Logic?

I think It's fair to say that Jeremy Hunt is at least on the shortlist for being the most despised health secretary ever. He has a reputation among NHS staff for being aloof, unthinking and callous when it comes to patients. And exploitative and belligerent when it comes to his staff. 

To my mind however his worst failings are that he is demonstrably illogical and unintelligent. As a prime example;

He was warned that if he abolished bursaries then applications for nurse training would plummet. DZ is old enough to remember when nurse training was not only free, but the students got a wage, and has commented before on how converting nurse training to a degree course was a con, a trap into which the nursing profession fell willingly. Abolition of bursaries is just the next step on the road to getting nursing on the cheap.

But true to form Hunt ignored the warnings and went ahead anyway. And the warnings proved accurate. So, what is his response to a 23% slump in applications for nurse training. It's a 25% increase in nurse training places of course. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but it seems logical to me that, if a quarter of places remain unfilled, then that is not addressed by creating more places. Is it? What sort of pigheaded fuckwit could possibly imagine that this is a solution. It is clear that this man refuses to acknowledge that the problem is of his making.

I note also he "He will also pledge funding for a further 5,500 “nursing associates” each year – who will “earn and learn”, rather than study full-time through a traditional university degree."  Return of the SEN then, which, frankly I think is no bad thing, as long as their non degree status is not used as an excuse to pay them a pittance.

Is it any wonder that the NHS is in the state it's in with this man at the helm?