In the end, the place for a one-trick pony is always the knacker's yard.
The gender-critical feminists are having a moment, but they could do only so many victory laps before people wondered whether they had anything else to say. Either they did not, or it would be intolerable to their latter-day audiences, or they were never really left-wing at all.
Reform UK is having a moment, but what if it woke up on Friday morning and found that it had to deal with hundreds of thousands of people's bins, potholes and social care for the next four years? Any party that wanted to privatise the National Health Service but renationalise British Steel might politely be described as incoherent.
And Sharon Osbourne is having a moment, but how did a man with Ozzy's history of illegal drug use obtain a United States visa? How did she retain hers, after she had sent her own faeces to critical journalists?
In the end, the place for a one-trick pony is always the knacker's yard.
Sharon Osbourne was given American citizenship, how did that happen?
ReplyDeleteMoney talks.
Delete"Any party that wanted to privatise the National Health Service but renationalise British Steel might politely be described as incoherent."
ReplyDeleteActually, Reform UK's policy is simply to get rid of the taxes on people such as me who get private health insurance through their employer-and are already paying taxes for an NHS they don't use. It's a win-win policy: rewarding those who free up NHS beds and resources and reduce waiting lists for others.
If so, then it is illiterate, and substantially the same position as Wes Streeting's.
DeleteThis country's horrifying level of chronic illness is what comes of low pay, bad nutrition, poor housing, the inability to see a doctor or a dentist, and the hospital waiting lists that trebled in the 14 years that the National Health Service paid £150 billion to private healthcare providers, which are also generous contributors to politicians.
There is no "spare capacity" in British private healthcare. It is moonlighting NHS consultants meeting as much commercial demand as happened to present itself. Streeting proposes only to present vastly more of that demand. By your reckoning, so does Nigel Farage. They must be stopped.