(I notice he didn’t attack male nurses of which there are plenty, ironic if you read yesterdays news).

As said my actual experience of nurses, a damn site more than his and yours (if I’m not mistaken? Without any sarcasm, please correct me if I’m wrong) is very different. That’s my being there on both sides of the fence. This topic of conversation, as I’m sure you’re aware, isn’t my usual fare so something he said must have stuck in my craw. Lord Toffee-Nosed Twat is simply not in a position to generalise like that. Incidentally, he made those comments on Radio 2 after he’d shot his gob off the backtracking buffoon.

Btw, my granddad who will be 101 in April has nothing but the utmost respect for the nursing profession after he came out of hospital recently (in N Yorkshire).

And ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ is clever, well done. Let’s make out a man complaining about the shit time he had in hospital is a buffoon by giving him a comedy lord’s name. You wouldn’t, I believe, have ranted about this if the patient had been some hard done-by dock worker. Shooting fish in a barrel, y’think?

NC, sorry you’ve had bad experiences of nurses, I too have been in hospital a few times (I worked as an auxiliary in a few hospitals in London, some in very deprived areas, so I’ve seen it from both sides) and, on the whole, I’ve not a bad word to say about them.

My main problem with Lord Haw Haw is, if you read his comments, that, largely, he doesn’t actually criticise the Nurses for their work, instead he attacks them as women. He calls them dirty, drunkards and promiscuous, things confined to their lives outside of their working hours.

As for Labour? There is no ‘Labour’ anymore.

How dare he criticise the nurses? Why shouldn’t he? He was a patient in an NHS hospital – complaining about the shoddy shit that happened to him is his right whatever his position in society or his politics – he pays for it, same as you. A lot of hospitals are a fucking shambles nowadays – commenting on that shambles is not the exclusive right of the belt ‘n’ braces Labour brigade.

I’m still fuming from the time my missus was in Lincoln hospital, and, among the myriad of shitty things that went on, we sat and watched the nurses ignore an old woman in severe pain for hours. I pointed this out to one of the slovenly little madams, and was informed the old lady was a ‘pain in the arse’ and they’d get round to her ‘once she stopped pressing that button’. Y”know? The one you press to get the nurse’s attention when you’re in pain?. Yes, very caring.

Or should I not be allowed to say this, seeing as I don’t vote Labour, comrade?