Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Victoria Atkins, health minister fails in sky interview with Trevor Phillips" video.

  1. “Mad,” Hancock and Jeremy (frequently mispronounced but well earned last name) Hunt, have gotten away Scott free with deliberate (DELIBERATE!) harm to the NHS and it wasn’t only the post Brexit migration of staff that caused its ruination. When will people FINALLY UNDERSTAND?! The decay of the NHS is NOT a bug! It’s a FEATURE! They intend to run it into such a hopeless, and prohibitively expensive to repair, state that they can openly privatise the entire thing, whilst getting nothing but a gasp of relief from the continually waterboarded public who will be offered tax cuts in return for giving up on the whole project! That’s the PLAN! And the stealth privatisation model (whilst working so well for some, far richer now, friends and family of the Tory MP’s responsible) has not moved swiftly enough for them! The complacent, arrogant Tories just didn’t expect that they would find themselves about to be punted out of office before the completion of their diabolical plan. This will be our LAST opportunity to save the NHS (one of the last defining features of Britain still standing, of which we can claim some collective national pride!) and put in legal safeguards to protect it, enshrined in law, and actually criminalising any further attempts at insider dealing, stealth privatisation and deliberate sabotage! The new government will be our last, best hope. If they don’t act in the new Parliament, then it’s all over.
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  2. It’s what happens when a party implodes. Brexit brought the Tories to a point of internal battle that had been brewing for generations, but which they had never quite had to face before, or just had very strong leadership who took no prisoners when enacting their own vision of dealing with Europe. It’s all because of that craven lust for power, that lead them down the path of flinging open their doors to anyone who looked like they could win their seat in that moment and give them the numbers they needed for a majority. They let in more and more fringe types with extremist views, more and more dodgy types, with criminal connections but lots of money, and they made a special effort to let in the, “personality politicians,” with their amusing haircuts and entertaining line of patter that gets a larf on Have I Got News For You, without checking ANYONE’S record, background or credentials. As the old guard, the ones with quaint, old fashioned things like, “ideologies,” and, “beliefs,” retired, the remaining MP’s increasingly found that these new kids weren’t content to simply play a role as show ponies, but they demanded a seat at the top table and started acting like they owned the place. Then Brexit happened and it was the flashpoint between, “Are we isolationists and extremists, or are we centrist, single nation, leaning to conservative, ‘values,’ kind of Tories?” And they had to confront this finally, in the sort of battle that is usually fought in the respectable privacy of a period out of office, because it was HAPPENING right now, and they saw that the sort of Brexit we get now, will define them and the country for generations. So they’ve been fighting among themselves ever since! In the most unedifying and disgraceful fashion at times. They even had the Home Office minister using the dispatch box to call the nation NAMES and deliberately deepen division! The one minister whom you’d expect to at least pay lip service to uniting Britain was (and still is, from the side lines) screaming for the most extreme, un-British, exploitation of THE most vulnerable people on EARTH (asylum seekers) as her personal political football, with a scheme that was so heartless and insane Charles Dickens would have blushed! I site that example because it crystallises what was really going on. It was an attempt on the part of the party’s minority to hijack the defining characteristics of the party and make it seem to stand for this new, extremist vision, like we have become Cold War East Germany or something! Overnight! Ask yourself this question. Before this all became the hot topic of the day, do remember what the world was like? How it was a world wide discussion about how global weather patterns, various conflicts and economic pressures were going to cause an influx of asylum seekers all over the western world; and the fact that we needed to seek some international cooperation and planning to deal with it, before it gets out of hand? Then this whole, “Stop The Boats!” drama was literally dropped on us out of a clear blue sky!? Remember? Like ANYONE has ASKED for that? Or thought it an urgent issue in quite the same way that the extremists did? Again, that’s just one example. But my point here (and if you’re still with me, thank you for your patience) is there was a catastrophic period of backstabbing and internal division (still far from settled) that killed off all the leading politicians and when the dust settled, they looked around and saw that there were no actual educated, experienced, articulate, well informed politicians left! They’d betrayed them all, driven them off into retirement, or otherwise disillusioned and frightened off their most trusted and talented people! All they had left to draw on were the dregs! The people who would, in the normal state of things, be staffers, fetching the coffee or doing the paperwork. And THAT’S why they’re SO BAD at their jobs. They’re just not the real thing anymore. None of them have the least clue what they’re doing, how to handle the press, how to speak in public and how to avoid one catastrophic gaff after another! Half of them don’t even want to be there, and I honestly think Sunack is one of them! He’s already had a no confidence vote and was probably (as I believe will be revealed after the election) being threatened with yet another palace coup! Why put up with this snake pit of entitled, talentless, unqualified nonentities, all clawing their way to Number 10 over the destroyed bodies of their colleagues, when he could be sitting in a Californian air conditioned corner office, having the staff bring him what he wants, making lots of money and working on his memoirs? They just don’t have anyone left capable of doing the job and their leader has given up on his own party and probably wants to avenge himself on them, seeing as how they’ve ensured that he will go down in history as the leader who lead them to their worst ever defeat and possibly off the opposition benches altogether. With that kind of a legacy staring you in the face, what else is there to do but ensure you get a little revenge? Especially if you’re the sort of politician who doesn’t EVER think about piffling tiny matters like, “the good of the country,” or the suffering of your fellow beings?
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