COME ON TONY! GIVE US A BREAK BEFORE YOU GO....

OUTGOING Prime Minister Tony Blair is being asked to approve a Downing Street petition calling for Sir David Henshaw to be removed as Chair of the North West Regional Strategic Health Authority.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/
But don't hold your breath that TB will suddenly see the light about Sir Diddy, as he departs at the end of his 10-year rule at No 10.
So far the hard-pressed e-petitions team at Number 10 have already rejected three separate anti-Henshaw petitions.
The excuses for rejection offered by the Civil Service mandarins (all colleagues of Sir Diddy of course, ed) who administer the petitions web site have grown steadily more absurd and preposterous.
It seems they are intent on protecting one of their own.
Why is Sir Diddy, who pockets £40,000 a year in public money for being Chair of the RHA, so protected?
Why cannot he be critiscised, face a public call for his dismissal, or be held to account (even by Number 10)?
So much for democracy in our National Health Service.
We expect to hear very shortly that Attempt No 4 to petition the Prime Minister to dismiss Henshaw has also been rejected.
In the meantime, you can have a look at the three previous attempts to expose Henshaw as an evil blackmailer... Attempt Number 1 came with this petition to Number 1o:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'remove Sir David Henshaw as Chair of the North West Strategic Health Authority' in the light of statements made by councillors in Liverpool and reports on a number of blogs, including the Henshaw and the Evil Cabal blog, we consider Sir David Henshaw to be unfit as a public servant to be left in charge of the region's health service. (seems a perfectly fair petition to me and would, no doubt, have got considerable public support, ed)
And this was the eventual response from No 10:

Hi,

I'm sorry to inform you that your petition has been rejected. Your petition was classed as being in the following categories:

* Potentially libellous, false, or defamatory statements

Presumably the bureaucrats believe it is "potentially libellous" to say that Sir David Henshaw is unfit to be in charge of the region's health service. This of course, ignores the views of 20 MP's, including the chair of the Labour Party, Hazel Blears MP and former Health Minister Jane Kennedy, MP, who said exactly the same and publicly protested about Henshaw's appointment.

Attempt No 2:

The petition was edited and re-submitted as follows:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'remove Sir David Henshaw as Chair of the North West Strategic Health Authority' In the light of statements made by councillors and officials in Liverpool and reports on a number of blogs, including the Henshaw and the Evil Cabal blog (perfectly factual account, ed)

But this was the response from No 10:

Hi,

I'm sorry to inform you that your petition has been rejected again.

Your petition was classed as being in the following categories:

* Potentially libellous, false, or defamatory statements

So it looks as though, in our great democracy, you cannot now even make reference to statements made by senior councillors about Henshaw's blackmail and attempted coup d'etat!Notice how no details of these were even given in the petition, but it was still rejected by Number 10.

So here was Attempt Number 3

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'remove Sir David Henshaw as Chair of the North West Strategic Regional Health Authority' because his previous behaviour as chief executive of Liverpool city council makes us fear for the future of our Health Service (perfectly understandable point of view, ed)

But this was the response from the mandarins at Number 10:

Hi,

I'm sorry to inform you that your petition has been rejected.

Your petition was classed as being in the following categories:

* The names of individual officials of public bodies, unless
they are part of the senior management of those organisations

* Language which is offensive, intemperate, or provocative

Now they appear to have decided that we can't even name Sir Diddy, nor say anything at all about Sir Diddy, even though he is being paid as a public servant on a public body. (And they don't like the fact that we fear for our Health Service either, ed).

Anyway this is Attempt No 4:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'remove Sir David Henshaw as Chair of the North West Strategic Regional Health Authority'. (simple and to the point, ed)

Presumably they will reject that as well, because it refers, outrageously, to Sir Diddy by name. (Perhaps we should go for the record of having the most petitions rejected by Number 10? ed)

Sir David Henshaw

HENSHAW TO LECTURE ON 'PUBLIC SERVICE AND TRUST' SENSATION - GUARDIAN'S AMAZING SENSE OF HUMOUR

DISGRACED chief executive Sir David Henshaw is to lecture on 'public service and trust' in a stunning piss-take of his mis-rule in Liverpool by The Guardian newspaper.
Chortling executives at the broadsheet have displayed a surprising and previously hidden sense of humour by announcing they have booked Sir Diddy to speak at a special summit on the future of public services.
That event would be side-splitting enough and one of the humnour highlights of the year given Henshaw's previous history in Liverpool and that he:

• attempted a coup against the elected leader of the city council

• blackmailed the city council
  

• abused his position for private gain
  

• stole millions of pounds of public money

But those clever Hampstead intellectuals at the Groaniad have gone even further, laughingly labelling the summit - in a clear and knowing reference to the diminutive diddy dictator - as "Smaller but cleverer? The coming shape of government in a changing world."
It's understood that executives on the paper will be on hand at the summit to give out hankies to the invited audience to help them stifle their tears of laughter when diddyman Henshaw gets to his little feet and pompously holds forth.
The plan to invite greedy Henshaw to the summit was apparently dreamed up in an Islington wine bar one long afternoon by an anti-establishment senior executive at the paper.
It's thought the brainwave came out of a deliberate attempt to undermine the entire credibility of the prestigious conference. (Good job the editor hasn't twigged yet, then, ed)
It's understood that, like many others, the exec had become increasingly disenchanted with the national media's obsession with the narrow Westminster village and life in London.
He had bravely decided to take a principled and campaigning interest in Henshaw's disgraceful activities in Liverpool, which have caused so much damage to democracy and the city's image , finances and interests.
The un-named editorial crusader (perhaps he is a relative of Tony Parrish? ed) believed that the disgraceful behaviour of Henshaw as a senior public "servant" who is now responsible for the North West's health service, was a cause for serious concern.
He arranged to hire Henshaw for an undisclosed fee (but we bet it's a packet, ed) in order to expose his activities and hypocrisy to a wider public.
Thus Henshaw will be addressing the two-day conference (the delegate fee is a bargain £999 only, ed) on "a new public relationship which explores in detail the relationship between public and government."
The Guardian apparently cleverly intends to demonstrate how much damage Henshaw, as a so-called public servant, caused to democracy and the public interest when he took on the elected leader of the council after their relationship collapsed.
Of course he then blackmailed the city council, suspended his media chief on trumped up charges and finally extorted a huge £340,000 pay off out of the council for agreeing to take early retirement.
The Henshaw lecture session, which is on Day 2 of the conference, will discuss "would decentralisation assist the recovery of trust"?
(Not necessarily, if the chief executive happens to be a vicious and nasty, power-mad little ego-maniac, who is only interested in how much public money he can screw out of the public purse, ed)
The summit is being held in a big posh hotel at St Albans on January 25 and 26th and will feature appearances by democractic luminaries such as Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, Tory leader David Cameron (right), Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and the paper's well informed and knowledgeable David Walker, who is responsible for organising the summit.
The original Tony Parrish whose liverpool evil cabal blog first exposed Sir Diddy's evil deeds came out of retirement to give us his exclusive reaction to the Groaniad's clever stunt.
He told us: "Many people believe the Guardian is a supremely cynical and hypocritical publication which poses as having a liberal conscience and sensibility whilst conspiring to consistently undermine all that is decent in public life and public service.
"Others feel that it is just obsessed with London politics and pays lip service to the rest of the country and serious issues which matter such as local democracy and accountability.
"But this incredibly subtle piss-take and clever ruse of inviting Sir Diddy to try and lecture people on 'trust and public service' proves that the Guardian is as committed to democracy, truth and justice as we had all hoped.
"We can all rest easy in our beds that the future of British journalism is safe in its hands."
You can check details and ticket availability of the Guardian's prestige summit at It must be a piss-take.

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