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Thousands to Lose Jobs as Starmer Scraps NHS England to Cut 'Bureaucracy'
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Posted on 03/15/2025 11:40:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway

The prime minister’s diagnosis of the state apparatus he perches on the top of was far from flattering.

Just eight months in Downing Street and he sees, too often he feels, a flabby, unfocused, overcautious bureaucracy; “too much stodge and regulation” as he put it.

Ministerial levers yanked today, nothing or not much happening tomorrow – or ever.

In culling the biggest arms length body of the lot, NHS England; a statement of intent – for a leaner, more responsive and crucially more accountable State.

If it’s an analysis that feels discombobulating coming from him, yes former Tory PM Liz Truss made similar arguments; “the tyranny of the technocracy” she called it.

But remember, the re-wiring of the state quickens the pulse of only the most rarefied of souls.

Today amounts to the scrapping of an organisation the vast majority of people have, perfectly reasonably, never heard of. Process matters, but outcomes matter more

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: keirstarmer; nhsengland
Wait, Keir Starmer is the new Trump/Elon?
1 posted on 03/15/2025 11:40:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

His meetings here must have left an impression.


2 posted on 03/15/2025 11:47:25 AM PDT by katana
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To: nickcarraway

No! They next revenue to pay for their war against Russia!


3 posted on 03/15/2025 11:48:31 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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To: Harpotoo

NEED...


4 posted on 03/15/2025 11:49:18 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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To: Harpotoo

Sounds like the 49ers. Letting everyone go to pay their QB.


5 posted on 03/15/2025 11:50:05 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: nickcarraway
Keir Starmer is talking in Davos code

Cut ‘Bureaucracy’ means The UK social welfare medical system is bankrupt and on the verge of collapse.

Starmer’s message - we have to prioritize our social welfare payments to keep “Asian” Islamic invaders on the dole so shut up and learn to die with dignity you cheeky white losers.

6 posted on 03/15/2025 11:57:01 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: katana

Yup—President Trump probably explained to him that his country is flat broke—and that is why nobody takes them seriously.


7 posted on 03/15/2025 11:58:36 AM PDT by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: rdcbn1

Since when are middle easterners ‘Asian’???


8 posted on 03/15/2025 11:58:39 AM PDT by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K

To the Brits,middle easterners and West Asians are “asian”. East Asians are referred to as “orientals”.


9 posted on 03/15/2025 12:04:27 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: rdcbn1

Ain’t socialism grand.


10 posted on 03/15/2025 12:05:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Mr. K
Since when are middle easterners ‘Asian’???

That's Brit speak for Arab, Iranian , Afghan and Pakistani Muslims

11 posted on 03/15/2025 12:10:47 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: nickcarraway

If you can afford it, you can pay for your own health care in England. You can’t do that in Canada.


12 posted on 03/15/2025 12:15:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway

The NHS is the largest employer, publi or private, in the UK will over a million employees.

A huge chunk of them never see a patient.

Thousands are a drop in the bucket.


13 posted on 03/15/2025 12:25:34 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

...public...

...with over a million employees...

And one mother of a huge, pencil-pushing bureaucracy.


14 posted on 03/15/2025 12:26:31 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: nickcarraway

NHS where people go to die, after long waits and the run around.


15 posted on 03/15/2025 12:54:00 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: nickcarraway

Since they left the EU, they are again Free and Independent.


16 posted on 03/15/2025 1:35:06 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: nickcarraway

Palantir landed a contract to analyze inefficiencies in the NHS. This may be the fruits.


17 posted on 03/15/2025 1:36:51 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: nutmeg

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18 posted on 03/18/2025 8:59:51 PM PDT by nutmeg
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