Tim Montgomerie: Before you suggest that he should open the window and jump, it may be worth noting that he’s on the ground floor.
Responses to Prime Minister’s Questions every Wednesday are always interesting, sometimes sinister – and sometimes unintentionally hilarious.
Yesterday (Wednesday), David Cameron and Ed Miliband were tearing chunks out of each other over the National Health Service, with the NHS in Wales coming under particularly heavy scrutiny.
In the midst of this, Tim Montgomerie, editor of the ConservativeHome blog and comment editor of The Times*, tweeted the following:
He is of course doubly wrong. Firstly, his tweet was made on the same day that a former cancer sufferer who was cured by NHS Wales expressed outrage that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has smeared the service and
demanded an apology from Hunt to the doctors who saved his life.
Secondly, he seems blissfully unaware of the fact that the Tory-led Coalition Government proved – only yesterday – that it
can’t look after the economy. This administration’s reason for existence was to reduce the national deficit to nothing by the next general election in 2015. We found out very quickly that this was not going to happen, but yesterday we learned that
the deficit is actually rising again, partly because the Tory squeeze on workers’ wages has meant none of the people who have been put to work on a pittance have been able to pay any taxes.
The Treasury’s comment – that the government’s long-term economic plan is working – showed very clearly that the Tory-led Coalition is in no fit state to run the economy.
Therefore, by Mr Montgomerie’s own admission, it is in no fit state to look after the NHS.
It seems that ministers are more likely to benefit from NHS treatment.
*ConservativeHome is a Tory-oriented political blog that is slightly less influential than Vox Political – but still worth reading if you want to laugh at the things these people believe. The Times used to be a newspaper until it was bought by Rupert Murdoch.
Follow me on Twitter: @MidWalesMike
Join the Vox Political Facebook page.
Vox Political needs your help!
If you want to support this site
(but don’t want to give your money to advertisers)
you can make a one-off donation here:
Buy Vox Political books so we can continue
making a mockery of the day’s political fools!
Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
you see mike after their telling of the poor services in the welsh nhs well i never you see i had too email a right few mps about this has mrs davies little boy last week had a mini stroke but wouldnt leave the wife call a ambulance well to cut a long story on friday last wk she had me go to doctors who sent me to optician who then sent me to singleton hospital three doctors later came to that a mini stroke orcurred but monday tuesday wensday thurdays this week nothing but visits to hospital having test yes they were right but our nhs in wales is something thats surviving their cuts just but to all nhs workers im proud of you all tories could tell the truth when carneys in the bank fiddling george on the outside fiddling figures and our rtu ids well we all now stacking shelves is the new work programme were ones not unemployed ops jeff3
And yet the Welsh health service is in a better state than the English NHS, Hmmm?
What a wally and this man gets paid, priceless.