Frozen Horse
Well-known member
I don't really remember us having a mining industry, but I'm always surprised by the attachment to it.
During my years in the NHS, I treated dozens, if not hundreds of patients who had been ex-miners, whose health had been detrimentally impacted by their jobs. I appreciate that communities were based around it, but if we value health, I find it hard to see losing mining as a bad thing. I hear employers such as Amazon criticised, but I've never come across patients who had their health ruined by working for them.
One Tory I keep an eye on is Caroline Johnson, with whom I went to nursery and played with until about the age of 8. Our mothers still exchange Christmas cards.... She is highly successful and is still a practicing NHS consultant. That is to be admired; in the age of the career politician, it is important that we have people with real world experience in parliament. That said, her voting record on NHS issues has been hugely disappointing, and has convinced me that, whatever intentions one enters parliament with quickly become subservient to the demands of a political career and the stance of the party. I'd hope that real world experience leads to some kind of integrity, but apparently not.
During my years in the NHS, I treated dozens, if not hundreds of patients who had been ex-miners, whose health had been detrimentally impacted by their jobs. I appreciate that communities were based around it, but if we value health, I find it hard to see losing mining as a bad thing. I hear employers such as Amazon criticised, but I've never come across patients who had their health ruined by working for them.
One Tory I keep an eye on is Caroline Johnson, with whom I went to nursery and played with until about the age of 8. Our mothers still exchange Christmas cards.... She is highly successful and is still a practicing NHS consultant. That is to be admired; in the age of the career politician, it is important that we have people with real world experience in parliament. That said, her voting record on NHS issues has been hugely disappointing, and has convinced me that, whatever intentions one enters parliament with quickly become subservient to the demands of a political career and the stance of the party. I'd hope that real world experience leads to some kind of integrity, but apparently not.
