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The debt was created by the last Labour Government - hospitals, schools financed on the never-never through PFI rip off schemes that we'll be saddled with for years.

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Nice intelligent contribution

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You'd get no argument here. Labour and Tory - cheeks of the same arse

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The present Cumberland Infirmary was the first UK Private Finance Initiative hospital to be bond financed. Health Management (Carlisle) plc, a 50/50 dedicated joint venture company formed by AMEC and Interserve (Facilities Management) Ltd was given a 45-year concession period.[2] Designed and built by AMEC, the £87m hospital took 29 months to construct.

Consolidating the operations of three previous hospitals namely the previous Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle City General and Carlisle City Maternity, the Cumberland Infirmary provides 444 beds for the local community. The hospital was officially opened by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on 16 June 2000.

within months we read the following article;


The first NHS hospital to be built under the private finance initiative has had "teething troubles". Could PFI policy be fatally flawed, asks Nick Mathiason


The portents weren't good when Prime Minister Tony Blair opened Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle last June.

What should have been a triumph for the Government - a shiny new 'Third Way' hospital built for the public using private money - turned into farce when protesting foxhunters drowned out the self-congratulatory opening speeches.

Maybe it was indeed a sign because, since Blair's ill-fated visit, things have gone terribly wrong at Cumberland, the country's first hospital financed by the controversial private finance initiative:

• Two ceilings have col lapsed because of cheap plastic joints in piping and other plumbing faults - one joint narrowly missed patients in the maternity unit.

• The sewerage system could not cope with the number of users and police flooded an operating theatre.

• Clerical and laundry staff cannot work in their offices because they are too small.

• Expensive bespoke trolleys had to be commissioned because those supplied don't fit the spaces between beds.

• The transparent roof means that on sunny days the temperature inside Cumberland Infirmary reaches over 33C - the hospital has no air conditioning.

• Two windows have blown out of their frames, one showering a consultant and a nurse with glass.

These 'mistakes' are bad enough, but what is worse is that in August, when hospitals are usually quiet, there are now 'bed jams' at the 444-bed Cumberland, which is currently at full capacity.

full article above: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2000 ... atefinance

and this from last month;

A major incident has been declared at hospitals in north Cumbria because of a shortage of beds.


NHS safe in Labours hands? they're having a laugh

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Remind Simon Danczuk that we have the right to FreeSpeech and that no apologist politician will take it away

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Yep, and they still take advice from the war criminal.........and he the best Chancellor is still chipping in. Nothing has changed - different cast....same play

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

Aye..and Wee Ecks crew are the big brown ring in the middle..

That prize belongs to the Liberal Democrats.
"Wee Eck" as you call him, has no crew. It's Wee Nic's crew now. Not that you'd notice from the papers you read
The SNP are more like the Andrex which is going to wipe out all of your Tory parties in Scotland.

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No way, Salmonds the puppet master, NicolaStruggleon is just the Puppet.

I certainly hear plenty of stuff from Salmond and nothing at all from Sturgeon. It make you wonder who is in charge?

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Grandad,

Plenty to be heard here. Your biased media just choose not to cover it.

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You're reading that Tory press again

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Alway's willing to oblige Grandad

http://youtu.be/CPV_TwU8R_0

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!