Reports of the Nats backpeddling on the no cap on GP fees. For Pete's (not Hodgson) sake don't. Have the balls to stick with what is right. GP's are not employees of the state (much though The Dear Leader would like them and every other worker to be so) and must be the only people in business who are told by the government what they can charge for their services. All this would be fine if central subsidy was sufficient to make up their costs to real world levels but it isn't. Why do you think there is a shortage of GPs? It is a naff job from an earning a decent living point of view because the government made it that way.
I'm going to buy Pattie Boyd's autobigraphy - it looks to be a great read. Just need a long aeroplane journey to read it on. Perhaps I should go to North Carolina to look at boats.............
Tony Blair has just been delivered of his new tax payer funded car. As an ex Prime Minister he is entitled to one and he scores a seven series beemer. All the usual accesories you tick the box for in Jerry Clayton's showroom - armour plating, run flat tyres, independent oxygen supply in case of a gas attack etc., etc. Sounds like a pretty sharp price too - $250,000. Car is delivered direct from the BMW factory in Munchen and they open the truck in which it arrives in Blighty and out jump four asylum seekers. Unfortunately for our enterprising Zaoiuiuoi lookalikes the truck was being unloaded in a police yard and they got sent back from whence they came - as did the car as its security had been 'violated'.
All sorts of lessons to be learned in this little anecdote I think.
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