One NHS doctor’s opinion on Labour’s latest badly thoughtout health proposal:
Don’t get me wrong. I am strongly in favour of providing any young person of any age with free contraception. But why do we not just give them the condoms? Why must they first have a “condom credit card� Probably because, in the finest New Labour tradition, the card will have a magnetic strip on the back so that details of who each condom was issued to, and when, and where, can to be sent Andy Burnham.
And then social services can be informed to take a closer look at what’s clearly a problem family, to intervene “at an early stage”.