Anti-English sentiment killing Scots
Submitted by Toque on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 11:31
Des Browne, Secretary of State for Scotland, has claimed that anti-English sentiment is killing Scottish patients:
DES Browne, the Scottish Secretary, intervened yesterday in the scandal over an outbreak of a fatal hospital bug.
He said that "best practice" from NHS hospitals in England – where infections from Clostridium difficile and MRSA have fallen as a result of "deep clean" programmes – may have been ignored north of the Border because of anti-English sentiment.
What an extraordinary claim for a Scottish Secretary of State to make. Unfortunately, due to devolution, he's not elected to represent anyone on health, so even if he's right he can't do anything about it.
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Anti-English sentiment is
Anti-English sentiment is killing Scottish patients? Really? And here was I thinking that Anti-English bias was actually killing English patients for want of drugs freely available in Scotland.
But then Des Browne is Scottish and Scots are the blessed folk, did he sign the Scottish Claim of Right I wonder?
This looks like spin anyway,
This looks like spin anyway, I don't think the NHS's killing of patients in England is on the decline anyway.
What did that Anglophobic
What did that Anglophobic Scotch 'minister' say recently, apropos of something nasty happening in England: 'It couldn't happen to a nicer people'?
Anglophobia will kill an awful lot of them (hopefully), and it 'couldn't happen to a nicer people'.
Incidentally: We should all be grateful that devolution has allowed us to reclaim Anglophobia for ourselves, rather than describing anti Br*tishness, as it used, while leaving Scots struggling to find a phobia that underpins their 'ane' sense of 'victimhood' (scotophobia being a fear of the dark).