Adrian Midgley wrote:
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> I agree with Laurie on this - what possible justification can Midge
>> have for calling him an idiot?
>
> That he presents democracy as a problem which prevents a doctors'
> association from being able to make anything happen, ever,
> and demands to be told , not what to do since he is actually
> objecting to that, but to not do what he does not want to do.
>
> And the idea, which he presents, that some of his colleagues
> may object to his demand and therefore there is something
> wrong with them - or all of us but Laurie - seems to me inexcusably
> stupid.
>
> I should perhaps have called him a wise fool, and noted that
> his objection to my note on how to bring about what he
> wanted, if his colleagues will accept it, reveals more about
> why Laurie won't get it or anything like it done, while
> blaming someone else, than about the rest of us.
>
> I'm alarmed that it isn't obvious to others of you.
I thought Midge's description of the way to get the BMA to take a stand on
this was unusually clear, so Laurie's misunderstanding of it, and his
suggestion that Midge's statement somehow demonstrated that the BMA was
useless, didn't make sense to me.
I had to read the paragraphs above a few times to be sure I'd made sense of
them, so Midge's departure into Plain English seems to have been
(regrettably) temporary.
So now I've said you're both stupid (or too clever), so I'd better slink off
into lurk mode for a while.
Michael
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