The public has become immune to the new Labour spin Streeting personifies. When he took office, 41 per cent of the public thought Labour was best placed to run the NHS. Today, just 19 per cent say the same. It’s up to the Conservatives to hold him to account.
If it is to succeed, the union must show where the money will come from without overburdening taxpayers. It must combine principle with political judgement, build strategic alliances, and make its case through astute strategy rather than spectacle and disruption – being more Caesar than Spartacus in its approach.
Even Labour has now realised, giving strikers everything they want constitutes an incitement, not a strategy. Here are some better ideas to handle the inevitable pushback.
Where Labour makes excuses, the Conservatives are offering solutions. We understand that the NHS cannot function if it becomes a hostage to militant unions.
We have always protected and championed a health service that is free at the point of use. But if we do not draw the line, then it will fall.
He has has a problem that Ethelred never faced: Britain is borrowing £150 billion a year simply to cover its existing spending commitments. There. Is. No. Money.
The problem in quangos, the judiciary, and in academia is that despite these bodies claiming neutrality – or at least objectivity – they have created a soft form of selection bias, distorting their output.
I have seen first-hand how precarious the balance is for non-NHS organisations providing health and care services. Raising NI employer contributions to strengthen our health system could, in fact, destabilise the very services that keep it afloat
There is no easy way out of the toxic combination of already-high taxes, corrosive inflation, low productivity, and a Health Service funded exclusively by the taxpayer.
The Government may be looking ahead to another winter of mild disruption, lengthening waiting lists, and protracted negotiations. Nonetheless, the prognosis is not half as gloomy as this time last year.
She demonstrates that many of the problems the health service now has have existed from the very beginning.
The waves of strikes we are seeing punish patients, children, and commuters. Acceding to the inflated pay demands of the unions would punish us all by making our inflation problem worse.
We are still trying to clear the backlog created by Covid-19; industrial action will mean more delays and more preventable suffering.
Labour have chosen the union over the patient, the paymaster over the public, the path of least resistance over the demands of responsible government. Under a Conservative government NHS doctors will no longer have the right to strike.