(not satire – it’s UK today)
(Thanks to bobchewie for the digging)
So the mystery of why the Sue Ryder charity has been so enthusiastic in its support of the government’s mandatory workfare programme has been solved.
While just about every other charity has refused to participate or has pulled-out of the scheme – Sue Ryder not only continues to use it but has indeed been fulsomely praising the benefits of making sick, disabled and even dying people work for them as unpaid slaves.
Indeed – the charity has been tying itself in painful knots in its attempts to justify its participation in the widely-condemned scheme:
The Sue Ryder charity and its sinister Orwellian doublethink
Could the charity’s support of the government be anything to do with its attempts to become one of the cash cows feeding on taxpayer’s money in the public trough the government is making freely available for organisations willing to help with the privatisation and break up of the NHS?
Yes – probably.
Sue Ryder is openly – well not all that openly – lobbying the government to let it take over privatised NHS public services.
The charity’s scheming is all here in a brief to the House of Lord’s last December:
Sue Ryder – steps to enable the voluntary sector to participate in the delivery of public services
In my opinion – allowing charities to provide what used to be universal NHS services is one step closer to the Victorian model of health provision the government seems so intent on forcing on us.
Begging bowls at the ready. Can I have some more medicine please?
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“Begging bowls at the ready. Can I have some more medicine please?” Terrifying because it’s becoming reality
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I know. Talk about Oliver Twist. Depressing isn’t it?
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Totally agree Tom ‘…allowing charities to provide what used to be universal NHS services is one step closer to the Victorian model of health provision the government seems so intent on forcing on us.’
As Ian Aitken writes:
‘.. it becomes increasingly obvious with every day that passes that the true aim of George Osborne – who remains the ideological guiding light of the Tory wing of the coalition Government – is the destruction of the entire post-war settlement which emerged from the achievements of the 1945 Labour Government. Osborne is hell-bent on dismantling the welfare state in its entirety, and he doesn’t seem to care what else he has to destroy to achieve his aim.’
Its a coup d’etat.
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Disgusting, as all the lobbyists and bag bunging bastard businesses are.
Apologies for the alliteration.
Am all for people volunteering, but not as an addition to, not a replacement for paid jobs and securely health services.
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On a job site there are sue ryder jobs most of which are voluntary. Kitchen assistant , driver , maintenance assistant. IT trainer etc all of which ideally would be paid jobs. Not so for sue ryder these are voluntary. On the job site there is even a mandatory work placement. I note that a lot of volunteers are ex employees too.
Add to the fact that sue ryder sold off some of its care homes to allied healthcare a few years ago. Sue Ryder to me is not a charity its just another corporate entity.
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BTW another sue ryder voluntary job. Antique and collectibles expert. Customers bring in their unwanted items sue ryder values them and if expensive flogs them off for a big profit. How charitable.
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Sue Ryder licence to print money.
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and now we know Savile had a connection with this charity back in 77.
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No doubt their justification is the old,’…think of all the good we can do with the extra money.’ Well, Sue Ryder execs., think of all the money you’ll lose when the public get wise to your plans. Don’t expect the coalition to shelter you from the backlash, when the shit hits the fan, they stand BEHIND the fan! Your reputation, not to mention the memory of the woman whose name you bear, are sullied by your alliance with people of such low quality. You reap what you sow.
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http://www.sueryder.org/sitecore/shell/Controls/Rich%20Text%20Editor/~/media/Files/About-us/Briefings/Sue%20Ryder%20briefing%20for%20House%20of%20Lords%20short%20debate%20on%20the%20voluntary%20sector%20and%20delivery%20of%20public%20services%20_Dec%202012_.ashx
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My other half wore a hat throughout his university days, that he got from a Sue Ryder shop. We’re both now extremely angry about their greed and exploitation. Shame on you, trampling over the memory of Sue Ryder (who severed her links with them years ago, and no wonder).
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(I should have said “Shame on THEM”)
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This is the sickening self promotion by sue ryder in the grauniad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2013/feb/25/how-voluntary-sector-can-save-nhs
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