And bring forth the anti-smoker bile

Our local NHS Trust has something called a 'Patients Champion'. It comes in the form of a man who goes by the name of Russ McLean and looks like a cartoon mother-in-law. I'm not really sure why we have a patients champion or what he's supposed to do. He spends most of his time bleating about A and E waiting lists, without ever mentioning that most of the A and E delays are created by people who take their young kid to A and E because he's cut his toe nail
And these are the very people who usually complain about the waiting times

"I went to A and E four times last week and each time I had to wait at least three weeks to be seen by a doctor. Think of the children etc..."

I get the idea that the Patients Champion is there to put a sock in complaints from the public. He speaks for us, so we all have to shurrup. It's as though the Trust has employed someone to pretend to be the mouthpiece of the people, so they don't actually have to listen to the people

Personally, I think anyone who takes on a job with 'Champion' in the title, must be a bit of a twat. It's as bad as 'Diversity', or 'Equality'.

Russ 'Cartoon Mother-in-Law' McLean. Champion by day, full time fat bastard

And as it turns out, he is a bit of a twat. No, scratch that, he's a lot of a twat. He's a great big feathered, flying twat with bells on

Russ McLean, champion of the patients, has just made it clear that he only considers himself a champion to those patients who do not smoke

Call for cigarette butt litterers at Royal Blackburn Hospital to be fined

SMOKERS should be fined for dropping cigarette butts on a hospital site, according to a health campaigner.
Russ McLean said it was time to stop being nice and get tougher on those who discard their cigarettes on sites including Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Time to get tougher. If you're visiting a hospital, as a patient or a visitor, chances are things are already a bit tough. Russ McLean cares not though. He wants smokers to be punished even more than they already are, by fining them when they have a ciggy outside

What's that you say? They shouldn't be dropping their fag ends on the floor?

Well normally I would agree, but not in this case. You see there used to be a smoking shelter outside Blackburn hospital, with cigarette bins to put your fag ends in, but people like Russ McLean decided it would be a good idea to remove the shelter and the bins and ban smoking on the site altogether (Including vaping)

A site that is so big, you would need a motorised vehicle to get off it. No so easy if you're an inpatient

So the floor is the only place people have to leave their fag ends. That or don't smoke at all and I'm sorry, but nobody has any right to tell people not to smoke in the open air and any such attempts to do so should be met with a flat refusal

So here we have an anti-smoking bully, targeting the very people he's supposed to be championing, because smokers, as we all know, are fair game

Well I managed to get the first comment in on this article, and it didn't half bring forth some frothing, knuckle dragging, demented and downright deranged responses. Take a look at these

The raglefant 21st March 7:04 am
Stop smoking. Problem solved. Why should other people have to breath in your exhaled shogdit smelling smoke when they walk through the front door?. Stop smoking and live a bit longer an keep yourself off ward 9.

The raglefant 21st March 9:40 am
Typical dirty fag smoking, cancer stricken pig who couldn't care less about anyone else so long as you can get your nicotine fix.

Mr Spain 21st March 7:56 am
Itf you smell smoke you are breathing in toxins. It takes 24 hours to clear your lungs. It needs banning in all public places. If you want to kill yourself feel free to but do it at home. Smokers are disgusting selfish people.

ted01 21st March 9:09 am
I have even seen people smoking underneath the no-smoking signs. They obviously choose to do as they wish. Personally i would just turn the hosepipe on them

The Real Mr Angry 21st March 5:00 pm
I go to the Hospital regularly. The notices are ignored and I and others have to walk through a walkway of pig ignorant selfish people getting their Nicotine fix. No regard for anyone else. I watched someone sweeping fag bits up with a leaf blower and it was a bucket full. Stop being **** and fine these people. Once a few have paid the £75 the rest will stop. Our council enforce nothing. What's the point of a weekly visit by an officer that is not doing his job and enforcing the no smoking rule?

winnac01 21st March 8:44 pm
Who still smokes in 2019? apart from hard drugs its probably the most dangerous bad habit known to man, ban smoking from the hospital grounds completely it a filthy dirty dangerous way of life.

Needless to say, I didn't get much work done yesterday morning. Taking the piss out of these cry babies was much more fun