Someone is not telling the truth

“Some of these Police officers put on T shirts with plebs on it so they are plebs in there own words”

“Some is LYING to US Alright…..

10 NHS stories the BBC should have reported to inform the public about NHS Privatisation.
The picture above shows the BBC Health Website at exactly 6.12pm today. If you click on the screen dump it will expand so that you can examine it more closely. You can see that the current upheaval in the NHS plays very little part in the "main coverage". If you hoke around some regional parts of their site you get the occasional NHS story but by and large things go unreported. Below I list 10 stories that I think the BBC should have reported.
1. The admission from Jeremy Hunt that he intervened to accelerate the Virgin Care acquisition of NHS Surrey's Community Health also went unreported by the BBC. Given the public interest attached to Hunt intervening on behalf of Newscorp, one would imagine that him lobbying on behalf of Virgin Care was a matter of public interest
2. The Care Quality Commission have failed 16 private hospitals in the last year and the BBC have not reported one. If we are allowed to combat the myth that private is good public is bad, then it is crucial that these failings are reported. The news that patients of a Virgin hospital were left lying in their own urine has a strong public interest attached to it
3. The single greatest beneficiary of Tory outsourcing in the last 6 months have been a firm called Interserve, and their donor is a Tory Lord and former advisor to 2 Prime Ministers. The BBC should question the scale of Interserve's £1bn contracts in 6 months.
4. In addition, most of the newspapers today carried a story that £20bn of the NHS is set to be sold off, a figure which I have been reporting for a month or so. The BBC didn't even see fit to mention it.
5. In addition, the BBC fail to mention that John Nash the Trustee and reserved Consultant in Care UK donated £251,000 to the Tory Party. It is up to the BBC to question whether this has led to the under-reporting of 9 CQC Health Inspection failures in the last year
6. In July, top Tory and Health Select Committee chairperson, predicted that some NHS services would no longer be free at the point of use. There is a strong public interest in the BBC reporting this story
7. Last week, KPMG were sent in to review the finances of a Primary Care Trust in North Yorkshire. The BBC did not even report it even though this could affect 800,000 patients
8. Last week the Office of National Statistics showed that 42,000 NHS jobs have been axed in 2 years and yet the BBC rarely mention NHS job losses. This is surely a matter for public interest.
9. The 3 A & E protest marches at the weekend are very poorly covered by the BBC. One Ealing march was briefly reported by the BBC as having been attended by hundreds and it came accompanied with a poor photograph. Even the Daily Mail saw fit to give more accurate reportage of the protest.
10. Half of England's Ambulance Stations are being shut down in 2012. That puts in danger the golden hour especially since A & Es are shutting also. Shame on the BBC that they have failed to report this”

“I have no time for this monkey business”

“Unless there was an independent witness to what happened between Mr Mitchell and the police (and I haven't heard of one yet) then it is just one person's word against another's. As such, it isn't right for anyone to just decide who to believe, as this accusation remains unproven. Unfortunately we can't automatically believe the police any more, as demonstated by far too many instances lately where officers have been found to be lying.”

“So a handfull of very senior Police Officers covered up mistakes that they made 23 years ago which makes all Police Officers now and since corrupt and liars. Strange sort of logic.”

“@depreg

Yes, it was surprising that nothing happened to John Prescott although you have 'spun' it a little bit, his punch was an immediate reaction to being hit in the face himself whereas Mitchell abused a police officer who had done absolutely nothing wrong.

Maybe they should both have resigned but with police being shown less and less respect by the general public Mitchells offence is the last thing that they needed. If we're talking damage done though, it's the conservatives that will suffer.

The word pleb only reaffirms folks view that the tories are elitist snobs who believe that rules only apply to commoners. Whilst I think that's simplistic and probably applies to politicians on all sides it just fits the con stereotype he should probably just own up and hope it's forgotten quickly.”

“So the whole of the Police, "as a group of public servants, feel aggrieved by the actions taken by the Coalition Government to get the huge inherited deficit under control, which affects all public expenditure including the Police Force" ! So "at every opportunity they will 'have a go' in retaliation over every mortal thing" !

Ah well, I suppose we are all allowed irrational rants from time to time !”

“A sad state of affairs. There was a time when a police officer's word was accepted without question, and there was a time when a politician who lied would be forced out immediately. Nowadays no-one believes a word either of these groups come out without powerful evidence to back it up. Blair and Campbell had a huge malign influence here. But I do agree with Eastonain - a storm in a teacup. John Prescott physically attacked some one in the street when he was deputy PM - no question of resigning, just John being himself. What a crazy world we live in.”

“On the one hand it is difficult to accept the Police invented this "pleb" tag but on the other who really trusts the Police when we have the 23 long years of hiding the truth over the 'Hillsborough' disaster?

The underlying situation in all of this I think is the fact that the Police, as a group of public servants, feel aggrieved by the actions taken by the Coalition Government to get the huge inherited deficit under control which affects all public expenditure including the Police Force. Therefore, at every opportunity they will "have a go" in retaliation over every mortal thing.

To me this is a storm in a teacup, a few choice words said in the heat of the moment and blown up out of all proportion.”

“You pays your money and you takes your choice as to who you believe when the choice is between politcians and the police!”