[-NIM-]Orangelily
17-07-2001, 12:02
Here's today's "Sun Says" to be mocked...
Cure, please
TONY BLAIR has set himself a momentous challenge - to improve public services beyond recognition in just five years.
Yesterday he spelled out what he expects from the NHS.
He vowed that no vested interests - not the unions nor the BMA - would stand in his way.
That is exactly what the public want to hear.
Blair was elected because people trust him to deliver what he has promised.
Nothing must deflect him from achieving the high standards we all demand.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn sounded an odd note on the radio when he appeared to be sympathising more with the unions than the taxpayers who foot the bills.
He insisted that private enterprise had achieved very little in the NHS and that private cleaning and catering firms invariably did a worse job than State employees.
That sounds a bit off-message.
He should make an appointment with Dr Blair for a quick cure.
For a ride
REMEMBER last autumn, when the price of crude oil topped 30 dollars a barrel?
The Government certainly will.
As petrol soared past 80p a litre, there was a national revolt.
So great was it that the Tories actually went ahead in the opinion polls for a week or two.
Today, crude oil is down to 25 dollars a barrel, a drop of over 15 per cent.
But the price at the pumps is still around 77p a litre.
Drivers don't have the same problem of sky-high petrol over in Germany.
There, a litre of unleaded is 61p.
And the Germans don't have motorway speed limits or jumped-up jobsworths planning to charge cars £5 a day to drive through city centres.
Do you ever think the British motorist is being taken for a ride?
Bon voyage
THE world's most beautiful plane will take to the skies again today.
Concorde will lift off from Heathrow after being grounded for a year after the Paris disaster.
We wish British Airways and its chief executive Rod Eddington the best of luck for today's test flight.
Concorde may be so expensive none of us can afford to fly on it, it may use more fuel than conventional planes and it may be very noisy.
But it has the key ingredient that is lacking on other planes: Glamour.
Have a great flight, Big Bird.
Mock appropriately :D
[Edited by [-NIM-]Orangelily on 17-07-2001 at 12:09 PM]
Cure, please
TONY BLAIR has set himself a momentous challenge - to improve public services beyond recognition in just five years.
Yesterday he spelled out what he expects from the NHS.
He vowed that no vested interests - not the unions nor the BMA - would stand in his way.
That is exactly what the public want to hear.
Blair was elected because people trust him to deliver what he has promised.
Nothing must deflect him from achieving the high standards we all demand.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn sounded an odd note on the radio when he appeared to be sympathising more with the unions than the taxpayers who foot the bills.
He insisted that private enterprise had achieved very little in the NHS and that private cleaning and catering firms invariably did a worse job than State employees.
That sounds a bit off-message.
He should make an appointment with Dr Blair for a quick cure.
For a ride
REMEMBER last autumn, when the price of crude oil topped 30 dollars a barrel?
The Government certainly will.
As petrol soared past 80p a litre, there was a national revolt.
So great was it that the Tories actually went ahead in the opinion polls for a week or two.
Today, crude oil is down to 25 dollars a barrel, a drop of over 15 per cent.
But the price at the pumps is still around 77p a litre.
Drivers don't have the same problem of sky-high petrol over in Germany.
There, a litre of unleaded is 61p.
And the Germans don't have motorway speed limits or jumped-up jobsworths planning to charge cars £5 a day to drive through city centres.
Do you ever think the British motorist is being taken for a ride?
Bon voyage
THE world's most beautiful plane will take to the skies again today.
Concorde will lift off from Heathrow after being grounded for a year after the Paris disaster.
We wish British Airways and its chief executive Rod Eddington the best of luck for today's test flight.
Concorde may be so expensive none of us can afford to fly on it, it may use more fuel than conventional planes and it may be very noisy.
But it has the key ingredient that is lacking on other planes: Glamour.
Have a great flight, Big Bird.
Mock appropriately :D
[Edited by [-NIM-]Orangelily on 17-07-2001 at 12:09 PM]