more lies, damned lies and government announcements.



alan milburn stated very clearly some time ago that the largely canadian- and u.s.-owned private clinics which are being used to 'relieve pressure' on n.h.s. hospitals would not be allowed to poach staff from the n.h.s.



he lied.



the b.m.a. has made it clear that milburn's department has quietly told those clinics that they may poach just those staff we were told were sacrosanct, and that up to 70% of staff in the clinics are seconded from the n.h.s.



milburn's just another lying corporate puppet.



and his lying cunt replacement, john reid, should be sacked now and all those staff returned to the n.h.s. hospitals from which they've been stolen.



of course, we're used to john reid's difficulties with the truth and with honesty given his many pronouncements, since shown to be lies, about iraq's having weapons of mass destruction.