It’s pointless to hurl abuse at Jeremy Hunt over the NHS, a cross-party agreement is needed on its future
The Left and its celebrity fans do love a Tory scapegoat
Sense on health
IT is facile and pointless simply to hurl abuse at Jeremy Hunt over the NHS.
The Left and its celebrity fans do love a Tory scapegoat. But what exactly is the Health Secretary supposed to do?
The Government HAS found billions more for the health service, far more than Labour pledged.
But it is not enough. It can never be enough. It is a bottomless pit. Our population is soaring, ageing and getting fatter, with all the problems that causes.
And as patients die of malnutrition, far too much money is still spent on managers and “diversity” co-ordinators.
What is Labour’s solution? To find more cash by hammering firms for extra tax, throwing workers on the dole.
Politicians on all sides are too terrified of voters’ reactions even to dare suggest new ways to fund and run the NHS.
The more sensible Labour MPs like Caroline Flint suggest finding cross-party agreement on its long-term future. That is certainly what it needs.
Fat chance of compromise from her party, though, while it is run as a hard-Left cult.
Strike shame
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan is right to condemn Tube strikers for casually inflicting misery on millions of commuters.
But it is not enough to insist he has merely inherited Boris Johnson’s mess.
It is eight months since Mr Khan was elected, promising “zero strikes” on public transport. He failed to prevent this one — yet he has few duties more vital than keeping the network running.
The RMT and TSSA unions are protesting over job losses inevitably caused by new ticketing technology. But bosses are already recruiting more staff — so yesterday’s strike was utterly needless.
What a disastrous signal it sends to tourists and foreign investors as militants reduce our capital to a Third World-style shambles.
But they will continue to do so without a blink until they are held financially liable for damage they cause.
Mr Khan must make them see sense.
Theresa’s vow
BRITS don’t like discussing mental health problems — yet they affect many of us.
So we welcome Theresa May’s powerful announcement yesterday of steps to tackle it, starting in schools.
It was good, too, to hear the PM pledge to act on the concerns of ordinary people — and lay into politicians who dismiss them as “parochial”. That’s a big step forward from her predecessor.
Mrs May will of course need to set out concrete policies to tackle the issues she outlined . . . sooner rather than later.
Within three months Britain will trigger Article 50 and little else will get a look in as Brexit talks get under way.
The PM has only a few weeks to spell out a detailed plan to help the “just managings”. We look forward to hearing it.