MORE HENSHAW'S IN CHARGE OF OUR NHS? COME OFF IT GORDON!

Gordon Brown's plans to allow civil servants like Henshaw to run our health service is another blow to the founding principles of the NHS.
What is the point of voting if politicians are going to hand over enormous power to unaccountable bureaucrats like Henshaw?
Sir Diddy was appointed to the position of Chairman of the North West Strategic Health Authority on the say-so of an unaccountable, unelected adviser to Blair.
Napoleon got the job despite the oppposition of the serving Health Minister, Jane Kennedy and 25 North West MP's.
That was bad enough. But now Gordon wants to go even further.
He apparently wants to give bureaucrats like Henshaw even more power over the day to day running of the health service.
So then they won't be accountable to anyone - least of all the people they are meant to be serving! Never mind the staff who are being employed.
What checks and balances are going to be introduced to ensure that power mad public servants like Henshaw can't do what the hell they like?
If politicians aren't going to be allowed to intervene to make sure a public service properly serves the public, then who can?
It seems that Brown has got carried away with the success of giving independence over interest rates to the Bank of England (an entirely different organisation than the National Health Service, ed)
The same strategy can't be used in a public service like health where politicians must not hesitate to intervene to make sure it is meeting the public's needs.
No one is saying the Health Minister should be interfering in how many paper clips are being bought by Alder Hey, or North Manchester General.
But political control must be exercised over public servants, otherwise we might as well all go home and not bother voting.
THINK AGAIN, GORDON.
See also Larry Neild's views from the Liverpool Daily Post