Rishi Sunak lies that 18-week waits for NHS services have fallen – or he’s an imbecile
Rishi Sunak: I always thought he looked nervous in this image. He could also be dishonest. Or just plain stupid. Your choice!
How courageous (in the Yes, Minister sense of the word) of Rishi Sunak to come out with an outrageous lie in a newspaper – that is published just hours before a TV news report debunks it, never mind Full Fact.
Here it is in brief:
If I made a mistake like this, I would publicly apologise, because facts are incredibly important. Will you be issuing an apology, @RishiSunak? https://t.co/HeolqHYSZJ
— Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 (@JujuliaGrace) February 1, 2024
The Full Fact article says:
The Prime Minister said in a comment piece in the Telegraph that the government had substantially reduced 18-week waits since January 2023. This is not true.
Waits for non-emergency treatment of more than 18 weeks in the NHS in England have actually risen in that time. Health is devolved so that NHS England is the part of the health service that the UK government controls.
The article came out the same day (January 31) as Channel 4 News came out with this:
How has England’s NHS fared under Conservative governments?@C4Ciaran and @FactCheck have been crunching the numbers. pic.twitter.com/ZlczbG0uyi
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) January 31, 2024
Full Fact, in an act of astonishing charity, suggested that Sunak was mistaking 18-week waits with 18-month waits – which have reduced significantly.
This Writer reckons that’s letting the prime minister off lightly.
He’s the one in charge. The buck stops there. And he needs to have the facts at his fingertips.
If he doesn’t, who knows what other clangers he’s been dropping left, right and centre?
So either he lied in Parliament, which is a cardinal sin of UK politics, or he’s an imbecile, which should be a cardinal sin of UK politics.
Either way, I don’t want to have him running my country into the dirt for one minute longer than I have to. How about you?
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Carpet salesman Sunak adheres strongly to the cardinal fascist rule which comprises several actions – ‘fascist tories never ever lie, fascist tories never ever make mistakes, fascist tories never ever apologise and fascist tories always lie and lie and lie and lie ad nauseum!’