Saturday 10 March 2012

Keep Calm and Carry On

The slogan that has probably been most read for years, and the product of a campaign that thankfully never was. I like many people I am sure have seen it on T shirts, posters, television presenters and even on on a coffee mug! Perhaps we will never know who penned this amazing instruction to the British people in the event of a German invasion, but it seems to sum up an approach to life that is pretty timeless. You can actually imagine for most people this would not have been to difficult to do as it's so close to the national mind set. I can actually envisage that life would have gone on as it was and that people would have adjusted to the awful circumstances that would have arisen following an invasion. The new rules, the sense of helplessness and the real hope that all would have been over ridden by a positive force that was awaited.
Pretty much like the staff in the NHS at present really, stoically carrying on quietly with their duty. Remaining calm and carrying on in the hope that the present invasion of cold political imperatives will pass them by.Of course they remain calm as its essential for the people they care for that they feel safe in a situation where they are vulnerable,
I  really hope that they and indeed all of us who care about the NHS do not feel they are being told as in my other rather more up to date alternative coffee mug slogan to "Shut up and deal with it".

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