The long term sick and disabled are unsustainable in a beastly swipe by Tony Blair at the Future of Britain Conference.
Right, so I suppose it was a foregone conclusion that with Keir Starmer now as Prime Minister, leading what I’ve seen called his sandcastle government, essentially because that is what his majority is built on, that Tony Blair would crawl out of whatever fetid pit of damnation he happened to be occupying since his last rare intervention, but those interventions might now start to become a lot less rare now, opining at a speech yesterday at his own Tony Blair Institute on the unsustainability of the number of sick and disabled people in this country, whilst also musing that the best way to head off the threat of the far right, like Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, is to be more like them. Not so much a Labour government that is Tory-lite, but racist-lite as well it seems.
Right, so that was a short clip of Tony Blair, making a speech yesterday at the Future of Britain conference, being held at the Tony Blair Institute, so of course he was going to be there as well, giving his opinions and plenty of other Labour figures were as well, another notable clip doing the rounds on social media is of Wes Streeting proudly boasting that his Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS itself is no longer a public service, but is now an economic growth department, so pray tell what are you going to be selling off or charging for in order to generate a profit then Wes? Is it going to be the growth of our economy, or ooh I dunno, just the economic growth happening in shareholder wallets? We’ve seen this play, you’re not doing anything different to the Tories, it’s more privatisation, more outsourcing, more of the NHS budget ending up in private pockets, but anyway, back to Blair.
Standing there in that piece of footage, Blair, an insanely rich man who’s hands will never wash clean of the blood of a million dead Iraqis appears to be saying that Labour should be coming for the long term sick and disabled next, along with those with mental health issues, because why not include them too if you’re going to go down this road.
Have these people and their families, their carers, not suffered enough. This is a soapbox I will never get off, because this is personal, this is my family he’s talking about, a carer as I am to two disabled family members, but equally so many other families around the country, some of whom sadly have lost family members at the hands of Tory disability and social security reforms.
Blair calls these issues unsustainable. Well, it’s not like those affected have a choice is it Tony. You have the choice to inflict your opinions on us from a stage at your own think tank, about as welcome as a dose of the clap as they are, but people suffering the long term effects for example, of long COVID have no choice. For those where Tory Britain and struggling to get by living in it for so long, failure in government as that was, something I’m sure you’d agree with, even if you’d basically do very little different, eroding people’s mental health and the dearth of NHS support to deal with it at the same time, is not the fault of the sufferer.
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