A critical analysis of the British National Health Service (NHS)A Story by COLLYMORESelf-explanatoryBy Stanley Collymore To
anyone who’s honestly familiar with authentic historical accounts, is in full
possession of a functioning brain in his or her head and competently knows how
to use it, and what’s more, isn’t disingenuously hoodwinked by, but conversely
rather resoundingly and contemptuously rejects the farcical and concertedly
employed revisionist historical interpretation so asininely, fraudulently and self-servingly
engaged in by mostly white, and mainly so, western professed historians, and specifically
in this rather disreputable regard British historical revisionists and
purportedly elite “historians”, the only two things of indisputable societal
benefit and overall human significance that England independently and centuries
later as part of a composite and self-evidently dysfunctional union of sorts,
and laughably officially designated as the United Kingdom produced are Magna
Carta and the British National Health Service (NHS). All else concerning
Britain are smoke and mirrors or else the mirage-like self-delusions
principally of a hard-core element of white Britons spread across all sections
and classes of British society, and too dim-witted, and egotistical with it by
far, to perceive much less so ever acknowledge their abysmally conceited, intellectual
ignorance and wide-ranging stupidity. A
situation that contemporary British society " absolutely blissfully though in
true distillation discernibly wretchedly shares with its transatlantic and
poodle-master Rogue State USA " has effectively in all but name rendered Magna
Carta dead and should in reality both fittingly and honourably bestow on it its
last rites; while in the case of the National Health Service, despite the
sterling efforts, stalwartly dedicated and assiduous endeavours of numerous and
authentic professionals in all requisite fields of work throughout its
organization is nevertheless rather bewilderingly being catapulted " with the ardent
and mendacious support of corporate Rogue State USA and the latter’s instantly
bought, paid for and easily manipulated British political and corporate
equivalent sycophants - into the same
dismal abyss as Magna Carta. Hardly
surprising therefore that intentionally forced into a state of utter
disillusionment which painfully and regrettably, obviously, they find
themselves thrown into, there are so many exceedingly talented, well-trained
and remarkable NHS employees of all professions and statuses that would in any
reasonably competent organization other than an ineffectual British NHS be
markedly considered and accordingly treated as the invaluable personnel that
they self-evidently are, who are distinctly disenchanted with what they’re
being subjected to now leaving the NHS to either pursue their professional
careers elsewhere or else are taking early retirement from a health
service which they can no longer
conscionably or professionally countenance. And who can honestly blame them?
Particularly so when the British health service and the parlous state of their
individual professions within it needn’t be as they have consistently been for
such a long time and despondently still are; and, moreover, with no convincing
signs even on an already dismal horizon that matter will optimistically change
for the better. And
all this against a discernible backdrop of stark irony, as money to
satisfactorily rectify the supposed monetary deficiency of the British NHS need
not and shouldn’t be a problem, since the United Kingdom, dependent on which
economic survey one gives credence to and firmly accepts, is either the fifth
or the ninth largest economy in the world, and if those that have
responsibility for it and officially run it truthfully wanted Britain to have a
top-notch NHS that honestly ministers to the necessary needs of both NHS
patients and the professionals alike who treat them, then the former could
easily ensure that such a laudable situation was successfully realized. But
the blunt truth is that either for dogmatic and obtuse political reasons or,
more commonly so, graspingly avaricious, self-interested and mendacious ones
British politicians, and whatever malfeasance in public office, pervasively
crooked and treacherously incumbent UK regime is in power; their transatlantic
Rogue State USA puppet masters, greedy corporate entities on both sides of the
Atlantic, together with considerable numbers of idiotic, short-sighted, easily
manipulated, Brexit-type little Englanders and ludicrously so in the 21st
Century cap-doffing and widespread, class-infused, white home-grown Brits don’t
want this to occur, and, in reality, are very much adverse to any substantial
spending on the British NHS and would, in fact, much prefer that it was
completely privatized and run on the lines of a profit and dividends basis
like any other, in their sick mind-set
“successful” business enterprise, where the rich get richer and the poor and
disadvantaged are massively marginalized. To
put things in their proper perspective as far as the British NHS is concerned
I’ll cite two exemplary examples of what I mean and how Britain could likewise,
if the powers that be and their dim-witted, cap-doffing and characteristically
social class manipulated sycophants and camp followers actually wanted
meaningful and permanent constructive change within the said British NHS to be
a positive reality. Barbados,
my cherished ancestral homeland, has a fantastic and exceedingly beneficially
run NHS and overall health care system. And while it’s absolutely true, and I
emphasize this fact at every opportunity that I’m afforded to, that Barbados
and specifically Barbadian money not only kick-started the English Industrial
Revolution and successfully transformed England from the stolid European
backwater state that it was into the global empire it subsequently became, that
Bajan money was never repaid and it’s highly unlikely that it ever will be. A
similar state of affairs that likewise unresolvedly, to this very day, prevails
across the entire former English/British Empire. So
England and Britain certainly have massive amounts of capital, most of it
either spuriously cheated from or else brutally purloined from its unwilling
and former empire colonial subjects, and a situation, despite the thankful and
official, at least, departure of that empire, leaves more than a residue of the
identical, still perpetrated and pertinacious mind-set that is nevertheless
intentionally deeply ingrained, unchanged and ruthlessly pursued across the
entirety of British society by substantial numbers of its white inhabitants of
all social statuses. Therefore,
if Barbados and contemporary Sweden who individually don’t have the plundering
mind-set of Britain, can laudably and resolutely resort to relying on their own
natural resources as well as their lawful and moral ingenuity to garner the
wealth requisite to provide an all-inclusive, comprehensive National Health
Service and Health Care System that absolutely and competently cater
respectively for all of their respective citizens and local residents from the
cradle to the grave and, moreover, do so most splendidly from their own
legitimately acquired resources, why does Britain " whose massively
hoarded and unquestionably stolen wealth
is exponentially and collectively greater than that of Barbados and Sweden
combined " find it so extremely difficult to properly finance its own NHS? Bearing
in mind that the individual NHS that both Barbados and Sweden operate were
initially adopted from the British model but have since then, in light years
fashion, been meticulously and fully adapted to meet the genuine needs of their
respective patients or clients. And crucially accounts, amongst a plethora of
other inspirational and laudable factors, for why Barbados has and continuously
provides on an admirable and routine basis so many healthy and enlivening
centenarians " the greatest number in the entire world per population " and
where the country’s average lifespan is so phenomenal; and quite literally puts
countries like Britain and other white, racist and arrogant, so-called
developed nations to shame! Long
before the now commonplace adopted and universally term used term “gap-year”
was ever coined let alone came into general parlance and systematically used by
many students in the UK, I embarked on it, quite literally. How did this
happen? In Barbados where my excellent and formative education was carried out
it has always been in the past, and still is a sensible and intelligent
practice of the schools and resident educational authorities there that the
natural academic and gifted abilities of students per se ought never to be
determined or circumscribed solely by age. In other words the general starting
point at which initial admittance into schools and significantly afterwards at
which all examinations were allowed to be taken in respect of any student’s
transference from junior or elementary school to a secondary one; and when at
the latter, examinations that would inevitably assist those exceptionally
brilliant and thoroughly gifted students into tertiary educational institutions
like universities and thereafter allow them to embark on postgraduate studies,
were themselves undertaken. Accordingly,
I started my official elementary school career at the age of four years old "
the normal start year was five " and took my 11+ (eleven plus in age that is) examination
to the designated higher Grammar School level of education when I was nine
years old. A full two years before the
usual starting point of 11 years of age after which I was enrolled at my own as
well as my family’s preferred choice of grammar school. Significantly,
too, there was an enshrined practice at my grammar school that when accepted
there if a student got an overall pass mark of 90% at the end of the obligatory
end of year exams to academically and realistically determine which class he or
she would therefore enter in the following school year that student would
automatically skip what in standard circumstances would be the next higher
class and instead be allocated to the one above it. In brief if they were in
let’s say Form 1 and attained that much relished 90% written grade level in
their overall year exams there, they thus skipped what would otherwise have been
Form2 and automatically went into Form 3. And if they were brilliant enough to
successfully achieve the identical result in Form 3 they also automatically
skipped what would otherwise have been Form 4 and went into Form 5 where they
instantly commenced preparations there for their Oxford and Cambridge GCE “O”
and “A” levels " ordinary and advanced for the uninitiated " examinations, with
achievement in these providing the necessary and automatic gateway to tertiary
study " namely university and postgraduate studies at the appropriate
institutions of their choice " and their attendant academic qualifications. In
my specific case I not only academically skipped Forms 2 and 4 at my grammar
school but completed my Oxford and Cambridge GCE “O” and “A” level examinations
and acquired certificates at an age much earlier in Barbados " and I wasn’t by
any means alone in this or uniquely a beneficiary of this practice " than I
would ever have been able to do anywhere in the United Kingdom, if the racist
educational practices there had even bothered to recognize my innate abilities
in the first place " and where “promotion” throughout most British schools is really
all about age and has bugger all to do with natural skills or, God forbid, inherent
ability; and accounts for the piss-poor and deplorable academic state of
British schools generally and the UK’s state run ones in particular. Properly
and effectively through my assiduously engaged in work at school and by means
of the highly inspirational and scholarly tuition that I was thoroughly and
encouragingly afforded by my respective teachers and now purposely
well-equipped with many more than he requisite qualifications needed to get
into any university of my preference, study English, Education and Dramatic Arts,
which were among my principal great loves, and then subsequently embark on
whatever academic and career pursuits
I’d given considerable thought to
and had decided to rationally engage in, there was first, however, the
essential matter of specifically determining when all this should actually
start. Detailed
career counselling at my grammar school and the astute and evidently
knowledgeable, as well, input in this regard fruitfully and intelligently
delivered by my stupendously brilliant, enormously and multifacetedly-skilled
English, Classics, Geography and accomplished Music teacher, Mr. Kenneth G.
Doughlin who was also the Deputy Headmaster of the 1785 established Alleyne
Grammar School that I attended, coupled too with compatible and motivating
guidance from family members and other community mentors of mine with my
overall best interests at heart, it was consensually agreed: a conclusion that
I unreservedly and shrewdly agreed to, that for anyone indisputably committed
to engaging in tertiary studies and expressly so wishing to enter the field of
education and especially become an academic as I was aspiring to do, then it
was a most sensible idea and a discernibly sagacious step to first get some
first-hand experience of the general world of work and the time-honoured
interactions of people within the workplace rather than essentially leaving the
academic environment of school, simply going directly into the secluded one of
university and afterwards appearing in the conventional workplace without any
knowledge, whatsoever, of what really went on there or of the people who formed
it. The
opportunity to suitably provide the latter was provided by the British NHS
which I joined, instantly commenced my training as a nurse and simultaneously
worked as one. My specific field of
nursing however centred principally on psychiatric nursing because I not only
wanted to explore and familiarize myself with the general practices of the
workplace and my everyday personal and professional interactions with my work
colleagues and those in charge of running the system but specifically too and
interestingly so from my personal perspective the patients that I would be
dealing with, helping to treat and hopefully make better. Judiciously
I had selected and opted to go to one of England’s largest and oldest
psychiatric hospitals in the North Riding of Yorkshire and approximately two
and a half miles outside the city of York itself, and as I directly discovered
the overall location and extensive picturesque setting that I found there
markedly coupled with the general ambience, administrative attributes and
professional philosophy of the place were all noticeably outstanding. And so I
was amply provided with the opportunity, scope and the total encouragement
there to satisfy my personal curiosity as well as professionally explore the
myriad parameters pertaining to the plethora of diversified patients at this
psychiatric hospital. Persons
raging from the mild to the chronically depressed, ingrained schizophrenics,
those distinctly and recalcitrantly imbued with recurrent and deeply troubling
anti-social disorders; delusional sociopaths, women plagued with severe
post-natal depression, hardnosed and both, medically and legally indefinitely
sectioned under the several appropriate requirements of the Health Service Act
and, accordingly, diagnosed as extensively and highly dangerous pieces of work,
hard-core psychopaths. But most elucidatory for me, in all of this and as a
young Black male was the utterly disturbing sight of what was rather evidently
apparent to me of the long term and continuous, institutionalized presence at
that hospital of a number of middle-aged and even discernibly elderly white
women who’d been calculatedly, subjectively and with a distinct racist
motivation as the core elements of these decidedly warped and condescending
decisions that were callously made against them, incarcerated at this specific
mental hospital, and others like it across the length and breadth of the United
Kingdom, at the discriminatory behest of UK courts and local authorities alike. And
what was the appalling crime or any cogent mental deficiency to be found in the
individual personality of any or all of these corresponding women? None actually.
Except that every one of them as willing and freely acceding to and, moreover,
well over the legal age for consensual sexual intercourse specifically in these
cases in Britain, or any other allegedly civilized country come to that, had individually
and totally reciprocally formed lovingly sexual and meaningfully emotional
relationships with Black men, some of whom they’d either devotedly married or
else as an unmarried couple had voluntarily chosen to physically live with; but
in the case of all of these women they’d voluntarily, enthusiastically and
consensually had children with them. An avowed state of affairs which didn’t
please racist elements within the communities where these mixed-race couples
lived, the local authorities and even the magisterial and judicial branches of
the British legal system. All
this was conspiratorially, quite dishonestly and markedly cruelly allowed to
happen on the part of these respective state agencies surreptitiously working
in tandem with each other, and which were distinctive and clear-cut cases of
malfeasance in public office by them, because the white women concerned had in
the sick perceptions of their racist and intransigent detractors grossly
offended the latter’s considered racial code of ethics, totally superior, white
master race and perceived supremacist sensitivities by physically and openly
associating, as well as being sexually intimate with Black men who they then
either married, willingly lived with and, most inexcusably of all, consensually
had children by. Thus provoking an even more intolerable state of affairs, with
its underlying and understandable white social outrage, by these affected white
women resolutely refusing to terminate their irresponsible and offensive
relationships with these brute inferior and lascivious n****r males and, in the
process of not doing so, clearly choosing to determinedly as well immorally
keep and personally between themselves bring up their ill-conceived half-breed
piccaninnies and, from a white societal perspective, unwarranted and unwanted
half-caste brats. Consequently,
and for the overall good of the majority white communities, these sorts of
inane relationships not only frowned upon by all normal, genuine and rightfully
concerned white men and women but were, in effect also, a provocative insult to
and a monstrously insidious cancer in the body politic of the United Kingdom
had to be methodically excised or otherwise deterred at all costs by being
remorselessly destroyed from continuing where they’d already taken place. And
that is precisely what these British public agencies and state appointed
authorities firmly set out to do. Harassing
and imprisoning Black men on trumped up charges was pretty straightforward for
these white and exclusively Caucasian-run UK authorities; after all they had
loads of practice in the colonies in this regard. Penalising white women, even
those whom they regarded as being beyond the pale was a wholly different
matter. Since, after all, they were still white. So a wholly new method of
dealing with them had to be devised; and that’s when these British authorities
came up with the nakedly scurrilous idea of having them mentally sectioned as
being a massive menace to society occasioned through their immoral conduct as
was racially perceived by those who were fraudulently and malevolently attacking
them, as well as a danger to themselves and the children they’d conceived " and
who in reality these duplicitous buggers didn’t give a toss about " and as a
consequence had to be protected for their own physical and mental safety. And
which, of course, meant simply one thing " legally and mentally sectioning
these women long term, and invariably for the rest of their lives, to involuntarily
reside in lunatic asylums, where inescapably, and both physically and
emotionally cut off from the rest of the outside world they inescapably, as was
always intended by those who heartlessly dispatched them there, became
completely institutionalized. While the children they gave birth to, having
compulsorily been taken from them, were shunted out uncaringly to various homes
for unwanted children. An
enforced but utterly shameful blackspot on the British NHS, the completely
unwarranted “mental” but in essence physical incarceration of these white
women, and a state of affairs that had routinely occurred long before I joined
the NHS, I must honestly admit that with my arrival and during the time I
trained and worked in the NHS it was overall, properly and meticulously run.
And those who were responsible for this occurrence were the “regiment” of
Matrons, Chief Male Nurses and their legions of professionally trained and
ancillary staff who conspicuously between them did an exceedingly excellent
job. A situation which consistently prevailed for several years after I’d
voluntarily left the NHS and, as was always going to be the case on my part
embarked on the road and the several processes that would and did successfully
enable me to become the Academic, among other things, that I always wanted to
be after my leaving the Alleyne School, which had unquestionably given me the
brilliant start in life that I’d attained. Now,
and in suitably blunt terms, the British NHS is an absolute catastrophe; a
massive train wreck which was just waiting to happen, ever since successive
British regimes of all political hues fell, in toadying fashion, for the
useless and mendacious blandishments of the Rogue State USA pharmaceutical
corporate “giants” " but totally intellectually challenged and graspingly
avaricious, pygmy morons in my astute and contemptuous assessment of them, and
one where the acquisition of money at all costs and by any means was the
central element of all this, their deviant philosophy and sick ambitions; while
conversely actual and general health care was in their vile analysis absolutely
marginal unless it could be handsomely paid for. In a sentence the
privatization of the British NHS. A
situation that has increasingly come about through stealth, corrupt mendacity,
rank and quite imperturbable disingenuousness and downright barefaced lying by
the British political, Rogue State USA, puppet master stooges arbitrarily
dictating the terms of the current state of affairs as they specifically apply
to the NHS; together with their comprehensively incompetent, totally unfit for
purpose but nevertheless deeply imbued with their Florence Nightingale-type,
wholly narcissistic, mediocre and in most cases even non-existent but all the
same grandiloquent and grossly exaggerated administrative “skills” " while
completely devoid of any hands on nursing or other pertinent health care
expertise " vainly, non-empathetically and unilaterally dictating to the
entirety of the British nation what, in these refractory oafs ‘perverse minds
is best for the country. Speculating, as an Afro-Caribbean myself, on how Mary Jane
Seacole, were she to make a temporary re-emergence in the 21st Century, would
react to and what she would also possibly say about the intentionally racist
and scurrilous attacks on her by some so-called "prominent" members
of the British political class - infamously Michael Gove: the b*****d, parental
paternity unknown, offspring of a biological slapper, Scottish mother who
readily and unconcernedly disposed of him the moment she'd evicted him from her
tainted body, after which and later at the age of four months he was adopted by
a wholly biologically unrelated to him Scottish married couple. Subsequently to
become, and still is, a far-right Tory supporter and later an MP for a
"safe" Conservative, parliamentary constituent seat - or more apt and
commonly known as a rotten borough cesspit - that Michael Gove still
represents. And the avid social climber that he is - and realistically
one would need to be such were they to similarly find themselves through
discovery as in characteristically name changed Michael Gove's invidious
and considerably tainted, unknown biological origins situation - and in what is
still quite clearly, a significantly imperialist and colonialist mind-set
Britain among his tawdry sort, b*****d Michael - both literally and
metaphorically so - became a UK regime minister first under the tutelage
of David Cameron and after his departure Theresa May. But in addition to
being an utterly obsessive and self-serving prat Michael Gove is also a hard
core and sycophantic admirer and stalwart toady of the antipodean and obnoxious
arch-Zionist capitalist, Rupert Murdoch. This, therefore, is what, as I speculated earlier, would be
the relaxed but incisive riposte of Mary Jane Seacole: the Jamaican born and
nurtured, Afro-Caribbean British citizen; meritorious Crimean War Heroine,
justifiably and worthy recipient of the British Order of Merit (OM) award, and
the undoubted inventor and shrew initiator of what would inevitably become,
what the world at large subsequently and informatively came to know,
fully appreciate and, accordingly, now universally distinguishes and
exclusively recognizes as the incontestable precepts of modern day nursing,
attendant with its fundamental and indivisible, caring principles. And from a
knowledgeable and truly historical perspective - other than the skewed, sick
and fraudulent one of Florence Nightingale herself and her band of latter day
and calculatingly conspiratorial aficionados - the distinct usurpation and
barefaced attempt at stealing the authentic ownership and rightful legacy of
Mary Jane Seacole.. So as an Afro-Caribbean person Mary Jane Seacole in
direct reply would doubtlessly, stoically shrug her shoulders in expected
realization of the abject disbelief and contumacious posturing of her
racist detractors, then quite instinctively draw in a deep breath through her
closed teeth and partially opened mouth in what we Afro-Caribbeans derisively
and in put down fashion refer to as a "stupes", while at the time of
delivering this apt response seeing no specific need to either entertain or
actually make a caustic verbal rejoinder; smile broadly and effusively in that
characteristic Afro-Caribbean fashion of ours and laughingly reply: "What
else is there to naturally expect from a phalanx of delusional white
supremacist elements of the supposed master race, who conceitedly convince
themselves that they know it all, and just as idiotically publicly state and
insist that without them or the now departed past members of their kind nothing
of value was ever previously known, discovered or invented. Adding, would Mary Jane Seacole, convincingly and with a
clever mixture of ruefulness and spirited optimism: "Every conscionable
move that is conceived and embarked upon starts with a small step and a bigger
purpose." © 2019 COLLYMORE |
StatsAuthorCOLLYMORECambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomAboutAcademic, Journalist, Writer. I'm a highly intelligent, articulate and well-educated human being with an intuitive but enterprising sense of responsibility and a strong moral compass that instincti.. more..Writing
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