Preening & preposterous, the wannabe demagogue…
Posted by Ricky in Opinion under NHS | on Sep 18 2007
How has it come to this, that Mr Loughton, the MP with the acute attention seeking disorder, sitting alongside representatives of the PCT, Trust Chief Executives, doctors, consultants, the ambulance service, to rant and rubbish their work, their expertise, their integrity, wagging his prematurely jowly head in dissent (when mercifully silent) remarkably like one of those nodding ‘Churchill’ dogs in car rear windows.
At first sight to be appalled by, at second to dismiss as a nobody, then to be brought up short with a shiver as he menaces to expose the names of all those GPs who did not agree with him on the KWASH website.
When was this? Yesterday evening at the Shoreham Community Centre. Packed with KWASHers, the usual suspects, determined to shout down fact and reason, of which they are mightily afraid (or completely without), shutting down debate, baying like elderly pack-hounds as the ‘honourable’ Loughton blew another rant. And all the while, the panel sat there impotently. What use in consulting when nobody is prepared to listen and even the expert is treated like an ignorant fool. So this is democracy? No, this is demagoguery. Quick, look closer, is that not Central Office silent at the back.....
