This Deserves To Be The End Of Him!

Right, so between comments that have gone viral aimed at the Tories yesterday or the news of the abolition of NHS England in light of his well known and significant donations from private health interests, our Health Secretary the weaselly Wesley Streeting might be strutting around like he’s cock of the walk, whereas the truth is he opened his gaping chasm of a mouth and he accidentally let the truth slip out amongst all the usual nonsense, a barbed attack of the Tores that roughly translated told them, why would people vote Tory again when Labour are proving they can be even bigger Tories than the original article. Worse, he did so in the context of people voting for change when the message clearly told all who were listening they did no such thing at all, see for yourself in a moment. But this happened against that backdrop of NHS England being abolished as was announced yesterday, which has caused a great deal of confusion and concern. The confusion I can deal with, the concern is probably valid, because although this is the undoing of what is ostensibly an unnecessary level of bureaucracy, the way it is being handled comes as small comfort to those who work in it and when Labour are supposedly the party of workers, the optics of that have blown up in their faces as well. Is there any competence at all in this government?
Right, so that was two clips there, the first of former Labour candidate for Chingford and Wood Green before she got obnoxiously replaced by the Starmer machine for a Starmer friendly candidate, no dissent allowed of course, Faiza Shaheen, dropping truthbombs about Streeting and NHS privatisation of which he has long been a cheerleader for, the labour Panellist on Question Time there, not denying it in the slightest, but she might wish she had been less honest about private provision, because if Labour want to talk about abolishing Tory constructs in the NHS like NHS England, keeping the privatisation is a lot more harmful to us and the NHS itself in the long term. But then there was that other short clip wasn’t there, Streeting enjoying himself immensely by telling the Tories in effect that Labour was now better at being the Tory Party than the Tory Party is, doing the things they only dreamt about, because Labour evidently are much worse and yet still being vacant and stupid enough to imagine that comes across as change. He was incidentally speaking in relation to those proposed upcoming cuts to disability benefits and other welfare cuts.
Well as you might imagine, social media has had a bit of a meltdown over it.
Murray Foote wrote:
‘It is quite the thing to see a Labour Cabinet Secretary bragging to the Tories: “We’re more Tory than you.”’
Damian From Brighton wrote:
‘What an utterly bizarre and grotesque spectacle. The Labour Health Minister Wes Streeting goading the Tories for not being as big a Tory as him.’
Wokerati Marty wrote:
‘Wes Streeting proving beautifully that the choice at the last election was Red Tory or Blue Tory. How much do elections cost the tax payer? because that one was a total waste of time.’
And Streeting’s Independent opponent at the last general Election Leanne Mohamad wrote:
‘During my election campaign in my home of Ilford North, I criticised the Health Secretary for his unoriginal and tired approach. It’s clear that when all else fails, he simply falls back on his Tory tribute act. Today’s announcement of yet another top-down reorganisation of the NHS proves just how out of touch and devoid of real solutions they are. This is not leadership; it's a desperate ploy from a government that has run out of ideas. As I said, two sides of the same rusty coin.’
Those were amongst the more repeatable responses as you might imagine.
It is Streeting’s links to private health that are of most concern though and Faiza Shaheen raised this on the BBC, a story that has gone underreported thrust into mainstream viewing and as much as Fiona Bruce tried to play it down and the Labour guest Emma Reynolds defended the indefensible introduction of privatisation into the NHS, Labour not even hiding it, Streeting’s donations from private health mean he really is the last man you want anywhere near the NHS when he is being lobbied by and accepting donations from private health on the scale he has.
A report by the Good Law Project, as Shaheen made mention of, has revealed that Streeting has accepted significant donations from private health interests, raising questions about his commitment to preserving the NHS as a public service.
According to the report, Streeting has accepted donations from individuals and organisations with a vested interest in the privatisation of healthcare. These donations, which amount to more than £300,000, have come from figures such as John Armitage, a hedge fund manager with investments in private healthcare, Trevor Chinn with links to private health as well as being a significant Zionist donor and others who stand to profit from the expansion of private provision within the NHS. While Streeting has defended these donations as legitimate political contributions, which they are he has done nothing illegal, the optics are damning. What are they giving him money for, because staff expenditure can go on the Register of MPs financial interests as many times as you like, these people did not amass such wealth that they can ply politicians with it, by not expecting a return of some kind. A politician responsible for overseeing the NHS should not be financially indebted to those who seek to profit from its fragmentation.
Therefore the acceptance of these donations raises serious ethical questions. Streeting’s role as Health Secretary places him in a position of ultimate influence over the future of the NHS. By accepting money from private health interests, he risks being perceived as beholden to their agenda. He can deny that all he likes, but the money speaks louder. This perception is exacerbated by his rhetoric, which often echoes the arguments of those who advocate for greater private sector involvement in healthcare. Streeting has repeatedly claimed that the private sector can “step in” to ease the workload of the NHS, which is a narrative that is not only misleading but also dangerous.
The idea that the private sector can alleviate the pressures on the NHS is a fallacy. Proponents of privatisation argue that private providers can offer additional capacity, reducing waiting times and improving efficiency. However, this argument ignores the reality of how private healthcare operates in the UK. The private sector does not exist in a vacuum; it relies heavily on the same pool of healthcare professionals who work in the NHS. When private providers expand, they often poach staff from the NHS, exacerbating workforce shortages and undermining the public health service the vast majority of us rely on.
Moreover, many NHS staff already work for both the NHS and private providers. This dual employment means that there is no spare capacity in the private sector at all; instead, it simply diverts resources away from the NHS. The result is a two-tier healthcare system in which those who can afford to pay for private care receive faster treatment, while those who rely on the NHS face longer waits and that completely undermines the fundamental principle of the NHS which is that healthcare should be provided on the basis of need, not ability to pay.
The expansion of private provision also prioritises profits over patients. Private healthcare companies are driven by the need to generate returns for their shareholders, which often leads to cost-cutting and a focus on lucrative procedures at the expense of less profitable, likely more difficult but equally important services. A profit-driven approach is incompatible with the ethos of the NHS, that the Labour Party, when it was still worthy of the name created, which is to provide comprehensive care to all.
But in addition to the concerns about privatisation, the government’s decision to abolish NHS England has sparked widespread alarm, though a lot of that has been to do with widespread confusion.
My 16 year old son Piran text me from College yesterday saying and I quote:
‘Keir Starmer is so stupid. Why has he shut down NHS England?’
So I had to say to him, a kid who has had a few health issues had a fair bit of NHS assistance, so he’s learned the value of the health service as much as any of us have and was under the impression it had gone. Not so. Calm down my boy.
NHS England, was established during the Tory led Lansley Reforms in 2013, supposedly was to make for a more efficient NHS, but really was just an added layer of bureaucracy, with all the added expense that came with it, that when things went wrong in the health service, the government could point to and blame for it. The decision to abolish now by Labour has been justified as a way to streamline the healthcare system, reduce costs and make ministers more directly accountable, which theoretically it will, but only if we have an NHS left and with private provision being pursued as it is, won’t the private providers just be the new scapegoats?
The abolition of NHS England will also result in the loss of thousands of jobs, creating chaos in the short term. The restructuring could see the NHS England workforce cut by half, leaving thousands out of work.
The claim that abolishing NHS England will make ministers more directly accountable is questionable for another reason as well.
The combination of privatisation and the abolition of NHS England signals a move away from the principles of universal care at point of use and equity that have underpinned the NHS since its inception. Instead, it increasingly is being made to embrace a market-driven approach that prioritises profit over people.
This is the result of political choices that have been made by successive governments, both Conservative and Labour, no difference between the two anymore as Streeting gleefully declared.
The NHS is one of the most cherished institutions in the UK, and its future should not be determined by the interests of private donors or the whims of politicians. Instead, it should be guided by the principles of fairness, equity, and solidarity that it was set up under, that Labour once believed in to create it, yet are now competing with the Tories over who can destroy it and other services we all rely on the fastest.
From healthcare, to welfare, to the elderly, to the disabled, Starmer’s Labour target all and now it has emerged even our kids must pay too, to cover the costs of what he’d prefer to spend public money on as drastic school cuts are coming leaving over 90% of secondary schools and more than three-quarters of primary schools unable to cover their full budgets. Get all the details of that threat to the next generation in this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch. Please do also hit like, share and subscribe if you haven’t done so already so as to ensure you don’t miss out on all new daily content as well as supporting the channel, which has now passed the 99,000 subscriber mark, so please do consider subscribing and be one of those to get the channel over the magic 100,000 subscriber mark and I will hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.