Give me strength, the NHS is on its knees and Therese Coffey issues this.....

[DevaleraSpawnOfSatan]

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/15/therese-coffey-tells-nhs-staff-stop-using-oxford-comma/

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Worriedaboutethics
vote for these brexiteer tories

Therese Coffey originally campaigned for remain of course -

www.eadt.co.uk/news/mp-branded-a-traitor-many-times-over-the-eu-2270492

walkingonsunshinekat
she had a far more lenient and crass boss

Parliament’s commissioner for standards suspended Liam Byrne - not Keir Starmer.

When Luciana Berger was being bullied by members of Labour's Liverpool Wavertree branch, Starmer originally stated that the branch should not be suspended. Starmer's wife is Jewish - I assume he was too weak to speak up in 2019.

Truss was also a Remainer, but then has also been a Liberal and Republican - so basically isn’t really sure about a lot of things. Oh and fracking. Who knows what she’ll have a revelation on in 2023!

@Clavinova

your point being they are both assholes?

or what?

@CaptainCorellisBagpipes

if you are still in the camp that brexit was a good idea then you so determined to be stupid publicly I am aghast and it’s not worth a discussion to be frank

Really glad you’ve said this. I was trying to work out how anyone could send such comms to “the NHS”. It’s not one big organisation with a company wide mailing list.

Truss was also a Remainer, but then has also been a Liberal and Republican - so basically isn’t really sure about a lot of things. Oh and fracking.

Fracking?
Fracking is 'not evil', says Ed Davey. (2013)
UK energy secretary claims fracking for shale oil or gas is 'not the evil thing that some people try to make it out to be '

www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/05/fracking-not-evil-ed-davey

It doesn't matter who she sent it to, her priority should be staffing, morale, social care and reducing the huge length of time people are waiting for treatment, some folk have had to give up work.

If you are correct and new ministers waste time with sort of thing, its no surprise so little gets done in Govt.

@Alexandra2001 - my point is she has wasted no time on it, and it will have been transferred from her last department. First she heard about it in relation to her new role is when the "story" broke. It's easy to score cheap shots about the administrative side of things but it's the basis of smooth governance.

Presumably someone did? or has spent time on this...

How does it aid smooth governance?

Of course she is going to say "first i ve heard of it" but it seems v weird stuff like this is sent out in her name without her knowing.

Its certainly not a cheap shot to be critical of a Government (and wondering what they actually do) who after 12 years have left the NHS in a total mess & it was a mess pre CV too

@Alexandra2001 yes, some official has spent 69 mins on this years ago in her first department. It's then been emailed to the comms team to go on the intranet. Hardly maladministration. More time us wasted on spurious FOI requests!

Yes, that is absolutely the thing to fo us on in terms of things the NHS need to get fixed right now...

FFS 🙄😡

the new Glasgow kiss?

Pathetic why doesn't she look at all the money the NHS wastes like stupid walkie talkies in each department in case of a terrorist lockdown or supplying £12 birthday cakes to patients or 1000s of pounds worth of equipment that never gets used. Brand new dentistry departments that have never been used etc etc

I was taught never to use a comma before and at school (70's&80's) since when has it come back?

Those walk-in talkies do get used. I’ve known the whole phone system in the hospital go down at least 3x in the last decade at the hospital where I work, for a considerable length of time. If your phones aren’t working and someone has a cardiac arrest, other emergency, or just needs a doctor review, etc it’s kind of useful to have a method of communication.

In a large hospital I can see why you would have them but ours is a one ward very small cottage hospital. There's still a huge waste of resources going on without that

NHS here. We can’t afford computers, or indeed pens, for that matter, so that should be keeping the Oxford commas down nicely.

No-one is suggesting that. The civil servants in this thread have explained already that this has been totally misrepresented, and only applies within her govt department for briefing notes. And the CS actually ASKED her to let them know her preferences. So she did.

love it

@Clavinova

Ohhhh a policitian says fracking is safe. What a relief, must be true.

Or

You might want to do some reading from a variety of sources that’s not a single article from 2013 by a politician.

Several (actual experts) have given evidence stating quite the reverse. And even if it doesn’t cause earthquakes or pollute the water basin we just have to wait, what , around 10 years to get some gas. Jolly good.

BakeOffIsBack
You might want to do some reading from a variety of sources that’s not a single article from 2013 by a politician.

I chose Ed Davey for a reason - in answer to a specific post. Perhaps you should read up on his latest comments if you want to feel more informed.

I don’t feel the need to be more informed by someone who:

• is not a trained scientist
• was a politician
• lobbied for EDF energy
• is on the board of an energy fund and other private energy firms with obvious conflicts of interest
• has been embroiled in scandals around parliamentary second jobs

Not what you’d called objective.

BakeOffIsBack
I don’t feel the need to be more informed

I feel the need to inform you;

August 2022
Lib Dem leader [Ed Davey] says party will run on anti-fracking platform against Conservatives in by-elections and at next general election.

One thing we can agree on though - neither of us like Ed Davey.

Unless you reframed the sentence to read… “I’d like to thank JK Rowling, Martin Amis and my parents”.

Personally, I use the Oxford Comma all the time though, and prefer it to a full sentence restructure.