Posted on 10/22/2022 12:08:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The Truss premiership was a new low for our democracy.
So Liz Truss is out. After just 44 days her premiership is no more. ‘I’m a fighter, not a quitter’, she said in parliament yesterday, and now she’s quit. Her premiership deserves to live in ignominy. Not necessarily because her blunders were so spectacular – though many of them were – but because of what this strangled-at-birth stint in Downing Street tells us about British politics more broadly. Which is that it’s a wasteland. An ideological void. A dustbowl of ideas. The lack of even the faintest glimmer of leadership material anywhere in the Westminster circus is horrifying to me. Trussism is but a symptom of a wider malady afflicting our political class.
First, her mistakes. Where to start? Probably with the observation, harsh as it may be, that the very fact she became prime minister is an indictment of Westminster. How serious must the want of leaders be for someone like Ms Truss to ascend to the highest office in the land? She had virtually nothing to recommend her. Not in the way of belief, or style, or ability to connect. Ideologically she was a Lib Dem cosplaying as a Tory. It would be an insult to wood to call her delivery wooden. Every time she compared herself to Thatcher it only reminded us that Thatcher had substance and style, while Liz lacked both. ‘The lady’s not for turning’, Thatcher said, while Truss turned, turned, turned on every single thing over the past fortnight. ‘The lady’s not for turning up’, said Keir Starmer when she was a no-show in the Commons, which is the only funny thing he’s ever said.
She handled the mantle of prime minister poorly from the get-go....
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Yes unfortunately.... And how has that worked out for them?
There has always been private competition. That's been the case since the foundation of the NHS in 1949. In order to secure the cooperation of the medical profession, Aneurin Bevan, the Health Minister responsible, ensured that the legislation guaranteed the right of doctors to work in private practice, as well as the NHS, if they so chose. That's been the case ever since.
For the first 35 years of the NHS, the private health sector was small, serving niche markets. It was only when structural problems in the NHS started to appear from the mid 1980s that the private insurance industry began to take off, and is now flourishing. Most hospital consultants and other senior doctors work in both sectors.
Great observation and have not see it pointed out so succinctly.
When I was working at the New Charing Cross (now the Old New Charing Cross a/k/a Imperial College Trust), the ads in the Tube read “It’s a Good Job You’ve Got BUPA”.
Well, since they abandoned the nation at the same time, it hasn't worked out so well.
Socialism in one nation is fine. Look at Norway, or Denmark, or Finland. When you abandon the nation (Sweden), it stops working.
Next example, happening right before our eyes = Ireland.
Socialism + Diversity = Disaster.
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