It’s a diagnosis, certainly

From the man himself:
But the truth is that these days, right-wing politics has abandoned all of that. They have almost nobody inside their parties who understands the real world of work, or finance, or capital, or business, or anything else,
Because they’re all the product of professors at universities? Although he could say the same thing about the left…

Wes Streeting told Sophy Ridge this morning that he had “Had it with the BMA” (British Medical Association) and that “An outbreak of juvenile delinquency” is taking place, when referring to their strike.
Sophy Ridge then referred to how bad things were in the NHS, and suggested that people might die as a result of the chaos that was occurring, which is precisely why resident doctors are striking, because right now they know many of them are being made redundant precisely because the NHS will not give them jobs so that safe care might be provided, let alone at fair pay.

Is his wife’s position at risk I wonder as that could lead him to need to relocate, especially if his ‘roadshow’ doesn’t pay off?

Streeting was given little option but to agree on the issue of likely deaths: a report on corridor care had already made the point

Nothing about the Birmingham per year coming in all of whom get thrust to the front of the queue for free care?? Quelle surprise.
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So, what is happening here? The BMA is making these points:

• The government is neglecting the NHS, and people are dying as a result.

The NHS is the seventh largest employer in the world. Quite how this is ‘neglect’ is a mystery

• 2.There are doctors available to work in the NHS to alleviate this issue right now, but the government will not provide the funding to employ them. In fact, some are being made redundant at this moment when patients are desperate for the services they could supply.

Of course there’s no financial constraint in this man’s fantasy universe. As the Telegraph post linked to by Clarence (Boddicker) proves, Murphy’s economics have been brutally exposed by the interview with Polanski as adolescent scribblings and verging on the deranged.

• As a matter of fact, doctors can get better terms of employment outside England and are doing so because they can no longer afford to live here or endure the impossible conditions of employment being offered to them. We face a permanent loss of skills unless this issue is resolved soon.

And how would this be resolved precisely – more money at a time when there is none to spare? Remove care from violent patients? Charges for missed appointments? of course – MOAR TAX will resolve the issue.

I could add:

• This week, the government has agreed to pay big pharma several billion pounds more a year for drugs, all to fuel the profits of big drug companies. There was no indication of where the funds would come from in budgeting terms. We can assume it will come from reduced care. NHS carers are paying for these drugs, as are we when we need care.

I dispute the figure and it was part of trade talks with the United States which are a prelude to the current administration releasing money to assist us

• The government is doing precisely nothing of consequence to curb the abuse of the big food industry that is creating the crisis of ill health that is overwhelming the NHS.

Whereas Big DEI and Big Trans are doing a great job..

• The money to fund the NHS could be available. It just has to be spent into existence. And if there is an inflation risk as a result, I have shown how to address that, too. I set it out in my alternative budget. I keep showing how. The government is simply too frightened to act.

Partly because it came in 11 posts and had the 100,000 commentators with greater economic knowledge whom you have barred from ‘Funding the Future been allowed to post it would have been eviscerated in a matter of 200 posts. It was nonsense on stilts from Paragraph one to paragraph 300. Badly written and utterly ignorant of economic basics.

• And the last point is key.
• Streeting is like a rabbit in the headlights.
• So is the whole of the government, not one of whom prepared themselves in any way for the likelihood of office or the decisions that might be asked of them, even though they had 14 years to do so in Opposition.

I actually agree with this but adolescent fantasies (particularly from a near septuagenarian) aren’t a program for government.

And as Tim points out:

I have done the hard work. It’s called the Taxing Wealth Report. I heard nothing. Why? Because the detail does not fit the slogans, and those slogans matter more. So, how delivery might happen is ignored. And as a consequence, his campaign will likely fail, which I deeply regret, because we do need to tax wealth more.

As the legendary Andrew C points out – the Taxing Wealth Report was a random collection of stale tropes that were debunked when he raised them, often a decade ago. The notion it would raise even one tenth of the claimed revenue on a one-off basis was comical. It’s adverse effects would have been the equivalent of a nuclear attack. In a world where secure facilities existed then I would have recommended its author’s detention indefinitely.

I might not think much of Gary stevenson but he was wise to steer well clear.