UK: NHS uses thousands of taxpayers' cash to train jobless women to become stand-up comedians

Submitted by Broadsword on Tue, 2010-07-06 01:00

Article here. Excerpt:

"NHS bosses have been slammed today after spending thousands of taxpayers' cash training jobless women to become stand-up comedians.

Health bosses have launched the scheme to pay for council tenants to attend the lessons to help them make friends.
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The course is supposed to be for women who are at risk of developing mental health problems - but a spokesman admitted participants had not had to provide proof of this.
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Kat Bailey, Women and Theatre's spokesperson, said: 'The scheme is aimed at unemployed women, many of them single mums from deprived areas, who are at risk of isolation.
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'None of the women have existing mental health problems.'
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Public spending watchdog the Taxpayers' Alliance said it was unlike anything it had ever heard of before.

Chief executive Mark Elliot said: 'It is ridiculous to spend NHS resources on something like stand-up comedy.

'It would be laughable, if it wasn't for the fact that this money is sorely needed elsewhere.

'It is crazy to have a health service that runs stand-up comedy classes while people die for lack of funding for medicines.'"

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Always coming up with creative new ways to take down the patriarchy. Comedy has always been a male dominated profession (face it ladies, you're just not funny), but stand up has never been a good way to get rich unless you are naturally a very talented funny person. So feminists cam up with a way to solve both problems - make tax payer pay for it. Women not funny? No worries, it's about helping women overcome mental illness, so it's good. But it's not good because there is no way for them to make a living doing stand up because even the average good comic does not make much money. But tax payers are paying for it so it's ok.

The golden rule of females as always applies - if you can't compete, just change the rules.

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Submitted by Paragon on Tue, 2010-07-06 17:05

Well, at least the story made me laugh!

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Submitted by MichaelClaymore on Wed, 2010-07-07 09:04