- by Brian Bamford
- ON the 28th, April, Milton Pena placed the following comment on this NV Blog:
'I read that the life span of the elderly have been shortened by TWELVE years as a result of becoming ill with this virus and dying of it.'
'constructive manslaughter'.
It is 'constructive manslaughter' and not murder, since the intent is not to kill the victim, the mens rea required for murder does not exist because the act is not aimed at any one person. Rather it is systemic in that it is built into the procedure for looking after the people at the end of their lives.
Most government including the current one under Boris have promised to resolve the problems of tackling social care, but have yet to come up with a satisfactory plan. The public have allowed this to happen partly because they are confused and think that their end of life care will be tackled by the NHS.
Clean plate club & one step nearer the grave!
People are closing their eyes to what's happening, and have been for ages.
Alan Bennett in his diary entry in 1995 describes events at a care home his mother was in, in Somerset:
'The turnover of residents is quite rapid since whoever is quartered in this room is generally in the late staged of dementia. But that is not what they die of. None of theses women can feed herself and to feed them properly, to spoon in sufficient mince and mashed carrot topped off with rhubarb and custard to keep them going, demands personal attention of a helper per person. Lacking such one-to-one care, these helpless creatures slowly and respectably starve to death.'
A neighbour of Mr. Bennett's mother has some difficulty:
'Joined the clean plate club, Lily,' says the girl who is feeding Hilda, her neighbour. 'Aren't you a good girl?'
Mr. Bennett says Hilda doesn't want her sweet and 'it is left congealing on her the tray while tea in lidded plastic beakers is taken round, which goes untouched also.' And he adds: 'So another mealtime passes and Hilda is quite caring and with no malice or cruelty at all pushed one step nearer the grave.'
Whose fault is it?
Not the government's surely?
Alan Bennett says: 'Her own a little. Her relatives, if she has relatives. And the staff's of course. But whereas a newspaper might make a horror story out of it, I can't.'
What would Milton Pena or Charalambous and those who signed his Woke Manifesto for trade unionists and other lefties, do about this?**
** www.northernvoicesmag.blogspot.com Virtue Signalling & Petitioning Governments?
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* A report in the journal 'Caring Times' (1999): 'About 150 people took to the streets between Stalybridge and Ashton-Under-Lyme in Greater Manchester on Saturday, 27 March (1999) to mark the first anniversary of the dismissal of some 200 care workers by the Tameside Care Group. Accompanied by supporters, children and a police escort, the sacked care workers were calling attention to the year long dispute which is scheduled for a 10-day industrial tribunal hearing in Manchester beginning on 1st June. The Tameside Care Group took over the operation of residential care homes from Tameside Council in 1990. In January last year (1998), close to 200 care workers at 12 residential homes in Tameside were served with termination notices after they refused to sign new contracts. The contracts involved acceptance of a pay cut (the second since the Tameside group had assumed control of the homes), reduced conditions of service and having the company sick pay scheme abolished. The workers then balloted for official strike action and were subsequently dismissed.’
** In April 1999, UNISON North West Region published a report which outlined the impact on staff:
'Throughout the history of the Trust and its subsidiary company financial savings have meant reductions in staff costs, with all the decreases falling on already low paid and undervalued staff. The staff working for Tameside Care Group have been poorly treated for nearly a decade and any improvements in the condition of the homes have been at the direct expense of care workers and domiciliary staff, most of whom are low-paid women workers. 200 staff went on strike in March 1998 and were sacked by the company. A year later the dispute is unresolved; an Industrial Tribunal set for June has already cost the company large sums in terms of legal fees, employment of agency staff and disruption to the service.'
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