{"id":57765,"date":"2021-06-28T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T07:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=57765"},"modified":"2021-06-28T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T08:07:44","slug":"sajid-javid-helped-bring-this-country-to-its-knees-once-no-doubt-he-will-be-seeking-to-do-so-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/06\/28\/sajid-javid-helped-bring-this-country-to-its-knees-once-no-doubt-he-will-be-seeking-to-do-so-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajid Javid helped bring this country to its knees once. No doubt he will be seeking to do so again.\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2006 Deutsche Bank issued this press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Sajid Javid is now the Health Secretary. As this press release shows, his prior experience was in trading the financial instruments that crashed the world economy in 2008.<\/p>\n

And he was not a minor player. He was a major player at a major bank, worthy of having press releases issued about his career progression. In 2008 he helped bring down the world economy: no one else but bankers did that. Deutsche in London was right in the middle of that.<\/p>\n

Now this Ayn Rand reading banker is making the decisions on whether or not the economy will reopen. And he says his I aim is to 'get back to normal'.<\/p>\n

What? The normal where people whose only experience is in making a deal on a computer screen, the consequences of which they are utterly indifferent to, is what is defined as normal?<\/p>\n

Or the world of Ayn Rand, which he has acknowledged is his own prescription for normal, where nothing but selfishness matters?<\/p>\n

The one thing we can be sure of is that this will not be the world where patient interests have priority. That will not be his normal.<\/p>\n

The NHS has been in trouble before.<\/p>\n

We have all been in trouble as a result before.<\/p>\n

But Sajid Javid is a straightforward threat to the well-being of the people of this country. He's helped bring it to its knees once. No doubt he will be seeking to do so again.<\/p>\n

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Hat tip: thanks to commentator Steve for drawing my attention to this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2006 Deutsche Bank issued this press release: Sajid Javid is now the Health Secretary. As this press release shows, his prior experience was in
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