I have just got my hands on ‘Pleasure’, a new National Health Service leaflet that is advising school pupils that they have a ‘right’ to a fun and enjoyable sex life.  The leaflet tells schoolchildren that ‘an orgasm a day keeps the doctors away’, hence linking regular sex with improved cardiovascular health.  This is part of a new drive to ensure our schoolchildren have a better sex education as teenage pregnancies soar!

The main thrust of this leaflet is that sex education has been too focused in the past on ’safe sex’ and building loving relationships.  The authors of this leaflet, drawn up by NHS Sheffield, state that sex education has been ignoring the main reason we all love great sex….it’s fun and a major source of human enjoyment.  The leaflet contains lots of helpful advice for parents and teachers to pass on to schoolchildren.  I am sure the schoolchildren of Great Britain, their hormones raging will love to receive the following advice from their teachers & parents:  (these are direct quotes):

Masturbation

‘Promote masturbation and its benefits to young women and men, such as it can feel really good and pleasurable and (it helps) to explore and find out about your own body’

Body Parts

‘Ensure that age appropriate attention is paid to the role and functions of the different body parts, for example, mentioning the clitoris as opposed to just focusing on the vagina’.

Experimentation

‘Ensure discussions take place with your people that cover experimentation in sexual relationships to try and dispel the myth that there is only one way to have ‘proper sex’ (ie penetration)’.

Condoms

‘Promote discussion about how condoms/femidoms can be used to enhance sexual pleasure; talk about, show and demonstrate the variety of condoms available and link them to increased sensation & pleasure’.

An Orgasm a day keeps the doctor away’

‘Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes’ physical activity three times a week.  What about sex or masturbation twice a week?’

So…does this liberate and promote sex or does it educate children to be more sensible and prepare themselves for sex in a loving relationship.  Given children’s emotional maturity, the answer depends on the individual, but one thing is for sure, we will have a nation of schoolchildren more prepared to experiment; more willing to enjoy the pleasures of condoms; more men & women who can map out where the clitoris is and ensure due care & attention, (women the world over cheer!); and of course schoolchildren all across the UK who are busily masturbating away in their bedrooms to understand their bodies……

What’s your view?  Money well spend by the NHS in commissioning this leaflet?  Or a Kama Sutra for kids?

The private sector isn’t working….the public sector is….!

As the private sector faces thousands of job losses each week, the public sector continues merrily recruiting away….especially roles with high salaries.  This is fast becoming a national scandal….that needs the oxygen of publicity….to show how we are wasting tax payers money recruiting so many BUREAUCRATIC red tape, pen pushing roles in areas like education and the NHS….if this doesn’t make your blood boil….!!!

Take a look at the Sunday Times Appointment section today and also delve online to www.timesonline.co.uk/jobs, here’s a selection of the roles being recruited….yes, only a selection—that’s the scary thing, the public sector and all those Government Quangos are busily burning OUR money:

East of England Ambulance service NHS Trust 

All these roles are stated to have:  Attractive Salaries + Pension + Relocation

Chief Operating Officer

Director of Strategy & Business Development

Director of Finance & Deputy Chief Executive

Director of Business Transformation

Director of Clinical Quality (part Time)

Clinical Director (Part time)

NHS Devon

Chief Executive c £140,000 plus more for an exceptional candidate

Kent County Council

Service Director Learning / Service Director Vulnerable Children – £104,000 plus excellent bens

Association of Police Authorities

Chief Executive Association of Police Authorities £115k – £130k

Department for Transport

Non-Executive Director Civil Aviation authority c £44,000 for 2 days a week)

NHS Borders

Executive Director of Finance - up to £87,366, plus on-call payment, benefits and relocation

Executive Director of Nursing & midwifery – up to £87,366, plus on-call payment, benefits & relocation

South London Healthcare NHS Trust

Director of Financial Operations (band 9 £80-£100,000)

Associate Director of Financial services * 4  (YES * 4)  (band 8d £68-£83,000)

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

CIO – £90,000 plus benefits

Department for Children, Schools & Families

Head, National Safeguarding Delivery Unit – c £100,000

DfT Shared Services – Head of Business Change £57,300 – £75,000

Department for Children, Schools and Families  &  Department of Health

Communications Champion   Attractive Salary  (Will no doubt be £90k & above)

Hillingdon (London’s second largest Borough)

Deputy Director: Children and Family services £92,000 – £125,000

Deputy Director: Learning Effectiveness & major Transformation – £92,000 – £125,000

Environment Agency

Head of Planning & Performance – £75,000 plus bonus + bens

Isle of Wight Council

Project Director for Schools Capital Programme – up to £100,000

Yes, the gravy train is merrily continuing on.  MP’s Expenses have been exposed….now it’s time to turn the spotlight on our Public services and how they are ripping us off.  This is a recession, we have a cancerous spiralling national debt and yet, we can carry on recruiting in the Public sector, for what seen as non essential roles…or in some cases roles that can be merged into each other to save costs.

If this was the private sector………well it would never happen and at least if it did it is not with OUR money.

I hope you agree this is a national scandal?

Andy Burnham & Ed Balls oversee two of the biggest spending Departments in Whitehall…with lot’s of exciting new jobs being advertsed….no wonder they have the time to have fun playing on a swing!!!

 So question, why is it that a small, tiny nation like Britain has the 3rd worst swine flu toll in the world?

Official figures state that there are currently the following known cases of swine flu across the world:

USA     33,902

Mexico     10,262

UK     10,000

Canada     7,983

Chile     7,376

Australia     5,298

Argentina     2,485

Tanzania     2,076

China     2,040

Japan     1,790

The UK’s Chief medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson also stated that the number of cases were most likely a lot higher in the UK but many people have not registered their symptoms.

But thankfully we have the clear bold leadership of Gordon Brown and crew.  They have already provided all households with the vital swine flu leaflet that told us to put our hands in front of our face when we sneeze, then wash our hands.   Yes…..’catch it, bin it, kill it’!!!   Thanks for that vital information which needed to be sent to Britain’s 26.5 million households. 

And now, just as the recession is on a knife edge the government make another genius announcement.  Workers will be able to sign themselves off sick for up to two weeks under Government emergency plans released by Andy Burnham.  Just as well it is not a World Cup year as the nation would be signed off work. 

Any answers to why little old Britain is the 3rd highest swine flu cases in the World?