Public Enemy Number One

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The public should be aware that a dangerous radical is on the loose in the halls of our government, spouting political propaganda and threatening the stability of our country. This man and his fellow conspirators would have the economy throttled and the wealth of the people sequestered to the party coffers and its benefit. Big state at its most heinous? Stalin's Russia? Orwellian dystopia? Nope, it's the Tories, yet again proving that they really do only care for and consider their own welfare and prosperity: 'The Natural Party of Government™' feeding the Great Lie of equality of opportunity to its electorate: a drip-feed of mendacity so constant - aided by the Tory media - that it has seemed for too long to be the natural narrative of British politics.

Steve Barclay, Health Secretary: for 'tis he pictured and fram-ed, continues to exhibit hubris, effrontery and obnoxiousness in equal measure in his frankly insulting, and I would argue libellous and therefore actionable, pronouncements on current industrial action within the health service. To put things in some sort of monetary perspective, the average ambulance driver in the UK earns around £20k; a paramedic around the mid £30k region after two years, and a nurse averages around £35k, depending on experience and level of skilling. Steve Barclay argues that the current pay demands by these healthcare professionals cannot be met by the government, and that those demands are in fact blackmail, taking the lives of patients hostage in their pursuit.

This from a government minister who earns £155k+ annually, paid for by us. In case you're wondering, that's about the same per day as I used to earn per week as a fully-qualified telecoms engineer: around six-hundred quid. Or just under three-grand a week, or thirteen grand a month: more than an awful lot of people in the UK earn per year. And paid for by us. Public money. Who on earth does this slimeball think he is, to accuse people who actually work hard in the service of the public on a fraction of the pay he is paid, from those self-same public funds? I'd have him strung up by his nadgers, were it up to me. You can invent your own form of medieval punishment for such outrageous crassness...


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