Asking the deck chairs to rearrange themselves

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust management are asking staff to work for free so they can pay for a PFI contract. That's right - the poor are being asked to make sacrifices so that the banks can make even more profit.

Let's just compare those figures:
Royal Bank of Scotland - record profit of £6.2 billion last year
D Grade Staff Nurse - makes around £0.000018 billion per year

Thats a profit ratio of 344,444:1.

So, the answer is obvious to any NHS manager. Steal from greedy Nurse Nancy to give it to needy Wanker Banker.


The PFI deals already done (where private companies build and then run and lease back hospitals to the NHS) will cost £53 billion over the next 20-30 years. Yet, the value of the builds is only £8 billion.

Dr Rant went to the RBS Mortgage online calculator. An £8 billion '2 year tracker' mortgage, repaying the capital over 20 years, would cost a total of £13.15 billion. So, that's an extra profit of around £40 billion that the banks are taking.

The governments and the banks claim that this extra money pays for support services and maintenance. Really? That's a hell of a lot of support services.

Let's do the sums.
£2 billion extra profit for the banks per year, every year, for 20 years.

That's the cost of 100,000 full time D grade Staff Nurses (including their pensions etc). Every year. For 20 years.

Or 20,000 GP principals (including their pensions etc). Every year. For 20 years.

Or 20,000 Front Line 999 Ambulances (including kit and crews). Every year. For 20 years.


That would QUADRUPLE the number of front line 999 ambulances in the UK. Or boost the number of GP principals by around 50%. I'm pretty sure an extra 100,000 staff nurses would not go amiss either.


So unless cleaning a few new hospitals costs 4x as much as the entire NHS Ambulance service, clearly this money does NOT pay for 'support services' .

Dr Rant thinks these huge sums of extra money is a way for the Totalitarian Capitalist Bastards at the banks (who are, after all, the last great monopoly) to make a killing by taking money from the poor, the sick, and the weak. Money that they then hand out in huge bonuses so they can eat out in expensive, exclusive restaurants and clubs. While the poor patients lie in their own shit, vomit, and piss while the few nurses that are left work their arses off for little or no pay.

We have had all of these nurses, ambulances, and doctors STOLEN from the front lines by cheating, lying, scum. The evil fucks running the country did this.

Not only is this obscene, but it threatens democracy. If a Labour government can help in the looting of public services and funds by the fat cats in big business (the new 'ruling class'), then something has gone horribly wrong. If this continues, then violent rebellion is increasingly likely as the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. 'Let them eat cake' is as unnacceptable today as it was in 1789.