Is sex appeal voting X-factor?

LIFE AND OTHER BITS:

IS Nick Clegg the new Messiah; is he the second coming? Or is he just going to finish second?

IT just goes to show what appearing on TV can do for you. ‘’Britain’s Got Talent” made a multi millionaire out of a rather loopy and completely dowdy Scottish spinster and “The X-Factor” made Simon Cowell, teapot teeth and trousers tucked under his armpits, into one of the richest and best known men on the planet.

His talent is being rude to the countless poor, misguided so-and-sos who bare their complete lack of talent to the nation in a kind of sadistic theatre of embarrassment.

Although these shows have a winner, they are much less about the winners than the losers. The losers are nutters who think can be stars and nutters who think they can be stars make good TV and make Mr Cowell so much dosh he has to have his pockets under his armpits so he can fit it all in.

But what of Mr Clegg? He who claimed on his expenses £5,000 for a kitchen for his Sheffield home and paid a gardener to prune fruit trees and a handyman to build a wall also out of taxpayers’ money? He also claimed more expenses than either Gordon Brown or David Cameron.

So, in many ways he’s another X-factor contender, passable at first audition but will he hold up to proper scrutiny. But people do feel a sense of relief at being able to vote for someone who has probably made love to more women than Cameron and certainly more than Brown.


IT is of course a coincidence that a few days after the bigwigs at the Pennine Acute Trust which runs the Royal Oldham Hospital saw their salaries reach the stratosphere of £145,000 to £185,000, the decision to close 23 beds in a women’s medical ward was announced.

There was a time he golden olden days of the matron when hospital staff saw it as their duty to treat more patients but now fewer is the new more, and the medical staff, like the patients, are the pawns in a grand game of chess played by the bureaucrats, sharing a fine burgundy (but not more than the safe limit) but no cigars.

The Trust spokesman, Steve Taylor, presumably not on mega bucks himself, tells us that shutting down 23 beds will improve efficiency. Do you think he thinks we’re all daft? It might be more money for them, more money in the salary pot but not for patients who can’t now get a bed.




FINAL WORD: There can only be one explanation for the surgeon at Bury who removed a man’s testicle instead of a cyst. From overseas, he probably thought the man on the table wanted to be like his sister. Simple mistake, dropping a something or other.