Keir Starmer insists that the NHS will receive "no more money without reform", and threatens that he will allow the NHS to "die" unless he gets his way.
The NHS is in a diabolical state, and you’d have to be wilfully ignorant to pretend that record over-crowding, all-time high waiting lists, crumbling facilities and enormous staff shortages had nothing to do with Tory NHS cuts and closures, and their ideological attacks on NHS workers’ wages and work conditions.
The damning Darzi Report into the state of the NHS makes it absolutely clear that austerity, top-down reorganisations, and lack of capital investment have been major factors in the alarming decline of the NHS.
The NHS desperately needs a massive injection of cash to hire workers, expand services, repair facilities, and combat waiting lists.
However Keir Starmer has a different idea.
He’s attempting to argue that the solution to the problems caused by deliberate under-funding and disastrous top-down reorganisations is to withhold funding until NHS workers wave through yet another round of top-down NHS "reforms".
And what he means by "reforms" is obviously even more NHS privatisation for the benefit of the sinister private health profiteers who have been bankrolling Starmer and his inner circle with massive political donations.
It’s like a doctor telling a patient suffering from starvation that the cure is to continue not eating until they can be trusted with a dose of magic "reform" beans at some unspecified future date.
Starmer’s proposed solution for Britain’s wider economic malaise is even more idiotic.
Fourteen ruinous years of austerity economics have left the British economy in a diabolical state. Stagnant wages; rising poverty; unaffordable housing; failing public services; crumbling infrastructure; local councils on the brink of bankruptcy; collapsing productivity; and the national debt tripled in size since this economic lunacy was launched in 2010!
But Starmer’s solution to this diabolical state of affairs is another round of austerity ruination, served up with the chilling warning that "things will get worse".
It’s like a doctor attempting to treat a poisoning patient with a dose of the exact same toxin that they know has been killing them, and expecting a magical phoenix-like revival.
Just like the diabolical Tories who preceded them, Keir Starmer and his dangerously deluded economics minister Rachel Reeves are addicted to the economic crack cocaine of austerity ruination.
Even when the diabolical consequences of austerity and health service cuts are glaringly obvious to all, they’re so hopelessly addicted to the myopic short-term book-balancing idiocy of austerity that they keep on proposing the cause of the problems as the magical solution.
At best Keir Starmer is a dangerously deluded idiot who can’t tell the different between causes and cures, because the alternative is that he knows he’s peddling more of the same damaging quack economics as the Tories, and he’s deliberately selling this toxic snake oil because he sees some personal benefit for himself in it.The last working-class hero in England.
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on September 12, 2024, 8:50 pm