Yet another little gem from north of the border as Margaret Watt, chair of the Scottish Patients Association has called for drunks to pay for their own hospital treatment!
Well, we’ve had the calls for smokers to be charged for smoke related treatments so I suppose that this was inevitable but what ‘Twotty Watty’ has forgotten is that NI contributions are peoples’ payment toward NHS expenditure.
Next thing she’ll be calling for is a fatty tax on anyone exceeding their supposed BMI figure (that’s one of your clan stuffed then Margaret for Sir Liam Donaldson certainly exceeds his!)
How is she going to define drunk or, more to the point, are we now going to employ an army of drunk detector people so that people can be determined as smell of beer, had few, look drunk, totally legless-I mean, just how many categories are there? How are they going to determine who has had 1 too many? I used to know an Irishman who could drink fourteen pints a night and drive home as well as any sober person – they nicknamed him the ‘Irishsponge’! Yet another man might only cope with 4 pints a night before the sleeping chamber beckons.
Will there be a level of charges for people falling off bikes?
Will there be a level of charges for sports injuries?
They are both forms of entertainment as is drinking and enjoying yourself.
This silly woman also states, “drunk people should be charged for using ambulances and for the time of staff who treated them.”
What on earth would Aneurin Bevan say to this? His dream was a system of care for all, not just those that abstain from certain pursuits. Royal wedding coming up, a bit too much ‘champers’ for one the royal household, slips, breaks leg, needs ambulance… ooooooh… what a bill this is going to be!
Just another daft idea from the loopy brigade who want to charge everybody for anything they can simply because they know this country is in such a financial quagmire it is us, the peasants that are the only ones left to bail Great Britain out!
Watts yours Margaret… a double orange juice I assume!