“Mr Johnson, Shropshire Star, have you enjoyed your visit to the mental health unit, today?”
“You’d recruit more staff for a unit like this?”
“Did you know the unit’s been recruiting unsuccessfully for new staff for over a year now?”
“You came here today to talk about the NHS not Brexit and pose for photographs looking like a concerned human being?”
“Only kidding, Mr Johnson, but I never mentioned Brexit.”
“Priti Patel says we need to grow our own domestic work force and we know you’re good at propagation. How many kids is it, now, six or seven, Mr Johnson?”
“But it takes nine months and eighteen years to bring a human bred in the fertile soil of Britain to the start of the first term of a university degree course in medicine. What does the NHS do in the mean time, Mr Johnson?”
“Isn’t that your old fridge from the 2019 General Election?”
“I bet you wish it was a TARDIS …”
The ramblings of a former DWP Civil Servant ... 