A report on the telly tonight about agency doctors and nurses (in other words, from the private sector) having to be hired by the NHS in desperation because there are simply not anywhere near enough NHS staff to keep our hospitals running. These workers don't fit in very well, quite understandably. Why not? Because the dedicated NHS regulars see these people being helicoptered in earning two or three times per day what they themselves earn. One cancer doctor - a cancer doctor, fer chrissake, when cancer waiting times are dangerously ballooning - told of an offer of £130 per hour for his services...

Well we taxpayers pay for these agency workers, and the agencies get paid even more on top. We taxpayers pay for the training hospitals where these agency workers were trained, and we taxpayers pay for their training. This is costing the taxpayer billions every year. It's a bloody scandal, and next time you hear a Tory saying that they "invest more than ever in the NHS", just think about where that "investment money" is actually going. The lying bastards...