tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post3234273707981926126..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: So there isn't a Brexit Dividend? (Or maybe there is...)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-33973282625300835272018-06-25T16:03:11.162+01:002018-06-25T16:03:11.162+01:00Sir, this is politics, not real life.
As things s...Sir, this is politics, not real life.<br /><br />As things stand the NHS is sacred because this government lacks the strength or the time to properly reform it. Instead the NHS is being used as a sacred cow for political means.<br /><br />Right now Mrs May has a problem with sore loser Remainers. She badly needs a way to make them look like vile vermin. This announcement was her way of doing this, since arguing against Brexit can now be tagged not only with being against democracy but with being a despoiler of the sacred NHS as well.<br /><br />This isn't enough to take the announcement into the realm of politically clever. No, the fact that this was done at a time when the Labour Party were on the back foot and trying to gain ground was the clever bit, since it tempted the Labourites into a game of taxation one-upmanship.<br /><br />Labour should have quietly applauded from the sidelines and simply declared that at long last the Tory Party were singing from the same hymn sheet as Labour, long might this outbreak of common sense continue. Being twerps, they didn't.<br /><br />No, Labour took the moron route of saying that they would tax people even more than the hated Tories to push yet more money at the NHS. The electorate would likely have heard only the phrases "Labour Party" and "More tax".<br /><br />In one announcement Mrs May has thus backed the Remainers into a corner and invited the Labour lot to shoot themselves in the foot, and by doing so has confirmed the hypothesis that the current Labour Party are composed of moron Marxists without much political acumen. Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618328278732100203noreply@blogger.com