I have been retired from the NHS for 11 years but I have remained a keen observer of events, and think I have been around a little longer than the ‘in-house doctor‘. I became a medical student in 1967, qualified in 1973 and was brought up prior to that by parents who were both GPs – so my exposure to primary care medicine started when I was five and first went out on house calls with my mother.
It’s not a question of whether the NHS will accept reform. It has. Frequently. As I outline in my book Mad Medicine: Myths, Maxims and Mayhem in the National Health Service, I have seen many ‘reforms’. None of them have worked. Over 70 years have passed since the NHS was established; if the best minds in medical and organisational thinking have been unable to come up with solutions in that time, perhaps there are none. I find the suggestion that doctors are to blame for inertia in promoting change is unfair – at least so far as hospital medicine goes. I spent the last three years of my professional life fighting managers who wanted me to do less work (i.e. see fewer patients) based on ideology developed by non-specialists. I was not supposed to overbook clinics, but did so regularly, as well as accommodating patients with an emergency problem. I wanted to prioritise appointments by need (by looking at referral letters); with the advent of computerised booking that became impossible. The brilliant diary appointment system of one of my obstetric colleagues was destroyed by the same system. I adopted the ‘treat early and treat aggressively’ mantra for rheumatoid arthritis a full 25 years before it became generally accepted in rheumatology circles. My surgical colleagues were constrained by the rigid application of operating theatre opening and closing times; thus, if an operation at the end of the list would be likely to be long, and therefore overrun, it would be cancelled. Was this the surgeons’ fault? Certainly not.
We must ask ourselves not what the problems are, but why they are there. One recurring issue, though, is the loss of NHS institutional memory. While people may dismiss aged, retired people like me as yesterday’s men, they carry such memory. Managers (and politicians) are here today and gone tomorrow. In my career I have lost count of the number of times that a new proposal was brought forward and I had to say, “We have been there and done that – and it didn’t work”.
For hospitals, primarily there is a lack of capacity. Some of that is because it is expensive to run a system where for much of the time there is spare capacity, with bed occupancy less than or up to 85% and therefore room for increased need at peak periods such as winter. Empty beds are still maintained and staffed, which costs a lot. Cutting beds, closing wards and running at over 95% occupancy saves a lot, which is why it has been done, but you get into trouble in winter (as the NHS has done for 20 years or more). The old overspill network of cottage hospitals closed because they were too expensive to maintain – small units are less cost-effective so are first to go when money is tight.
And the rest? People who 50 years ago would have died because there was no treatment for their conditions now have expensive investigations, even more expensive treatments and as a result live longer with multiple pathologies. When I became a hospital consultant, the biggest pharmacy spend in my hospital was on oncology drugs; with the advent of biologic therapies for inflammatory arthritis my departmental budget overtook it, and increased from an annual cost in the low thousands to over seven figures. Complex cardiac or neurosurgery and interventional radiology are time-consuming, labour-intensive and very expensive. There has been a recent resurgence of the idea that preventive medicine is the answer. That was what Aneurin Bevan thought in 1948; disease prevention would cut the costs. But he failed to foresee the enormous expansion in techniques, drugs etc. that make that a pipedream. When I qualified there were no CT or MRI scans, almost no ultrasound, no coronary artery surgery, no organ transplantation, no genomic investigation, no thrombolytic therapy for stroke and very limited drugs for cancer. Now we have all these things any savings made by shortening hospital stays is matched by the spend on them. Of course, if the current epidemic of obesity and consequent diabetes could be stemmed by education then a lot of medical work would vanish.
The strike issue is less relevant than an ongoing, year-round problem in the NHS – that of sick leave and maternity leave. Neither is predictable and both require locum cover at great expense. When I was a clinical director I had, at one point, three physiotherapists on maternity leave, all of who were being paid, and to cover their workload I needed to employ three agency staff, which more than doubled the cost. My budget was horribly overspent. Management was more concerned with the overspend than the clinical consequences of leaving the posts vacant. As for sick leave the sudden absence of a doctor required a major re-jig of rotas – or an expensive, short-term, at-no-notice locum which was often hard to find. If there is no slack in any system then a sudden problem will catch you out.
Managers and doctors will always be in conflict because the role of managers is to save money in a constrained budgetary system and the role of doctors is to spend it. So on the one hand you could reduce the constraint by increasing funding (which has been the way the NHS has sort of coped), and on the other you could get the doctors to spend less. But there is one major sticking point on that approach: doctors are programmed to treat, not to abandon hope. One could address this latter by not indulging in what I term futility medicine, where for example elderly patients have heroic surgery, require long ITU care and are then discharged back to their care home with their dementia probably worsened by the disruptive experience. Should we spend tens of thousands of pounds on cancer therapy that extends life by three months? Just because we can does not mean we should. Regrettably it is not just the health professionals who are averse to defining constituents of futility medicine, but a public who have been conditioned to expect that if a treatment is available then it must be employed.
An example. Take a 94 year-old lady in a care home who is very deaf, has lost some of her sight to macular degeneration, has lost half of what’s left to a minor stroke, who has a stiff hip, a chronic and resistant to antibiotics urinary infection and double incontinence and intermittently does not recognise her family. She becomes confused because she develops sepsis, and falls, breaking her shoulder. Admitted, her family has a meeting with the orthopaedic team who suggest they could pin the shoulder and replace the stiff hip in one operation. For what purpose? And before you say that I am callous, this is my ex-GP mother who I am talking about, and she is lucid enough to say she doesn’t want any more treatment and has already signed an advance directive. She occupied a hospital bed for 11 days before she died; it would have been three times that to get her fit enough after major surgery. Treatment would, in my eyes, have been a classic example of futility medicine. Just because we can does not mean we should. We must have a rational debate about what parts of medicine will be abandoned, either completely or to the private sector.
The pressure on A&E departments is heightened by patients’ perceived inability to get a GP appointment. In my parents’ day, in the 1950s and 60s, there were no booked appointments; you turned up at the surgery and sat and waited. If the wait was not justified by the severity (or lack of it) of the medical problem you went away. Indeed people were attuned to the system and it inhibited their demand. No-one in real need missed out. Why not abolish appointment systems? I concede that GPs might rebel at such a suggestion. Alternatively, or as well, introduce a charge for appointments. It won’t be the doctors that kick up, but patients will!
The cost-benefit of some interventions needs to be re-examined. For instance, statins are cheap but prescribed in vast quantities, so all in they are not cheap at all. Monitoring takes up GPs’ time. Re-evaluation of the evidence in their favour suggests that they have little absolute benefit, and anyway probably don’t work by lowering cholesterol. Such evidence – and there is a lot of it – is ignored by those with vested interests and conflicts of interest, and there is too much tramline thinking for an independent assessment to be easy, and acceptable – not for want of trying. But the money (and time) that would be saved by abandoning them is very large.
Elective surgery units are only a partial answer to the routine waiting list issue. You cannot safely operate on patients in such a unit if post-operative care requires an ITU, which elective units don’t have (too expensive). So complex surgery cannot be done there. Furthermore, if such units are contracted out to the private sector, experience has shown that contract over-ordering is common, so NHS money is being spent on work that is not being done. Using hotels as pre-discharge overflows is an idea that has been proposed before. I doubt it’s a safe option. Just before I left the NHS my hospital, as part of a group, became what was known as a step-down unit. A significant number of admissions had been rushed out of their acute bed too fast, were not well enough to be in the step-down unit and had to be returned. But everyone has forgotten this. Who will monitor patients in hotels? The nurses we don’t have? (Will ‘guests’ pay for their food? Probably not, although as everyone eats every day I don’t see why they should be fed for nothing, even in hospital.) This week’s news suggests that care homes may have spare capacity. Is delayed discharge the fault of the doctors? Certainly not; the assessment processes by social workers and therapists act as a gigantic drag anchor.
The idea that there is some sort of fast track for senior apparatchiks to access NHS care seems ridiculous. The reason that senior staff might be able to pull strings is that they have the knowledge of what strings to pull. They may be better placed to judge what needs more urgent attention and communicate this in a way that speeds up access.
The in-house doctor says: “The British medical establishment will die in a ditch before allowing remuneration to be linked to measurable productivity of individual doctors.” I would like to know how one might measure productivity. What a doctor does, and how he or she does it, will differ between specialties and grades. Comparing a neurosurgeon to a dermatologist is like comparing apples and pears. Outcome measures, perhaps, like surgical success rates? That will encourage all surgeons to stick to the simple, no risk stuff. Been there, done that. Outpatient numbers? As I have pointed out, it was managers who attempted to reduce my numbers, not clinicians with any knowledge of why I could not. I suggest that anyone trying to introduce a remuneration system linked to productivity will be the one dying in the ditch.
A few years ago I spent some time comparing the NHS with health services in Canada and Australia, and concluded that each had different advantages and drawbacks; overall, none was better than the others. The French system works reasonably well, but patients pay (not a lot). I believe that today a service that is free at the point of delivery is an unaffordable luxury. We pay prescription charges, so why not appointment charges? Usual exceptions of course, but the one principle that is truly outdated is that ‘Our NHS’ must be free. Dispose of that and we might make some progress. Identify and ditch futility medicine and we will make more. Streamline the discharge process. More still. If politicians were ready to listen to those who hold the institutional memory, and thus avoid introducing already tried and proven-to-fail ideas, we could be flying.
Dr. Andrew Bamji is a retired consultant rheumatologist.
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Are we really a Nation anymore, or just a Region? The place is flooded with immigrants and thousands arrive every week to add to the clutter that already exists. We see in Poland and Hungary governments determined to protect their populations from this clutter who simply do not allow this to happen and who send migrants back where they came from, whereas our politicians turn on their own citizens and name call them if they dare to complain when their Neiborhood’s are overrun with migrants and imported sectarian strife.
“Regionalism must precede globalism. We foresee a seamless system of governance from local communities, individual states, regional unions and up through to the United Nations itself.”
UN’s Commission on Global Governance
“The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.”
UN’s Commission on Global Governance
There is also the UN Population Division that has taken upon itself the task of ‘solving’ the falling birth rate across the Western World. Their solution is inward migration from non Western countries. They envisage Europe will need over 40 million migrants to maintain population levels.
Did the UK Government, or any government, ask the UN to solve this ‘problem’? Who decided it was a problem?
Perhaps this is a strategy to precipitate the Great Reset. What better way to introduce new lockdowns and censorship than by provoking a population to revolt thereby justifying using the Army and curfews. Perhaps the pandemic was a dry run. The working from home and moving everything online and now to the ‘cloud’ are all enablers for mass control. Consider the following from the WEF book COVID-19: The Great Reset
Page 156 – Accelerating the digital transformation
In one form or another, social and physical distancing measures are likely to persist after the pandemic itself subsides, justifying the decision in many companies from different industries to accelerate automation. After a while, the enduring concerns about technological unemployment will recede as societies emphasize the need to restructure the workplace in a way that minimizes close human contact. Indeed, automation technologies are particularly suited to a world in which human beings can’t get too close to each other or are willing to reduce their interactions.
“Perhaps this is a strategy to precipitate the Great Reset. What better way to introduce new lockdowns and censorship than by provoking a population to revolt thereby justifying using the Army and curfews.”
As I posted a few days ago.
How thoroughly depressing.
Don’t get depressed, get angry.
“whereas our politicians turn on their own citizens and name call them if they dare to complain when their Neiborhood’s are overrun with migrants and imported sectarian strife.”
It rather seems this is what has been done to Tommy Robinson. Regardless of your view of him, his documentary is worth watching (it can be found as the “pinned tweet” on his X profile). Watching it, it came across strongly to me that the reason we have been given for it being “banned” simply doesn’t chime with its’ content. I now have little doubt he is being subjected to lawfare by the state.
As long as people continue to support establishment parties, in the huge numbers they do at the ballot box, then why would they change their present course. Let’s be honest, the direction of travel has been as clear as crystal for 30 years but the masses continue to dupe themselves.
Perhaps Comrade Starmer would carefully consider the words of President Kennedy in 1962 – “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Or at least the stirring French National Anthem –
Aux armes, citoyens !
Formez vos bataillons !
Marchons ! Marchons !
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons !
To your weapons, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!
Re-reading the above I am painfully aware of how bloodthirsty it must sound. I profoundly hope and wish for a peaceful revolution; but Comrade Starmer – he of the cloth ears and little sympathy for the proletariat – seems by his actions to be deliberately engineering a violent uprising. He would do well to listen to wiser voices than those who currently have his ear.
“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
Thomas Sowell
Sunak would be delivering exactly the same speech Starmer gave. All establishment parties take their orders from the same people.
The problem is that people have made peaceful protests about these kinds of issues, and the establishment and the media have completely ignored them.
Sadly, it is an age old truism that violence gets attention like nothing else. In some ways the establishment need to have this wake up call. I do not condone it, but I recognise that this is thenonly way these bastards pay any attention. It works for Muslims – see how much attention they get.
This is a very good and entertaining explanation of the Globalists’ strategy. Yes, they willl “pay attention” but not in the way you think. The strategy is deliberate and is having the effect they want:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rjJG_AiCu4&t=12s
That’s the point isn’t it! Peaceful protest, voting, writing to newspapers or MPs have got us precisely nowhere, and in fact TPTB piss in our faces with relish and impunity.
I don’t want to see violence, but it’s hard to see any other way forward.
The situation we are in – not just about immigration – but a ruling mob clearly determined to cause impoverishment and immiseration by inflicting what they want, not what best serves the people, on to the people whom they are supposed to serve, cannot be resolved via the ballot box.
The State holds the monopoly on violence. Change only ever comes in times of stress, when that monopoly is broken.
“cannot be resolved via the ballot box.”
Or…
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
The history books confirm what you say to be true.
Some footage from sunny Blackpool;
https://x.com/AvonandsomerRob/status/1819772447475831073
Blackburn. The ‘Muslim Defense League’ is actually a thing, apparently. They seem to like wearing gloves in August for some reason;
https://x.com/MarcherReborn/status/1819760916709437537
Hull. At least one of those riot police look like they’re not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster;
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1819799433883599064
Nazi scum that hate their country, but remember it’s the ‘far-right thugs’ who love their country that’s the problem;
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1819779898572951839
They could well be “planted” agitators
Well unfortunately Starmer will be wriggling out of all of his responsibilities, Starkey explains that fundamentally Starmer is a “Prosecutor.”
Who has this country voted in as PM… Seriously bad times ahead..
“The Party of the new Ruling Class”
https://youtu.be/srz2JRNxVg0?si=KLtkzvsHc8LsE1ZX
There was some very nice footage out of Belfast demonstrating unity, because this is obviously the polar opposite of what TPTB want. They’re objective is division, no matter which agenda they need to push in order to fragment society further. Well said this person;
”Make no mistake about this, the scenes today in #Belfast are a historic moment.
For Republican, Catholic Irish to stand shoulder to shoulder with Loyalist, Protestant English is something to behold and these images will be seen in history books to future generations.
This is something to build on against a common enemy that is mass immigration of Islamic extremism.
Irish and English are not targeting each others kids, they are not targeting our women on the streets and they are not killing our brave men taking up arms in the defence forces.
Our governments in both the UK and Ireland have opted for divisive, race baiting, two tier polices and policing and it’s only outcome is an impending race war, which is not something we’ve ever wanted.
We demand safe streets and peace!”
https://x.com/TezTruth81/status/1819740079046475946
https://x.com/RealMessageEire/status/1819724433000419674
“For Republican, Catholic Irish to stand shoulder to shoulder with Loyalist, Protestant English is something to behold and these images will be seen in history books to future generations.”
It’s a great image, but it is being massively exaggerated: A few “Catholic Irish”, probably all from Dublin rather than Belfast, standing together with a few loyalist Protestants. Far more “Republican, Catholic Irish” were on the streets opposing these protestors.
A good post. I will say the idea that any immigrant or any person who moves from one area to another, moves and takes with them, and not leave behind their own Gods, Ideals, and do not change spots to the address they live at.
We have had townies move to the countryside and the moan about some of the things that the countryside has, and tried to change it. Now to add to this we have immigrants from all over residing in groups by association, creating pockets of segregation based upon Gods and Ideals, forced ever closer by the environments or suburbia where they live.
The multicultural Society that was dreamed of has become the nightmare of the reality of the ghettoization of these isles. The segregations of us and them has always existed between the self appointed elite and the plebs they despise. The us and them also referred to the political red and blue, blue or red with the occasional glint of a yellowish hue, This week Kneelalot has publicly declared that the white are the lowest of the low, with astonishing clarity, the utopia of a multicultural society all clubbed together has morphed into the multicultural differences clubbing each other.
Anyone looking to the politicians for any sign of leadership are as delusional as the politicians who purport to promote it. Things will only get worse as this week it was announced that an increase in the surveillance state will be initiated. Ever more suppression, with categorization and grouping of the people by their Gods and Ideals.
Worked out well, didn’t it?
It’s working out very well for the Globalists who devised and implemented the strategy: “Divide and Rule.”
Agreed. But I see a lot of division, but not a lot of rule. It is working out well for someone as you mention, perhaps one day we will be able to clearly identify that person.
Don’t think I’ve ever heard the words “far right” as often as I have this past few days…
The inversion of the words “racist” and “fascist” have worked a treat too… Nationalism is no longer permitted..
Now, where did I put my Brownshirt…
”and that it is wrong to target mosques. ”
If you look at the UK list of proscribed terrorist groups;
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266038/List_of_Proscribed_organisations.pdf
There do seem to be rather a lot of of Islamic organisations listed.
If the UK has banned so many Islamic based groups, is it any wonder that people are a little suspicious of the Islamic faith? Does the Islamic faith not have a significant role to play in addressing these issues?
The islamic faith can’t “address” islamic terrorism. It causes it. One thing we learned this weekend is that there is a “Muslim Defence League” which stockpiled knives, hammers and clubs in mosques and which can mobilise an armed mob in a matter of minutes. Jihad is a religious duty for muslims, so we shouldn’t be too surprised.
Every Muslim State is authoritarian, strict, brutal rule – I wonder why?
The Emir of Kuwait recently suspended Parliament because the Muslim Brotherhood was gaining too much support and he feared where that would lead… see Egypt.
And yet the Globalists have brainwashed everyone in the West to hate President Assad of Syria, because he and his father kicked the Globalist-backed Muslim Brotherhood out of Syria.
They fled to London, where they set up new headquarters, now under the avuncular eye of Muslim Khan.
But it’s OK for immigrants to target and kill the Judeo-Christian majority, our traditions, monuments and institutions and of course Jews who have been and are a part of our culture and economy for four centuries who have never smashed up our streets, butchered citizens, or threatened our way of life.
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hants actually sees the bigger picture and acknowledges reality. She had this to say;
“The announcement of the Prime Minister’s new Violent Crime Units have led to an accusation of two tier policing, which has enflamed protestors who state they are battling to protect Britain’s sovereignty, identity and stop illegal immigration. Burning towns and cities and attacking the police is not the answer, so how do we stop it?
“I’ve spoken to people from both sides of the spectrum and the only way to stem the tide of violent disorder, is to acknowledge what is causing it.
“Whilst the devastating attacks in Southport on Tuesday were a catalyst, the commonality amongst the protest groups appears to be focused on three key areas: the desire to protect Britain’s sovereignty; the need to uphold British values and in order to do this, stop illegal immigration.
“The growth of feeling across the country has mirrored (to a lesser extent) the rebellion to illegal immigration that has played out across France over the last 12 months.
“The Government must acknowledge what is causing this civil unrest in order to prevent it.
“Arresting people, or creating violent disorder units, is treating the symptom and not the cause.
“The questions these people want answering; what is the Government’s solution to mass uncontrolled immigration? How are the new Labour government going to uphold and build on British values? This is the biggest challenge facing Sir Kier Starmer’s government, and its bitten quickly.”
https://policeprofessional.com/news/apcc-chair-calls-for-calm-and-honesty-amid-worrying-level-of-rioting-and-civil-unrest/
The statement off the police website was taken down so looks like she’s been gotten too.
Far too much sense, I’m sure she’ll have “resigned” by the end of the week
Yes I saw that it’d been taken down too. I expect she’s been lent on. But what she’s saying is absolutely fair and reasonable, I’d say. I wouldn’t expect her to acknowledge the amount of evidence all over social media showing the police being heavy-handed, wrongfully arresting and generally battering/setting dogs on people who were demonstrably peaceful, but then you can’t have everything.
I’m sure someone “in Authority” had a quiet word in her shell-like and told her if she didn’t remove it PDQ and StFU, she would find herself out of a job for some spurious reason that would involve loss of pension and an inability to work anywhere else in the taxpayer-funded public sector.
…… this link worked for me (you may want to check it isn’t edited)
https://policeprofessional.com/news/apcc-chair-calls-for-calm-and-honesty-amid-worrying-level-of-rioting-and-civil-unrest/
It opens for me via Brave.
I have just seen that release. I believe it has been deleted at source. Can’t have anyone off message. She would be having her ewhip taken away if she were an MP
Yep, the Andrew Bridgen treatment. Ultimately, as hopeful as that all sounds what she’s saying, we’re talking about Starmer so I can’t see it making a blind bit of difference, but something has to give.
Stopping more arriving is a good start point, but getting rid of those already here – whether illegal or not – who are not compatible with our culture, refuse to assimilate and/or reliant on welfare is the cure.
Yes but that ship has sailed, especially when you look at how they’re significantly out breeding natives. It’s like how the grey squirrels have successfully overtaken the red squirrels in England, so that you’re hard pushed to see a red one anymore. Interestingly here in the Netherlands I’ve only ever seen red squirrels, so they’ve not been ethnically cleansed or replaced in the same way white indigenous people are.
Sorry, but the idea that a guy who has been in office for ten days is responsible for civil unrest which we all know is caused by years of immigration mismanagement is comical.
He might not be helping because he’s an idiot. Even worse he is the most toxic of combinations: highly educated technocrat and politician, so basically completely incapable of understanding the real world as it actually is.
But responsible? Come on.
He is a lawyer. They have no principles. They do as they are told.
Starkey on Starmer in my previous link is worth watching…
Because of all his past public actions as a lawyer and a politician he surely shares responsibility with many others from the establishment
And with many voters
When Starmer was a young “human rights” lawyer, he won a court battle which imposed a legal duty on the government to provide free food and accommodation to illegal migrants. he’s actually more responsible than the people-smuggling gangs.
Are you aware he was head of the CPS since 2008..
He advocated the 2 tier system, was the instigator in the illegal incarceration of Assange, was at the helm when Saville was doing the rounds in morgues, in which certain files conveniently went missing post Savilles arrest..
He’s a proper wrongun..
I get all of that and the other comments
But I find that stories like this that pin blame for huge issues like this on individuals like Starmer, distasteful, as the guy may be, dumb. Really dumb. They really only serve the purpose of satisfying the prejudices and anger of those that are already angry and prejudiced against Laboir, Starmer and the techno political class in general.
I actually think it’s pretty unhelpful because it distracts from the actual core problem, the total rotten state of the system. The whole thing is putrid and screwed up.
And to suggest that if you take away all of Starmer’s actions from the equation it would all be completely different is retarded. Starmer is just one more cog in a huge fucked up system.
Millions of people in the UK vote for Labour and their openly pro immigration policies. Thousands of officials and bureaucrats either actively work to encourage and promote immigration or sit idly in their posts while it happens.
This channelling of people’s anger towards one person or even a handful of them and away from the actual core problem gets us no where.
You know who has something useful to say about it? Farage. He’s zeroed in on the essence of the problem. The UK will be unable to deal with immigration until it leaves the European Convention of Human Rights which is what legally forces its signatories to take all these so called refugees and makes it impossible to get rid of them.
That’s where all efforts should go, into leaving that treaty. Blaming Starmer for riots is a distraction and a stupid waste.of time, regardless of how satisfying it may be.
Bringing up the Council of Europe in this context is a red herring. All the supposedly “far right controlled” central European states whose migrant policies differ very much from the ideas of the LabCons about this are members, too. That’s not to say the leaving the CoE wouldn’t be the right thing to do — the recent ECHR ‘judgement’ on climate policy in Switzerland is sufficient ground for that but the immigration policy of all UK goverments since at least Tony Blair is their own. De facto Brexit “We don’t want white people here! Global majority more than welcome!” is a brilliant piece of evidence for that.
Illegal immigration is also a red herring. The by far overwhelming number of global majority people flooding this country do so perfectly legally.
Sorry mate – whilst I agree that blaming single political figures is often too simplistic it has to be understood that beneath a lot of leaders is a pyramid of supporters. In Starmer’s case he’s been close to the summit of that pyramid for thirty years. Electing him leader expressed the character of the party which Labour has become. He’s the apparatchik’s apparatchik.
Oh, by the way, did you know his dad was a toolmaker? Whatever next!
He and his goon-squad were HM Opposition, in Parliament and therefore part of Government – of course he us responsible, he did nothing to pressure the Government and everything to encourage lass inward immigration.
Or non-Opposition!
Two-tier Keir has ripped off the mask and revealed himself as just another Authoritarian Marxist.
Anyone surprised?
No, me neither.
But he’ll have done wonders for Reform UK’s future chances in the 98 Constituencies where they came second to Labour on 4 July.
Absolutely brilliant, courageous, powerful analysis by Laurie Wastell.
The photo of Starmer & Co. kneeling before the BLM rioters tops it all off perfectly.
https://open.substack.com/pub/conspiracysarah/p/incoming-avian-flu-eua-tests-mrna
I just saw Jenrick on the Camilla show on GB News this morning. She was asking him how to solve these problems and what we have here is simply another mild mannered handwringer who says NOTHING. I don’t want to hear how shocked you are. I don’t want to hear how your heart goes out to the family’s of the three children etc etc. ——I want to hear “No more illegal immigration” I want to hear “people of all races and cultures will face the full force of the law should they create civil disturbances and rioting”. I want to hear “Armed forces will drag you out of the streets you are destroying and you will be water cannoned”. I want to hear “No more special treatment for migrants and Muslims, and all will be equal under the law”. I want to hear “no more calling legitimate concerns about mass immigration classed as FAR RIGHT”
How about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqiWFLsgVi4
Muhammad Ali – Racial Integration
There is an excellent (IMHO) Youtube comparing Yvette Cooper’s views on the reactions to the death of George Floyd and the reactions to the murder of 3 young girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrvtbD_oAT4
Will the Real Yvette Cooper Please Stand Up!
Absolutely delighted to see Yvette Cooper looking worn and haggard on TV today after a week of riots.
It means she is not up to the job of Home Secretary.
Starmführer in comparison clearly could not care less. He looks like he has been sleeping soundly all week and not a jot careworn – looking forward to his hols in the sun.
Love to see it all left to Angela Rayner in his absence. She would lock up Winston Smith immediately if she could – and all other similar fictional characters – 1984 and all that.
In fact will 1984 have to be edited or even banned as it does not accord with policy in our woke new national socialist state.
“If they are to protest, they must do so peacefully.”
Successive Governments have taught us this is futile, and taught the nation how to protest. Use violence.
Time after time we have seen the cowardly police – appropriately arrayed in their yellow jackets – run away and Governments give in to those who smash up the streets.
Those who denounce violence should explain what actually will work – because peaceful protests certainly don’t work.
A 100 000 peaceful protest in London the other week was dismissed as Far-Right.
Have you not been paying attention? The Establishment has no intention of listening to the people’s reasonable concerns and addressing the issues raised.
Alice would find all this very curious, being a little white privileged girl in a looking glass world. The reversed images. The distorted reflections in the mirrors of the fairground. The drink-me euphemisms like ‘knife crime’, that makes the weapon large and the ethnic aspect small. Off with the heads of some, while patting those of others.
Then there’s hunting the snark. Between 1999 and 2006, 1,023 prisoners of foreign origin were released from British jails without having been deported. Among whom were murderers, rapists, kidnappers, drug dealers, and robbers. The Home Office admitted that most would never be found. Disappearing like the Cheshire cat, with no doubt, just as broad a grin.
Or there’s hunting the snarky. The MSM studiously avoids discussing the causes and characteristics of these crimes in all these instances that have occurred over the past two weeks. Instead there are, as Alice would say, the curious articles.
In the Mail on Sunday, the front page columnist writes as if the whole range of scandals that have broken in the past two weeks began with the election of Starmer’s Labour. The drink-me potion making large the party politics and the small the Uniparty’s twin-like commonality.
That is followed by the eat-me article inside by another columnist of repute. Here, Farage, though ‘a diminished figure’ speaking from a broom cupboard in the Palace of the Red King, still may have been carelessly influential enough to have ‘sown the whirlwind’ that others reaped as the riots.
Curious, Alice would surely have thought, that the columnist draws Farage’s attention to the Old Testament prophet, Hosea, who talked about sowing the wind when, if any seeds were sown that sprouted into the disturbances, they were sown long ago by others, and which gardeners would recognise as the species multiculturalism and mass immigration. Seeds which grew in the polluted soil of government indifference and bureaucratic incompetence.
If it is dared to quote scripture, and the saints of the Old Testament – one ought to be hesitant to do so, given the shock of nuclear heat that is the nature of the God who is justice and vengeance – what if it were the case that, as with the hero Gideon whose body the spirit of Jehovah ‘clothed itself’ with, the spirits of these dead children clothed themselves with those of the rioters. Not little angels flying high, but avenging angels wrapping themselves in a mantle of fury. As another prophet, Isaiah, declared, “Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury.”
By the way, given the lewd nature of the society in which we live, the audience probably laughed at the ‘tool’ that was speaking to them.
Have some sympathy for Kneel Charmless. First off, he suffers from difference in sex development. While he may outwardly look like a man, his body – due to an accident of nature – developed neither male nor female sex organs but ended up being coated with Teflon instead. While “nothing ever sticks to him” has certainly some advantage for a politicians, it makes for a pretty miserable private life.
He also really found himself between a clock and a vast lard space, well knowing that he didn’t become prime minister because people wanted a Labour government but because enough people voted for Reform candidates to prevent a Tory government. This leaves him in the unfortunate position of a political leader with no democratic mandate who – due to past committments and orders from his international higher-ups- is forced to implement exactly everything the people who voted against the fishy incumbent passionately reject.
On top of that, he has to travel to boringly British seaside towns with boringly British angry residents and drop flowers there. Just because another global majorigrant stabbed some more people to death. As if this could still be considered newsworthy. Some times, being the prime minister really sucks! Imagine the carbon footprint of this useless spectacle!
One of my sons asked today on Facebook Where, if anywhere, would you move to?”. I replied “England”. Starmer would never understand. Indeed, no politician since Thatcher would understand albeit she would ask “Is it really that bad?”.
People in Southport, roughly an hour or so from Manchester Arena, vent their frustration at yet more children being murdered by immigrants. What is the Governments response? Face match every single person in the country in order to silence all frustration. Send in heavily armed Police to shut them up. Open the Courts for 24 hours a day to teach them to shut up. Release thousands of criminals to make way for them. Let 100,000 unknown illegal immigrants out on the streets to stay here forever.
All they want to do is live in England Mrs Thatcher. The children just wanted to listen to pop music and pretend to dance like Taylor Swift.
Very good article. Sums up Starmer and his shit party very well indeed.
The majority of people who are extremely angry are not all right wing thugs. There are a few but the overwhelming majority are normal law abiding citizens who with the rampant invasion of our country both legal and illegal, fear for the safety of themselves, their children and grandchildren.
Starmer shit party is no different to Sunak shit party – two sides of the same arse.
Far right and racist euphemism for white British.
By & Large, “Politicians” Are One of The Biggest Causes of Extrimism ( due to Public Frustration, Unfairness Desperation, Dismissing Public Opinion of the Voters, & Implimenting deliberate policies to the detriment of The People).
The mass immigration of mainly young men is being organized and funded through the UN with the approval of just Western Governments. There is no effort to ensure those arriving will easily assimilate to existing cultures and way of life. The only outcome can be the destruction of existing cultures and civil unrest. It’s time to stop thinking this is not planned and designed by the Globalist Elites to destroy and weaken conservative opposition to their control.
Paid actors. Who is paying them? Surely someone knows