At this pantomime time, it is useful to look back at the happy-clappy street theatre worship that developed this year for a failing National Health Service. ‘Saving’ the NHS has become a national obsession since the election of New Labour in 1997 if not before then, so it was hardly suprising that the political agenda should move on from ‘Saving’ to ‘Protecting’, with the Tories stealing Labour’s clothes and in doing so bringing the political left on board to support all the lockdown measures. Left-wing journalist Neil Clark, who is director of the Campaign for Public Ownership, understands this. The notion that any taxpayer-funded organisation, a vast amount of whose finance is spent on administrative bureaucracy, should need ‘Thanking’, let alone ‘Saving’ or ‘Protecting’ is absurd to say the least, though individual staff may well deserve thanking.
So this cult of NHS worship has been a useful tool to disguise the run down of patient care, including the closure of GP surgeries and the privatisation of some other services. The symbolic adoption of the rainbow which had already acquired ‘woke’ status as used by the LGBTQWERTY cult was a useful addition to the propaganda. It is the folly of millions of people on the political left that they fell for it. They have been played, though they will never admit it, because for them the NHS is infallible; and because many of those on the left are of professional middle-class status employed within the public sector or academia, they were happy to promote the ‘Stay at Home’ message to ‘Protect’ the NHS, oblivious to the fact that millions of working people and thousands of business owners cannot do that, without losing their respective livelihoods completely, as has come to pass.
As the fifth largest employer in the world, hence the largest single employer in many areas of the UK, almost everyone of us knows someone who works for the NHS, which has helped its influence to become pervasive. Whilst individual health should be a personal responsibility, many people rely on the NHS telling them what to do rather than using their own common sense, the most obvious being the acceptance of a face ‘covering’ that will constrict one’s breathing, for the sake of ‘public health’, in fear of the dreaded coronavirus. Let’s overlook that almost everyone of us will contract at least one mild coronavirus every autumn or winter and our respective immune systems will serve us well in fighting it off.
The obese have self-inflicted reasons why they may have respiratory problems and at the risk of being insensitive perhaps advising these people to eat less and exercise more would be the helpful thing to do; whilst people who are frail and elderly are always at risk that any minor ailment could become more serious. With the roll-out of the COVID19 ‘vaccine’, coincidentally on an elderly patient resident and at a hospital in the same city as the theatre pictured above, the NHS cult has been stepped up, ignoring that the prime beneficiary all along in this pantomime has been the pharmaceutical industry, with nine months of grooming by government on its behalf.
But by far the most absurd symbol this year of NHS worship has been from those businesses which have been forced to close for numerous weeks or at best to restrict the number of customers for reasons of ‘social distancing’ to ‘Protect’ the NHS, then ‘Thanking’ it for the privilege of that loss of trade and with that, income and possibly jobs. It is virtue signalling ‘woke’ insanity. Stay sane.
Warwick Freedom 