Alex Chalk: the justice secretary has halted the Tory attack on our human rights… for now.
Don’t get too festive too soon; plans to re-write human rights laws have been on-again and off-again for nearly 10 years now.
But on the face of it, this is very good news:
The Government has decided not to proceed with the Bill of Rights, the Justice Secretary has said.
Alex Chalk confirmed in the House of Commons that Dominic Raab’s plans to rewrite human rights law will be officially shelved after “having carefully considered the Government’s legislative programme in the round”.
The Justice Secretary said ministers remain committed to “a human rights framework which is up-to-date and fit for purpose and works for the British people”.
So it seems the plan is to return to this issue at some point in the future.
Bear in mind that changes to human rights are at the heart of the controversy over the Illegal Migration Bill, which is considered to live up to its name with regard to international law: illegal.
A Tory Bill of Rights is certain to restrict our rights to the bare minimum.
The best way to make sure they can’t do that is to make sure they don’t remain in office.
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Rishi Sunak: ‘Please don’t force us to eat your diseased chicken, Mr Trump! Look – we’ll cancel our tax on your tech companies! They can take as much money as they like from operating in our country and we won’t ask for a penny! Will that persuade you, Mr Trump? Mr Trump? Are you there..?’
Could there be a more blatant display of the UK’s newfound powerLESSness in the world?
The UK imposed a tax on tech companies like Facebook last year, expecting to bring in £500 million per year from firms that make more than £25 million each and would otherwise pay very little indeed.
But now Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to axe it, in the hope that doing so will encourage Donald Trump not to insist on sending chlorinated chicken to the UK.
Sunak doesn’t even have the bargaining power to say he’ll do it on condition that Trump relents on his determination to foist food poisoning on the United Kingdom.
The justification to the rest of us? “Oh, it’s more trouble than it’s worth.”
I don’t know about that. £500 million is a lot of money to most of us.
The whole situation is pathetic.
The Johnson government, in the footsteps of Theresa May and David Cameron, has reduced Britain from Greatness to a state that can only be described as Little.
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Matt Hancock: one look in those eyes and you know nobody’s home.
Matt Hancock has secured his position in the top rank of Tory chumps alongside Boris ‘holibobs’ Johnson, Chris ‘failing’ Grayling and Gavin ‘algorithm’ Williamson – by announcing a huge reorganisation of the health service in the middle of a health crisis.
He’s handing control of the UK’s response to pandemic threats over to a new ‘agency’ that will partner the government with private firms, even though every single partnership with private businesses over the handling of Covid-19 has resulted in failure and chaos.
Hancock seems to think he can hide the facts by denying them, hence his comment that partnering up with corporate giants is “the best way through”.
He actually said: “We couldn’t have expanded testing in the way that we did.” That system failed.
He actually said: “We couldn’t have expanded contact tracing in the way that we did.” That system failed.
But he was right in this: “The truth is we couldn’t have done this without the private sector.”
He is right – in that the private sector should take equal responsibility with the government that employed it for causing the preventable deaths of nearly 70,000 UK citizens.
Because believe me, that is the sum total of all that has been achieved by the Conservative government in its Covid-19 strategy that involved partnership with the private sector.
Expert advice is that closing Public Health England and replacing it with a privatised lash-up is a “major misstep”.
Nigel Edwards, the chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, [said]: “The government risks making a major misstep by dismantling its own public health agency at such a crucial time, creating a huge distraction for staff who should be dedicating themselves to the next stage of the pandemic.
“There is no clear argument as to why this rebranding and reshuffling will solve some of the problems highlighted by the secretary of state today.”
It is certain to cause huge distraction – at a time when that’s the last thing the health service needs:
Matt Hancock: "I don't accept that the abolition of Public Health England will cause disruption."
I've been involved in 11 NHS reorganisations & I can tell you categorically they cause chaos for at least 18 months.
This reorganisation is nothing short of murderous insanity.
“Independent SAGE does not agree with the course that the government appears to be taking and is concerned that it will further destroy the confidence of public health staff. The changes are of such magnitude and importance that they should be the subject of close parliamentary scrutiny. However, if the government makes a decision to proceed down this path Independent SAGE advises as follows:
“Any new organisation needs to be operating under trained, qualified and experienced public-health leadership.”
So why the hell has he put his good friend, former jockey Dido Harding, in the job?
Breaking: Matt Hancock has officially dismantled Public Health England, during the middle of a fucking pandemic, so his wholly inadequate sidekick, Dido Harding, can screw something else up.
Hancock on #bbcnews desperately & ineffectually attempting to defend the appointment of Dido Harding. On being pressed re detail of the new body's public health responsibilities – he reverts to the usual *cop out* ie "Details will be worked out over the next few weeks "#Streuth
Congratulations to Dido Harding on being appointed head of the new National Institute of Health Protection after a rigorous selection process which consisted of being a pal of Matt Hancock's and presiding over our omnishambolic track and trace system. We are now in safe hands.
Why did she get the job? I think Carole Cadwallader has an inkling:
Matt Hancock’s political activities supported by £100k+ donations from racing industry appoints Jockey Club’s Dido Harding to top public health role before org is even established & dishes out £££ contract to brother of one of main investors in horse racing’s £ machine: the Tote
If that looks like corruption to you, you’re unlikely to be alone!
What a good thing the government has measures in place to prevent corruption from happening.
Take a look! Oh dear…
The fact Matt Hancock’s pal Dido Harding was chosen by him to head up the new health institute despite having no expertise and having failed on track and trace will be of great interest to the PM’s Anti-Corruption Champion who is – *checks notes* – Dido Harding’s husband.
Last word in this article can go to Melanie Melvin, who puts this whole affair in perspective. We could have had a proper response to Covid-19 if we’d had a Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn – but too many right-wing cuckoos had worked themselves into the party and did too much damage to his reputation for that to happen.
That is why Matt Hancock is health secretary now. It’s why he has been able to dismantle even more of the public health service and replace it with private asset-strippers – under a blatant lie that the best-working part of the UK’s Covid-19 tragedy was these profiteers and their blithering incompetence.
Everyone in @UKLabour who worked to sabotage a Corbyn win is responsible for the imminent full destruction of the jewel in Britain’s crown: OUR NHS. https://t.co/SFNeQAVgZH
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Matt Hancock: he was a Covid-19 super-spreader so it should be no surprise that the private organisation he wants to create, replacing Public Health England, is likely to do nothing to prevent the resurgence of the disease across the UK.
Failed Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to scrap Public Health England (PHE) this week, we’re told, in an attempt to blame somebody else for his failure to control Covid-19 in the UK.
The trouble is, he’s planning to replace it with something worse.
Public Health England, as an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care, exists to protect the general health and well-being of English people – in any circumstance. But Hancock wants to replace it with an organisation dedicated only to handling pandemic threats.
And he plans to do this by merging the pandemic response work of PHE with Serco Test and Trace – the privatised ‘test and trace’ system that has already proved itself to be a humiliating failure for the government, and for its plans to privatise NHS services.
What a fiasco.
It means that Hancock is planning to replace a system that he has decided has failed with something that we all know is a failure, for the sake of the Tories’ Holy Grail of NHS privatisation.
And the devil take public health and safety.
Let us also remember that, as a wholly-owned executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care, PHE’s failure are entirely the responsibility of one man: Matt Hancock. It seems he is hoping that he can hide his incompetence by dissolving the organisation that contains the evidence.
It doesn’t work that way. The evidence is already public knowledge. Take a look at this article if you need to be convinced.
And we all know where the blame lies:
“Failing Public Health England” that is to be “axed” by mighty Hancock has in fact been under his orders throughout Covid19 & prior & grossly under-funded by govt for yrs. The “sluggish” response is Boris Johnson’s work.
Don’t, for goodness sake, tell that to the public though.
It’s true. The BMJ article (link above) states that public health funding has fallen by 25 per cent per person in the last five years alone.
Your regular reminder that Public Health England is an agency of the Department of Health and Social Care, and had no separate legal personality. It is *already* under the “direct control” of Ministers. pic.twitter.com/k4RbDoYsCH
Worse still, the rumour mill has it that the new, privatised organisation that will be tasked with protecting us from pandemic infections (but only if it can make a profit from doing it, of course) will be headed by another failure: Dido Harding:
Dido Harding, DISGRACED former CEO of Talk Talk, who lead the disastrous NHS Test & Trace, is married to Tory MP John Penrose, he sits on the advisory board of a think tank called 1828. 1828 wants Public Health England scrapped and the NHS to be replaced by a US insurance system. pic.twitter.com/4PORAlCU6c
Tory Peer Dido Harding has consistently been a disaster with everything she has touched. She is now being touted to run a huge organisation that Matt Hancock wants to replace Public Health England.#ToryShamblespic.twitter.com/g2QlmUjAeC
This may be another example of Tories giving jobs to their friends, rather than to anybody who actually knows what they are doing:
Matt Hancock's relationship with Dido Harding is totally corrupt. She raised more than £600,000 for his leadership bid. And as Health Secretary he rewarded her with the position of head of TTT, which failed. He is now scrapping NHS England, and she will head up the new body. https://t.co/wqmxwuzKR5
— neil flek waugh .#Palestine is a state. BDS (@sammythedog1989) August 16, 2020
It’s interesting also to take note of the fellow-travellers who have sprung up to support Hancock’s plan. These are Tory propagandists who should never be trusted on any subject at all.
Rest assured that nothing good will come of this. Hancock will not succeed in shifting the blame away from himself; his decision can only result in more infections and deaths as Serco continues to take our money while failing to do anything to prevent Covid-19 infections from spreading.
We know this is the wrong decision and it will only worsen a Tory-engineered national disaster.
But there is nothing we can do to prevent it. We lost that opportunity on December 13, 2019.
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Head of Pandemic Un-preparedness: Boris Johnson’s reaction to Covid-19 was so poor that he actually caught the disease himself and then sent us all letters, claiming to provide advice on how not to do the same.
The Tories have been accused of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, after they advertised for a new ‘head of pandemic preparedness’ six months into the Covid crisis.
But the facts are actually worse than that.
The idea is to pay someone £61,000 a year to “learn the lessons” (how many times have we heard that?) from the crisis and ensure the UK is properly prepared for any similar situation in the future.
And yes, it is too late for all that.
But the reason it’s too late is that the Tories spent the last 10 years dismantling the UK’s system of preparation for any pandemic disease.
I wrote about this back in March so perhaps people have forgotten. Here’s the gist:
The UK government has strategies for dealing with events like this. The Cabinet Office keeps a National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies which it must keep up-to-date – and every single copy of this document ever made lists “pandemic flu” as the most probable and devastating threat to the UK.
This means the government has devised strategies to deal with such a threat. The problem is, they are all out of date.
The last strategy written specifically to deal with pandemic flu was published in 2011 – the same year David Cameron’s Conservative-led Coalition government closed the dedicated government Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Team based in the Department of Health, which was tasked with tackling this type of crisis.
It may explain much that the government’s UK Pandemic Influenza Communications Strategy, the crucial document for getting the right messages across to the public, was written in 2012 and is now wildly inaccurate in its assumptions about how and where people get their information.
In October 2016, David Cameron’s now wholly-Conservative government carried out an exercise to estimate the impact of a hypothetical influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom. Exercise Cygnus showed that such a pandemic would cause the country’s health system to collapse, due to a lack of resources.
The Chief Medical Officer of the time said that a lack of medical ventilators was a serious problem that should be rectified, but in 2017 this advice was ignored by the Department of Health under Jeremy Hunt – because it would cost too much. The government was committed to austerity policies, remember.
So you see, we used to have whole teams dedicated to ensuring that the UK could weather a pandemic without serious harm to the population.
And the Tories got rid of the lot.
And now they want to replace them with a single person.
So let’s float a wild theory.
Is it possible that the Tories knew a pandemic like Covid-19 could cause huge numbers of unnecessary deaths, and decided to allow it to happen?
I’ll answer that for you: we know it is because it is exactly what Boris Johnson advocated on live television in early March.
Is it possible that all their decisions since then have been dedicated to this end, rather than towards saving people’s lives, and this is why every single strategy they have started has been a dismal failure?
And, in line with this thinking…
Is it possible that this position will be nothing more than a “figurehead” role, to be quietly dissolved after a few years so we can all fall victim to the next viral disaster?
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The Department for Work and Pensions is in the habit of cutting off people’s benefit claims with the slightest excuse.
Claims have been cancelled because the claimants have suffered medical emergencies and were in hospital at the time – even before the coronavirus crisis began.
This Writer has already heard from someone who had to report to the DWP before a deadline – but failed to meet it because of the huge number of people trying to claim Universal Credit online or by telephone. That person’s benefit was cut off – but luckily it was subsequently restored.
Not everybody can count on that, though.
People on disability benefits may often be on medication including immuno-suppressants, which make them susceptible to Covid-19.
So it is entirely likely that they could fail to meet the reporting requirements – or indeed reassessment requirements – because of the pandemic.
And what if they need treatment for a prolonged period of time? People automatically lose benefits if they are in hospital for longer than (as far as I can recall) 28 days.
And in the face of these concerns, the Department for Work and Pensions has refused to provide any reassurance.
Past experience of the DWP suggests only one thing:
These bureaucrats will merrily strip the sick and disabled of their benefits, even if they are fighting for their lives against this killer virus.
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This was a corridor in an English hospital’s Accident & Emergency department in early 2017 – and now the situation is worse.
Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted not only that he can’t fix the NHS waiting time crisis – he won’t even bother to try.
Instead, it seems he’ll get rid of the four-hour target for patients to be seen. In other words, he’ll hide the evidence.
Of course he’ll say it’s only a coincidence that the proportion of patients attending A&E who were seen within the four-hour limit has been falling steadily since the Tories took over government in 2010.
Before then, under Labour, it was well within the target of 95 per cent.
And I’m sure he’ll say it’s also just a coincidence that attendances at A&E last month had increased by 400,000 since 2010.
It’s nothing to do with the return of so-called “Victorian diseases” brought by the Tory “starve the poor” policies of 2010 onwards – obviously. And it’s nothing to do with the increased health problems faced by benefit claimants who the Tories (wrongly) said could live on less.
And if you believe that, you’re stupid and gullible enough to deserve the pathetic service you’re getting.
You probably even believe Hancock when he says the NHS is getting its biggest cash injection ever, when in real terms the £33.9 billion promised is nowhere near the biggest, once inflation has been taken into account.
One person who isn’t going to be gulled is Professor Taj Hassan, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, who said last year: “In our expert opinion scrapping the four-hour target will have a near-catastrophic impact on patient safety.”
As a reader of Vox Political, I’m willing to bet that you are neither gullible nor stupid.
So, who do you believe?
Matt Hancock has signalled that four-hour waiting targets for A&E are likely to be scrapped for the NHS in England after the worst figures on record this winter.
The health secretary said it would be better if targets were “clinically appropriate” and the “right targets”, as he defended the NHS’s failure to meet the standard that 95% of patients attending A&E should be admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
The target was put under review by Theresa May’s government and the NHS unveiled plans last March to pilot changes that would prioritise patients with serious conditions while patients with minor problems could wait longer than four hours.
A decision about the flagship four-hour target is due to be taken by NHS England in the coming months.
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Short-changing the elderly: the Tories love taking money from people who depend on it.
Statistics show older people constitute the majority of Conservative voters – I bet they never knew the Tories would stab them in the back so soon!
It’s even worse because the allowance for adult dependents is being phased out in any case – the Tories are simply cutting it earlier than it would have ended.
It turns out 11,000 pensioners are still receiving the allowance. From April, those people will lose £3,500 per year.
The DWP is claiming that current recipients of the allowance will be able to claim a means-tested benefit like Universal Credit or Pension Credit. Good luck with that, folks!
The simple fact is that Tories love to take state money away from people who depend on it.
And they don’t even care that they’re attacking people who helped put them in office; they think you’re so stupid you’ll vote for them again. Are they right?
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Now, if Labour could make it possible for everybody to have access to a National Health Service dentist, that would be great.
I haven’t been able to see one since June 2018. Fortunately I have good dental hygiene, but I’d still like access to an expert.
Oh, and you know the reason I don’t have an NHS dentist any more? The company providing the service here in Mid Wales is privately-run.
Health service privatisation – it will always leave us short-changed.
Labour will bring back free dental check-ups if they win the election.
The £22.70 fee to see an NHS dentist will be axed and leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday said the ultimate ambition is to scrap ALL dental fees.
The £450 million-a-year plan will free up resources long-term by focusing on prevention. Fees were introduced in 1951 to pay for UK involvement in the Korean War.
But one in five adults puts off seeing a dentist because of the £22.70 charge for a basic visit. Under the first stage of Labour ’s plans, check-ups, oral cancer examinations, X-rays, clinical scaling and polishing and emergency treatment won’t cost a penny.
Worrying numbers [have] turned to internet kits for scaling and makeshift fillings which can cause major problems.
And 515,000 patients a year with toothache go to GPs or A&E – costing the NHS more than £38 million.
More than 100 children a day have rotting teeth removed in hospital and 90 per cent of cases could have been prevented by early treatment. And decay is the leading cause of admissions among kids aged five to nine.
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Even in the so-called Season of Goodwill, they delight in hurting others.
Let’s be honest, the £10 Christmas bonus for benefit claimants isn’t anything like the boost it was when it was introduced in 1972 or thereabouts – but it was still a valuable piece of public relations for our penny-pinching, privileged government of the wealthy.
Not any more, it seems. The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that the bonus is not being paid to anybody claiming Universal Credit.
Notice that no announcement was made; claimants had to find out for themselves.
But now the news is spreading, courtesy of the Twitterati:
If you have not already heard, the DWP have cut for Universal Credit claimants the £10 Christmas money that people on benefits used to get on the previous system. It was only £10 but it was a vital £10 to help them enjoy Christmas. Well now the Tory Govt have cut it. #ToryCruelty
The £10 bonus was introduced in 1972 when £10 was a great help to OAPs and people on supplementry benefits… it has never risen with inflation since then, families on UC need a little bonus at Christmas it is shocking they are depriving the children yet again. #Torydeprivationhttps://t.co/k7NB0cpMeI
— Will Never Vote Labour Again **All Lives Matter** (@Isobel_waby) December 5, 2018
It's just £10 and yet the Tory government is taking it away at Xmas from families struggling to cope. Yet another example, of their cruelty through Universal Credit. https://t.co/n3utp1TNYD
With the Tory government teetering on the brink of oblivion due to prime minister Theresa May’s recklessness over Brexit, this could be a disastrous miscalculation – an act of selfishness affecting millions of people.
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