We are the change makers says Blair

It's hard to stay away from politics. I think this should be elsewhere, but have an uncontrollable urge to say something, let my opinion be known. But my disdain for centre-cockpit boats is an unreasonable bias based on nothing much at all, and I recognise that.
 
Change for change's sake, man, give me a good old fashioned trireme. Harumph


However I always was of the opinion than change was to achieve a clear objective, not an objective in itself ..unless of course the objective is to write ones name large in the sands of time?
 
I havent got a change maker, but I know a bloke knocking out duff tenners in a lockup in the Mile End Road.
I wouldnt have thought change making was much of a profit business. Too much weight. How can you have it away on yer toes wiv a suitcase full of 50p pieces? Tenners they are the lightweight game.
Although of course a change maker would have come in useful when I was trying to rustle up 7.80 for Southampton City Council multi storey parking last Saturday.
 
Perhaps the cockpit may be in front of the main cabin, and possibly to port and starboard..

No No No thats complete tosh - that would mean its going backwards...
 
Khyber, your Luddite/ curmudgeoness is coming to the fore!

Whilst I wouldn't defend this administration, not on this board anyway, I have always felt that you embrace change before it embraces you.

Regarding jimi's earlier point about the having a goal to aim at, I agree and would add that the problem with any public sector service is that you are always aiming at a moving target, as the service nears the level the public want their expectations rise to raise the bar higher. Years ago, whilst studying for my degree we covered this topic and there was a whole shedload of research that shows this to be true in the NHS.

The point of this? Any government that doesn't try to change things will eventually get stuffed by the voters for letting things slide, arguably what brought the Tories down in 1997.
 
There's a famous quote from a Roman soldier of the second century AD, I believe, about having to continually reorganise his army. I've tried Googling for it but, not knowing the name of the gentleman, I can't find the quote and you wouldn't believe how many learned articles there are on the reorganisation of the Roman army!
 
agreed. Tho i suppose Blair has managed to give the impression of massive change whereas in actuality there hasn't been very much - the mechanism for NHS, tax and everything else is largely as it was in 97.

It remains the case that the best thing to do with the NHS wd be to sack them all, whereupon the ill/dying people would die off, leaving only the very fittest of the population who wd require no medical treatment at all. I beleive that jimi is using precisely this approach to boat maintenance and it has resulted in his boat becoming immune and now needs no cleaning or fixing whatsoever.
 
And I thought that it was because the 'sellby date' had expired on the bennie and he was living on borrowed time anyway. Bit like running a car that won't get another MOT so drive it hard 'til it breaks and you can chuck it away. In fact, I thought that I might have stumbled on a solution for our beleagured marine industry, self destructing boats, but I see that Bavaria have already spotted this trend tho'
 
Tony's cockpit I'm sure is on rollers, depends on the orientation of the crew. But he certainly seems like a fluxgate kind of soul, could talk endlessly about it's advantages over twirly magnetism, with long dramatic pauses and his eyebrows curled up to the sky.
 
Re: But it is broke and so will we all be soon.

If you constantly fiddle with stuff, change direction suddenly, make it bigger then smaller, add bits on then close them down, add in untried technology, implimented to a mobile and quite nibble specification, installed by the unknowing led by the uncaring, well the things bound to break.

It appears we're spending twice as much on education. Is it half again as good as it was?

We're spending three times as much on health. Is it twice as good as it was?

New labour is all about ideas. They've just got to learn that just because you've had a new idea doesn't mean you rush of and impliment it. Quite often it's best to just wait till the feelings gone away.
 
Petronius Arbiter:

"We trained hard... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganization: and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization."

Probably no coincidence that I found it in an article talking about the NHS /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
Too true - the NHS structure is about to be reorganised again, which is wasting everybody's time and attention.

What has made a huge difference has been being able to spend your way around people who block any change, and setting up competition to hidebound medical teams who suddenly find they can get waiting lists down after all.

Having burnt some of the old bridges it's now at the stage of imposing a financial squeeze to finally start getting some of the slack out of the system. A squeeze at the beginning would have have made it far harder to get anything done.
 
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