Turning the NHS into a Covid service during the pandemic was always going to end in catastrophe, and now the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself, says leading cancer doctor Karol Sikora in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
Dealing with a stage one cancer is infinitely easier and consumes far fewer resources than a tumour which has migrated beyond its initial location to stage 3 or 4. The entire system is now clogged up with more advanced conditions, not just cancer, missed over the pandemic, leading to more delays and more suffering. This fuels more pressure and even longer waits for everybody.
Frankly, British cancer services should be put into special measures. Waits of months and even years for diagnosis and treatment would not have looked out of place in a third world country when I was the World Health Organisation’s cancer director. Data emerged last week that one patient in East Kent endured 1,000 days to have a diagnostic decision made; another in Lincolnshire had to wait 350 to see a specialist, with a patient in Hartlepool taking 469 to start treatment. These aren’t anomalies – thousands and thousands of vulnerable patients are being hung out to dry by a system which is failing the very people it’s supposed to protect.
The hands of NHS cancer staff – who are among the best in the world – are being tied behind their backs and criticism is not encouraged. NHS management should be hauled in front of Parliament tomorrow to explain these figures. For when I read statements from various politicians and NHS England sources, I’m appalled by the spin and sheer refusal to accept how dire the situation is. Meaningless word salad, created by highly paid PR managers, is spouted out at the taxpayer’s expense simply to protect reputations rather than benefit patients.
Politicians cannot say that they were not warned. It’s all a desperately predictable outcome to a pandemic response guided solely by opinion polling and incompetent modelling. The big unspoken truth in British politics is that an almost two-year long lockdown experiment was the greatest policy mistake in my lifetime. Any questionable benefits in terms of ‘protecting’ the elderly have been vastly outweighed by the immeasurable damage to the younger generations. Indeed, the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself.
Anyone who doubts the impact on cancer patients should look at my lockdown inbox. Stopping young, otherwise healthy, people’s chemotherapy was scandalous. But will that ever be accepted by an establishment which threw its incomparable weight behind the measures? Not a chance, nor will the discussion even take place. Instead, cancer patients will be used as a political football by all parties to further their own ambitions.
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The Economic Powerhouse we all admired and wished was us has committed economic and political suicide and death by climate policies. How could intelligent people think they could run their country on the wind? Because like most of the western world they are suffering the severe symptoms of the Liberal Progressive Virus that puts pretending to save the planet first and its citizens last. Here in the UK we became infected a little later than the silly Germans but are heading for the same economic collapse and destruction of our Industrial base….and all for WHAT?
That and Mutti Merkel opening the floodgates to all the scroungers.
In UK schools, if Physics and Chemistry are chosen in the Sixth Form, they have most of the knowledge to debunk the NET Zero policies. And, if they have their wits about them, they should be at least with what our politicians call ‘the Science’. And there’s always the question of the Climate Emergency having any credibility when the Sun influences our weather/Climate so much.
But there’s always the BBC to tell us what is really happening.
In a similar vein but with a focus on the U.S;
”Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who ensure that they are never subject to the baleful implementation of their ideological agendas on the rest of us.
Still, leftists look around at what they have done to America in the last four years and implicitly know that the plan did not work, the people detested it, or both.
How do we know this? By a variety of barometers.
None of the major Biden “achievements”—10 million illegal aliens across a nonexistent border, key components of the cost of living 25-30 percent higher than in 2020, wars and chaos abroad, DEI racial and tribal obsessions, wars on fossil fuels—poll at even 40-45 percent. Biden’s own approval ratings, as the nominal architect of the most left-wing agenda since the Roosevelt administration, hover between 36 and 34 percent.
Few on the left praise the disastrous COVID lockdown, the canonization of Dr. Fauci, the mask and social-distancing craze, and the gospel that endless boosters were necessary to protect Americans. Even the left, although again quietly, assumes that the lockdowns did more damage than the virus, that Dr. Fauci repeatedly lied when he swore he did not subsidize gain-of-function viral research at the Chinese top-security virology lab at Wuhan, and that the virus came not from the lab but from a wandering pangolin or errant bat.
In short, the policies that the left has given us over the last years—hyperinflation, spiking staple and gas prices, racial and tribal chauvinism, dangerous streets, an emasculated and politicized military, and wars abroad—did not work, and are now being masked to retain power, put on hold, or even reversed.
The reasons for the failure are ancient, given that socialism and progressivism are contrary to human nature.
Borders are essential to national sovereignty and confidence and delineate the unique values, traditions, and customs of a people, without which they revert to mere tribes without social commonalities and political cohesion. No society can pick and choose which national laws are enforced and which ignored—and still remain a nation of laws.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-left-knows-leftism-doesnt-work/
Great….and ofcourse for the Communists, otherwise known as Marxists, Socialists, Progressives etc it is always going to be different “the next time”, but never is and never will be.
Without national sovereignty, what’s the point of Democracy?
Whichever leftie nutcase party “wins” the current election are not going to sleep very easily on a maximum 25% of the electorate vote. Personally, I doubt it will be above 20%.
Nobody wants IKier, a wardrobe that isn’t functional, and nobody trusts the Tories even though Rishi was Dishi but is more Rag today.
My hope, and belief, is that IKier will lose the minimal support he has in the first 18 months. By 24 months he will face calls to close his wardrobe and leave office. In 2029, we can change the country.
You know who not to vote for.
“Nobody wants IKier, a wardrobe that isn’t functional”
I’ve read this a couple of times but didn’t get it
It’s bloody brilliant. Best laugh so far today.
I wonder how many inches are left.
In any case, inching sounds about right.
After decades and decades of bureaucratic entrenchment, this illiberal, control freak, my-way-is-the-only-way establishment is hard to dislodge. it’s going to require a real earthquake.
Food for thought: what if Reform get 10% of the vote and no seats but Labour change the country forever, irreversibly, on 20%. UKIP once got 5 million votes and no seats. This time is going to be three times that at least. How can any Government then claim it is legitimate?
This is why your vote matters. It isn’t about who wins, it is about what you want in the long run. If you want a wardrobe door and foul mouthed thief running the country then, by all means, vote IKier. If you want a Sham Old Guard, vote Dishi Rag. If you want a say, vote Reform: you won’t get it now but you will in less than 5 years time.
Is this actually a possibility in the future, do you think? I’d be horrorstruck if it actually became a reality. I don’t know what people think of this person’s assessment;
”The Muslims also have the Prime Minister in waiting, Sadiq Khan, who I consider the most dangerous man in Britain.
– Starmer will not last a full term.
– Khan will resign from his mayorship.
– One of his supporters will give up their seat, likely in Tooting.
– A by-election occurs, and Khan wins the seat.
– Labour leadership election takes place, and Khan emerges victorious.
– Khan becomes PM.
– The independent Muslim MPs elected this year will join Labour under Khan’s leadership.
– What happens once Khan is PM will not be pretty. In 85 years since WW2, we would have given up everything our relatives fought for.
The numerous Muslim propaganda videos released by Starmer, Khan, and Labour candidates over the weekend indicate Khan’s influence.
The Labour manifesto is heavily influenced by Khan. It is also being set-up for 2029. 50% of Muslims in the UK are under 24. Can you imagine what this looks like when Labour change voting age to 16 in this next Parliament? It’s scary.
The only hope is for Labour to severely damage the economy in the next 2-3 years and fail to deliver on their promises.
Parties like @reformparty_uk
or @SDPhq
, who have much better policies, need to be ready to take over. I support the SDP for the mid-term. In this election, we need a few Reform MPs elected to be activists.”
https://x.com/sirwg202110/status/1802442821787402636
As to Germany, well, it’s well and truly FUBAR. It doesn’t even have an option of a Farage and is stuck in the cul-de-sac EU.
Few in Britain have a clue about the current state of German Industry.
Off topic slightly but did you know the average win, in the UK, is 27% of the electorate? What if Kiernocchio gets 20%?
I came across this:
“Mr. Scholz is walking into a fiendishly complicated process where the power to decide who will become the next leader lies almost more with the two smaller parties that will be part of any future administration: the progressive Greens, who at 14.8 percent had the best result in their history; and the pro-business Free Democrats, with 11.5 percent. Together, these two kingmakers are now stronger than either of the two main parties.”
As we know, the Greens wrecked Germany on 14.8%. What can you do by voting Reform?
At least inform more people about the Legacy Parties’ dysfunctional policies, so there can be informed discussion.
It is interesting that Germany is splitting back into East and West over these issues.
I don’t think the Germans would call it interesting.