From commenter John Galt at Samizdata:
Presumably the NHS is described as a National Treasure because foreigners ask where on earth we dug this shit up from?
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From commenter John Galt at Samizdata:
Presumably the NHS is described as a National Treasure because foreigners ask where on earth we dug this shit up from?
Didn’t Nigel Lawson describe the NHS as our Established Church?
There is a joke at our house that the NHS is the envy of the world. So much so no one else has bothered to copy it.
Anna Raccoon provides a view of ‘the envy of the world’, as seen from the inside. Warning: it is long, it is bloody, it is disgusting.
http://annaraccoon.com/2016/11/17/dying-to-be-heard/
We heard an NHS hospital story the other day. A poor old thing had been in a bed for three days before she plucked up courage to ask for some food. For three days they’d been putting food down beside her and later clearing it away. The old dear was blind.
This story came from a GP.
In all fairness, the quote is a variation of the Les Dawson joke…
I said to my wife, ‘Treasure’ – I always call her Treasure, she reminds me of something that’s just been dug up.