Don't treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors

This story from The Telegraph last week has been kicking about in my head and it just clicked.

"Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives."

Do you remember Neil Kinnock's comments just before the 1983 election "If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old."


Maybe Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are the true heirs of Margaret Thatcher after all. Mind you Neil Kinnock and his family will never have to rely upon the National Health Service as they age and wither; 13 years on the EU gravy waggon for Neil himself and 14 years of supping from that waggon by his wife Glenys will see to that. As I have explained previosuly the whole Kinnock family are nicely set-up in "public service" with the subsidised pensions and other benefits that that entails.


The full version of that part of the welsh windbag's speech runs :

"If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as prime minister on Thursday, I warn you. I warn you that you will have pain – when healing and relief depend upon payment. I warn you that you will have ignorance – when talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right. I warn you that you will have poverty – when pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a government that won’t pay in an economy that can't pay. I warn you that you will be cold – when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don't notice and the poor can't afford.
I warn you that you must not expect work – when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they don't earn, they don't spend. When they don't spend, work dies. I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light. I warn you that you will be quiet – when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient. I warn you that you will have defence of a sort – with a risk and at a price that passes all understanding. I warn you that you will be home-bound – when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up. I warn you that you will borrow less – when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income.

If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old."


Take a read of that and see how much of that is coming true now under New Labour.