No-one was interested and now it looks like the market is going to do a neat little implosion, so H and I have decided not to take the opportunity to double our mortgage, thankyousomuch, and carry on paying off what we've borrowed already!

Being involved in marketing myself, I'm always rather amused at the expectations of viewers who have been assured by the estate agents that the house is exactly what they are after . . . and the subsequent attempts to be polite when they take one look and hate everything they see.

"Well it hasn't got a fourth bedroom" . . . well hold on just a second while I pull an additional double bedroom out of my arse. You read the feckin' details sheet, didn't you?

Oh well. Back to the commute until my project is done and I can look for something else. Very little sleep at the moment. The Madness cannot be far away, now.

Anyone see the programme on hospital closures last night? I swear they do these deliberately to wind me up. In the vein of the train companies, who think services run "more effeciently" if there's less of them (not quite true, there's just more profit in it for the train companies which isn't exactly the same thing), hospital A&E wards are closing to ensure "a better service" to the public. In weasel-speak, this is called "reconfiguring" health trusts.

Bit like old old unused factories, you don't knock them down and start over, they are "reconfigured" into over-priced luxury studio flats. You get the picture.

This means that acute conditions may have to be bussed by ambulance to hospitals further away, meaning more delay until a patient receives specialist treatment, and assuming the ambulance trust (which is as cash-strapped as anyone else) has an ambulance to spare and isn't busy getting called to comatose drunks.

The Director interviewed admitted it: people will die.

Many of the A&E professionals interviewed claimed this "reconfiguration" wasn't good sense, as people will die.

The public in whose areas the hospitals are reconfig . . . sorry, closing . . . are convinced that longer transit times to hospital means people will die.

And although he was being very tactful in saying it, the Trust Director implied he had no choice because there was "no money available to give people the choice of services they wanted at all hospitals". In other words, they had no choice but to close off services becuase they couldn't afford it.

Where have those revenue targets come from? The Department of Health, of course. The former minister Patricia Hewitt made a great fuss about Trusts balancing the books, even though the House had the odds stacked against them with the way they calculated debt and profit.

Quite apart from the fact that the man in charge of closures had no idea how many trained paramedics he had available to off-set the projected affect on patients with extended journey times, the crowning turd was the official reponse from the DoH:

"Closures are a matter for local authorities", they said.

Typical Labour: gutless, spineless, blame-shifting LIARS. The local authorities are implementing Government guidelines, but no-one in Downing Street is prepared to take any shit that's thrown at them and are blaming the local Trusts for meeting their targets.

Likewise, after the news that their immigration figures were off by about 300K, some fresh-faced minister tried to damage control the crowing Tories by announcing that strict new vetting policies wouljd be in place sometime err, soon? Next year? Who knows.

How long have they been in power? I know I like to put jobs off that I don't relish, but even I've never managed to studiously ignore something for ten years. It will no doubt turn into yet another mismanaged, hastily rolled out and badly-consulted affair (if indeed, it ever surfaces and isn't another Labour "Vapourware" promise) that makes the situation ten times worse.

Just like the Health Service. And Education. And the Home Office. And the military. And their IT projects. And . . .