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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The NHS Weigh-In Fiasco: Starmer’s Million-Pound Nanny State Nonsense


In a move that reeks of bureaucratic overreach and fiscal insanity, Keir Starmer’s government has unveiled its latest brainchild: spending millions of NHS pounds to send out annual invites for Brits to step on a scale. Yes, you read that right—millions of taxpayer pounds to remind us to do something we’ve all been capable of since we could stand upright. Is this the bold new vision for Britain’s healthcare system? If so, we’re in deeper trouble than we thought.
 
Let’s break this down to its absurd core. The NHS, already creaking under the weight of endless waiting lists, staffing shortages, and crumbling infrastructure, apparently has cash to burn on a glorified mass mailing campaign. 
 
The plan? 
 
To nag every adult in the country to get weighed once a year, as if we’re all too dim to notice our trousers don’t fit. Last I checked, scales aren’t exactly rare artefacts. You can pick one up for a tenner at Argos, and most of us have a dusty set lurking in the bathroom, quietly judging us already. So why, pray tell, does the government think it’s worth millions to post us a polite nudge?
 
This isn’t about health—it’s about control. Starmer’s Labour seems hell-bent on turning the NHS into the nation’s nanny, spoon-feeding us basic life advice while ignoring the real crises. Cancer patients are waiting months for treatment, A&E departments look like war zones, and GPs are rarer than hen’s teeth. Yet here we are, funnelling precious resources into a scheme that assumes we’re all too lazy or stupid to monitor our own waistlines. 
 
It’s insulting, it’s wasteful, and it’s a slap in the face to every taxpayer propping up this beleaguered system.
 
The numbers don’t lie, but they do make you weep. Millions of pounds for paper invites, printing, postage, and whatever bloated administrative machine will inevitably spring up to “manage” this farce. 
 
For what? 
 
A marginal uptick in people stepping on scales they already own? 
 
Meanwhile, the NHS could’ve spent that money on, say, hiring more nurses, fixing leaky hospital roofs, or buying equipment that doesn’t belong in a museum. Instead, we get this—a patronising, pointless exercise in government busy bodying.
 
And let’s not pretend this is some grand public health triumph. Obesity’s a problem, sure, but it’s not like we’re all sitting around clueless, waiting for a government-issued hall pass to weigh ourselves. The data’s out there: we know the risks, we know the stats, and we’ve got the tools. What we don’t have is a government with the guts to tackle the NHS’s real issues instead of chasing headlines with gimmicks. This isn’t leadership; it’s a distraction.
 
Starmer’s defenders might bleat about prevention being cheaper than cure. Fine—except this isn’t prevention. It’s a redundant memo to people who already know the score. If the government really cared about our health, they’d fix the systemic rot that keeps the NHS on life support, not waste millions on a glorified Post-it note. We’re not children, and we don’t need a babysitter with a stethoscope.
 
So here’s the bottom line: this weigh-in scheme is a colossal waste of time, money, and trust. It’s the kind of policy that makes you wonder if anyone in Whitehall has a shred of common sense left. We’ve all got scales, Keir. What we don’t have is a government that knows how to spend our money wisely. Stop treating us like idiots and start fixing what’s actually broken.


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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Nanny's Fake Flu Stats


 

Nanny would have us belive that there is a "tidal wave" of flu cases hitting her beloved NHS.

The claim that there has been a "tidal wave" of flu infections leading to a 70% increase in hospital admissions in England in just seven days is bollocks, and is not supported by the most recent data available. 

According to recent NHS England reports, flu hospital admissions have indeed increased, but the specifics vary: An earlier report from NHS England indicated a significant rise in flu cases, with hospital admissions increasing by 40% in a week as of the week ending December 11, 2022, not 70%. 

More current data from December 2024 shows that flu hospital admissions are at their highest level this winter, but without specifying a 70% increase in just seven days. For instance, the admission rate for flu was reported as 6.8 per 100,000 people in the week to December 31, up from 5.1 the previous week, indicating an increase but not to the extent of 70%.

Therefore, while flu cases and hospital admissions have notably increased, the specific claim of a 70% increase in just seven days does not align with the latest available data. It's important to check the most recent and reliable sources for the most accurate figures.

The lesson here is do not rust Nanny or the NHS!

 
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Friday, August 30, 2024

#TwoTierKeir's Bottom Inspectors Coming To Your Office


 

Gimmicks, instead of a route and branch overhaul of the failed NHS, will not save the NHS!


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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

NHS Spaffing Our Money Up The Wall!


 

Despite there being a waiting list of around 7 million, the cretins running the NHS seem to think time and money is better spent on this crap.

 


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Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Nurse Ratched Will Kill You if You Don't Vote The Right Way


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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Nanny's Non Jobs in The NHS - Your Taxes Pay for This!


 


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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Advice To Sajid Javid

 


Turning the NHS into a state religion will neither benefit the NHS, nor its patients!


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Friday, November 12, 2021

Ban Toothbrushes and Beer Bottles!


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Thursday, November 11, 2021

Time Flies!


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Tuesday, November 09, 2021

The NHS - It's The Lie That Gets You!


 
Yesterday the NHS lied twice.
 
Initially the head of the NHS, Amanda Pritchard, claimed that claiming hospital admissions were 14 times higher than this time last year.
 
Like a poison gas cloud, the lie was spread by certain sections of a gullible media. 
 
The less gullible started checking the numbers, using the NHS's own publicly available statistics.
 
Can you guess what they found children?
 
Yes, that's right, Pritchard was lying!
 
Having been found out, the NHS then started back peddling furiously, and claimed that Pritchard as referring to August figures because the NHS didn't have any more up to date figures.
 
Another lie (as the original lie was disproven using the NHS's own figures).
 
The lies damaged the vaccine and booster shot programme, as people started to claim that this meant that vaccines don't work.
 
Having lied and caused immense damage to the credibility of the vaccine programme, will Pritchard resign?
 
As Nixon said:
If you cover up, you're going to get caught. .... It is not the issue that will harm you; it is the cover-up that is damaging.

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Monday, October 25, 2021

Nanny's Booster Jab Booking Site Doesn't Work!


 


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Friday, October 22, 2021

IRONY KLAXON - GPs To Strike if Forced To See Patients!


 

As I noted yesterday, there is a coordinated campaign by FAKE SAGE, certain sections of the media and political activists posing as doctors to force the government's hand into bringing in more restrictions.

I also noted that 

"It is important to remember that those pushing for greater restrictions have a political agenda, they are using Covid as a cover to push that agenda!"

Right on cue, the GPs (backed by the partisan BMA) have upped the ante. 

GPs are threatening to go on strike in protest at the government’s efforts to get them to see patients face to face. The British Medical Association says it has been “left with no alternative.”

It is remarkable that they fail to grasp that their job is to see patients.

The NHS is taking the piss out of those who fund it. 

Its role is to protect us, not the other way round!

So long as the government doesn't buckle to this coordinated campaign, once the cases start to fall in the coming weeks these people will be finished!


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Thursday, September 02, 2021

Nanny's Health Service - Covid Only


 

The Spectator reports that in July, 45 per cent of patients succeeded in having a consultation with their GP on the same day that they made their appointment, while 24 per cent waited more than a week. These figures are a modest improvement on January last year, when 42 per cent had a same-day appointment and 30 per cent had to wait more than a week. 

The difference hardly marks a sea change in efficiency. It is not as if GPs are having to see more patients than they were before the pandemic. On the contrary, the number of overall appointments fell from 27.2 million in January 2020 to 25.5 million in July this year

There is a limit to how long GPs can use Covid-19 as an excuse for refusing to see patients face-to-face. Other parts of society have largely returned to normal. Shops and restaurants no longer have to enforce social distancing. Even nightclubs are open. 

Yet GP surgeries continue to operate as if we are still in the darkest depths of lockdown. Just 57 per cent of GPs consultations in July were held face-to-face — a little higher than the 47 per cent recorded in April last year but still far below the levels prior to the pandemic. In January 2020, four in five consultations were held face-to-face.

The NHS is exacerbating the problem by offering financial incentives to surgeries to hold certain numbers of consultations remotely. 

During the depths of the pandemic being told to protect the NHS might have made some sense. However, the NHS was set up to protect and care for us, not the other way round (especially as we pay for it!).


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Friday, July 30, 2021

NHS Bans Capitals



In a display of utter idiocy, the NHS has decreed that capital words are offensive.

As per Guido Fawkes:

Commenters on the NHS website are now being chastised for over-using capital letters. Presumably they’re shortly to rebrand as ‘the nhs’…

One co-conspirator was recently blocked from reviewing a hospital as, according to the NHS moderators:

“it contains capitalised words. On the internet this can be regarded as “shouting” and many people are offended by it. Please resubmit your review, and avoid over-using capital letters.”

I wonder if the NHS realises that its name is in capitals, as such will it ban itself?


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Wednesday, July 07, 2021

The Penny Finally Drops - Delete The NHS Covid App

 


The penny has finally dropped with Nanny that the prospect of being pinged by the NHS Covid app might prompt people to delete it.

As per Politico:

"One thing that is alarming the department of health is that members of the public will delete the NHS COVID app en masse when they realize so many people are testing positive and that contact isolation is continuing for most of the summer. 

Playbook has already heard anecdotally of people deleting in fear that it will now only be a matter of time before they are pinged. 

Which poses more questions for the PM today: 

Does the government know how many people are deleting the app? 

And does it have a plan to do anything about it?"

Better yet, don't download the app in the first place!


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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Act Local, Stay Local, Be Local!

 

Act Local

Stay Local

Be Local 

This is Nanny's "powerful" new message, as she brings in the big guns (the media, Dame Dick of The Yard et al) to reinforce her message. 

Now that the pubs and restaurants are shut, Nanny can no longer blame them for the spread of Covid. As such, she has set her gimlet eye on supermarkets, the fresh air and human beings.

For you see ladies and gentlemen, in order to ensure that she gets no blame for the possible collapse of the NHS (now turned into a state religion by Nanny) she needs someone to blame.

The irony being, as Nick Robinson perfectly correctly states, is that most people are adhering to the rules:

Be that as it may in the event the virus continues to do what it will inevitably do, Nanny will blame people for not following the rules.

Can you guess what Nanny will do then children?

Yes, that's right

She will impose even more futile rules for us to be accused of not following! 

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