Shadow Health Secretary’s bleak opinion of the NHS should terrify you
Wes Streeting: the Shadow Health Secretary doesn’t even understand what running the NHS entails, so he certainly doesn’t deserve the chance to try it.
Richard Murphy’s appraisal of Wes Streeting’s words is accurate; the National Health Service is an investment in the future of the entire United Kingdom.
It works (when it works) by ensuring that the UK’s workforce is fit and healthy, thereby being able to add value to the nation’s economy – making us wealthier.
Staggering economic illiteracy from @wesstreeting who seems to think the #NHS is a bottomless money pit and not a massive source of value added for the UK and its economy, let alone its people. https://t.co/2Gtuuynjph
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) December 17, 2023
So Streeting is telling an untruth. Money spent on the NHS is an investment in “child poverty reduction, spending in schools, crime and policing” or whatever.
It is an insult to the UK’s voters that a so-called Labour Party health spokesman is speaking tripe like this – as the rest of us have noticed:
Here’s “MsAlfieB” on ‘X’: “What a disaster We normally expect some HOPE from the opposition to a lousy govt, something to look forward to… This spiv and the spook and the fiscal frump just fill me with complete dread.”
Dr Dan Goyal brings the more obvious threat to Labour: “I get that Labour’s political strategists’ straw polls and focus groups suggest this “NHS has enough money” narrative appeals to the Tory base, but I have one question: how have they estimated turnout rates? Because I’m not turning out to vote for this nonsense.”
That’s the issue here. Who will turn out to vote for this nonsense?
Anybody voting Labour because it’s their “tribe”, or because they think it has to be automatically “better than the Tories”, needs to screw their head back on, because it has clearly come loose.
In the forthcoming general election, more than at any time in the past, you must consider what all the candidates are offering, and vote for the policies that would actually help you, no matter who is offering them.
Voting for a party just because you think it will beat another party is ridiculous, stupid, childish… It’s what has installed the corruption into Westminster that we see today.
It’s what put Wes Streeting in the Shadow Health Secretary role that he so clearly doesn’t understand, let alone deserve.
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Amazing the NHS managed to survive for decades and provide a free service to everyone because when it was created by the labour government in 1948 measures were put in place to ensure there was always sufficient funding.
The Atlee government recognised that ensuring the UK’s citizens had access to free medical care enabled the country to become more prosperous.
Now the fascist labour boys don’t want us plebs to have free medical care because we should pay and if we can’t pay we can die! Only the wealthy have right to access medical care because they have the money to pay for it.
So will Wes Streeting next claim ‘labour government will have to decide which service they can fund because policing, education, social services, public transport etc cannot all be funded and maintained simultaneously! Makes a nonsense of government which once upon a time existed for the people not to enable greedy politicians to enrich themselves and their wealthy party donors!