• Welcome to Phoenix Rising!

    Created in 2008, Phoenix Rising is the largest and oldest forum dedicated to furthering the understanding of, and finding treatments for, complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.

    To become a member, simply click the Register button at the top right.

Simon Wessely to undertake Mental Health Injustice announced at Tory Conference

Y

Yogi

Senior Member
Messages
1,132
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/915532551690780672

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/915532610297909249

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...eech-conservative-party-conference-key-points

Good opportunity to show that SW is the problem for people with mental health issues and he is a insurance/DWP stooge for cutting welfare and involved in biggest scandal in medicine PACE Trial, and for denying physical illnesses as mental or MUS and diverting and wasting mental health resources on ME patients causing physical and mental harm.

Some are already commenting on the tweets above (click to see).

The Conservative conference has been a major disaster this morning. The Prime Minister lost her voice and was coughing and spluttering and a prankster hander her the P45 (you're fired note) and even the letters fell off the conference board.

Hilarious!! What a shit show! To top it off Sir Simon reviewing mental health injustices!

You could not make this up. Everything else is falling apart so let's hope his empire falls apart as well from here on.

http://news.sky.com/story/theresa-mays-nightmare-speech-focuses-on-british-dream-11066636

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41493370

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...party-conference-prime-minister-a7981931.html
 
R

RogerBlack

Senior Member
Messages
902
SW has done some positive things.
For example, co-wrote a useful bit for the DWP on treatment of vulnerable people, and how they should be dealt with. The DWP later dropped this guidance.
Much of the CFS and other work varies between wholly unhelpful to actively harmful.
 
A

ash0787

Senior Member
Messages
308
They are all hopeless, look how they handled the brexit thing, it will probably take them 10 years to get it done if it keeps going like it is, people have said if it was a private company it would have been done within 6 monthes,
it shows they have little interest to work for the peoples interests and they are also happy to subvert national institutions etc for their own personal motives, I wouldn't even vote for farage though because he has shown he has no principles either.

sometimes I think the american health system is better where its all private so the under performers sink to the bottom, people can just pay for what works and people like wessely don't get a free ride.
 
Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

"Gibberish"
Messages
5,256
hellytheelephant said:
SW!? Oh FFS!I didn't know the Tories could go lower in my estimation...but there you go!
Click to expand...

It seems to me like a new version of Russian roulette. You have a party where everyone passes round poisoned chalices to each other. Pity poor Dr Wessely being invited to such a thing. He will probably spit it into he aspidistra but I doubt he will enjoy it.
 
B

Barry53

Senior Member
Messages
2,391
Location
UK
She has asked Prof Sir Simon Wessely to review the Mental Health Act with a view to updating the law. This is part of May’s promise to deal with “burning injustices”
Click to expand...
Hmm ... with luck this will prove to have an ambiguity she might not realise. Unless it's equivalent to her "foreign secretary manoeuvre" ... put someone where they cannot help making a complete 'arris of them self.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.