Now this really boils my piss. I used to work for the NHS in my youth. Running one of their agency bank staff (basically an internal recruitment agency) for a well known London hospital. The amount of fraud and money being pissed up the wall at this one hospital was obscene. Back room Middle management in cushy £90k a year jobs doing fuck all, whilst the front lines could barely afford staff to man the outpatients department twice a week. Wide screen TV’s, top of the range iPads, computers the whole lot all being charged to expenses and taken for personal use.
I’m now a plumber. One of the contracts my firm has ended up with is in a hospital. 20 years later and it’s even worse. Whole wards throwing away brand new beds, wide screen TV’s, furniture, computers. Just because they know they can. Spending £3k on a tap that’s used in a staff room no one ever goes in.
So when I received a letter recently saying I’d claimed for a free prescription my blood boiled. I pay every three months for a pre payment certificate that covers any prescription for that time. As they no longer send a reminder to say it had expired I missed a week by mistake. I’ve offered to pay whatever I owe but that’s not good enough. The utter cunts are now trying to fine me over £100 for the error. Like the TV licence, I’ve read that no one has ever been brought to court for evading this “fine”. I’ve noticed by pure chance whilst moving homes that the only way they know you’re even eligible to pay is by signing up to this scheme and it’s all based on your home address. So as I’m moving again in a month I won’t be paying fuck all. Just another signifier that this country is more than willing to shaft those who are honest, work and pay their way to sub the shite that doesn’t.
Nominated by Cuntstable Grobbler.




