'Rishi Sunak's handling of NHS strikes will define his time as prime minister'
Rishi Sunak reckons he’s jetted out of trouble to his holiday penthouse in California.
He’s taking his family to Disneyland, but why go all that way when they can have the experience at home? The millionaire premier has created Disneyland UK: the NHS disnae work, the railway disnae work, the economy disnae work, the migration system disnae work, housing disnae work...
The list is endless. While he and his billionaire wife sun themselves on the US West Coast, the country he pretends to run sinks below the water line. Literally.
Before he mounted the plane steps, Sunak threw a hand grenade at NHS doctors. On the eve of their latest walk-out, he snapped “this is our final offer”. No amount of industrial action will change his mind, and there will be no more talks on this year’s pay, he ranted in a brutal parting shot.
For good measure, he also blamed soaring hospital waiting lists on medics, a blatant Tory lie. Delays have risen year on
year ever since they took power in 2010. Sunak’s fight with NHS staff will come to be seen as the defining mark of his time in Downing Street. He chose this battleground to show that he’s a tough guy, in charge of his party and government.
Teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out in biggest strike in decade
He knows that doctors have huge public backing, but he thinks support will decline if strikes continue through the summer. This cynical calculation may prove correct. And no group of workers can hold out indefinitely against a heartless government prepared to impose limitless hardship. Ask the miners.
There is no shame in conceding defeat in such circumstances. The politicians are the guilty men. After another short admission to hospital this week, where the treatment was excellent, I know where my sympathies lie – and it’s with the healers, not the harmers.
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Prince William reportedly has a lifelong aversion to the kilt, unlike his father who can’t wait to get into a manly frock at Balmoral. As a member of the ancient Clan Routledge, descended from the Routledges of Liddesdale and Roxburgh in the 14th century, I have a tartan. I could have a kilt made from the pattern, but the idea rather puts the wind up me, as well it might.
As for the right royal mystery about what the King wears behind his furry sporran, I think this question should be addressed to Queen Camilla. Once she stops laughing.
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Dozy officials in the Ministry of Defence mistakenly sent secret emails to Mali, an African regime close to Moscow. I hear one of them reads as follows: “Sod this for a game of soldiers. I’m for the off.” Signed, Ben Wallace, Defence Secretary. Seriously: the best man for the job, by all accounts, is quitting the Cabinet at the next reshuffle, and Parliament at the election. With more than 50 fellow Tory shipmates queuing up behind him, there’s no room left on the plank.
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Blabbermouth politician Grant Shapps insists the migrant barge Bibby Stockholm moored in Portland harbour is “absolutely safe”. It houses 500 and would easily accommodate the entire Parliamentary Conservative Party, plus wife-secretaries/Madame Fifi. So why not park one on the Thames outside the Palace of Westminster and name it Bibby Braverman?
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