""Tell me ake - from a recent news item

"Health chiefs were today facing demands for an inquiry after it emerged the NHS will have to pay a total of £1.26 billion for the privately built Edinburgh Royal Infirmary - and still not own it.

It means that by 2028, NHS Lothian will have effectively paid for the hospital seven times over but it will remain the property of private operator Consort.

The revelation has prompted fury from unions and politicians, who said it made a mockery of an agreement that was already a bad deal for the taxpayer."

Source: Edinburgh Evening News 21 July 2010""

Tell ME Emma, do you really think this lunatic contract is the work of the current government, carried out in less than two months or, as is much more likely, was it all signed and sealed under the auspices of that wonderful period of waste and imprudence presided over by Gordon the Grimacing Gopher?

The same thing was proposed for Pembury Hospital, but the Trust were smart enough to make sure that they WILL own it in due course.

That one is half built, and I don't think they got that far in two months, do you?

Don T.