Thursday 10 March 2011

Where is the Frontline?

Looking for the Frontline has become a national obsession.  Just try putting "frontline" into Google and see what you get.  Commentators and politicians can be see roaming the streets counting police officers on the beat, measuring and calculating  local council employees knocking on doors, totting up teachers in playgrounds, and peering through surgery windows for signs of nurses.  

Hospitals, schools, prisons and town halls have been subject to 6.30am raids to count up and classify  offices as either "middle" or "back", and the idling occupants have been obliged to be bar-coded so that their relative misdemeanor on the spectrum of non-jobs can be seen. 

So how should these unfortunates react? It is clear that this government is only counting those on the frontline as those  who can be seen. It has been reported that novelty shops and fancy dress outfitters have already seen a run on nurses uniforms, helmets and truncheons, and gowns and mortarboards. Perhaps more transparency is required.  To buildings in particular with coach tours provided so that everybody can be seen.

In the meantime, according to your individual experience and perspective  try the Tory-led government's own game of mesmerising twists and turns and have fun playing "Frontline".

Or if you are confused by the rules have a look at;
 http://www.oneinfourmag.org/index.php/just-where-is-the-frontline-in-mental-health/

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