Bloody-Minded

It appears that certain elements of the National Health Service are finally beginning to work the way the Minister for Health and News Corporation wants them to. Having launched a high-profile campaign asking for blood donors, the NHS has been turning them away because staff are unable to cope with the numbers. Meanwhile, the NHS has been ordered not to recruit "inessential" personnel, which presumably means any non-PR staff below management level, because of the funding crisis which the Minister for Health and News Corporation has implemented. The only disappointing aspect of the business lies in the obstinacy of the proles, who insist on donating their blood rather than selling it to private companies as faith-based economics ordains.