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died Should politicians vote when they | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
have business interests? Thd whole question of the Health Servhce | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
reorganisation we've seen is one of the biggest affronts to democracy I | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
can remember in my political career. Pitching for patient improvdment ` | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
how a TV show sparked a whole new way at the NHS. You basically creep | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
up the small bowel and you can get good distances and see bit of the | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
bowel that previously were inaccessible. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
And how the women of Folkestone started the campaign to force men to | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
go to war. The White Feather movement went national. It really | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
captured the imagination. Throughout the country men of military age not | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
in uniform were being presented with these white feathers. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
I'm Natalie Graham, with untold stories closer to home. Frol all | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
around the South East, this is Inside Out. | :01:00. | :01:14. | |
Hi, I'm at Baxter's Field in Lewes, the county town and one of the seats | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
of local government in East Sussex. Now, you may not know this, but when | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Westminster politicians makd new laws, they are allowed to vote even | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
if they have a potential conflict of interest. But are local polhticians | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
showing them how things shotld be done? | :01:34. | :01:47. | |
Westminster politicians dechded on a new future for the National Health | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Service by passing the Health and Social Care Bill. | :01:52. | :02:07. | |
The act offers new opportunhties for private firms to compete for NHS | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
business. But many of those same politicians who voted yes to the Act | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
had financial and business hnterests that could have benefited from the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Act. The whole question of the Health Service reorgnaisation that | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
we've seen is one of biggest affronts to democracy I can remember | :02:24. | :02:36. | |
in my political career. Let's end private finance and privatisation | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
with in the NHS! The Health and Social Care Act faced fiercd | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
opposition. It prompted angry street protest and revolt. Opponents say it | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
is privatisation by the back door. The idea that politicians m`y have | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
had a vested interest in pushing through highly controversial | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
legislation has angered manx people. Some critics believe some of our own | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
MPs and peers in the South Dast had vested interests. Two of thdm with | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
strong health interests are Baroness Cumberlege and Baroness Bottomley. | :03:07. | :03:17. | |
My Lords, I have listened vdry carefully to the debate... Baroness | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Julia Cumberlege owns a company in Lewes in Sussex called Cumbdrlege | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
Eden, formerly Cumberlege Connections. It's a company that | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
specialises in training NHS staff. It's in a position to profit from | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
the Health and Social Care @ct by giving advice on the political | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
implications. The baroness was able to vote on the bill despite the fact | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
that she stood to make monex from the changes. But Baroness Ctmberlege | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
is not alone. Andrew Robertson is an investigative journalist who has | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
spent months researching thdse connections. He found more than 200 | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
links. They represent every area of the health care chain. They include | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
being chairmen of companies that are involved in private finance | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
initiatives, partners in thd law firms that seal those deals. They | :04:06. | :04:16. | |
are sole owners of companies. They have shares of varying levels in | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
those companies and they ard advisors to the front line companies | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
running the services. They `re also involved in the recruitment | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
companies that are filling hn key individuals into the new NHS and the | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
commissioning groups. Did most of these MPs and peers vote on the | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Health and Social Bill? Yes, most of them did. There were a few | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
exceptions. Westminster polhticians are allowed to vote even if they | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
have a financial interest in the matter before them, as long as they | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
have declared that interest. Lord Marland is the former government | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
trade envoy and Party Treastrer Well, we have a tradition of | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
declaring your interests, ptblishing your interests and it's published on | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
the House of Lords website. Every interest you have as a peer, every | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
investment you have over ?50,00 , every directorship you are, every | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
consultancy you have, is published. In politics, there's one set of | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
rules for westminser politicians, but members sitting here in the | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
Council Chamber operate unddr a much stricter code of conduct. Local | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
councillors are banned from voting if they have a financial interest | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
that might be thought to influence their vote and have to leavd the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
chamber for these votes. Sole people think it is time MPs and pedrs | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
followed the same rules as local politicians. Councillor Gordon Cowan | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
is the leader of the Labour Group on Kent County Council and a County | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Councillor for Dover District Council. To be honest, I didn't | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
realise that a Parliament dhd have a different set of rules and that if | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
they have a financial interdst they can still vote on that parthcular | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
subject or item. This is absolutely totally wrong, and if you wdnt out | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
to the public today and askdd them the question, I'm sure it would be | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
100% it is wrong. I suppose the argument is, especially as far as | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
the Lords go, is that they don't get paid and they have business | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
interests anyway. You say the Lords are unpaid but they get quite a | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
large allowance for every d`y they are in Parliament. They are getting | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
something like ?150 for attdndance. The fact that MPs and peers with | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
private interests in health care were able to vote on the he`lth care | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
bill has made some local people very angry. We understand that somewhere | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
in the region of 200 members of House of Lords and the Housd of | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Commons have past and present ties to private health care industries, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
and that surely consitutues a conflict of interest when you are | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
passing legislation on an entity that is supposed to care for the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
welfare of the population of the country. If you have a financial | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
interest in the decision at the end of that process, you should not be | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
involved in that process. Their disgust is shared by others at | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
national level. That's what stinks about this whole thing. That the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
public didn't give their permission, and then it was pushed throtgh | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Parliament by many people who had a vested interest. One of the biggest | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
changes under the new act is the creation of Clinical Commissioning | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Groups, where doctors decidd what services to buy with the NHS budget. | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
Some of them have had no experience of buying services before, so they | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
have needed help. Baroness Cumberlege has been happy to provide | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
that help through her company, Cumberlege, Eden Partners. It runs | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
training programmes for NHS staff, including GPs managing directors and | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
chief executives. Part of their training programme covers politics, | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
power and persuasion, a tailored two`day course which the baroness | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
herself sometimes oversees. Following Freedom of Inform`tion | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
requests, Inside Out has le`rnt that Cumberlege, Eden Partners has made | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
thousands in revenue from the new CCGS. CCGs like NHS South E`stern | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
Hampshire and NHS Fareham and Gosport. In May this year, the | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
baroness' company ran a one`day masterclass for these CCGs called | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
Understanding Politics Mastdrclass. The total budget for the evdnt for | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
the two CCGs was more than ?12, 00. Another South East peer with | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
interests in the health indtstry is Baroness Bottomley of Nettldstone, | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
who has an address registerdd in Surrey. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Baroness Bottomley's links with the private health industry are | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
extensive. She is chair of the board of a recruitment company called | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Odgers Berndstson. Several of the newly created Clinical Commhssioning | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Groups have already spent over ?200,000 on recruitment services by | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Odger and Berndtson. In addhtion many key positions in the ndw NHS | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
regulator Monitor have been filled using the company at a cost of | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
nearly ?200,000. We did invite Baroness Bottomley to | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
take part in this film. She declined, and within a few linutes | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
of phoning her office, her husband, Peter, also ran in person to say his | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
wife would not be taking part. Not all peers are shy about discussing | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
the issues around potential conflict of interest. I think most pdople who | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
go into vote and debate do this with open, honest and a great de`l of | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
integrity and with the future legislation and the British public | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
in mind. We cannot sanitise every single thing in life or it doesn't | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
become a proper debate. If xou exclude practitioners from the | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
debate, it is a date without relevance. Surely there is ` | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
difference, though, between giving a wonderful contribution to the debate | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
and voting on it? Is there not a moment where they might say, | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
actually, should not be vothng on this? The great thing is yot | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
persuade or you don't. And they have the opportunity to attempt to | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
persuade a group of people to vote with them. Or not. And therd may be | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
ten, 20 people involved in private health care at the Lords. Ott of a | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
potentially voting number of 50 . So it is not really going to m`ke the | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
sort of huge impact. Andrew Robertson has made complaints about | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
several peers to the Commissioner for standards. One of them was about | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Baroness Cumberlege. For not caring an alliance with price have `` | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
PricewaterhouseCoopers, who has won a contract worth more than ?1.6 | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
million. His complaint was not upheld as the Commissioner said | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
there was no need for the B`roness to declare this alliance. Btt Andrew | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Robertson believes even so, the rules need changing. The Baroness | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
owns her own company. She moved that company into an alliance to try to | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
win contracts to develop thd new Clinical Commissioning Groups that | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
were a product of the legislation. She did this as she was vothng and | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
debating on the Health and Social Care Bill. Both of the Baronesses' | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
were declared and there is no suggestion they breach the rules. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Aaron is Cumberlege also declined a request for an interview. `` | :11:38. | :11:38. | |
Baroness. She said... Have you ever known a polithcian at | :11:39. | :11:56. | |
Westminster to step back and say, no, I won't vote on this because my | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
financial interests are too close? I think everyday people understand | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
their conflicts and decide whether they want to declare them in the | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
debate or not. And when I s`y not, I mean not enter into the deb`te. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
There are many debates are do not get involved in because thex have of | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
UI might be conflicted and therefore the impact of my argument is not | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
strong enough. `` I do not get involved because I have intdrests | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
which might be conflicted. Ht is not too close to the bone but it happens | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
to be the way I might do thhngs But I am very happy and comfort`ble that | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
people come to a debate and we'll make up our minds as we sit and | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
listen to people's views and we then vote accordingly. `` we all. The | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
Health and Social Care Act was controversial but the rules which | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
allow Westminster politicians to decide whether or not they vote and | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
whether they have a potenti`l conflict of interest fans the flames | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
of that controversy. Reform is not being considered. For Rachel Royce | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
reporting... Coming up on Inside Out... The shame | :13:08. | :13:18. | |
of receiving the point further during the First World War. When my | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
dad walked by, they were waving them as a sign of coward this. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Well, imagine you work for ` big, bureaucratic establishment `nd | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
suddenly have a brilliant idea. What are the chances of turning that idea | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
to a reality? Well, at one large organisation in Canterbury, they are | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
pretty good. I am on my way to the Kent | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Canterbury Hospital, where today, apart from the usual mix of | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
patients, visitors, doctors and nurses, here is somethnig else ` | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
dragons! Inside the building, there hs a | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
waiting room full of people. None are actually ill, but they `re | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
feeling a bit sick with nerves. The people waiting are members of staff | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
and they are nervous becausd they are about to perform a delicate | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
operation. They are going to try and extract thousands of pounds from | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
this panel of people. This is a, kind of, NHS version of | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
the television show, Dragons' Den. It is called After Dragons' Den and | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
the aim is to get the group of Dragons to release funding | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
straightaway for projects which could improve patient care `nd, | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
possibly, save money. Really nervous. I think the three of | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
us are, but I feel so passionate and I really want to do this. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
There are four groups pitchhng today. The first is asking for funds | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
to establish a video link bdtween a seminar room and a procedurd room, | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
to improve training for endoscopy. We have 21 areas in the Trust which | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
use flexible endoscopes. Thdy all need educating in the technhcal | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
components and scope handling. Do you think you will be able to | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
recruit patients who will engage with this? | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
I made a DVD of the patient's journey through endoscopy and we are | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
constantly seeking feedback from patients on that. It has bedn very | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
positive. Are we still sending those people | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
through this process or... The second group wants monids for | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
trolleys and monitoring equhpment, so that patients can be seen | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
quicker. The aim is that they get sedn once, | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
by one team of people. And then in an ideal world, when there `re beds | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
available, they can go strahght to a specialist ward, rather than going | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
elsewhere first. The third is a doctor who w`nts the | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
Dragons to invest in a new HT consultancy service. | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
We need to get away from thd myriad spreadsheets that travel around in | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
this organisation. We need really nice simple messaging. We nded to be | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
able to turn on the phone or iPad, see a screen and be able to see | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
immediately what A is likd in real time. | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
And bringing up the rear, in more ways than one, is a doctor who wants | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
new equipment to diagnose illnesses in the small bowel. | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
What you do is you shorten, in a concertina effect, the bowel that is | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
behind the balloons and then you begin again. You push through. In By | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
going through this push and pull cycle, you basically keep up the | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
small bowel and You get good distances and see bits that were | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
previously inaccessible. Between them, they are asking for | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
?220,000. But is this a rather quirky and unusual way of allocating | :16:35. | :16:44. | |
taxpayers money really a good idea? Reaching out to the people who | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
deliver the service every d`y, to ask them who would you do it? For us | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
to then be able to maybe put something in place and support the | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
people putting these things in place I think is a really good idda. They | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
have ten minutes to convincd the panel. If they do so, they will be | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
presented with the cheque in the gently. You admit spending loney | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
CNN, do you worry that some of this could be wasted? We commit the basis | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
that the details of the application is then work through with a funding | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
director and then we have pdople to make sure that this is followed | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
through. At the end, we could then said did actually deliver what we | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
thought? The trust has been running the scheme for three years, long | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
enough to see the FAQ 's and figures add up. We have seen about ?1 | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
million worth of projects and we have had about a 100% rate on, | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
approaching ?2 million. It depresses the red button and records. One idea | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
which has made the big changes digital dictation. Now, pathents | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
notes are recorded onto a computer instead of old tape machines. This | :18:14. | :18:25. | |
has changed the timing from four weeks ten to four days. The | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
secretaries really liked it and the doctors really like it. Inshde the | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
game, the ideas have to makd financial sense but also for the | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
people on the receiving end. Every side, what difference has m`de to | :18:43. | :18:54. | |
the patient? Endoscopy is a camera filming your insides as it passes | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
through and recording the information for the patient. It is | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
very small. Before this respect the patients had to travel to London to | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
be able to be filmed. You h`ve got a light source in front and the camera | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
in front which lasts for about 2 hours. It is long enough for it to | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
last through the cycle of the digestive tract. It gives us | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
something like 2000 pictures. It works for deletions which would not | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
be inaccessible with the techniques that we used to have. I can go | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
shopping and do all the norlal things instead of lying in bed, | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
hooked up to a drip. Another idea is the red man, a very useful visual | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
reminder that the patient ndeds help at meal time. I was going in there | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
with an idea and the concept. There was no cost benefit that I could | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
actually pitch. I ask for ?4,00 for them to be produced. I had heard | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
that some patients do not gdt fed because of the shortage of staff. | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
The idea is that, they will see that, on a bit of paper, yot do not | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
see the passion behind it. @ll four ideas that we filmed all got | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
approval. The success of thd scheme seems to have inspired other trusts | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
around the country, with many of them know doing something shmilar. | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
We look at anything which whll improve the quality of the service | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
we provide and anything which then improves the quality of Oz `s an | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
organisation. The staff working in the environment feel more motivated | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
and feel better about the whole department and the whole process. I | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
think it wins much more than just impose showings and pennies. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
Now, imagine the reaction today if women roamed the streets handing out | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
white feathers to men who wdre not in the army ` in effect, br`nding | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
them cowards. Well, that actually happened at the | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
outbreak of World War One ` and it started in Folkestone, as Robin | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
Gibson discovered. In the first weeks of World War One, | :21:36. | :21:50. | |
groups of women began houndhng young men who had not joined up, handing | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
them the potent symbol of a white feather, with the implication that | :21:54. | :22:06. | |
they were cowards. You are a coward! Here is a white | :22:07. | :22:21. | |
feather! They appeared in the first weeks of | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
World War One. Families and friends were joining up and the first news | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
of killed and wounded was fhltering back. | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
Give them to any chap you sde not in uniform. Give them to those | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
dastardly cowards who are not joining up. Let's go! | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
It is a piece of controvershal history from Folkestone's p`st. Our | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
actors may look and sound qtite young... | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
I think they might have been quite happy Like, "Oh, yeah, I will spend | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
some time with my mates before I go off and fight for my countrx", but | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
they did not realise what they were walking into. | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
..but some of these teenagers from two local schools would havd been | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
eligible to go to war in 1904. If I had to go, I would be | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
terrified, but I think I wotld probably go. I think, in a way, it | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
would be worse to stay, bec`use of the pressure that is put on people | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
to conform. Was it coincidence? Or was there | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
something more to explain how white feather fever began here? | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
Folkestone would have been `wash with military uniforms, so ` young | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
man in civilian clothes would have stood out like a sore thumb. The | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
fashionable Leas was the pl`ce to come looking for them. | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
A man in Folkestone who was not in uniform would be out of place and he | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
would really have to explain himself, once the white feather | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
brigade took up arms. The It was inspired by Admiral Charles Penrose | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
Fitzgerald. As a town councillor, he called on | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
local women to pressure men to join up. It is said around 30 rallied to | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
the idea, giving out white feathers as a symbol of cowardice. The | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
following day, a story about this appeared in the Daily Mail `nd, very | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
quickly, the whole project of the white feather movement went | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
national. It really captured the imagination and, before we knew it, | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
throughout the country, men of military age, not in uniforl, were | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
being presented with these white feathers. | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
Folkestone was more aware of the war than most parts of Britain, because | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
it was flooded with troops `nd they could probably glimpse the sights | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
and hear the sounds of war `cross the sea, but something else happened | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
here in August 1914 that cut very deep. | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
Stories of atrocities by thd German army as Belgium was overrun inflamed | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
public opinion in Britain. Here in the pages of the Folkestone Herald, | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
a report on the first refugdes arriving on ships in Folkestone | :24:28. | :24:45. | |
Harbour. All of the spheres seem to be clarified. That is when people | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
start volunteering in much greater numbers. And that is when the | :24:50. | :25:01. | |
public, who had not seen to be reacting quickly enough really | :25:02. | :25:16. | |
exploded. . Workers involved in jobs helping | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
with the war effort found themselves targeted by the white feathdr | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
campaign. As a Rochester postman, Albert Budd didn't have to join up | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
But he couldn't cope with the jibes of soldiers at a local barr`cks | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
As Dad was walking past these young lads who had all been told go and | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
fight go and fight they saw this young 19 20`year`old postman walking | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
past thinking, what is he got that we haven't and why hasn't hd joined | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
up so they started waving white feathers at him as a sign of | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
cowardice. I do not know how long he put up with it for, but it obviously | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
was not very long, because he went off and joined up. Some went beyond | :25:51. | :26:07. | |
taunting, such as here in London, freer conscientious objectors had to | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
take refuge in a local church. The government had to act. The | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
national recruitment drive preceded conscription. And silver medals were | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
worn by war veterans and essential workers ` physical proof thdy were | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
not cowards or shirkers. Some of the major employers, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
particularly in the South E`st, the dockyards in Chatham, said our men | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
are almost feeling ashamed to walk to work in the mornings, because | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
people are dishing them out with white feathers. We have got to have | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
something to counteract this and they start giving them little | :26:43. | :26:43. | |
badges. There is no record of how m`ny men | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
were pushed to fight by the taunt of the white feather and no clte at all | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
as to how many who did sacrhficed their lives for their patriotic | :26:53. | :27:04. | |
gesture. . I think it is quhte important to remember the pdople who | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
fought and also to remember those who objected. That has come back | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
recently. They were quite brave in their own way, for going ag`inst the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
norm and standing up for wh`t they believed in. So, I think we owe | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
them, as well as we owe the soldiers. | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
It is an uncomfortable lesson about how people behave when the famous | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
British back is against the wall. It blew up here on the cliffs of Kent | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
100 years ago. And to hear incredible storhes about | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
what happened in your area, go to World War One At Home at | :27:36. | :27:36. | |
bbc.co.uk/ww1. Now, if you want any more | :27:37. | :27:50. | |
information on tonight's show, you can visit our local Kent or Sussex | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
websites. And even watch thd whole show again by clicking on otr | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
iPlayer, at bbc.co.uk/insiddout Coming up next week? User rooms for | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
addicts in Brighton and Hovd. The former top cop who thinks they | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
are an option. It has got to be better that they take their drugs | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
any supervised setting. And the rehab expert who thhnks not. | :28:18. | :28:26. | |
The consumption rooms have totally detracted about a sustainable drug | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
recovery system. Where is the best place to send your | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
child to school? Kent or Sussex We can get people from every social | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
class on university. And one needs brain and the other | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
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That is it from us for tonight from Lewes. Thanks for watching `nd see | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
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