' at the start, so they renamed it Nottingham, or home of the Notts.

As you can imagine, this wasn't too popular with the people of Scunthorpe...
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:04, Reply)

Hahaha
I actually did know that about my home town, but understandably was not keen to publicise it.

Nottingham is fucking brilliant anyway, you just need to avoid all the guns. As long as you stay away from Forest Fields, The Meadows and St Anns, you probably won't be murdered.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:06, Reply)

90% of the time I've been in Nottingham, I've spent in Lenton.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:10, Reply)

The Luggage, I like.
I might keep that actually. I just hope no-one ever refers to me as an ungrateful baggage.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:58, Reply)

Yaaaaaaay!
This is the first time that anyone has ever thought one of my ideas was good!

Ever!
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:02, Reply)

First time for everything?

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:05, Reply)

I fucking hope so
I've been told that sex is really good.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:07, Reply)

I have a rule about talking about sex over the internet.
If you say you had sex over the internet, that means it never happened. Be warned.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:10, Reply)

In which case I shall tell everyone I bummed you
And presumably you'll be more than happy with this?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:20, Reply)

If you do I will hunt you down
And put you in a Clockwork Orange type chair, and force you to watch Piston's standup on loop whilst listening to your favourite music.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:23, Reply)

Fucking HELL
I'll be good, I promise!
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:24, Reply)

Bad news fella, but you can't be surprised at being told one thing and them doing another
after all the time you have been dealing with this. Smash something, or have a furious wank.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:14, Reply)

The government can't be thought of as one big buisiness,
each department acts as it's own often competing buisiness. So money from one won't go to another.

What's the delay in the drugs you need? Is it due to funding/supply/testing?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:17, Reply)

I reckon he's gone off for a hand-sanitiser wank.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:18, Reply)

You can drink the liquid stuff.
They can't use it in most hospitals now cos of the alchies
(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:20, Reply)

Hmmm, they've got it outside the maternity unit at Stoke Mandeville.
Damn my mate for spending less than twelve hours in there.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:23, Reply)

Really?
We manufactured a load of hand sanitising gel during the OMG SWINE FLU business, and that used denatured alcohol - that is, alcohol that's had some shite added to it make it taste foul and exempt it from alcohol duty.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 18:13, Reply)

Funding.
Yeah', I know that each department is independant, and that Havering is totally irelivent to my PCT and my situation. And that even if I did use my own council, they're different from the PCT. And it's like one branch of PC World doing something questionable to Curries in an entire different part of the country.

That they're almost entirely irelivent, and the polititions will all say that... but at the end of the day, the elected leaders have wasted a fortune under laughable claims... while still telling others to cut back.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:31, Reply)

Yep, that's true.
And the idea that people will stop using paper and start using iPads is ridiculous.
Id they weren't using laptops in meetings then they won't use iPads, they will at best get the minutes on the iPad and then scribble down their notes on paper.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:36, Reply)

Also can you link to where you read the bit about iPads and the printing cost savings.
I might be able to put an internal complaint through.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:39, Reply)

well, no.
it's nowhere near as simple as that. It's really too complex to break down, but I'm sure they haven't just bought iPads to save money on printing. Also, printing doesn't just cost 1p a page. People have to be paid to do the printing/copying/whatever. Maybe they are cutting a few staff in the print/repro room and that's the saving?

also, there's absolutely no indication that your medicine delay is anything to do with cost. It might be approval based. Anyway, the cost/benefit analysis of treating chronic indications is massively complex. This drug might be better, but given what you have, it's unlikely to be much better, yet might cost the taxpayer a fortune. And while I've got every bit of sympathy for your conditions, there are other options available for at least some of the things then massively expensive drugs, mate.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:39, Reply)

I wouldn't attempt to justify any public service IT spending.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:41, Reply)

It's no better or worse than most commercial companies.
You've got a point, but it's ridiculous to compare something like this when what you have is "Journalist takes something that he wants to seem like a waste of public funds and writes story to make it so" .. it's meaningless without context.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:43, Reply)

It worse than every private company I've worked in.
I'm in the NHS though which is notorious for promoting clinicians into IT, and underpaying IT staff so they get shit.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:45, Reply)

That's because only fuckwits would work for the government

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:57, Reply)

The £XX.XX that it would cost to give the drugs
can be spent to greater effect elsewhere
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:33, Reply)

Gonz, apologies for my ignorance
What exactly is the nature of your condition? I've never known.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:36, Reply)

Dyslexia.

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:36, Reply)

Of the guts

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:39, Reply)

He's so sexy it hurts.

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:42, Reply)

Right said Fred.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:43, Reply)

That's me, silly

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:46, Reply)

You find yourself, a man, sexually attractive?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:51, Reply)

Not in the slightest, actually
But K does
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:56, Reply)

Oh, honey
we all do.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:57, Reply)

*sniffs*
Ah, the familiar scent of internet sarcasm
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:03, Reply)

that's not sarcasm, it's just plain old lies

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:53, Reply)

Why would you say such a thing?
That's just MEAN!!!
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:54, Reply)

i find myself sexually attractive, can't keep my hands off myself

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:08, Reply)

He so is.
Also, I missed the rest of the conversation on the other thread. I am not a housewife. I just happen to work from home.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:56, Reply)

But you're a wife. In a house.

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:00, Reply)

And you're an ungrateful baggage.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:01, Reply)

Left myself open to that one.

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:02, Reply)

I'm going to internet diagnose
Crohn's disease
Asperges
Flu
Carpal tunnel
Anal cancer
intenstine AIDS
Lazy Eye
Crabs
"can't do that pre-cum thing"
Ebola
Huntington's disease by proxy
Munchausen syndrome
Stockholm syndrome
More Autism
and some internet obesity
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:47, Reply)