tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post8675992165620462876..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Ed Balls Loses it with IDSIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80513766067734545432007-10-10T18:30:00.000+01:002007-10-10T18:30:00.000+01:00englishman, the above cited names are about as far...englishman, the above cited names are about as far left as I'm guessing you are french.<BR/><BR/>Re: Ed Balls. He is obviously an unpleasant man, and is responsible for a lot of the nonsense that we have gotten from Brown these past few days. He reminds me of George Wigg or Norman Tebbit. Nasty political fixers who were soon ignored.matt severnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05453508819200730617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-43094963854891882682007-10-10T16:46:00.000+01:002007-10-10T16:46:00.000+01:00Very very disturbing how we have inept far left wi...Very very disturbing how we have inept far left wing extremist communists like Ed Balls, Gordon Broon, Alistair Darling ruling, misruling England.Englishmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04058448769435396651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17736313108790345722007-10-10T13:45:00.000+01:002007-10-10T13:45:00.000+01:00Quite a spat. What was really good was how Jenny S...Quite a spat. What was really good was how Jenny Scott let them get on with it. Why she isn't the BBC's Chief political Correspondent instead of that idiot Robinson is beyond me. Well done, Jenny - wind 'em up and let 'em go. The voters can draw their own conclusions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-69911397638336293792007-10-10T04:10:00.000+01:002007-10-10T04:10:00.000+01:00Now we know why Brown bottled the election... He r...Now we know why Brown bottled the election... He realised, at long last, that Balls is an electoral liability, at best, and that he has to get rid of him before he can go to the country. QEDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-40082188772156172452007-10-10T01:41:00.000+01:002007-10-10T01:41:00.000+01:00Not a sheep said... Anonymous 2:07pm: Whilst you t...Not a sheep said... <BR/>Anonymous 2:07pm: Whilst you think about my previous reply, you might want to peruse this http://www.drrant.net/2007/10/victim-of-choice-tm.html and see how your marvellous system is being appreciated in the real world.<BR/><BR/>October 09, 2007 4:14 PM<BR/><BR/>WHAT, is this the best you can do, to counter measure, ( Counter Measure Department at Tory HQ ) my positive appraisal of the NHS Computer system programme, you have posted a link to another right wing ranting blogger as evidence. Oh dear.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to disappoint, but the CFH programme is currently moving at a lighting pace, and is delivering huge benefits in the NHS, saving time, money, resourses, and giving patients better choice and quicker treatments. <BR/><BR/> One of the biggest improvements is that GPs ability to fiddle their claims has been virtually killed off ( believe me they have been taking 100s of mill out of the NHS every year for decades, not anymore. Because accurate counts, and profiles of patient data are now stored electronically, the GP cannot claim to have more patients than he actually has. Difficult to prove if the GP hold 5000 hard copy records in his filling cabinet. A very common scam by GPs… And the Tories want to them run their own budgets. You may well just burn a couple of 100 mill now that put that in place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-16623271678961312472007-10-10T01:27:00.000+01:002007-10-10T01:27:00.000+01:00Response To: Not a Sheep at October 09, 2007 4:1...Response To: Not a Sheep at October 09, 2007 4:14 PM.<BR/><BR/>No I’m not Andrew Rollerson, but for the record are you that moron Richard “NHS WHINER” Bacon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-8308770708006497982007-10-09T21:57:00.000+01:002007-10-09T21:57:00.000+01:0012.45 : NHS IT system is the biggest waste of mone...12.45 : NHS IT system is the biggest waste of money. It is OUTRAGEOUS. goodness only knows how many people could have been treated had it not been for the huge white elephant,<BR/><BR/>WAIT FOR IT: it I should think you could spend as much on the health of the ENGLISH as the SCOTTISH without it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-54873377591623460792007-10-09T21:52:00.000+01:002007-10-09T21:52:00.000+01:00a pollster. thats why ed balls was so desperatea pollster. thats why ed balls was so desperateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14071144759758594902007-10-09T21:13:00.000+01:002007-10-09T21:13:00.000+01:00"Who was that bloke to Balls' left?"Kellner?"Who was that bloke to Balls' left?"<BR/><BR/>Kellner?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-37399808495301451702007-10-09T17:19:00.000+01:002007-10-09T17:19:00.000+01:00Brain as big as a planet - poor Ed!Brain as big as a planet - poor Ed!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06810788783886456639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-59573858731478878802007-10-09T16:21:00.000+01:002007-10-09T16:21:00.000+01:00Those people criticising IDS for pointing out his ...Those people criticising IDS for pointing out his servicve, how many actually served?<BR/><BR/>Without actually joining a British military service you cannot possibly understand enough to criticise his point. He was saying that he knows what the common threads through the service really are, and he knows what Brown and Balls conspicuously fail to understand.<BR/><BR/>The military are not civilians. There are fundamental differences that I remember, and IDS will remember, but that neither of us is any longer part of. We know how different we are now, even though I wok in an industry that evolved out of the military, and still has many aspects from that birth. I am a civilian, but I remember whn i was not.<BR/><BR/>Brown has never been a part of that; Balls has never been a part of that. How can they understand the betrayal that is their reprehensible use of lies about the forces?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-49686834340037310732007-10-09T16:14:00.000+01:002007-10-09T16:14:00.000+01:00Anonymous 2:07pm: Whilst you think about my previo...Anonymous 2:07pm: Whilst you think about my previous reply, you might want to peruse this http://www.drrant.net/2007/10/victim-of-choice-tm.html and see how your marvellous system is being appreciated in the real world.Not a sheephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14123293202225008273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-48415120698210215082007-10-09T16:10:00.000+01:002007-10-09T16:10:00.000+01:00IDS - by a landslide.Who was that bloke to Balls' ...IDS - by a landslide.<BR/><BR/>Who was that bloke to Balls' left?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-34850330609994720152007-10-09T15:57:00.000+01:002007-10-09T15:57:00.000+01:00IDS clearly moved by genuine contempt for this gov...IDS clearly moved by genuine contempt for this government, which I share.<BR/><BR/>Jenny Scott did not handle this unseemly scuffle well; a girl sent to do a man's job, I'm afraid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-72750907162801285822007-10-09T15:54:00.000+01:002007-10-09T15:54:00.000+01:00I thought one of the commentators on the Daily Mai...I thought one of the commentators on the Daily Mail site summed up Balls well with the remark: "He has something of the pond about him."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17755244088515460722007-10-09T15:51:00.000+01:002007-10-09T15:51:00.000+01:00Well I watched the video. I must admit I disliked ...Well I watched the video. I must admit I disliked IDS .. not his personality - but his political naiveity. <BR/><BR/>I had never seen Ed Balls in action.<BR/><BR/>I don't think on balance either came out of it well. Both impatient and interrupting.<BR/><BR/>But I find Balls a weirdo.. in fact I would go so far as to say he has achieved a unique feat: he makes John Redwood look human. Well .. almost.<BR/><BR/>If I were GB, I'd lock him up and keep well away from TV cameras. A man who gives prats a bad name.Madasafishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109237198481955714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-84308092598465653352007-10-09T15:13:00.000+01:002007-10-09T15:13:00.000+01:00At one of our largest local DGHs they are unable t...At one of our largest local DGHs they are unable to get their new data systems to work properly so letters get automatically addressed to a patient's earliest home details on record, then they have to be gone through by hand, checking names against a list, then the envelopes have to be readdressed by hand - this system was explained to us 2 weeks ago.<BR/><BR/>Some regular hospital appt checkups are now being delayed for 9 months because there isn't the staff.<BR/><BR/>Houses aren't selling, flats aren't selling in Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester; hundreds of jobs are being lost in the City of London; both the country and the Government are massively, hugely in debt.<BR/><BR/>Anyone who thinks this is all good news needs their heads, no not examined, removed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-50718457020975376222007-10-09T14:56:00.000+01:002007-10-09T14:56:00.000+01:00Anonymous 2:07pm : I assume that you are not Andre...Anonymous 2:07pm : I assume that you are not Andrew Rollerson, the health care consultancy practice lead at Fujitsu who warned earlier this year that there was a risk that firms involved in the project would end up delivering "a camel and not the racehorse that we might try to produce". <BR/><BR/>He also said "What we are trying to do is run an enormous programme with the techniques that we are absolutely familiar with for running small projects. And it isn't working. And it isn't going to work" <BR/><BR/>He also said "There is a belief that the national programme is somehow going to propel transformation in the NHS simply by delivering an IT system. Nothing could be further from the truth. A vacuum, a chasm, is opening up."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Maybe you are familiar with the report in Computer Weekly magazine which revealed that there had been 200 "major incidents" over a four month period in hospitals where the system has "gone live". <BR/><BR/>One problem arose after a computer software upgrade installed in April started to produce 400 incorrect duplicates of patient records every day. The fault meant that the computer automatically created a new blank patient record without checking if one already existed. <BR/><BR/>Do the IT "professionals" working on this project not test "upgrades" before installing them in the "live" system?<BR/><BR/><BR/>What is the current estimated "final cost" of this project? How does that compare with the initial estimate?Not a sheephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14123293202225008273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-15265138936148572342007-10-09T14:49:00.000+01:002007-10-09T14:49:00.000+01:00IDS memorably urged the Tories never to underest...IDS memorably urged the Tories never to underestimate "the quiet man", and to "unite or die". He quit in 2003 after losing a vote of confidence. What a star man he is…NOT. If he touched my knee I too would flinch.<BR/><BR/>So he served in the Military, this is a “my dad is bigger than your dad” argument, how pathetic.<BR/><BR/>Even funnier IDS great Military record saw him serve as a Scots Guardsman. Polishing, or in his case licking boots all day. What a TwatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-31697916237638394062007-10-09T14:31:00.000+01:002007-10-09T14:31:00.000+01:00Why does the fact that you served in the army mean...Why does the fact that you served in the army mean that no-one is allowed to disagree with you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20217917825916774632007-10-09T14:29:00.000+01:002007-10-09T14:29:00.000+01:00The rip across the fabric, the entire texture, of ...The rip across the fabric, the entire texture, of political understanding and debate in the UK is portrayed here.<BR/><BR/>Once, until only 10 years ago, soldiers in the field were to be armed, supplied and whole-heartedly supported by the government and country without reservation - look again at the seriousness with which mobilisation for and reporting on the Falklands war was undertaken by state, political parties and the general public (whether or not the war was thought right, once it began we closed ranks around the troops). <BR/>Mr Duncan-Smith, a distinguished service record earned, continues in that view; Balls, ill-mannered, untutored and wholly alien to a major aspect of our culture, displays the self-serving, self-seeking political power game attitudes of his Leader. Ofcourse he cannnot understand why over 5000 beleaguered soldiers outside Basra should not be used for political exploitation and Labour Leader glorification; of course he tries to pretend that Brown is not responsible for the grotesque underfunding and supply of our forces and has sought to provide profit opportunities for private companies rather than take the national economy into democratically answerable expenditures.<BR/>This regime is locked into an ideology of class loathing and punishment for the ending of heavy industry in the UK; it is unable to visualize a political, economic and social world of co-operation and interdependent good. They and their tax-subsidized cohorts tear at the rest of us like the mad, eye-popping Balls.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-36565160684105423522007-10-09T14:27:00.000+01:002007-10-09T14:27:00.000+01:00Aren't all politicians overrated?Aren't all politicians overrated?Jeremy Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02014279463894807064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-74665501459375423352007-10-09T14:20:00.000+01:002007-10-09T14:20:00.000+01:00There were two disgraceful issues about the PM's v...There were two disgraceful issues about the PM's visit to Iraq.<BR/><BR/>First, the obvious political alchemy by being seen with our boys in the theatre of danger which is their daily life. That was bad enough as it was clearly done for publicity.<BR/><BR/>Second, what was arguably even worse was the fudging of the figures for troop reductions. This was a plain LIE, Labour Spin at its worse, and fronted by a mendacious PM. Watch Paxman on Newsnight about a week ago savage Bob Ainsworth (?).<BR/><BR/>Then, the PM was asked by Cameron specifically about the figures with regard to troop reductions, ie: where WERE the troops he referred to. No answer of course, dodged it say 'my visit to the troops in Iraq should not be criticised..' bang the lectern.<BR/><BR/>Later, another Tory MP asked him to answer Cameron's question about the tropps. WHERE exactly were these troops, is it true they are already back in UK ?<BR/><BR/>Again - no answer.<BR/><BR/>This man Brown is just a LIAR. He has lied his way through politics and lied through the corridors of power.<BR/><BR/>The Lobby may be out to get him now after yesterday's lies. Time to take bets on short-trousered MIlliband taking over before too long, Brown is now damaged goods (and STILL a liar).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-18193759061997542302007-10-09T14:08:00.000+01:002007-10-09T14:08:00.000+01:00If you want to see Balls as his most odiously and ...If you want to see Balls as his most odiously and smugly creepy, take a look at this<BR/><BR/>http://youtube.com/watch?v=UWFTfgpPPKI<BR/><BR/>Pass the sick bag, AliceThe Creatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05637444084451209530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20221239497366701082007-10-09T14:07:00.000+01:002007-10-09T14:07:00.000+01:00NOT a Sheep at 1:19 said:"the NHS IT system comple...NOT a Sheep at 1:19 said:<BR/><BR/>"the NHS IT system completed." - Now I know you are delusional... <BR/><BR/><BR/>No my company works on the programme.<BR/><BR/>The PACS digital xray system, has been rolled out.<BR/><BR/>The choice and book GP systems are rolled out.<BR/><BR/>The GP to GP links are delivered<BR/><BR/>The Bowel screening and breast screening programmes are on pilot.<BR/><BR/>The Electronic Prescription Service is on line.<BR/><BR/>The Smartcard registration process for NHS staff is currenly been rolled out.<BR/><BR/>The N3 NHS Private Broad Band Network is in place.<BR/><BR/>I could go on....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com