Kent PCT to deny treatment to smokers.

My letter that I’m cobbling together to write to Kent PCT

Sir
I read with some disquiet that you will be forcing all smokers to undergo a "Smoking Cessation" course before they are allowed an operation.

From the article in Kent News I quote:

From this month, patients who smoke and need planned surgery will have to complete a NHS Stop Smoking course before their operation.

My first point in objecting to this is as follows:

To me this breaches the whole Ethos of the National Health Service. Where is “Universal healthcare we were all promised?” I would ask you this question? If I refused to undergo the course, would I be refused surgery?

My second point is:

Considering that the total cost of all smoking related diseases is £2.7 Billion, (Government's own widely known figure) and smokers pay through taxes, more than £10 Billion. It would appear that smokers adequately cover the costs of their treatment. In fact it would seem that smokers are subsidizing the cost of non smoker treatment.

Point three:

If you refuse treatment to a smoker who has paid National Insurance for his entire life, but offer treatment to a non smoker who has paid no NI. Should not the smoker be entitled to a refund of part of his NI contributions?
It would seem to me that this is nothing more than social engineering which should have no place in a TAXPAYER funded PUBLIC institution.

And finally you could cut your costs by binning smoking cessation therapy which has been a disastrous failure. I can think of no enterprise with only a 1.6% success rate, (Government figures) should be tolerated in this Financial climate we find ourselves in.

With no Regards

The Filthy Engineer.

Anyone got anything I should add?

Sold out

Looks like we’ll be forced to hand over billions more in taxes if Huhne and Cameron get their way.

Don’t they realise that it is NOT and never will be THEIR money that they’ll be throwing away. Some of it’s mine, You TOSSERS.

Mind you it’s always been about the building of a new power base revolving about carbon.

Wanker

Need I say more?

And this is warming?

Hail in South Africa? In their summer? This event happened just a week ago on the 2nd of December. Funny that it wasn’t reported in the MSM.

I just wish this had happened in Cancun.

Fools

More than 190 countries have struck an agreement at the latest round of UN climate talks that puts efforts to secure a new international deal to tackle global warming back on track.

So that’ll be more of my money down the drain of bird mincers, photo voltaic crap, and carbon capture then.

Friday Horror

If you don’t like spiders, look away now.

How not to catch one.

The remark by the child is priceless.

I Want one of those

It would appear that the Russians have a  low tech version of the predator drone.

Police in central Russia are investigating a bizarre suspected assassination plot with a radio-controlled grenade launcher equipped with a webcam.

It’s even fitted with a self destruct mechanism.

The car, which had been hijacked earlier, also had two bottles with fuel inside. It is believed that the liquid would have been ignited by the firing of the grenade launcher and the evidence destroyed.

Clever these Ruskies.

Those leaks.

So far I’ve not posted about the Wikileaks as many have posted better than I can.

However I find it strange that there are large corporations trying to cause maximum damage to the Wikileak group. Paypal, Ebay, Visa, Amazon, etc.

It is odd that they feel so strongly about Tittle Tattle voiced by Governments but didn’t seem so concerned about the previously leaked Military documents. Something is not right.

*Dons Tinfoil hat*

Could it be that Assange let slip that the next revelations in January will be about Malpractice in the Banking system? Bank of America was mentioned. Has this so frightened some institutions, that they maybe implicated in some illegal practices, therefore they are trying for a pre-emptive strike in the name of “National security”?

Especially if it was found that governments knew what was happening in the banking system before the crash. It would not only be CEOs of banks that would be prosecuted. Governments could fall.

*Takes of Tinfoil hat and replaces it carefully back in the cupboard*

What do you think?

Fancy a cruise?

I used to do this for a living. Just imagine yourself in that position. Mountainous seas, reduced propulsion, and terrified passengers. Fun heh.

Let’s sing. “A life on the Ocean wave”.

Altogether now.

Note the cargo vessel trying to fire a line across. Really should allow for the wind. 2/10. Must do better.

New World order?

Are we being stitched up at Cancun?

The Secretariat will have the power not merely to invite nation states to perform their obligations under the climate-change Convention, but to compel them to do so. Nation states are to be ordered to collect, compile and submit vast quantities of information, in a manner and form to be specified by the secretariat and its growing army of subsidiary bodies.

From an article on the JoNova Blog written by Viscount Monckton of Brenchley.

Long but worrying.