Putting the BMA's Nose Out of Joint

Cameron is being criticised by the BBC for holding a 'hastily convened' meeting on the NHS and not inviting representatives of the medical world who have made it very clear that the NHS Bill should be dropped and given their reasons why. First of all it is doubtful that the meeting has been convened any more hastily than most meetings on the issues of the day and secondly why would Cameron want to have the BMA, etc, etc telling him yet again what they have been saying for some time now. He knows their position and nothing they say is going to make him any the wiser whereas by talking to a different set of professionals who hopefully do not have the same political axe to grind as the BMA and so on he may well learn something to the advantage of the users of the NHS as opposed to those who work in it, want it to continue to be run in their interest and think they are the only ones that know what's best for the consumers. Cameron should be applauded for not inviting the BMA and others. He must have intended that they should feel miffed, that they should feel they have lost their position as the centre of attention on this issue and that others are valued by the Prime Minister as having equally valid points of view. In other words their noses have been put out of joint and I rejoice that they have been taken down a peg or two. That's exactly what they deserve and there are others who the Prime Minister could treat in the same way for the benefit of us all. This is good politics since those like the medical profession, like the BBC and so on who claim a higher than thou position in the scale of life always need to be reminded of where they stand in the true order of things. They are there for the consumer and not the other way around. That is what these NHS reforms, however watered down they are, are all about. Cameron must tackle the BBC, the EU, Alex Salmond and the Unions for a start in the same way.