IMAGINE having come through breast cancer. Imagine then a few years later finding pre-cancerous cells were back and you take the option to have your whole breast removed, which is a massive operation for a woman.
I cannot begin to think of the stress leading up to that day.
Imagine then turning up for the op at the crack of dawn ready to face the knife… to be told: ‘you’re not on the list for surgery today’.
Total cock up. And as they only do that surgery on Wednesdays, there will be at least another week of worry on the horizon.
Add to that the stress of not being able to contact someone at the hospital to take your calls to find out what is going on and so having to turn up in person to pin someone down for answers while your brain is thinking ‘it should be all over now, I should be recovering.’
A local elderly lady I’ve known all my life, was in a proper state when I spoke to her on the day she should have been having her surgery this week, out of her head with upset, her family angry, frustrated.
Not good, Barnsley. Not good at all.
Who’d be a politician indeed. Who would have to ‘toe the party line’ and support the great leader when your heart may be crying ‘this isn’t right’, but to vote against them wouldn’t go down well at all.
Ooh no, you’d be earmarked as a renegade. Like MP Jon Trickett, the only MP brave enough to vote against taking away the pensioners winter fuel allowance.
He said that he ‘couldn’t in good conscience vote to make my constituents poorer’ and he will sleep well for knowing he voted as he did.
The sort of man you’d want in politics?
Well, it doesn’t work like that alas because his career is probably dead for doing that, when – ironically – in that one act he stands for what most of us wanted to see when Labour got in: an MP who looks out for the ordinary man.
Incidentally what I find particularly abhorrent are the abstainers – too gutless to vote against a motion they don’t agree with in case they blot their own copybook with the bosses, too gutless to vote for it because they know what their constituents will rightly think of them.
Need more of a backbone that that in politics, mate.
Sorry but no amount of bleating that Keir Stalin needs the money for the NHS (nice try) will work, because he really could have got the money from somewhere else less contentiously (because nearly everything is less contentious than this).
And no amount of ‘look pensioners will be better off under us, honestly’ can negate the PR car crash disaster of stripping the pensioners of their heating allowance because it is much bigger than the cash.
It screams of kicking our society’s vulnerable in the goolies in twenty-foot neon letters.
Not all pensioners need it – true. But there are too many who do who now won’t get it, many just a few pounds over the cut-off point.
So yes, of course there is a backlash because those people who voted Labour had had enough of a Tory government who didn’t care about people.
And by believing their hype, by putting them in power we’ve all ended on a high speed trip from frying pan to fire with just one of their unbroken promises left that we can all truly believe in them delivering: the promise that things are going to get worse.
