Anyone would think that training and practice in fields such as health policy and the National Health Service itself were either attractive only the Left, or liable to turn people that way, or both. After all, the Right never proposes alternative names, any more than it ever says that what the people about whom it was complaining had said had been factually incorrect.
Still, let there be no more whining about left-wing bias, after almost the entire approved media repeated as fact Matt Hancock's totally false claim to have met his testing target. The only dissent in the interest of basic accuracy came from those well-known Trotskyists, Andrew Neil, Piers Morgan, and the Daily Mail. There was certainly none of that in The Guardian, or on the BBC.
Likewise, the only political dissent has come from the Liberal Democrats, who five years ago were in the Coalition that implemented austerity because they were in it (such implementation has ceased since the Lib Dems stopped being in government), and who only last year were welcoming into membership the likes of Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger.
From subsequent events, it is incontrovertible that it was the Conservative Party that was the moderating influence in the Coalition. Yet it is the Lib Dems who are providing the parliamentary opposition to the flagrant fiddling of the Covid-19 testing figures.
All that Keir Starmer can do is offer his fawning congratulations to the Government. On Question Time, Starmer's Shadow Chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, sat next to George Osborne and "refused to point the finger of blame" at the austerity programme for having left the NHS unprepared.
But then, five years ago, Dodds was chiding Osborne for having the largest fiscal deficit in Europe. Austerity, apparently, had gone nowhere near far enough. It is no wonder that, for example, Labour now has its worst ever poll rating in her native Scotland.
Thankfully, there is a world elsewhere. At 11:15 tomorrow morning, The Canary will be publishing a damning exclusive on the Labour Right's plot to oust left-wing MPs and members. Then, at one o'clock, there will be event television as Chris Williamson interviews George Galloway.
The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
All that Keir Starmer can do is offer his fawning congratulations to the Government. On Question Time, Starmer's Shadow Chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, sat next to George Osborne and "refused to point the finger of blame" at the austerity programme for having left the NHS unprepared.
But then, five years ago, Dodds was chiding Osborne for having the largest fiscal deficit in Europe. Austerity, apparently, had gone nowhere near far enough. It is no wonder that, for example, Labour now has its worst ever poll rating in her native Scotland.
Thankfully, there is a world elsewhere. At 11:15 tomorrow morning, The Canary will be publishing a damning exclusive on the Labour Right's plot to oust left-wing MPs and members. Then, at one o'clock, there will be event television as Chris Williamson interviews George Galloway.
The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
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