Ann Clwyd hits the headlines today as she blames the Tories for killing her husband. Alright, maybe I have used some artistic license there but she did say that he died "like a battery hen". And after contracting hospital induced pnuemonia she also cites the poor condition he was left in.
That's right Ann, it is a betrayal of what we all stand for. No politician would ever say that they support treating patients like battery hens. They do of course, but that's after we voted for them so it doesn't count.
Once again, we're on the same page. No one should die in those conditions. Hospitals are there to try and make us better.
Like many people I have had family go into hospital and not come home after contracting a hosptal bug. But unlike Ann I am not a member of any political party let alone the very same political party that has decimated hospitals all over Wales. At this very moment in time there are five petitions on the Senedd website directly related to the handling of our NHS by Labour. And if you check the petitions that are no longer open then there are even more directly related to the handling of our NHS by Labour.
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This is Labour 'sending a message to London'. Again. We'll all be homeless and starving before Labour decides to do something rather than just send messages to London.
ReplyDeleteBut then, it's so much easier to do fuck all and just blame the Tories.
Ann Clwyd voted in favour of the ilegal invasion of Iraq, I'm sure her husband had a far more dignified death than the 100,000+ innocent Iraqi civilians that she was party to the slaughter of.
ReplyDeleteI almost feel a little reluctant to comment because of her loss but unless she's rather thick, she seems to by trying to gain political capital out of it.
ReplyDelete.... and of course, the BBC conveniently forget, or are they stupid, that health in Wales is devolved and has been run by Labour since 1999.
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ReplyDeleteI listened to the link you provided and she doesn't quote the "Health Secretary" or mention the "King Fund". Where does she say this? Maybe there is another interview?
Found it
ReplyDeleteI am no supporter of Ann Clwyd, or for that matter the Labour Party. But your suggestions that Clwyd has used the death of her husband for some kind of political opportunism is sickening.
ReplyDeleteAs for your title "Welsh not British". I am Welsh, born and lived here all my life. But having read your posts (no opposition I notice) it is clear to me that fanatical nationalism and division on here, is your raison d'etre.
Must be so disappointing then that Plaid Cymru are doing so badly, and now certain to retreat back into the same old miserable backwaters of years ago !
Never mind, you've still got Adam Price.........
Or have you ?
Article in today's Golwg360 that she's to campaign for better care in hospitals. Campaign against who? The Labour Party in Wales?
ReplyDeleteThis is what Miserable Old Fart said and I believe he's and ex-nurse:
ReplyDelete"Mae Ann Clwyd yn bod yn glyfar iawn yn ei beirniadaeth – ydy mai gofal iechyd wedi ei ddatganoli, ond sylfaen ei chwyn yw diffyg safonau nyrsio mae safonau nyrsio a rheolaeth statudol dros broffesiynoldeb nyrsiaid heb eu datganoli. Rwy’n mawr obeithio y bydd pob nyrs yn ei hetholaeth yn cofio’r modd mae Ms Clwyd wedi pardduo eu proffesiwn er mwyn gwneud pwynt gwleidyddol ac er mwyn osgoi beirniadu’r Blaid Lafur am ei reolaeth drychinebus o iechyd yng Nghymru."
She's avoiding attacking Labour in Wales since the basis of her complaint is a lack of nursing standards whose control hasn't been devolved. She's attempting to be clever at the expense of nurses and avoiding attacking Labour in Wales.