A health watchdog has had its funding withdrawn after its chairman was bizarrely accused of racism for using the phrase 'jungle drums' to describe gossip.
The innocuous remark at a public meeting was seized upon by an equality campaigner - and the ensuing race row has lasted six months at a cost to the taxpayer of tens of thousands of pounds.
The trouble began at a gathering of the Wiltshire Involvement Network (WIN), an independent health watchdog, in Potterne Wick, Devizes, when chairman Anna Farquhar, 70, noted that gossip about NHS changes had been spreading within the Health Service, remarking: 'You cannot help the jungle drums
BarryW whats your learned opinion on the above...as if I don't know..
