Rainbow mural painted on a new bridge walkway at Bromley Hospital has been criticised as example of the NHS’s “waste and wokery”. The Telegraph has more.
The Health Secretary has rebuked an NHS trust for painting a huge Pride flag on a hospital to celebrate diversity.
The Princess Royal University Hospital, in Bromley, south London, last week opened a new link-bridge which is wrapped with a giant three-sided “intersex-inclusive flag” showing the LGBT+ rainbow.
It is the first such mural on an NHS site in the country and follows months of widespread criticism from ministers, MPs and patients over health service chiefs allocating resources to what the Government has branded “waste and wokery”.
Jonathan Lofthouse, a senior executive at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest in the country, which runs the hospital, said it had “adorned the exterior of the link bridge with the Pride Flag, a permanent installation celebrating diversity”, adding: “We’re celebrating permanently.”
But Steve Barclay has led a fierce backlash against the move. A source close to the Health Secretary told the Telegraph on Monday: “This Government is investing record funds in the NHS, including the £6.6 billion extra over the next two years announced in the autumn statement.
“Taxpayers want to see that cash used for cutting waiting lists and caring for patients, not wasted on virtue-signalling vanity projects.”
The trust brought in Valentino Vecchietti, an intersex campaigner, to design the new 30-metre walkway which has taken a year to build. The trust could not provide the total cost when asked by the Telegraph.
The walkway connects the hospital’s day surgery unit with the main hospital and is lined with Pride flag-themed rainbow wallpaper inside, as well as the giant mural on its exterior.
While Vecchietti said it would “provide a gentle and uplifting space”, others questioned its impartiality.
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Somebody needs to plaster this in the dead of the night
“A source close to the Health Secretary told the Telegraph on Monday” and why doesn’t Steve Barclay make it clear, loudly and repeatedly, that this is an unacceptable use of taxpayers money?
That and the ENDLES highly paid “diversity” non-jobs on offer. A truly conservative government would have stopped this nonsense in 2010
Get hold of the receipts for the job – design, materials, labour- then dock the cost from the Chief Exec’s salary.
They’ll soon get the message.
And then go to my solution so they all understand.
You mean one of those “procedures” which will protect them from illness for eternity?
Solution:
Call in ALL the senior managers and tell them their contracts are terminated with immediate effect.
I am absolutely firkin sick of having this shyte rammed in my face and frankly I suspect many in the alphabet community are too.
How many people claim to be of an alphabet persuasion? It must be below 10%.
Enough is enough.
Yes exactly. The only surprise here is that it took them so long. So what’s the overriding message here? I don’t know what they’re whinging about.
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1665499612503846912
Thanks Mogs. Some cracking memes in the link.
Haha, yes there are. Memetastic! I like the one with John Wayne.
Blimey so did I
Actually I tried to post it around some WhatsApp groups but I received an error message – file format not recognised or something. Shame.
https://www.technocracy.news/dr-naomi-wolf-pfizers-depopulation-agenda-as-evidenced-by-its-own-documents/
Our views on depopulation our being confirmed daily.
Dr Naomi Wolfe with the evidence from the Pfizer docs.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dr-naomi-wolf-uncovers-pfizer-depopulation-agenda-evidenced-its-own-documents/5821250
Hell freezes over: WaPo correspondent calls for an end to stakeholder capitalism and a return to shareholder primacy. Readers spit tacks!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/recent-news-pilots-co-pilots-dying-suddenly-now-normal-top-eu-court-ruled/5821235
It wasn’t normal before the Scamdemic. It’s normal now.
Remember when the authorities kept repeating ‘No one is safe until everyone is safe’?
Indeed. Like all these mantras it really peed me off.
Do you suppose any personnel within the NHS cult reads the boxes?
https://twitter.com/PaulWil56612427/status/1665813846966034434/photo/1
Painting pride flags on buildings, hiring diversity and sustainability executives, changing maternity advice to avoid words such as woman or breast feeding etc. is a waste of tax payers money and needs to stop. However the total amount spent on these types of schemes across the entire NHS is likely to be no more than £10-20million a year out of a total budget of over £100billion. Clearly there’s a danger that people are going to be distracted by woke virtue signalling and not why the whole health service is so badly run that patient outcomes are getting much worse despite record levels of funding. Maybe this is one reason behind woke gestures, they draw attention away from far more serious management failures.
A Health Secretary with some guts would order that fascist mural removed from the building immediately.
The RUH decided a while back top make all its zebra crossings rainbow ones.
Signs by them proclaim “Cross with Pride”. My wife, once an attendee at early Pride parades, way before they became Perv & Gimp parades, thought the signs should read “VERY cross with Pride”
Another way to pee away taxpayers’ money.
‘a gentle and uplifting place’??? If I had an appointment there I’m pretty sure seeing it would reduce me to tears and distress.