Editor’s blog Saturday 24 July 2010: I knew people from Yorkshire were outspoken ...

... but David Forster, policy and strategy director of Yorkshire Ambulance Service, appears to be going for the big time.

The Yorkshire Post reports that Forster told a Facebook discussion, "the NHS has no shame in employing too many who are lazy, unproductive, obstinate, militant, aggressive at every turn and who couldn't secure a job anywhere outside the bloated public sector where mediocrity is too often shielded by weak and unprincipled HR policies".

His inbox should be interesting on Monday.