Gordon Fiddles While Britain Burns!

The economy has gone tits up, unemployment rates are soaring, the NHS is in crisis, sinking under bureaucracy, as is the teaching profession and Northern Ireland looks like kicking off again. The Euro is likely to collapse causing chaos in Europe, but at least it would speed up our departure from the European Union. Not forgetting Islamist nutters taking potshots at our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So the government decides to tinker with even more statistics, feedback and reviewing of the NHS and the schools. Which will inevitably mean even more bureaucrats to monitor it. Do you think nurses should nurse? So do I, but the government wants them to become managers (bureaucrats) too:

It will consider how nurses could develop their skills as leaders and managers such as being given more freedom to commission and run their own services.

I can imagine the scenario. Poor old boy in hospital bed: "Nurse, nurse, I think I've just coughed up a lung". Old boy in next bed shouts: "It's no good they're all on a management awayday looking at ethnic and disabled recruitment levels". But he wouldn't be in there in reality because they will be refusing to treat smokers by then to finance more managers!

And people in business complain about bureaucracy. Tell you what try being a teacher and then moan about bureaucracy and red tape. Yet again I've been considering teaching but not now, having seen what is involved, more and more bureaucracy and politically correct posturing.

Tell you what Gordon, if the government just let teachers, health professionals and others just get on with their jobs, instead of constantly tinkering, we may then have a health service and education system to be proud of again.

Parents and patients don't want to fill in evaluation and monitioring forms every time they fart, they just want to be confident that their schools and hospitals do the job which their ever spiralling taxes pay for. The less government does the more chance of that actually happening.

Teaching Unions

Easter is always enlivened by the sheer idiocy of the teaching unions who have their annual gatherings around now. The latest from the NUTters is to request a ban on army recruitment in schools. Even their own executive find that a ridiculous position, so it will probably fall.

Ask yourself one question. Would you prefer your kids to be taught by a regimental sergeant major or a bearded Ernie 'Che' Guevara loving Marxist?

A more useful position would be to ban trade unions from recruiting in schools.