{"id":75835,"date":"2024-06-03T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T06:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=75835"},"modified":"2024-06-03T07:41:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T06:41:36","slug":"wes-streeting-seems-to-hate-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/03\/wes-streeting-seems-to-hate-the-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting seems to hate the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bsMh5PA77ck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my YouTube short<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-75836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-03-at-07.35.51-550x851.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-03-at-07.35.51-550x851.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-03-at-07.35.51-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-03-at-07.35.51-259x400.png 259w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-03-at-07.35.51.png 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The transcript is:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Wes Streeting seems to hate the NHS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He's written an article for the Sunday Times saying we shouldn't worship it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The people who work for it, all appear to be, well, mass murderers according to him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Its managers are thugs and bullies, apparently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And he wants us to prepare for a future where it's totally different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What could that future be?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am quite sure that what Wes Streeting is saying is that we should all anticipate a privatised NHS. After all, why else is he accepting donations from so many private health companies to support his campaign?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I think West Streeting is wrong. I believe in the NHS. I believe that 99.9 percent of the people who work for it are good, honest and dedicated people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I believe that most of its managers are competent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, I think he's barking up the wrong tree and I believe we should all have and all believe in a state owned NHS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you do, please ask your candidates about this issue because it's vital to our well-being in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my YouTube short this morning: The transcript is: Wes Streeting seems to hate the NHS. He&#8217;s written an article for the Sunday Times<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/06\/03\/wes-streeting-seems-to-hate-the-nhs\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,118,128,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-labour","category-nhs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75837,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75835\/revisions\/75837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}