It’s pantomime season again. That time in the electoral cycle when politicians present their ‘retail offering’ to the public and strut the boards with faux sincerity worthy of Academy award winners. As with all works of fiction, if the show is to be truly enjoyable voters are required to demonstrate “willing suspension of disbelief”. Unfortunately, that’s where the game comes apart. Because to be frank, the manifestos stretch credulity well past breaking point.
The Daily Sceptic have asked me to comment on the health policies apparently on offer. I will firstly comment on the Conservative and Labour proposals and then consider the Reform party document. I don’t consider the Liberal Democrats or any other fringe organisations to be relevant.
Comparing the health positions of the Conservative and Labour parties is easy. They are virtually identical. The presentational language and imagery differ between the sanctimonious socialism of Labour and pretend pragmatism of the Conservatives, but looking through the bluster the policy offerings are remarkably similar.
On every substantive health issue, Labour and the Conservatives say the same thing. They will both grow the workforce by implementing the existing “Long term NHS workforce plan” and reduce waiting times for treatment. They both commit to “building 40 new hospitals”. Both sides pledge to improve the NHS app to enhance service accessibility; to improve dental and mental health services; to regulate hospital managers; to leverage our “world leading” health sciences sector and to enhance primary care. It is extremely difficult to find any major disparity between the two offerings – the only ones I can find are that Labour pledge to pay for more MRI and CT scanners, whereas the Conservatives propose to use unspecified new technology to improve reporting efficiency. The King’s Fund has provided a helpful summary for those readers interested in checking it out for themselves.
From a wider perspective, the Conservatives are trying to persuade the electorate to overlook the colossal failure of the NHS system under their stewardship to provide anything approaching an acceptable level of productivity. Labour, on the other hand, attempts to gull voters into believing that shovelling yet more taxpayers’ money into a deteriorating service will miraculously turn things around when the constraints on progress are systemically baked in.
Neither side make any attempt to address the core issues of culture and practice that make it unlikely that the NHS’s performance will improve in the foreseeable future. Both sides are conspicuously silent about the unending industrial dispute with the juvenile doctors – about to embark on another four-day strike directly before polling day in a pointless pursuit of a 35% pay rise.
My explanation of the extraordinary concordance in health manifestos is that the two main parties both realise that elected officials have next to no agency when it comes to dealing with the NHS. The sole function of politicians is to feed the machine with more and more taxpayers’ money, irrespective of falling productivity. Control does not lie with democratic representatives, but with technocratic functionaries. The functionaries in question are aware of their powerful position and also aware of the lack of moral hazard – simply put, they can’t be sacked for poor performance and have complete freedom to continue to act as an entity outside state control. The reason the Labour and Conservative health manifestoes are identical is because they’ve both effectively been written by NHS senior managers.
Which brings me to the Reform manifesto offering – plainly not written by NHS apparatchiks, if only because there is a clearly stated intention to reduce the numbers of NHS managers. There are some interesting and quite radical proposals in this document – but then, being radical is easy when there is virtually no prospect of you facing the challenge of having to implement any of these changes.
Taken at face value, the Reform proposals attempt to circumvent NHS vested interests and cultural intransigence by bypassing the organisation completely. Workforce incentivisation would be addressed by generous tax breaks for clinical staff. Student loans would be written off for doctors and nurses after 10 years’ service. Patients would be given vouchers to use with any health provider if waiting time targets were not met, and there would be 20% tax relief on private healthcare insurance. Whoever wrote the Reform document appreciates that attempting to achieve change in U.K. healthcare is not feasible by working within the NHS’s existing frameworks because the system will always act to resist and frustrate change.
Nevertheless, I see problems with this approach – as ever, the devil is in the detail. Exempting frontline NHS staff from basic rate tax is a bold attempt at incentivisation – but what is the definition of ‘frontline’? Given the NHS propensity for pushing the envelope, that definition could encompass all 1.5 million employees of this bloated monstrosity.
Writing off student debt for doctors and nurses also has its appeal – although that would incentivise students to borrow as much as possible in the first place. And if doctors and nurses are to have debt forgiveness, what about physios, and occupational therapists or hospital pharmacists, and so on.
Patient vouchers for private healthcare is an eye-catching proposal – at one time this was a Conservative policy. But it paradoxically incentivises doctors to prolong NHS waits on the basis that the government will then fund care in the private sector, for which the practitioner, moonlighting in the private sector, will then be paid extra by the taxpayer.
Finally, there is the issue of tax relief on private insurance premia. At first glance this seems prudent – why not directly incentivise people to use alternative routes to reduce pressure on the NHS? Unfortunately, there are potential problems here too. Such a scheme provides a subsidy to the private health insurance providers, allowing them to grow their market while maintaining their already substantial profit margins. If any senior person in Reform believes that a healthcare sector dominated by private insurance companies will provide value for money or an equitable approach to dealing with patients, they are mistaken. Having dealt with the insurers for 20 years as a private medical practitioner, I wouldn’t trust any of them.
So, in summary I’d give two cheers for Reform. I wouldn’t go as far as Professor Sikora’s ringing endorsement in the Telegraph, but the insurgent party does deserve credit for thinking differently. I would have preferred to see a specific commitment to examining fundamental change of the NHS to a mixed healthcare economy modelled along European or Antipodean social health insurance lines. These models of delivery have a long and consistent track record of outperforming the socialist NHS monolith or the inequitable and inefficient US system. Such a proposal would take decades to implement, require all-party support and be fiercely resisted by NHS unions and management. In short, it is highly unlikely to happen within my lifetime.
Despite the practical difficulty of this truly radical and necessary change, the first step is to get the idea on the national agenda, which might eventually move the ‘Overton window’ of political discussion. That would be real Reform. Feel free to call me sceptical, but we are nowhere near it yet.
The author, the Daily Sceptic’s in-house doctor, is a former NHS consultant, now retired.
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Some enterprising lawyer should remind them the JAB manufacturers are legally immune from damage claims, but those incentivising medical treatments and thus mangling consent are probably not…
Its obvious the government are paying these companies to offer bribes for jabs! I pray none of the youngsters are stupid enough to be scammed.
In the US, the funding came from the huge stimulus bill, I do believe. Taxpayers paying to have themselves propagandized.
Still, there is the upside that it will be the dim and unthinking who join the cull!
I’m guessing that from these derisory offers they believe 18-30’s will do anything to save themselves £10 !!!
Bargains galore lol
This is misinformation. Where are the fact-checkers?
“Where are the fact-checkers?”
I think the translation was wrong : for ‘fact-checkers’ read ‘arse-lickers’.
What we need to do is somehow build a ‘Wall of defiance’. Turning off the app is a start if the majority of us haven’t done so already or never downloaded it in first place. Same with refusing to provide contact details.
Paaaaaaaathetic.
These bribes are so lame they would not tempt a Scottish Jew. What is needed are some decent incentives such as the £10,000 plus a free year’s accommodation Leeds University is offering to students who are prepared to defer their place for a year. This year’s cohort of A level students really hit the jackpot – vastly inflated grades and now this wonderful offer which will finance their gap year.
Looks to me as if the offer, should it be required, of a full paid-for, slap-up funeral, complete with black horses, and several mutes in crape-wound top hats and frock coats, would be more appropriate.
This quote along the lines of ‘when you are coerced or incentivized to get something by an authority, you can be absolutely sure that it’s not in your best interest’ is always my first and sole reaction to the plethora of such news.
“ ….as we continue to build the wall of defence through every jab given.”
… but, but, but I thought it was now accepted that these vaccines don’t stop spread. Either I am going insane or the government are lying!
They are lying
they seem to carry on saying things about a month after ‘the evidence’ changes
gaslighting
They are also insane.
Mmm, not sure that I would agree with you there, I think they know exactly what they are doing. It’s all part of a globally co-ordinated plan for micromanagement of people’s lives. It’s never been just about the virus.
Criminally insane. Actually no, just criminal. Psychopaths aren’t insane. Bad not mad.
They are being hung up by the short and curlies. How else would it be possible for so many world leaders to fall prey to this insanity? Everyone has skeletons in the cupboard – I suggest politicians have more than a few that wouldn’t stand daylight scrutiny.
“ Mr Javid said: “It is fantastic to see more companies backing the phenomenal vaccine rollout”
So phenomenal that they have to stoop to bribery and coercion to get healthy young adults to take the ‘death jab’ for fuck sake. Sick bastards all of them!
Absolutely, but helpfully they are highlighting the businesses that will need to be added to the ever increasing list of those to be held to account at some point in the future when we win against this world takeover, although possibly not in my lifetime!!
In the meantime I am making a list of companies never to do business with
The more these abject politicos spout their rotten mantra the more I seek, find and read dissenting voices of medics and other scientists who have systematically destroyed the CCP/WHO/Pharma/Gavi/Fauci/PHE/JCVI/SAGE CDC et al policies – do these criminals not realise they have long ago been unmasked (sorry) and the cat is well and truly out of the bag.
Question is , how much longer before matters get really serious with violence/economies stalling etc and other issues get dragged in…refugees/attempts at radical Islamisation of western countries…..very dangerous times
A few more names for my little black book. Their day will come.
Piss off, you sanctimonious bullshitter!
I don’t really get the urge to jab people who are not at risk with a leaky vaccine that can only drive variants
should have stopped after ‘offering’ it to those deemed vulnerable
but really should have just ignored the whole bloody thing. it was panic that got the infected sent to care homes
Really? Really? These companies are prepared to offer derisory bribes to persuade the young to engage in the biggest medical experiment the world has ever seen. You couldn’t make this up.
Ummmm….
I wouldn’t mind if the jabs worked and this was really a deadly virus – I mean if this was really a deadly virus and the vaccines worked then there would be no need to bribe and coerce people into taking the vaccine.
My take from this desperate act in resorting to bribing people (freebies) and coercion (no holidays abroad) is that not nearly as many people are taking up the jab offer as we are being led to believe.
The wheels are coming off this manufactured crisis and like everything else about this pandemic it all just more bullshit from a government that i sometimes suspect has another agenda.
They wouldn’t have to constantly tell us how deadly it is, we’d know just by looking around.
The first indicator for me that something wasn’t right, was VERY early on when the media was saying that there was nothing you could do about it and that there were these “scammers” pushing vitamins and other remedies, and just healthy living in general.
I know more people in the last 2 weeks with covid than the entire 18 months up to now
all under 50. all mild – not even worth mentioning if it wasn’t such a “deadly disease”. some just positive tests. a few pings
now I’ve got a bit of a cold. started yesterday with a sore throat. i reckon its a hangover though
all jabbed as well?
as far as I know all jabbed
I have the same observation…
It seems being jabbed makes you constantly ill
Nobody at my job got sick this entire time, up until people started getting the shot. The people hacking and coughing now are the ones who got jabbed.
We did have a few people test “positive” last year after they found out they would get two weeks paid vacation if they caught “it”. Not actually sick, though.
I posted this in today’s comments but worth a permanent record here as it’s relevant to this news item
This is a link to a family doctor practice in Mohringen, Germany who have exited the experimental vaccine programme
https://moehringer-hausarztpraxis.de/
The following is a translation of a section on their website that has now ‘disappeared’
Vaccinations in practice
Exit from the Covid-19 vaccination campaign
Dear patients,
For medical reasons, after a long internal struggle, I decided to withdraw from the Covid-19 vaccination campaign until further notice.
The motto “primum nil nocere” – “first of all do not harm” applies to all medical treatment. This means: the potential benefit of a medical measure must always be greater than the potential risk. The benefit of a Covid vaccination for the seriously ill or elderly patients originally referred to as priority 1 and priority 2 is in all probability higher than the risk of the vaccinations. These patients have therefore received a vaccination offer from us and we will also complete the vaccination cycles that have started.
In my opinion, the ratio of benefit to risk for all other patients can no longer be stated so clearly on the basis of the current data. On the one hand, there is the risk of a serious Covid 19 disease. Statistically speaking, younger people have a low risk of a severe course of Covid-19. The risk increases with age and previous illnesses. The aim of the Covid-19 vaccinations is to prevent the severe courses – whether they also prevent so-called long-covid syndromes has not yet been sufficiently investigated.
On the other hand, there is the safety of the available vaccines. All vaccines have only a conditional approval, as safety and efficacy have not been sufficiently proven to date. Technologically, all currently approved vaccines are breaking new ground, the safety of which has not yet been proven in the short or long term due to a lack of time. Consistently formulated, the current vaccination campaign is therefore a huge study in which all those willing to vaccinate take part as test subjects.
At least in the short term, the new vaccines show a side effect profile that we would not have tolerated as doctors at other times. Almost every day since the vaccinations for young people were opened, I have seen patients with symptoms that occurred shortly after the vaccination (e.g. fever, pain, nausea, skin rashes, lymph node swelling, sensory disorders, autoimmune diseases). This has already led to hospital admissions. Thank goodness I haven’t seen the potentially fatal diseases (such as myocarditis and blood clots) that are currently associated with vaccines in my practice.
At this point in time, we cannot have sufficient data on the long-term safety of the vaccines, because this assessment takes time that cannot be replaced by a lot of money or a large number of test subjects. There are also gaps in the data on fertility in women and men and on possible consequences for unborn life. This makes it almost impossible to compare benefits and risks. With other vaccinations (e.g. tetanus, measles or TBE), this is possible for us through many years of use and our knowledge of good short-term and long-term tolerance. That is why I recommend these vaccinations to you in accordance with the STIKO vaccination recommendations.
There is a risk that the Covid-19 vaccination will harm you in the short term. Nobody can tell you at the moment whether I will harm you in the long term. Whether I will benefit you with the vaccination in the long term, either. I therefore cannot reconcile it with my conscience to continue vaccinating. So please allow me “first of all not to harm you”!
I would be delighted if you continued to place your trust in me and thank you!
Dr. J. Weiffenbach
I have emailed this to my MP and once again reminded him he will be unable to say he was unaware.
An honest and brave man, just wish that we had more of his ill here in the UK!
Copied and shared.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210814073914/https://moehringer-hausarztpraxis.de/
Oh German! I’m sorry. I thought there was something wrong with you.
Dr Ryan Coles in the US has disclosed that the FDA’s own rules on experimental use only approval apparently states that after 25 deaths from the EUO drug, it HAS to be pulled; absolute dynamite implication the FDA is ignoring its own rules therefore a potentially illegal act; in addition the Pfizer FDA authorisation also states that the EUO approval is only given such that if there are no other treatments available – is this true of the UK EUO approved Pfizer/Astra Zeneca jabs….
Please see on Rumble “Dr Ryan Coles/Stop the mandate” if you have not already done so.
What would once have been incredible – touting vaccines like a snake-oil salesman.
uh …ohhh … what did you say? They are hick snake-oil salesmen?
It reminds me of this public information film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWKK86rMTQ
Charley and I were in the park. Then this man came up and said would I like a £10 voucher off some George clothing. And I said yes, and I was going to go to the vaccination centre to get my voucher but Charley reminded me that my mum said I shouldn’t take experimental gene therapies that might cause myocarditis or death. We went and told mummy, and she said we had been really good.
Brilliant!
Love it!
Wonderful!
If walk-in centres are dishing out free sweeties, what’s to stop the kiddie pwinkies getting jabbed a dozen times so’s to get the sweeties?
Lastminute.com will offer gift cards for travel abroad, which, at the last minute, the government might deny you!
These sick bastards are ALL culpable! The truth WILL out.
True – but maybe only in 50 years or so.
Why are they still calling the medical treatment a ‘vaccine’?
Interesting to note that the photo shows the skin being pinched for the injection. This is strongly advised against because it increases the likelihood of the needle not reaching the muscle but, instead, going into a vein. I understand that the skin should be gently stretched before inserting the needle.
I agree it’s important to highlight this given the concerns around how this impacts how the vaccine is distributed. But is the skin actually being pinched in that photo?
A fucking disgrace. That aside, how many 18-30 year olds are going to rush to get a voucher for the frumpy Asda clothing?
Asda also got the contract for the uniforms for the “isolation” camps?
Here in the People’s Republic of San Francisco, a preview of what’s coming your way soon no doubt: https://sf.gov/information/vaccine-required
The best part is really this (sentences reordered):
We’re requiring vaccines to protect everyone against the continued spread of COVID-19.
You will still need to wear a mask, even if you are vaccinated.
We’re requiring vaccination to protect against COVID-19 and we’re requiring masks to … er … well … protect against the problem that we don’t really believe that what we’re requiring to protect against COVID-19 does protect against COVID-19.
And then, of course, COVID-19 protection by vaccinated masks is only required for spare-time activities we really disapprove of.
Jesus this shit has to fucking STOP!!!!
If this was a ‘real’ pandemic where the stench of death was everywhere, and everybody knew someone effected there would be no need for inducements, but its not.. is it. Its a cooked up hoax, so therefore the need for massive advertising (propaganda) and sweeties to attract the ill-informed, naive and just plain stupid.
Lets get this straight.. they need the vax for the passports, they need the passports for the digital ID, and they need the digital ID for the digital banking and social credit system they have planned… have I missed anything.. ???
Yep, nothing else makes sense. Continuing to think that this is all incompetence is delusional.
Everything makes sense, events are driven by design. The next crisis will be were all doomed by climate change, and to give you all a bit of light relief here’ a cunning plan…
Baldrick: I have a cunning plan to get us out of getting killed sir.
Blackadder: Ah yes, what is it?
Baldrick: Cooking.
No, got it in one! Our government have sold us out to the globalists and the health mafia. Our supine MPs have just sat back and let it happen . I hesitate to guess why.
No its all there, doesn’t mean it will happen though..
That’s why I’m not complying. The less we comply, the less likely it is to happen.
More of this
I’m not sure.
I figure there has to be something particularly sinister about these injections.
If the sole aim was “social credit”, via the digital Id, etc., as you outline, I believe they would have run with an influenza “pandemic” and a relatively well established influenza vaccine, “tried and trusted” technology. (Don’t mention Pandemrix!)
Instead, they’re doing a global roll-out of weird shit. mRNA – a technology never used for any licensed treatment. Or viral vector – a technology only slightly more established: two, or three, viral vector treatments were licensed in late 2019, “vaccines” against Ebola. (So, lots of folk you know have received them, and been perfectly fine!)
That’s it summed up very succinctly
I have
“Yes we have no pandemic, we have no pandemic today”
running through my head.
BBC News (sorry) article about a plague vaccine bring developed. How long before that is made mandatory?
Companies to avoid
Question: why would these companies be so interested in getting children injected with the experimental shit? Answers on a postcard please.
Wonder if it will come to hanging around school gates.
Bit by bit, everything Geert Vanden Bossche predicted is beginning to happen Someone somewhere really needs to, at least, take notice of what he is saying. In his latest blog post he writes,
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/how-remaining-in-the-dark-and-turning-in-vicious-circles-inevitably-leads-to-erroneous-decisions
Yep and the data coming out of Israel shows vaccines wane after about 5-6 months.
Yes Mayo, you are spot on. I can only think that feeding the financial interests of big Pharma and their institutional investors by a ‘vaccine orgy’ takes precedence over the interests of the population. No other word for it, it’s a sell out, by western governments in particular, to the globalist oligarchs. In other words treason against the people.
we continue to build the wall of defence through every jab given
I wouldn’t usually quote Pink Floyd but: You are not a human being. You are a brick in the wall.
A full £10 off at Asda!? Oh boy! That sure is a tempting offer.
Seriously, these bribes are insulting to our intelligence.
History repeats itself!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/shocking-dehumanizing-discrimination-against-unvaxxd-about-make-life-very-difficult
The CDC released a study which shows the “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated” have the same viral load when infected. If they believe everything else the CDC spouts, why are they not paying attention to this study?
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm7031e2_w
The truth hurts!
How many more scientists and medics do we need to say kids should not take these inoculations. Their risk of injury and death from inoculation is higher than their risk of injury and death from the invisible virus.
If you have a child in this age bracket please follow the advice of Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Peter McCullough, all FLCCC docs, and literally thousands of other medics begging parents not to inoculate your child with a experimental genetic biological. Many cases of myocarditis in this age group. A life long cardiac injury.
Agree 1 million %
Javid is coming across as Wancock’s glove puppet, using his master’s voice
No….Javid is a puppet all by himself and even more sinister sounding than Hancock. Javid was likely kept in ‘reserve’ for this point in the cabal’s agenda. Exit Hancock via a set up to let in the new man, the ‘banker’s man’.
Offers for a slight discount on vacations abroad? Don’t forget your
3rd vaccination.Booster jab.Outbreak in a Dutch care home.
https://nos.nl/liveblog/2394052-website-voor-gratis-zelftesten-werkt-weer-uitbraak-in-gelders-verzorgingstehuis
It is among vaccinated residents and employees in the De Beekwal nursing home in Eerbeek. At least seventeen of the 125 residents and seventeen employees have tested positive.
Can these companies be sued by any one taking advantage of their marketing campaigns for an unlicensed drug if they cause injury or death as surely they are complicit in enticing the youngster.
Asda and Deliveroo on have just joined the illustrious list of businesses who will never get a penny from me ever again. Hope a few million others do the same.
I have lived a long time but have never heard such a load of barlocks in my life. I hope this shameless attempt at bribery of the young will set alarms ringing across the land.
Covid blood tests are STILL banned, I was told by an angry pharmacist yesterday. The fact that this government remains determined to stop us knowing if we’ve had covid (as many show no symptoms) highlights that it really is ALL about the vaccine.
Those of us with naturally-acquired (and far better) immunity are acting as a control group, which is why we’re being demonised into accepting the jab, since a control-group which will show their lies is the last thing they want.
How wonderful! You can get a £30 voucher for travel abroad to slightly offset the hundreds of pounds extorted from you in exchange for the useless and invasive tests you’re forced to take! Come on Government, where is the million pound prize draw and the shiny car, you can do better than this…