[identity profile] jaxomsride.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
This comes as no surpise at all. Throughout this disaster jobsworth bureacrats have hampered relief efforts. The Mirror reports the FDA has blocked food aid coming from Britain because the NATO rations contained meat!
If it weren't for infighting between the various factions I bet relief would have arrived sooner. The delay was probably due to the various govt. bodies arguing who had responsibility and more importantly who would foot the bill!
Why the hell couldn't they let someone else do the paperwork and let the doctors continue with their jobs - saving lives!

[identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Because they're gits.

[identity profile] docwebster.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Consider yourself friended, by the way. Nice of you to drop in!

[identity profile] femakita.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Can you help me out here? I have an idea for a community designed to address just this sort of thing and I don't really want to manage it myself.

Oh, here's another link to give some inspiration. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16147853&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=us-bins-uk-aid--name_page.html

Community is [livejournal.com profile] wtf_otd. Not sure which of me is managing it yet or which pool of friends I'm going to look to to hand off management. It's something I wanted to see created but I'm not sure I have time for.

[identity profile] celestial-fluke.livejournal.com 2005-09-20 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
i shall never slag off the British NHS system again.

[identity profile] weekendwench.livejournal.com 2005-09-21 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
there are simply no words..it get's to the point where you have to tune the stupidity out because even volunteering to try to make a difference, you can't make a difference...i am beyond disgusted