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Killing the NHS: Labour’s great betrayal
The Labour Party, once the proud architect of our health service, has become its undertaker, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Wes Streeting gives a speech at the Fabian Society
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THE Labour Party, as it exists now under Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting, is not the party to save the NHS — and this is not a new phenomenon.
In fact, Starmer and Streeting appear to be barely interested in going through the motions of even pretending to want to save it in any meaningful form. Last September, Streeting, who has even raised “self-care” by patients as a measure to be considered for the NHS, went as far as saying he was prepared to let the NHS “die” if it failed to adapt to his “reforms,” which amount to further privatisation, the closure of hospitals and cutting costs, while also mandating prescriptive and even coercive use of drugs on the general population to keep them out of hospital, and pushing the perversely incentivised “integrated care” model even harder than previous Tory governments, under the economically illiterate threat that the NHS will “go bankrupt” if the “reforms” are not imposed.
This plan was crystallised even further in the report Streeting commissioned by Lord Darzi, an ardent advocate of Tory NHS “reform” who oversaw much of Tony Blair’s marketisation of the NHS, to write last autumn on the future of the NHS.
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