I can see a lot of readers balking at that headline. Boris imposed three lockdowns on the British public, introduced vaccine passports and is a Net Zero fanatic. He’s unlikely to unify the Conservative Party, given that 57 ministers resigned from his last Government, making it impossible for him to carry on as Prime Minister, and if he does become the leader again some Tory MPs will probably set up a breakaway party, while others will simply defect to Labour and the Lib Dems. And hoping the electorate will forgive Boris for partygate and other sins and not simply wash their hands of the Clown Conservative Party at the next election is a massive gamble.
But my gut says that Rishi would be worse. During the last leadership contest he claimed to have been a lockdown sceptic all along, but that wasn’t very plausible. Not only did he support the lockdown policy – in public, anyway – but in his capacity as Chancellor he borrowed hundreds of billions of pounds so he could pay people not to work, which is the root of our current economic problems. And do we trust him on Brexit? The litmus test is whether he’d be prepared to scrap the Northern Ireland Protocol and deal with all the political fall-out from that. I think Boris would. I’m not so sure about Rishi.
It’s true that the Tory Party will look absurd if it makes Boris leader again six weeks after defenestrating him. But it’s going to look absurd whatever it does. Would it be any less ridiculous to appoint a third leader in as many years? At least Boris can claim to have a democratic mandate, given that the Conservatives won an 80-seat majority with him as leader in 2019. What democratic legitimacy can Rishi lay claim to? If he becomes our next Prime Minister I think the pressure to call an immediate General Election – not just from all the other political parties, but from the Civil Service, the BBC, Sky News, the EU, the Bank of England… the entire deep state – will be almost impossible to resist. And the longer Rishi puts it off, the more frit he’ll look. But a General Election in the next few months would almost certainly see Keir Starmer installed in Number 10 as our next Prime Minister.
Even supposing Rishi did rule out a General Election until November 2024 and the howls of protest began to die down, is it conceivable that a Conservative Party led by him could win? To my mind, that’s a bigger gamble than plumping for the devil we know. Love him or hate him, Boris is a proven election winner. Yes, he doesn’t have as many fans as he did three years ago, but maybe he could win enough of them back to scrape in with a reduced majority in a couple of years. I’m not saying I think that’s likely, only that it’s more likely than Rishi winning a majority.
That’s a persuasive argument, I think. Suppose you think Rishi would be preferable to Boris. Maybe so, but would Keir Starmer be preferable to Boris? On lockdowns, vaccine passports and Net Zero he’s even more of a zealot than BoJo, and with Rishi at the helm Labour’s victory at the next General Election is almost inevitable.
Finally, just think of how angry all the Boris-haters will be. As I’ve written about before, the reason Boris is so unpopular with the Establishment – the reason he brings certain members of the ruling class out in hives – is because he’s the embodiment of Merrie England. They detest his devil-may-care attitude, his disregard for conventional morality, the fact that he has three wives and god knows how many children. He’s Sid James and Falstaff and Benny Hill rolled into one. He’s a saucy seaside postcard come to life. Watching all the purse-lipped puritans rub their bony hands with glee after Boris’s demise turned my stomach and I’d like nothing more than to see Billy Bunter cock a snook at them as he barrels back into Downing Street. It would be like the restoration of Charles II, except the Interregnum will only have lasted six weeks.
I’m sure many people are unconvinced and Boris hasn’t even said he’s going to run yet. But I expect he will and if he does I’ll be holding my nose and backing him.
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As a cohort this group of “staff” sow misery, confusion, upset and unpleasantness. A band of employees who do nothing all day but generate nightmares in others. Say one wrong word and the next thing you know it’s your manager with a wagging finger –
“can I just have a word?”
This cohort must reduce real productivity by God knows what percentage, but substantial, and create negativity and resentment by the bucket load.
Anybody seriously intent on improving and reforming the NHS would put every last one of these shysters on a plane to Rwanda. Bloody evil and nasty underworld creeps.
Totally, hux. As if the NHS needs any more useless, office-dwelling, woketard saps to alter the slo-mo suicidal course it’s on. Meanwhile, in Ireland, speaking of ”woketard saps”, yes ”woman” is now sexist ( FFS X 1 billion!!
);
”Ministers are admitting a referendum to remove the Constitutional reference to a woman’s “duties in the home” is not achievable by its planned November date.
There is currently a “preferred wording” that takes out gendered language but the Electoral Commission has told the Government it needs three to four months to hold its first referendum, the Irish Independent has learned.
Politicians are also fearful of the issue being drawn into a gender debate. British politicians have struggled, for instance, when asked to define a woman – with any language likely to cause controversy.
“The Constitution doesn’t define ‘family’ or ‘woman’,” said a minister, admitting there was awareness of potential pitfalls “in the current climate with all the anti-trans stuff”.
He added: “We will, of course, be deleting ‘woman’ by removing the sexist language in favour of ‘care/carers’.”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/women-in-the-home-referendum-now-unlikely-to-take-place-by-leo-varadkars-november-deadline/a654190598.html
Seriously I could cry at this madness. This is Orwell on steroids.
See this clip where she does the predictable politician thing of responding to a clear question by evading it then waffling and coming across like a complete plank. Seriously mental it really is, and as a woman myself I’m even more ruddy disgusted that a fellow female can carry on like this. I mean, how did people define what a woman was prior to 2020, for crying out loud, because I don’t remember this ever being a ‘thing’?!
https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1696543857641435371
All I can say is the Irish people must be pooping gold coins out of their backsides if they have so much money they can waste it on such frankly facile questions. Everyone who is not a woke idiot knows what a woman is and what a family is. FFS
There is a plus. This makes it quite clear that the NHS is OVER funded. Not UNDER funded as we are constantly told.
Public sector must wee away millions of our dosh in this trash. A real conservative government would have sacked the lot in days.
Thanks – an overfunded NHS indeed.
I’ve said that many times over the years I worked in the NHS, the money needed to be prioritised for frontline staff – including the administrative support staff for those frontline staff – as there were far too many chiefs for not enough indians.
And I said that to my boss too!! She agreed with me.
Yet us frontline staff weren’t productive enough…. Amazing how unproductive one is as a highly paid admin assistant when admin isn’t your forte….
Yes, hiring diversity officers is a problem and a giant waste of money.
But that’s not the problem with the NHS. The NHS is a badly constructed mammoth bureaucracy.
It’s what you get when you build a health service along Soviet technocratic lines.
Even if you didn’t have diversity officers you’d still have a hugely inefficient health service built like most bureaucracies to serve itself first.
Random bit of information: Everthing you wrote above can also be found in descriptions of the German state between 1919 and 1933 whose inefficiencies and exclusive self-serving were greatly lamented by … German communists and you are thus articulating a very traditional communist position.
I doubt German communists would have advocated for healthcare to be subjected to free market forces and minimal state intervention like I would though.
Like the police, the NHS has forgotten its primary purpose, why it came to be. Its purpose now is self-perpetuation. It exists purely to be able to continue its existence,.
It is now a place where you can have a long career, and never, ever come into a direct contact with a patient, nor do anything relevant for patient care. In the private sector, if you are more than two steps away from the cold edge of doing something that makes profit, or enabling the thing that makes profit, then you shouldn’t be there.
I’m sure someone will point out that ‘Diversity jobs’ seem to attract a non-diverse group of applicants. Black, female, non-STEM degree. Almost as if someone was trying to use this as a racial ‘levelling up’ mechanism. Hmmm. I wonder…
All bureaucracies morph sooner or later to work on behalf of themselves rather than for those who fund them.
Indeed, one can see the whole public sector that way now, the pig that troughs but never has enough.
You could cut the Civil Service in half and it would still have time on its hands.
The ‘treating patients’ bit is now just the front for the self-perpetuating, malign bureaucracy behind, which pursues other more fashionable causes – like the tiny tailor-shop frontage in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (for those of a certain age). Three local examples of their priorities: 1. name of (very well known) hospital now completely expunged from signage, bus routes etc (it’s the ‘Biomedical complex’ you want, idiot) 2. Car park usage now reversed- car parks closest to buildings are now for staff only, patients/visitors can trek c 0.75 miles from multi storey 3. An uncle who lives ten miles away recently had very painful/intimate surgery, was advised to cycle in (and, presumably back home again afterwards), to “help us meet our net zero targets and reduce carbon emissions”. We are the “useless breathers” getting in the way of their programme and they view us with contempt. Trouble with contempt is, it always ends up being reciprocal.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
“This is an exciting opportunity”
Kettering NHS Hospital Foundation Trust
“We have an exciting opportunity”
University College London Hospitals Trust (UCLH)
“This is an exciting role”
Their job descriptions certainly aren’t diverse.
How does a person become a qualified DIE person? What qualifications and experience must they have? Do they have to be a member of some oppressed group,perhaps they must demonstrate the wisdom of Solomon, or perhaps Buddha?
where do you go to get these qualifications? Who sets the tests and judges? Some priestlike figures perhaps.
If such Ghandi like figures do exist what the heck are they doing working in an nhs trust, they should be out in Ukraine, and Syria for example solving world peace.
But as I suspect they are Political science, philosophy or HR grads, who are self satisfied virtue signalling grifters, who contribute nothing to the harmony or core identity of an organisation, but instead sew dislike, discord and unpleasantness.
Personally I would fire the lot, the world and workplace is better without them.
They need to be experts in ‘diversity’ which means they need to have the correct critical consciousness … in other words they need to be a neo marxist / neo communist.
They are commissars.
Diversity only works one way ——Less white people. ——I remember finishing a training course some time ago with 4 other white people and the training officer gave us a little talk at the end of it before we were to start work. He said “You will have noticed that there are many Black and Asian people working here. Should any of you say anything to offend these people you may face disciplinary action and possible dismissal. Do you have any questions”? —–As I wasn’t particularly fussy about this job anyway I put up my hand and said, “If a Black or Asian person says something to offend me will they also face disciplinary action and possible dismissal”? ———I have never in all my life seen a jaw drop so fast as the guy stared at me like I was from Mars.
Good on you.
Could maybe have been worded a little better: Excuse me, sir, but I noticed that there are also many white people working here. Do you give the same talk to black and asian prospects regarding them? Or could such abusive behaviour result in disciplinary action and possibly, your dismissal?
Maybe a bit too long to be effective but recruiters certainly aren’t supposed to abuse prospects because of their skin colour, even if it happens to be white.
Nope. It is the training officer who could have worded it better NOT ME. His remarks were absurd NOT MINE. ——I gave him back what he dished out. Staying silent or using weasel words on this tyranny of diversity is NOT an option
An Important, if depressing, article.
Incidentally the NHS organisation based in Hemel Hempstead is NHS Professionals which – according to Wikipedia – is wholly owned by the Dept of Health and Social Care. Which puts these DIE managers close to the beating (bloated?) heart of the NHS.
These Political Commissars’ salaries are high for danger money reasons.
We are taking names and it remains to be seen whether we get them against the wall first or vice versa.
Slightly mawkish, but perhaps DIE actually means die, as in death? Cos they sure as hell aren’t spending any money trying to save lives, are they, only pronouns and The Narrative’s™ indoctrination.
Can’t help thinking all these ‘jobs’ aren’t jobs at all..they’re just looking for a problem that doesn’t really exist…
I don’t know how much it would cost, but wouldn’t the money be better spent on opening the closed cancer centres that Professor Karol Sikora has been promoting for ages?
Professor Karol Sikora
@ProfKarolSikora
“I emailed @SteveBarclay
on the 19th of July about working together to reopen the three state-of-the-art Rutherford cancer centres.
I know that he’s aware of the offer, yet no response from him.
With 20,000 NHS cancer patients standing to benefit, it’s very disappointing.”
We all want to know Steve..why isn’t it happening??
These people are no different to the political Commissars of the Soviet Union, enforcing their idiotic beliefs and holding people in terror.
DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) managers
Ok they’ve started lying.
The original, and they sometimes forget and still use it, was EQUITY not equality.
This is neo communism ….. the intellectual foundations are there for all to see if one take the time to trawl back.
A great guide for this is James Lindsay ….
We are in much deeper trouble than the vast majority yet realises.