// "stuffing the mouths of Doctors with gold" //
The trouble with Mikey and Sqad quoting history is that if they dont know it then they get it wrong
who said "those who dont know history, are condemned to misquote it" ?
Bevan is meant to have said "I have stuffed their mouths with gold"
and was referring to the consultants only
The GPs were unrewarded in this way and there was a commission chaired by Danckwerts J who awarded the GPs their whack in 1952 !
it is all here
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/conservative-rule.htm
other good quotes by Bevan
"the gt secret about the NHS pension pot is that there is no NHS pension pot"
( NHS pensions contributions are spent in the fiscal year they are collected - which is why the NHS pension fund is in deficit of £ 163 bn )
Naughty Sqad !
Mikey is excused because he has an axe to grind