Re the National Elf
i don't know exactly why but some of this reminds me of "Mad Max" which was
on again the other night.
Max, the cool clean hero, out there on the roads facing the scum of the
earth who just want power and thrills. Max, the original Man in Black, who
plays clean and lawful until one day he gets pushed just that lil bit
too far.
He even resists his boss saying, "I don't care what you guys do out there,
as long as the paperwork's clean."
But one day he explodes.
His wife getting totalled by the Bad Guys (Toecutter, Baba et al) didn't
help either.
So Max blows his stack, shoves pedal to the metal and goes after the Bad
Guys. Final score: Max umpteen, Bad Guys nil. Nothing for the paramedics
to play with.
In another time and place, there was a maternity unit under threat of
closure. Lots of people worked hard, made good arguments for keeping it
open but ultimately the goalposts were shifted, new criteria appeared and
it is no more. It was known during the "consultation" process that two
senior Health Board members wanted to close the unit for one reason, a
reason which was never made public by them. Had the unit supporters
realised how dirty the Board people were prepared to be then the supporters
might well have played dirty too. AND WON!
Are you getting this? When the normal channels get all silted up then it's
time to open a new channel. I want that mountain gone, said Ahmad. Make it
so, say I. If the guardians of the nation's wealth and health chose to play
dirty then we too have a moral obligation to play dirty. If Dobbo thinks
that N Elf PLC will just trundle on until the rising economy washes more
money over the gunnels then maybe he needs to be shown how wrong he is.
Maybe he needs a mountain of applications for sabbaticals to process.
Maybe he needs a slew of well-insured GPs going off on sick leave for their
mental health.
Or a lot of applications for early retirement on ill-health.
Etc
Etc
Declan
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