Did you know that due to falling productivity (laziness and stupidity) in the NHS, the health service is carrying out 35% fewer procedures but has been given 44% more taxpayers’ cash to do it? We can’t go on like this.
Those aren’t my stats nor is it me saying this scandal must end, although I agree with the facts and sentiments with all my heart and all my wallet.
The condemnation comes from a bloke called Gareth Davies, who runs the National Audit Office whose job it is to make sure the government departments are supplying the taxpayer (me and you) with value for money.
He’s at his wit’s end, as we all are, with taxes rising but not being matched by quality or output at the NHS, education or transport. But does anybody honestly believe Starmer, Rayner and Co are capable of doing anything about it? The answer must be no. As Thatcher said of Socialism; It eventually runs out of other people’s money.
You don’t have to take my view that Starmer is incapable of delivering VFM. Listen to what his closest confidant Morgan McSweeney, Downing Street’s Chief of Staff, is quoted as saying in a book being serialised in the Sunday Times.
McSweeney says of his boss that he behaves ‘’like an HR manager, not a leader’’. Another top aide said they choose Starmer’s political direction at every stage, adding; ‘’Keir’s not driving the train. He thinks he’s driving the train, but we’ve sat at the front of the DLR’’- a reference to the driverless Docklands Light Railway.
If the people who work closest with him believe he’s a dud what chance has the nation got? Not only is Starmer not much good he’s just been accused, in a rather upmarket way, of telling lies about his education.
The charge came from Sir Peter Lampi, a former adviser to Blair and founder of the social mobility outfit the Sutton Trust. He, like Starmer, went to Reigate Grammar in Surrey.
In a damning indictment of Starmer he accused him of ‘’fudging the facts’’ about his education’’ by pretending it was a state school.
The school was funded by the council when Starmer joined but two years later it became independent. The local authority agreed to cover the fees of pupils who had enrolled before the conversion and the PM received a bursary to continue his studies in the sixth form.
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The school now charges £9,150 a term for older pupils. Sir Peter said in article for The Telegraph; ‘’I don’t pretend the school we went to was a state school, Starmer does. But he is fudging the facts.’’
With your confidants thinking you are useless and the people you were at school with believing you’re a liar it must come as no surprise that Labour has hit the highest disapproval rating since taking the keys to Downing Street.
YouGov shows 64% of British adults now disapprove of the government – the highest figure since the General Election.
Unbelievably they aren’t the worst numbers. Remember when Rishi didn’t stay with other world leaders at D-Day but returned for an ITV interview (where do the Tories find these awful people?) the disapproval depths plummeted to 73%.
So there we have it. Starmer is a dud and just about the most unpopular Prime Minister ever. Yet among the important tasks he has to deal with is turning our state industries from laughing stocks to efficient and valuable stocks.
It’s never going to happen. If either Reform or the Tories end up running our country they have to promise they will do things better with our money.
If they succeed, they will be re-elected. If they don’t, they will go the same way as Starmer. Into the dustbin of history.