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ladyram

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Jamie & Andy Murray out 1st round in tennis doubles, despite winning the first set.

Jamie's serve let them down I reckon. Andy still in the singles though.

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Duracell

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I hate the Daily Mail.

And I mean REALLY hate the Daily Mail.

It is the most repulsive thing on this planet, but this article takes Daily-Mailness to such a high level that it's funny and almost cute.

Here is a beautiful piece of work:

The NHS did not deserve to be so disgracefully glorified in this bonanza of left-wing propaganda

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Sitting in a home somewhere while fireworks lit up the Olympics Opening Ceremony would have been the family of Kane Gorny.[/size]

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They watched their cherished teenage son die of thirst at the hands of incompetent doctors and nurses.[/size]

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Kane was a promising footballer with a bright future ahead of him until he was admitted to hospital. He died of thirst a couple of days later.[/size]

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His life was lost for want of a simple glass of water. One glass of water that a succession of clueless medics denied him.[/size]

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Kane Gorny, pictured with his mother Rita, before he died after NHS doctors and nurses failed to give him a glass of water as he died of thirst in his hospital bed[/size]

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Part of the ceremony involved a piece by the staff and patients of the NHS, in particular, from Great Ormand Street Hospital for Children[/size]

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Kane even went to the extreme length of calling 999 from his hospital bed so desperate was he for a drink during his visit to hospital for a hip replacement in 2009. Yet when the police arrived, the nurses ushered them away, assuring them that the young patient was confused.[/size]

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Within a day he was dead. Dead because NHS hospital staff refused to give a sick man a glass of water. We are not talking some powerful prescription drug. Just a small glass of tap water.[/size]

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Yet none of them were able to do this. They were ‘incompetent’ and made a ‘series of basic failures’, said the coroner after an inquest earlier this month into Kane’s death. [/size]

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It has been suggested that some of these people should have gone to prison for what happened. Yet, shockingly, just one nurse has been demoted as a result of Mr Gorny’s death and the rest are still working in healthcare.[/size]

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How does the family of Kane – and indeed the thousands of others we have heard of and the many more we haven’t – feel when they see the NHS being shamefully glorified at the biggest sporting bonanza in the world?[/size]

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Sick to the stomach, I imagine.[/size]

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Yet this is exactly what happened in front of an international audience of billions who were watching the show in London yesterday evening.[/size]

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Gratuitous: Volunteer nurses perform in a sequence at the Olympics opening ceremony glorifying Britain's National Health Service (NHS)[/size]

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The letters ‘NHS’ dazzled in bright red, like some triumphant advert. All around pranced self-indulgent nurses who had volunteered to take a few days off to be part of the ceremony. [/size]

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Children lay in their beds as Mary Poppins figures danced and JK Rowling read some bedtime tales.[/size]

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And how long did this shameful propaganda last for? A whole 15 minutes at the top of proceedings before viewers dozed off to the procession of banana republics and far-flung destinations nobody has ever heard of or even cares for.[/size]

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That such a politically divisive subject was included at all is utterly shocking. Not least because it glossed over the cracks in a system that is creaking at its seams - crying out for urgent reform.[/size]

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And nobody seems to have considered the sheer hypocrisy that the majority of the athletes taking part in the Games will have access to the most expensive cutting-edge private treatment available in the world for even the slightest graze on their bodies.[/size]

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The NHS segment came after a mildly moving rendition of Jerusalem (though this will move any patriot) and a play depicting the industrial revolution tearing up Blake’s ‘green and pleasant land’.[/size]

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The highlight was undoubtedly an hilarious sketch featuring the Queen and James Bond which saw her Majesty ‘parachute’ into the stadium.[/size]

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But it was the absurdly unrealistic scene – and indeed one that would spring from the kind of nonsensical targets and equality quotas we see in the NHS - showing a mixed-race middle-class family in a detached new-build suburban home, which was most symptomatic of the politically correct agenda in modern Britain.[/size]

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This was supposed to be a representation of modern life in England but such set-ups are simply not the 'norm' in any part of the country. So why was it portrayed like this and given such prominence? If it was intended to be something that we can celebrate, that two people with different colour skin and different cultural heritages can live harmoniously together, then it deserves praise.[/size]

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But what will be disturbing to many people is top-down political manipulation - whether consciously or unthinkingly - at a major sporting event.[/size]

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Conservative MP Aidan Burley was entitled to his right to comment on Twitter that the it was a load of 'leftie multicultural c**p'. Yet predictably he has been castigated by the social network's Guardianista brigade.[/size]

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Unfortunately the kind of politically driven multiculturalism we saw last night is the kind of social engineering we have come to expect.[/size]

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What we should not accept is the promotion of an institution that allowed a man to die of thirst from his hospital bed.[/size]

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Yes, there are parts of the NHS that we can be proud of and it undoubtedly does lots of excellent work. There are examples of true heroism at Great Ormond Street Hospital.[/size]

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But that should not be forced on us at a sporting event that's supposed to be above politics, which is of course why the likes of Syria, North Korea and China are allowed to compete.[/size]

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If only those behind the biased spectacle last night had spared a thought for the likes of Kane, and the many others who have been failed by the NHS, would we have had an opening ceremony we could be proud of.[/size]

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Sadly - despite all the hype about how brilliant it was - we cannot.[/size]

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Alph

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That last bit is almost hilarious.

If only the Daily Mail spared a thought for all the great things about the NHS.

But I suppose they haven't got time for that. Not with us being invaded by the Polish, our teenagers have orgys, everybody being obese etc.

All papers have an agenda. Scum. All of them are just good for sticking along the bottom of a bird cage.

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Duracell

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That last bit is almost hilarious.

If only the Daily Mail spared a thought for all the great things about the NHS.

But I suppose they haven't got time for that. Not with us being invaded by the Polish, our teenagers have orgys, everybody being obese etc.

All papers have an agenda. Scum. All of them are just good for sticking along the bottom of a bird cage.

No, get it right, Polish-Gypsies with an extremist Islamic agenda!

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uttoxram75

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What the Mail so conveniently forgets to tell us is that the tragedy of Kane is directly attributable to the introduction of private, market based ideologies into the NHS.

There is no place for a free market in our Health Service. Millions more will die prematurely due to profit driven targets as the big private "health" companies circle our once great institution like vultures.

The NHS is completely against everything the Mail has always stood for. The very thought of ordinary people receiving the same medical treatment as the rich is enough to give them a heart attack.

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Hucknall Ram

Hucknall Ram

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Oh also, when they did the video of the children's choir from every country in the UK what was with the random one Rugby highlight. I mean I get it, but why was that neccesary?
because it's the only time Scotland and Wales have achieved something in sport, scoring a try in Rugby.

Also well done in recognising Great Britain is made up of four countries, many people I feel don't know this,including in this country (yes, it hard to be explained to my wife's friend)

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RamOfKansas

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because it's the only time Scotland and Wales have achieved something in sport, scoring a try in Rugby.

Also well done in recognising Great Britain is made up of four countries, many people I feel don't know this,including in this country (yes, it hard to be explained to my wife's friend)

I ain't stupid, I actually payed attention in history and geography unlike most people.

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