What the hell is the lead non-executive director of the Department of Health and Social Care? Well, whatever it is, it is now Alan Milburn. The 10-year plan for the NHS is being written by Paul Corrigan. In 1997, Milburn, Corrigan and Tony Blair brought the concept of NHS privatisation from the outer fringes of the thinktank circuit to the heart of government. Since then, it has been the policy of all three parties except under Jeremy Corbyn, and of most Labour MPs and all Labour Party staffers continuously. The new intake of Labour MPs has been carefully chosen to be sound on this highly lucrative issue.
Labour's 1997 pledge card had promised to abolish the NHS internal market, and the final week of its campaign had been a countdown of days to save the NHS. Those were barefaced lies, and the opposite of the truth. Here we are again. Except that Wes Streeting is perfectly open about his bought and paid for intentions. He seeks and accepts such income streams because he agrees with what they stand for.
Back when Milburn was running a Newcastle Trotskyist bookshop called Days of Hope, known to its clientele as "Haze of Dope", it was obviously costing far more than it could possibly have been making, but it clearly suited someone's purposes to have a distraction from the Communist Party bookshop down the road. Yet in 1979, Corrigan was a parliamentary candidate for the Communist Party. Think on.
It's always a question where Trots get their money from.
ReplyDeleteThe CIA created global Trotskyism as a rival force to the Soviet Union. There were already Trotskyists, of course. But they were peripheral until then. And skint.
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