Tory Enemies of the NHS Exposed
The first thing to say is we are approaching a quarter of a million Covid-related deaths in the UK. This is a shocking number — the populations of several towns wiped out! And it’s shocking that the broadcast media rarely mentions it. It’s as though there is mass denial across society — and especially within the right-wing establishment (within which, sadly, I include the BBC).
It is critical to remember that the Tories were slow to sanction lockdowns and hasty to end them. The sluggish response to the pandemic and the haste at culling public health measures (driven by hard-right Tories, who were a threat to Boris Johnson’s ‘rule’) caused the UK to have a shockingly high mortality rate.
With 325 deaths per 100,000 citizens, the UK has fared worse than many much poorer countries — in fact, it has fared much worse than most of the world, as this list from Johns Hopkins University of Medicine shows.
Certain Tories took advantage of commercial opportunities CREATED by Tory mismanagement and their negligence of the NHS. Whether contracts for cronies to ‘produce’ equipment they had no expertise in, the meandering mess of the ‘track and trace’ scheme or taking every opportunity to claim the private sector was critical to ‘support’ the NHS. In reality, many of the Tory-fast-tracked ventures hindered and took resources from the NHS. People who had…
