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This woman is a health minister: Nadine Dorries once used a derogatory description of people with mental disabilities to describe her critics on Twitter. Now she has appeared on the radio, telling women that they can expect no help from her if they suffer sexism from doctors [Image: The Prole Star.]
Nadine Dorris is a perfect example of the Tory government having to promote people beyond their abilities.
The health minister who once used the description “window lickers” (an insult against people with mental disabilities)…
The Minister of State (Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health) Just to clarify “Window lickers" is a derogatory term for people with LD and/or Autism. pic.twitter.com/YtI5d5ZcTU
Those who have already heard the car-crash interview had nothing but derision for Dorries…
Can't believe what I'm hearing on @BBCWomansHour. Nadine Dorries *health minister for patient safety!!!* @DHSCgovuk says the onus should be on women patients to push back against sexism in the system. Worrying lack of basic insight into patient-clinician power dynamics.
So, according to Nadine Dorries, I should be going to my GP and demanding to be referred to a consultant. 'Don't be fobbed off' she suggests. Has she tried 'going to a GP' recently? @BBCWomansHour please could someone return her to reality
Nadine Dorries on @BBCRadio4#womenshour is an absolute disgrace. The level of hypocrisy and female patient shaming is sickening. Kudos to the presenter though, fantastic questioning.
Think Nadine Dorries is successfully hang herself out to dry. She repeated says she has no responsibility for certain areas of health, whilst blaming patients for not demanding more. It’s all about her I’m afraid.
Nadine Dorries was awful. I do not trust her with female health after hearing her interview today. Feeling very angry with her responses but not surprised as she is supports Conservative policy and cuts. Thank you @Emmabarnett for excellent interviewing.
Emma Barnett to Nadine Dorries, on 'Woman's Hour': "That's not how it works here. You don't get to answer the questions you'd like to be asked." Brilliant. A lesson for all journalists and interviewers.
Oh God, Emma Barnett on Woman's Hour struggling to interview Nadine Dorries. Give Emma a bonus and a month off for tackling a person with the intellectual complexity of the average tree stump.
— The Masked Prevenger (@zombiwombat) June 9, 2021
@BBCWomansHour and @Emmabarnett thank you for challenging and standing up to Nadine Dorries assertion that women should be confident to challenge their GP. The overwhelming evidence is that women are being failed, even when they challenge.
The message is starkly clear: if you are a woman and you are being failed by the Tory-run health service, you will get no help from the Tories who are running it into the ground.
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Unrepentant: Ignorant old Tories like Lord Young cannot see anything wrong with starving workers – and, through lack of tax revenue, the benefit budget – to make fat profits for greedy business bosses. The families of all those who have died because of these policies might have a different point of view.
Apparently we are living in an excellent time for businesses to boost their profits – because labour is cheap.
That is what Lord Young, who advises David Cameron on enterprise, told the cabinet yesterday (May 11). His words make it crystal clear that working people who vote Conservative are classic examples of turkeys voting for Christmas. They beg to be exploited.
He said low wage levels in a recession made larger financial returns easier to achieve – in other words, he actually admitted that bosses could use the current state of the UK economy, as caused by his own government (not the previous Labour administration, for reasons we’ve covered in the past), to push workers’ wages down and keep more moolah for themselves.
Vox Political has accused the Conservatives of exactly this behaviour in the past, but we never expected to see a member of the government admit it so brazenly.
Perhaps this is more of the government’s pet ‘nudge’ theory at work. We have seen that benefit increases have been lowered in order to instil fear of destitution in the jobless, and in those who have low-paid jobs. Now, businesses are being urged to capitalise on this, exploiting their workforces with the obvious threat: “There are plenty of other people out there who’ll do it for less!”
Let’s just back this up with some statistics, courtesy of The Guardian , shall we? UK employees’ average hourly earnings have fallen by 8.5 per cent, in real terms, since 2009. That’s adjusting for inflation, and the newspaper got its figure from the Office for National Statistics.
Meanwhile, the 1,000 richest people in the UK are now worth more than £414 billion – up more than £155 billion in the three years to December 2012. And in April, the Tory-led government gave those people a £100,000 per year tax cut.
Lord Young is not to be confused with Sir George Young, the Tory Chief Whip who once famously said “the homeless are what you step over when you come out of the opera” – but he is cut from the same cloth.
He had to apologise after telling the Daily Telegraph that “for the vast majority of people in the country today, they have never had it so good, ever since this recession – this so-called recession – started”.
For this reason it is easy to suggest that he would have stepped over the body of Stephanie Bottrill, had he been the first to find it.
Oh – do you think that statement goes too far? Please, reserve your judgement until I have explained my reasoning.
Like so many members of the Tory government, this is a man who absolutely point-blank refuses to understand the relationship between the decisions he makes and the conditions in which the majority of us are forced to live.
This former advisor to the Prime Minister on health and safety laws has advocated relaxing them, ignoring the fact that this will increase the likelihood of work-related injury that makes it impossible for people who need the money to go to work.
This enterprise advisor was asked to conduct a “brutal” review of the relationship of government to small firms, presumably with a view to cutting off as much public assistance for small businesses as possible.
This former chairman of the Manpower Services Commission advised the late Baroness Thatcher on unemployment, and we may take it that it is due to this advice that joblessness skyrocketed during the Thatcher years.
He refuses to see that his attitude is causing the problem: By ensuring that Britain’s labour market remains “flexible” (read “low-wage”), he ensures that the national tax take remains far lower than it should be; low-paid workers form the overwhelming majority of the workforce. In turn, the low tax take means the government cannot pay off its debts and provides it with an excuse to cut public spending – especially on benefit payments.
Stephanie Bottrill had an auto-immune system deficiency, Myasthenia gravis, which meant she was permanently weak and needed constant medication. Doctors said she was too ill to hold a job, but she never qualified for disability benefits.
She committed suicide because she could not afford the cost of living after the Bedroom Tax was forced on her, and it has been said by others that she died for want of £20 per week.
It is the attitude of Tories like Lord Young that has deprived her of that money – and ultimately, of her life.
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