During Question Time yesterday, Dr Brian Idden (Labour, Bolton South East) helpfully led the Prime Minister into an opportunity to discuss how wonderfully he was providing dignity in care for the elderly.
I was horrified when the Prime Minister replied:
“I am passionately committed, as are the Government, to finding a better way of dealing with”
before spluttering and stuttering his way to a more dignified
“better way of ensuring security and dignity for the elderly generation in retirement.”
I looked for that quote on Hansard this morning. Mysteriously it is not there. However, if you go to the No 10 podcast of the exchange, it is still there, loud and clear (at 1m 30s). How strange that the normally meticulous Hansard omits this Freudian slip.
“Dealing with”
You ‘deal with’ old cars, damaged beyond economic repair; you ‘deal with’ old boilers, ready for the scrap heap; you ‘deal with’ nuclear waste. In short, you ‘deal with’ utilitarian items that are beyond economic repair.
You don’t ‘deal with’ the very people who started paying into your Ponzi national insurance scheme 50 years ago and who now require security and dignity in their old age. You provide for them.
Will someone ask the Prime Minister to comment on whether he approves of 80 year old Doris McKeown being ‘dealt with’ by being shoved into a broom cupboard in Norfolk and Norwich Hospital for two days without proper food or attention, but with a sign on the door saying ‘Dignity in Care’?
Anna is the landlady of the Raccoon Arms. She lives in the Monbazillac area of South West France and still takes a keen interest in British politics.
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I’d rather not think too deeply about this. It makes me too angry.
It’s gone beyond “asking the Prime Minister” anything at all hasn’t it? Apart from Tractor Stats you will get blabbering and little slips – clues – that demonstrate his frightening sociopathy.
I nearly ignored the picture there, for a moment. But then I thought, hang on Weas old boy, this lady is in a cupboard a fucking cupboard and she is somebody and somebody’s mum and she has paid into the system for all these years in order to be cared for when she needs it.
It is a sad fact that nurses and hospital staff can be among the legions of the heartless, but it is also the case that the ethos, the engine of morality, comes from the top. And the buck stops there. Or would do if Brown would ever take responsibility.
The same way he deals with paralyzed, blind people with the use of one hand. Take their benefits away as they can work.
Also people with terminal cancer now have to revisit a specially appointed Government doctor who has such stringent guidelines to keep to very few pass muster. That’s another few quid saved and diverted to having tattoo’s removed from prisoners after they have had their sex change of course.
In the past when someone said they were going to “deal with” another person it meant they were going to give them a very hard time that they would not forget. Commonly it meant violence and almost always inflicting damage of one kind or another. Very New Labour, very New Labour social policy.
Can someone not “Deal” with the Prime Minister? Involving a weapon of course.
It is at times like this one regrets the fact that assassination is not a part of our political discourse, unlike our cousins across the water. Who could possibly miss this maladjusted retard were he to go?
What Elby said.
Dark thoughts involving sharp objects now seem to come to mind whenever I see or hear another one of McNutter’s oupourings.
It’s worth noting that Hansard is not a record of what was said but a record of what was meant to be said. Our glorious leaders are allowed to retrospectively edit (or clarify) what’s recorded. I forget the source for this I suspect it was via Dizzy though. It came up after the infamous “so what ” comment last year(?)