Five years to vaccinate the UK population from swine flu
The fool, Sir Liam Donaldson, who regularly every Thursday magnifies his stupidity by either stating the bleeding obvious about flu or contradicts something he said a few weeks before, further underlined just how poor our government have been in dealing with what is a very mild flu, by announcing that in the last month, just one million people have been vaccinated.In simple terms, we have had around 5 million doses delivered to the UK, but have only managed to inject 20% of them. And if we keep up with the current rate, it will take 60 months to vaccinate 60 million people. That's five years !God help us if H5N1 ever mutates to a human form. With a 60% kill rate, we'

Why I've been away
Apologies to regular readers of my blog for my absence.In simple terms, I am up to my neck in work, with PGCE students to monitor, classes to teach, plans to be written, trips to be organised, and keeping myself healthy and avoiding the flu.So I may well blog this weekend, if I get the time, but perhaps not. As soon as I am on top of my work, I'll be back !

Brown and Cameron both in thw wrong over photo opportunity on Remembrance Day
It's good to see that those in charge of marking the Day of Remembrance have told David Cameron and Gordon Brown that they were wrong to turn the act of remembrance in to a photo opportunity.Quite why we should believe the Tory spokesman who claimed it was a "last minute decision", is beyond me. How many people just happen to turn up with a camera man with an expensive SLR camera with them in case you make a "last minute decision" ?

Four days later, not even the courtesy of a reply
Four days ago I emailed Norman Lamb MP and Andrew Lansley MP regarding an issue to do with swine flu vaccination. I e-mailed the exact same e-mail to both MPs, gave no further prompts and wondered who would get on to this issue, with the strong hope that both of them would bring the government to account over the fact that some asthma sufferers are being denied the vaccine because of "technicalities".Norman Lamb replied within two hours, and I have received a subsequent e-mail from his office out of courtesy explaining that they will get back to me.As

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