NHS Protest from Milford!

We have heard that a protest song has been published on You Tube by a group of Milford on Sea village residents.  Your editor is naturally A-political, based mainly on his inability to understand grown up issues.

However, Joey has explained the reason for their song: “As the health professions one by one came out in opposition Alan Lansley’s deeply divisive Health and Social Care (“NHS reform”) Bill, most people in England hadn’t a clue what the row was really all about. So, lifelong health service researcher, John Gabby decided to try and help put that right by writing a catchy song about all the things that incensed him about the Bill.”

The catchy song was created in the kitchen on a cold Milford on Sea night by John, his daughter Joey Owen, accompanied by her husband Mark, brother Michael, and neighbour Nick Gill.  Nick then mixed the song the next day, while John and his wife Andrée le May, a nurse, added the graphics. 

Early next morning, February 7^th, the video was on You Tube.  Within a week, the ‘Song for Lansley and His Pals’ had nearly 8000 views, and was already being hailed on the internet as the campaign song for the opponents of the Bill.

The ‘Gabbay family and friends team’ have designed the song to convey their main concerns about the proposed reforms of the health service.  The video describes how, in their view, the NHS will become fragmented, how private corporations will undermine the control intended for GPs, and how high quality patient care will eventually cease to be freely available.

If you fancy listening to the song please click below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7onNFNKH6Y