National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.

There is no medical justification for the imposition of such documents; they are not aimed at protecting our health but at the surveillance and control of workers.

Once again we see the absurdity of a system that leaves the fate of essential industries and millions of workers in the hands of rapacious fraudsters.

The collapse of this particular debt-laden finance house is drawing public attention to some very uncomfortable truths.