{"id":22870,"date":"2022-12-14T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=22870"},"modified":"2022-12-14T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:32:10","slug":"wes-streeting-has-betrayed-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/14\/wes-streeting-has-betrayed-the-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting has betrayed the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following article outlines Labour’s Shadow Secretary of for Health & Social Care, Wes Streeting’s moves \u00a0to help Sir Keir Starmer further privatise the NHS, It was \u00a0was first posted by Squawkbox.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

WES STREETING HAS BETRAYED THE NHS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0And in 2018, he launched \u2018disgusting\u2019 tirade in predecessor Abbott\u2019s face<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Starmer\u2019s sidekick promoted despite his history \u2013 by boss accused of covering up \u2018criminal\u2019, \u2018sadistic\u2019 abuse of domestic violence victims. Both have taken money from donors with private health interests and Starmer has attacked immigrants working in the NHS<\/p>\n

Wes Streeting has today betrayed the NHS, all who work in it and the millions who rely on it. Speaking to\u00a0<\/a><\/u><\/strong>yet another<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Tory rag, he has said today that he was willing to fight the health unions desperately battling for the jobs, pay and working conditions of their members, in order to push through \u2018reforms\u2019 \u2013 that word so loved of Tories as cover for cuts and privatisation \u2013 rather than restore the NHS to the true, comprehensive public service it is meant to be.<\/p>\n

And there is no reason to think Streeting means it any differently to the Tories. Despite receiving successful cancer treatment, he has already pledged\u00a0more<\/em>\u00a0of the NHS privatisation that has crippled the health service and sucks away huge sums of money and resources that could be used to provide treatment and he supports the \u2018Americanisation\u2019 of the NHS through the mis-named \u2018Accountable (or Integrated, depending which buzzphrase is in favour) Care Organisations\u2019 that will slash hospitals and incentivise those that remain for\u00a0withholding<\/em>\u00a0treatment and spending less.<\/p>\n

The reaction of a BMA council member<\/strong><\/p>\n

And for more of a measure of the kind of person that currently inhabits the supposed \u2018opposition\u2019 health brief, lest anyone should forget, in 2018 Streeting\u00a0launched a \u2018disgusting\u2019 and \u2018disgraceful\u2019 tirade in the face of Diane Abbott<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 herself a former Shadow Health Secretary \u2013 that left the veteran parliamentarian and first Black female MP \u2018shell-shocked\u2019, because she had said something in the Commons chamber that he didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

Streeting\u00a0tried to use libel lawyers to force Skwawkbox to remove the article<\/strong><\/a>. It remains online and he has never attempted to take the matter to court, where his actions would have been the subject of sworn testimony by eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n

Despite this and other wrongs, such as his recent\u00a0foul use of dementia as an attack on Jeremy Corbyn<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 supposedly \u2018in jest\u2019 \u2013 Keir Starmer promoted him to and still keeps him as his Shadow Cabinet health spokesman.<\/p>\n

This is unsurprising, since both\u00a0Streeting<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Starmer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0have accepted large amounts of cash from the same donor with huge private health interests. Starmer has\u00a0attacked the number of immigrants working in the NHS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who are vital to it \u2013 has\u00a0reneged on his leadership campaign promise<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(along with\u00a0all his others<\/strong><\/a>) to fully renationalise the service, and gives Streeting free rein to talk the kind of treacherous nonsense he has come out with today.<\/p>\n

And where Streeting\u2019s tirade left Diane Abbott shell-shocked, Starmer has been accused by a whistleblowing former parliamentary staffer of\u00a0repeatedly ignoring and covering up alleged sadistic and criminal abuse and exploitation of vulnerable domestic violence victims<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by a right-wing MP\u2019s reported lover. Even the right-wing MP confirmed, under oath, that Starmer had been fully aware of what whistleblower Elaina Cohen said was happening to the frightened women.<\/p>\n

Starmer is not fit to run a country and Streeting is not fit to be anywhere near the running of the NHS \u2013 so they\u2019re a perfect fit for each other.<\/p>\n

11.12.22<\/strong><\/p>\n

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also see:<\/p>\n

The public sociologist<\/a><\/p>\n

Aneurin Bevin on the Socialist ambitions of the NHS – Editorial Board, Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News changed headline to make Keir Starmer look slightly less racist – Stephen Topple, The Canary<\/a><\/p>\n

The Great Merger – the rise of oligarchical politics – Media Lens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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