Tony Blair's New Year Message

[zathras]

Here's what you have been waiting for Wendigo new year's message......


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6223673.stm

On any sensible basis the NHS has made huge strides in recent years.


Well it's financial black hole is reaching record levels

Waiting lists and waiting times have fallen.

Have you tried getting on the waiting list?

Our economic performance is the envy of our competitors, with growth every single quarter of the last decade.

Ah! this will be why unemployment, inflation, interest rates are all on the way up then. Also our tax burden has gone up to pay for all the growth in the public sector which now accounts for 1 in 4 of all jobs. The increase in jobs within the public sector is magnitudes larger than that in the private sector and the number employed in manufacturing is at a record low.

It's worth noting that this period of growth started under a Tory government and only got slower under the labour one.

Strip out the growth in the public sector and the growth as a result of immigration one might find that the remaining part of the economy has actually contracted.

Families are better off, with the poorest groups having seen the biggest increases in their incomes.

They are? that is why social mobility between various sectors of society has stagnated then.

It is a measure of how much has changed that no party which wants to be in government now questions the existence of the National Health Service funded by us all and free at the point of use

No party in modern times has ever questioned the need for an NHS free at the point of use and that includes the Thatcher and Major governments which preceeded the New Labour one. However if it is how come pensioners who need knee operations are told it will take 3 months before they can see a consultant (before going on those really short waiting lists) yet if they pay then the same consultant will seem them instantly and they can get it done privately! Funny definition of the word free.

I will keep my commitment to work tirelessly for the restart of the peace process in the Middle East.

What? How? Have another war?

Forget what country he is talking about, it is not one that is easily recognisable. What planet is he on?

[AlfredJPruffock]

Forget what country he is talking about, it is not one that is easily recognisable. What planet is he on?

Perhaps its more a question of what substances the vainglorious twerp is on, what do you think he gets up to with these Pop Stars at their pads in the evenings - not trivial persuits but I would wager he is indulging with various stimulants - Hitler did the same (without Pop stars though) which led to various delusions of grandeur and a tendency to launch wars of agression.

And GW Bush has dabbled with stimulants but they say he is OK now.

Perhaps.

PS Dont try this at home kids.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Speaking of the NHS - why didnt he mention this impressive fact ?



RECORDED cases of a deadly superbug that kills three times as many people as MRSA are rising in Scottish hospitals, The Scotsman can reveal.

Clostridium difficile (C difficile), which causes severe diarrhoea and mainly affects the over-65s, is rapidly becoming as common as MRSA in the battle against hospital infections.

In 2005 more than 4,400 cases were detected in Scottish hospitals, up from 4,021 in 2004 and 3,119 in 2003.

[wendigo100]

In 2005 more than 4,400 cases were detected in Scottish hospitals, up from 4,021 in 2004 and 3,119 in 2003.

If you examine the figures this is more good news for new labour - the rate of increase is decreasing.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Doubleplusgood Wendigo !

Good to see youve come round to our way of thinking - I was getting a little concerned about you recently.

However you missed the other imbededed good news - as the new bug is three times more deadly than the previous one - that should effectively reduce waiting times !

[wendigo100]

Doubleplusgood Wendigo !

Good to see youve come round to our way of thinking - I was getting a little concerned about you recently.

However you missed the other imbededed good news - as the new bug is three times more deadly than the previous one - that should effectively reduce waiting times !

Yes. But if I may be so bold, perhaps it is not that the new bug is three times more deadly than the old bug, but that the old bug is now only one third as deadly as it used to be.

It is no coincidence that this progress has happened in Northern Airstrip One, where The Party has most representation.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Yes. But if I may be so bold, perhaps it is not that the new bug is three times more deadly than the old bug, but that the old bug is now only one third as deadly as it used to be.

It is no coincidence that this progress has happened in Northern Airstrip One, where The Party has most representation.

Doubleplusgood Wendigo !

We must have a Victory Gin at the next hate session - have you heard the latest from the Eurasian War - plemty to celebrate- mind you I still keep forgetting to say Airstrip One - I keep saying Blighty - old fashioned I know -... hang on theres somebody at the door ...



Something kind of hit me today
I looked at you and wondered if you saw things my way

People will hold us to blame
It hit me today, it hit me today

We're taking it hard all the time
Why don't we pass it by?
Just reply, you've changed your mind
We're fighting with the eyes of the blind
Because of all weve said
We are the Dead

[wendigo100]

Doubleplusgood Wendigo !

We must have a Victory Gin at the next hate session - have you heard the latest from the Eurasian War - plemty to celebrate- mind you I still keep forgetting to say Airstrip One - I keep saying Blighty - old fashioned I know -... hang on theres somebody at the door ...



Something kind of hit me today
I looked at you and wondered if you saw things my way

People will hold us to blame
It hit me today, it hit me today

We're taking it hard all the time
Why don't we pass it by?
Just reply, you've changed your mind
We're fighting with the eyes of the blind
Because of all weve said
We are the Dead

One the favourite albums of my youth.

Ah yes, the eastasian war. Did you watch the execution?

[wendigo100]

I denounce you as an agent of Goldstein.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Shh! The Two Minutes Hate stars Thatcher these days.

[AlfredJPruffock]

One the favourite albums of my youth.

Ah yes, the eurasian war. Did you watch the execution?

On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns -- after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces -- at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia.

Oceania was at war with Eastasia.

1984 George Orwell