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• 1. At 5:10pm on 16 Apr 2009, ramlmmjem wrote:

  Very concerned about Margaret Haywood, the nurse who has been struck off for acting in the wider public interest. She got a lower 'sentence' than Jonathon Ross and should be given a payrise rather than having her liklihood taken away.
  
  The word 'appalling' is much overused these days, but this is one example where where it most certainly applies.

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• 2. At 5:27pm on 16 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  Brown says sorry, Green not to be prosecuted.

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• 3. At 5:30pm on 16 Apr 2009, Big Sister wrote:

  Is that photo from Wallace and Grommitland, Eddie? I'm sure it's a model ....

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• 4. At 5:49pm on 16 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  B_S 3, It is Hazel Blear's new motorcycle.

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• 5. At 5:52pm on 16 Apr 2009, funnyJoedunn wrote:

  Well done Eddie!
  
  Thought you could have pushed the nurses union rep a bit harder. Same for the government minister. Thought you might have asked if she would look into this individual case with the view to overturning this injustice!

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• 6. At 5:53pm on 16 Apr 2009, al_the_abbot_postie wrote:

  whoever this bike belongs to can expect a call from the police-the tax disc is out of date!

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• 7. At 5:58pm on 16 Apr 2009, jonnie wrote:

  Did I miss the poll plug?

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• 8. At 5:58pm on 16 Apr 2009, jonnie wrote:

  AARRGGHH!

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• 9. At 6:10pm on 16 Apr 2009, Sid wrote:

  "Snakes escape on Qantas flight" it says on the BBC site.
  
  Now there's a story - starting with: how on earth did they get through customs?
  
  

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• 10. At 6:12pm on 16 Apr 2009, Charlie wrote:

  ...surley, that can't be a H-nda 70, 90 or 125. Can it..?
  
  Well, if it's still a runner, it owes no-one anything...

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• 11. At 6:15pm on 16 Apr 2009, funnyJoedunn wrote:

  It looks like one of the old Honda 50s to me?

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• 12. At 6:18pm on 16 Apr 2009, steelpulse wrote:

  This programme will not figure favourably in my memory, Eddie.
  
  A nurse is struck off full stop, Eddie Mair? The thread above this.
  
  Thanks and I am sorry for the woman. Exposing the shameful treatment of fairly helpless people. Some thanks.
  
  But it is typical of this hypocritical country.
  
  And yes - I am furious. Listening to the mealey mouthed utterings of MoPs with their inability to show any shame for their selfish doings. And that Keir Starmer QC from the CPS. What a wonderful set of words which actually meant nothing at all.
  
  "Not enough evidence"?
  
  But the other posters on PM are right, Eddie. As are those on YouTube. Cryptic. My posts.
  
  To save someone elses face or several faces?
  
  For a few weeks - fine - but how unfair is it that one cannot have free speech in Great Britain. I sound like an idiot. And that is because I write like an idiot.
  
  I am done on the BBC. Great Britain can now wonder what I will do next.
  
  I am striking myself of the register.
  

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• 13. At 6:42pm on 16 Apr 2009, Charlie wrote:

  steelpulse 12
  
  Don't be Rash!
  
  If you don't rant for democracy. Who will?
  
  No-one said life would be easy.
  
  No-one said life would be fair.
  
  Steel..., rant more, to more people. Write more, to more people. Talk more, to m....
  
  If you won't fight... Who will?
  
  NEVER, EVER, let the Bar-Stewards grind you down...
  
  

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• 14. At 8:04pm on 16 Apr 2009, jlw459 wrote:

  Concerning the Nurse. What really turns me off are all those idiot interviewees who make bland motherhood statements but "can't comment on this particular case because I'm not familiar with the details". Why do they think they are being interviewed? If they're not familiar with the particular case, they should be spending their time getting familiar, not blabbering on saying nothing of interest to anyone.

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• 15. At 10:08pm on 16 Apr 2009, Frances O wrote:

  Well, I just wanted to say I enjoyed the tribute to Clement Freud. Clever, amusing and (in David Steel's case, anyway) touching.

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• 16. At 10:54pm on 16 Apr 2009, craiglands wrote:

  So many people have blogged in support of Nurse Haywood. Please write to the Nursing and Midwifery Council. She was right to do what she did. Did she neglect and mistreat patients? NO. Her ward managers allowed that to happen and they should be disciplined. Will the Nursing & Midwifery Council take note? I emailed them to protest at their self serving decision. You can find out where to complain on their their website. They are a public body and should be accountable to the public and patients.
  
  I was apalled at the RCN Spokesperson refusal to comment on the gross injustice meted out to Nurse Haywood for standing up against the abuse and neglect of elderly patients.case. He could'nt even have the decency to say that the RCN would at least consider the merits of her case, and whether she has grounds for appeal. Thats the very least I'd expect of a body that claims to be a Trade Union. Does the RCN accept every judgement of the Nursing & Midwifery Council? The RCN is more concerned with protecting the vested interests of staff and NHS management.

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• 17. At 10:58pm on 16 Apr 2009, alexanderjbateman wrote:

  Nice to see Eddie Mair challenging someone who told the ever repeated lie that they could not comment on a specific case. If guests are not actually prepared to comment on the topic being discussed, why are they given any airtime?

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• 18. At 08:58am on 17 Apr 2009, funnyJoedunn wrote:

  Eddie,
  
  I believe Panorama/the BBC now have a real practical/social/and moral duty of care toward Margaret Haywood as an individual.
  
  The BBC undertook her services to produce a program with great public interest. Now due to her cooperation she faces the unknown and unexpected consequences.
  
  The BBC need to take up the cause of Margaret Haywood. The BBC also have a duty to upholding public interest investigation.
  
  others will be deterred from coming forward. But, more importantly, so that the BBC can't be accused of what the Midwifery and Nursing council have done to Mrs Haywood. Namely, abandoned her and took away her lively hood.
  
  I remember when this was the kind of regime that we used to castigate in the old USSR where individuals were banned from gaining work in their chosen profession and other areas if they spoke out against the establishment.
  
  Why is this case any different?
  
  
  
  

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• 19. At 09:19am on 17 Apr 2009, Anne P. wrote:

  fjd (18) Absolutely!
  
  Eddie, can you please find out if the Panorama team have issued any statement about the support they will give Margaret Heywood. Indeed can you find out what support she had in preparing her legal case as one individual against a large, bureaucratic and legally well supported body.

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• 20. At 10:31am on 17 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  fJd 18, Maybe the BBC could find Nurse Heywood a job on Casualty.

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• 21. At 10:45am on 17 Apr 2009, U12196018 wrote:

  (20) As usual, McNickle, your sense of appropriateness is unerringly flawed.

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• 22. At 11:49am on 17 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  TIH 21, As is your trolling.

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• 23. At 2:18pm on 17 Apr 2009, nextoanidiot wrote:

  Much as i agree with most that has been said about nurse Heywood,could i please change the subject. This Mcbride feller resigned, why was,nt he sacked?? Could someone tell me if there was any difference in his settlement package by resigning. Call me a sceptic if you like, but how about, "we,ll let you resign and keep the money if you promise to keep yer mouth shut". I mean its only tax payers money after all, what business is it of ours?

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• 24. At 2:24pm on 17 Apr 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

  I'm with fJd @ 18 on this. It will be interesting to hear how the BBC aim to help her.
  
  Looks like a bright red hand-painted, Honda 70, maximum speed 50mph, to me.

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• 25. At 2:41pm on 17 Apr 2009, Vyle Hernia wrote:

  I thought if you resigned you weren't entitled to anything. Given the push he would probably have received another obscene settlement at our expense.
  As for nurse item, they 'got' her over confidentiality, it seems. Panorama oughtto have seen that coming - why didn't they conceal the patients' faces?

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• 26. At 2:49pm on 17 Apr 2009, U12196018 wrote:

  This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.

• 27. At 3:27pm on 17 Apr 2009, nextoanidiot wrote:

  If that is the case then ok. Can anyone confirm this for certain? Where this shower are concerned, what should happen and what actualy happens are usually different things

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• 28. At 3:55pm on 17 Apr 2009, U12196018 wrote:

  nextoanidiot (27) - Confirmed by the Cabinet Secretary as detailed here.

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• 29. At 4:08pm on 17 Apr 2009, nextoanidiot wrote:

  Dear mr horse, thanks for that, you are clearly better informed on this subject than I. Though it does stick in my craw that he was paid from the public purse, and handsomely too. Does anyone out there remember the Saturday essay on radio 4 years ago by Frederick Forsyth, about new labours destuction of the civil service. I,d love to hear that again.

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• 30. At 4:27pm on 17 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.

• 31. At 4:35pm on 17 Apr 2009, U12196018 wrote:

  nextoanidiot (29)- Specialist Advisers are not an invention of Labour, old or new. The very dear Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition was one once.

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• 32. At 4:36pm on 17 Apr 2009, Charlie wrote:

  D_M 30
  
  Ooops... you've gone. Well, probably quite correctly in this instance
  
  This, was my post earlier:
  
  "13. At 4:01pm on 17 Apr 2009, Charlie wrote:
  
  
  Curioser and Curioser... (bUT perhaps, not surprising...)
  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8004222.stm"
  
  Which link, I think, more correctly reflects the understanding of what could have happened...

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• 33. At 4:38pm on 17 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  If 30 was what I think it was, I got it from BBC news.

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• 34. At 4:38pm on 17 Apr 2009, Charlie wrote:

  
  My referred to Post @ 32 was on:
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/04/the_g20_protests_does_the_medi.shtml

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• 35. At 4:40pm on 17 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  Charlie 32, That was where I got my 30 and was about to post it instead. Thanks for doing it for me. Let's see if yours remains.

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• 36. At 4:40pm on 17 Apr 2009, Charlie wrote:

  D_M 33
  
  I think you only got the part-you-read, from BBC News...

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• 37. At 4:56pm on 17 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  Charlie 36, Yeah, I got the rest from Sky.

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• 38. At 4:58pm on 17 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  Charlie, I just got the dreaded 'Your post has been removed' message. I only said what it said on the BBC News site. I guess they don't like to be upstaged. Maybe Eddie will report it.

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• 39. At 5:36pm on 17 Apr 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  Chuck,
  I see where TIH broke a leg as well (26).

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