Doodledog
*I do think that the decision making processes are important though, it infuriates me when the current health minister blames the NHS. He or she is in charge of it, it’s his baby and if things are wrong complaining in the media is admitting you can’t do your own job.*
I understand what you mean now. I agree that it's not a good look to blame the organisation for which you are/were responsible. It very much looks as though all of this has been handed to Stonewall, and whoever is responsible for sign-off has followed their advice.
But that's not what you were saying in the first place, which was that the DM has made it up to run down the NHS:
So Sajid Javid is blaming NHS England, which as Minister for Health he was in charge of until about a month ago? Sounds like a typical Daily Mail distortion/exaggeration aimed at running down the reputation of the NHS to me.
Unaccustomed as I am to defending the DM, it seems to me that they were reporting what Javid said, so he is at fault, not the report.
Sorry Doodledog I do see that on the second point I hadn’t expressed myself very well. What I was trying to say was that by the Mail not acknowledging Javid’s responsibility, but rather having a pop at the NHS directly without mentioning his previous role as accountable minister, they were distorting/exaggerating the reality of the NHS which does not take unilateral action, and not mentioning anything about lines of accountability. It suits the political purpose of the Mail of course.
