Ian Wright

BigJeffy · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:14 pm

I think he has found his niche, being a pundit on women's football. Good man Ian, please stay with the ladies

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2022 9:16 pm

Our ex MP?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

What happened to little Wrighty….? Was he adopted or did he go to London to make his fortune.
Wonder what Mike Hill is doing now?….. on second thoughts, best not.

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7416

Snowy wrote:

What happened to little Wrighty….? Was he adopted or did he go to London to make his fortune.
Wonder what Mike Hill is doing now?….. on second thoughts, best not.

Hard to believe he was the Hartlepool MP for 13 years, I am trying to remember what his achievements were although he made a feeble attempt to stop services being transferred from Hartlepool Hospital to North Tees. Come to think of it what has any MP achieved for Hartlepool. Our current MP has disappeared of the face of the earth only coming out for the odd photo shot.
Wright came under a bit of stick for employing his wife as his secretary, no idea what he does now although he has been chair person of several organisations.I used to see him at the Pools game so that’s one thing going for him.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Regarding Wrighty with the ‘new hospital that never was’, he was shown operating the JCB on the ground breaking ceremony for the new hospital……it’s executive housing now I understand.
As the last Labour Candidate parachuted in by Starmer was one of the four people who created the master plan to strip Hartlepool hospital of it services, maybe he should have listened to local Labour advice, he may have seen the elephant in the room.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2022 4:56 pm

The Wynyard hospital was in fact finally cancelled under a Tory government but i really dont want to make a political point of it.
The facts are that neither government was willing to spend £600m which would be added to the PSBR and they both went down the road of PFI which financially did not stack up as it would have saddled the NHS with enormous future costs (as most PFIs did). So they then went down the line of reducing the size of the hospital (more care in the community) eventually to £300m which even then did not stack up. The last set of plans for the hospital were described as a "shoebox" It was then cancelled quietly.Some money then went into the North Tees site and some to Hartlepool to prop them up
Small hospitals (like Hartlepool) simply cannot attract the clinical staff and are clinically unsafe as there is little in the way of peer supervision of staff (Shipton type events) and senior staff are too thin on the ground. A joint North of Tees hospital is what is required with diagnostics, Outpatients etc being provided in localities of the area
Going forward the clinicians and management of North Tees and Hartlepool are now going out openly telling everyone that the north tees site is falling to bits and a new hospital for the North of the river Tees in urgently required.
Its now over the politicians to deliver this which is now approx 14 years overdue. The land at Wynyard has been sold off and i cant think of a site suitable to service the North Tees area.
What a mess....... but dont believe a word from any politician of any party or newspaper report on this issue.
I need a lie down.

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7416

Bluestreak wrote:

The Wynyard hospital was in fact finally cancelled under a Tory government but i really dont want to make a political point of it.
The facts are that neither government was willing to spend £600m which would be added to the PSBR and they both went down the road of PFI which financially did not stack up as it would have saddled the NHS with enormous future costs (as most PFIs did). So they then went down the line of reducing the size of the hospital (more care in the community) eventually to £300m which even then did not stack up. The last set of plans for the hospital were described as a "shoebox" It was then cancelled quietly.Some money then went into the North Tees site and some to Hartlepool to prop them up
Small hospitals (like Hartlepool) simply cannot attract the clinical staff and are clinically unsafe as there is little in the way of peer supervision of staff (Shipton type events) and senior staff are too thin on the ground. A joint North of Tees hospital is what is required with diagnostics, Outpatients etc being provided in localities of the area
Going forward the clinicians and management of North Tees and Hartlepool are now going out openly telling everyone that the north tees site is falling to bits and a new hospital for the North of the river Tees in urgently required.
Its now over the politicians to deliver this which is now approx 14 years overdue. The land at Wynyard has been sold off and i cant think of a site suitable to service the North Tees area.
What a mess....... but dont believe a word from any politician of any party or newspaper report on this issue.
I need a lie down.

One of Johnson’s pledges was to build 40 new hospitals ?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

He’ll have a job now.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

Bluestreak wrote:

The Wynyard hospital was in fact finally cancelled under a Tory government but i really dont want to make a political point of it.
The facts are that neither government was willing to spend £600m which would be added to the PSBR and they both went down the road of PFI which financially did not stack up as it would have saddled the NHS with enormous future costs (as most PFIs did). So they then went down the line of reducing the size of the hospital (more care in the community) eventually to £300m which even then did not stack up. The last set of plans for the hospital were described as a "shoebox" It was then cancelled quietly.Some money then went into the North Tees site and some to Hartlepool to prop them up
Small hospitals (like Hartlepool) simply cannot attract the clinical staff and are clinically unsafe as there is little in the way of peer supervision of staff (Shipton type events) and senior staff are too thin on the ground. A joint North of Tees hospital is what is required with diagnostics, Outpatients etc being provided in localities of the area
Going forward the clinicians and management of North Tees and Hartlepool are now going out openly telling everyone that the north tees site is falling to bits and a new hospital for the North of the river Tees in urgently required.
Its now over the politicians to deliver this which is now approx 14 years overdue. The land at Wynyard has been sold off and i cant think of a site suitable to service the North Tees area.
What a mess....... but dont believe a word from any politician of any party or newspaper report on this issue.
I need a lie down.

I don’t think the hospital was ever going be built in the first place. I suspect they’ll watch North Tees collapse, it is falling apart….. then send us all to James Cook.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2022 5:31 pm

Snowy wrote:

Bluestreak wrote:

The Wynyard hospital was in fact finally cancelled under a Tory government but i really dont want to make a political point of it.
The facts are that neither government was willing to spend £600m which would be added to the PSBR and they both went down the road of PFI which financially did not stack up as it would have saddled the NHS with enormous future costs (as most PFIs did). So they then went down the line of reducing the size of the hospital (more care in the community) eventually to £300m which even then did not stack up. The last set of plans for the hospital were described as a "shoebox" It was then cancelled quietly.Some money then went into the North Tees site and some to Hartlepool to prop them up
Small hospitals (like Hartlepool) simply cannot attract the clinical staff and are clinically unsafe as there is little in the way of peer supervision of staff (Shipton type events) and senior staff are too thin on the ground. A joint North of Tees hospital is what is required with diagnostics, Outpatients etc being provided in localities of the area
Going forward the clinicians and management of North Tees and Hartlepool are now going out openly telling everyone that the north tees site is falling to bits and a new hospital for the North of the river Tees in urgently required.
Its now over the politicians to deliver this which is now approx 14 years overdue. The land at Wynyard has been sold off and i cant think of a site suitable to service the North Tees area.
What a mess....... but dont believe a word from any politician of any party or newspaper report on this issue.
I need a lie down.

I don’t think the hospital was ever going be built in the first place. I suspect they’ll watch North Tees collapse, it is falling apart….. then send us all to James Cook.

I think you could be correct there and the spectre of South Tees Hospital (JC) looms.
Just like when someone mentions the Tees Valley Joint Authority i just think of Cleveland County Council.

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Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37433

We used to call it ‘Toxic on Tees County Council’.
Started college there for five years in the early 70’s and it was genuinely a dump……it did well out of Cleveland County Council…….I kid you not, one Councillor through there proposed changing the name to ‘Greater Middlesbrough’ as Cleveland proper and Roseberry Topping that featured on their logo weren’t actually part of the made up Cleveland. :laugh:

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