This would be funny if it wasn’t about our Health Secretary’s failure to prepare for his job in any way: Can Wes Streeting think? Probably not!
He has hired Louise Casey to head a three-year commission to find a solution to the UK’s problems with social care that doesn’t involve spending any money.
See, the Tories of the last 14 years ran multiple such commissions, the latest being headed by former UK Statistics Authority chair Andrew Dilnot (for whom This Writer has a bit of respect) and he came up with recommendations that involve spending money – so Streeting has dismissed them out of hand.
That might involve taxing the rich – and Labour is no longer in the business of taxing the rich. Keir Hardie is probably spinning so fast in his grave that he’s drilled himself halfway to China.
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Furthermore, a three-year commission means it won’t report until 2028, and Labour must call a general election in mid-2029 at the latest. After he gets the report, Streeting won’t have time to act on it.
And he knows this. The whole exercise is simply kicking the can down the road to the next government, which he already knows will probably be led by a right-wing headbanger who won’t give a damn about social care. Think Aktion T4 under a different title…
Much of that is what Richard Murphy is saying here:
The irony is that the Labour Party had a plan in 2017, and in 2019 – but Streeting was one of the plotters who stabbed his then-leaders in the back and prevented them from taking office.
If he had honestly believed that Jeremy Corbyn and his centre-left plan for government was impractical, and that he and the Keir Starmer cabal had a workable alternative, then he might be excused.
But he didn’t. He just wanted to enjoy the perks of power without ever thinking about how to exercise it responsibly in the service of the nation.
People of Ilford North: I bet you wish more of you had voted for Leanne Mohamad now.
Don’t you?
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Can Wes Streeting think? Probably not!
This would be funny if it wasn’t about our Health Secretary’s failure to prepare for his job in any way: Can Wes Streeting think? Probably not!
He has hired Louise Casey to head a three-year commission to find a solution to the UK’s problems with social care that doesn’t involve spending any money.
See, the Tories of the last 14 years ran multiple such commissions, the latest being headed by former UK Statistics Authority chair Andrew Dilnot (for whom This Writer has a bit of respect) and he came up with recommendations that involve spending money – so Streeting has dismissed them out of hand.
That might involve taxing the rich – and Labour is no longer in the business of taxing the rich. Keir Hardie is probably spinning so fast in his grave that he’s drilled himself halfway to China.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Furthermore, a three-year commission means it won’t report until 2028, and Labour must call a general election in mid-2029 at the latest. After he gets the report, Streeting won’t have time to act on it.
And he knows this. The whole exercise is simply kicking the can down the road to the next government, which he already knows will probably be led by a right-wing headbanger who won’t give a damn about social care. Think Aktion T4 under a different title…
Much of that is what Richard Murphy is saying here:
The irony is that the Labour Party had a plan in 2017, and in 2019 – but Streeting was one of the plotters who stabbed his then-leaders in the back and prevented them from taking office.
If he had honestly believed that Jeremy Corbyn and his centre-left plan for government was impractical, and that he and the Keir Starmer cabal had a workable alternative, then he might be excused.
But he didn’t. He just wanted to enjoy the perks of power without ever thinking about how to exercise it responsibly in the service of the nation.
People of Ilford North: I bet you wish more of you had voted for Leanne Mohamad now.
Don’t you?
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is still available in either print or eBook format here:
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