OT: UK Government to relocate NHS

Mother · 2003-12-02T18:24:40+00:00

More than 1,350,000 UK jobs could be lost if Government plans torelocate NHS resources to India are adopted.A Government spokesperson commented:"The move gives us access to a highly qualified and motivatedworkforce. India offers a better product and it comes at a fractionof the price. If successful we plan a strategic move of other keypublic services. We are particularly excited at the potential forincreasing productivity in terms of Primary, Secondary and FurtherEducation. Future initiatives could include motorway maintenance, therail infrastructure and refuse collection. The latter is especiallyimportant as rubbish costs the UK (Government) far too much".The plans were met with cautios optimism by the health service unionUNISON, who already have plans to relocate their entire operations toIndia in the New Year. A UNISON spokesperson commented "We see thisas a strategic move saving valuable resources and enabling us to offera far better service to our members".These recent relocations follow a popular trend after centralisedpolitical power within Westminster was relocated to Washington earlierthis year.Martyn

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hugh 22 years ago

In message , Bob Hobden writes

Not quite, but it's mostly water. It's recovered from the bone by high pressure water jets. I read a trade article once. It was headed "Why sell meat when you can sell water?" - as blatant as that.

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Nikki 22 years ago

Glad I don't eat them.

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David French 22 years ago

But when we were in Iceland...

Went on a tour of a fish oil processing factory. The highlight was a huge

10 foot deep tank containing about 1,000 tonnes of gently rotting herrings! (Doesn't affect the resulting fish oil or fish meal, they assured us.) A couple of the party found this a bit much to stomach.

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David French 22 years ago

Oh, by the way... there's a good chance some of you are eating some of that

1,000 tonnes of rotting fish when you slap margarine on your toast - it's one of the main markets for the fish oil. And your pets are probably eating the fish meal.

David

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Nikki 22 years ago

Don't have marg' on toast. I like a slice of Lurpak.

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Richard Brookman 22 years ago

|||| Oh, by the way... there's a good chance some of you are eating some || of that 1,000 tonnes of rotting fish when you slap margarine on your || toast - it's one of the main markets for the fish oil.

Saw a documentary on the making of "low-fat" marge a while ago, and I've never touched it since. Butter is "natural", tastes better, and bugger the cholesterol.

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Gary Sutherland 22 years ago

Yes that was us. We still have the house in Little Harrowden but it's let to tenants. We moved to Mull at the end of the summer.

500 miles in a Series 2A/3 was something of an experience, I can tell you.

Cheers Gary

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Gary Sutherland 22 years ago

Effectively, yes. There's a machine which is used to scrape the bones clean of tiny scraps of meat.

Cheers Gary

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Gary Sutherland 22 years ago

Not bad by comparison with the south of England but rising fast. I doubt we'd have been able to afford to make the move in a year or two. The other big problem is with lack of availability.

Cheers Gary

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Gary Sutherland 22 years ago

Sounds great. We're looking for land at the moment, to start building early next year.

We moved from a spot about as far from the sea as you can get in Gt Britain, to a spot right on the coast. We're about two minutes walk from the beach and harbour. Bit of a change.

Cheers Gary

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