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#Streeting

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Why is *anyone* surprised?

“Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence”

by Nesrine Malik in the Grauniad
@UKLabour

“Today, with Reform waiting in the wings, the price of not raising the alarm on a Labour party that will not change course will be nothing short of catastrophic”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretenceBy Nesrine Malik

‘The bulk of the expected £5bn to £6bn in cuts will come from making it tougher to qualify for Pip – a key disability benefit not linked to work – which is likely to deny payments to many with conditions such as #autism.’

Why is #Guardian singling out those who are #Autistic as potentially ineligible for Pip? No other conditions mentioned. Aligning with #Streeting?

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

The Guardian · Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabledBy Jessica Elgot
Continued thread

I was already concerned when Health Secretary, Wes #Streeting was proclaiming that mental illness was ‘over diagnosed’ this morning (based on what medical evidence?!)…but I now suspect he’s riding the current ripple in the culture wars against neurodivergents.

This Wes #Streeting guy is a real villain of a human.

For what it means to anyone (and everyone else's case is valid), when I had my mental health collapse, I didn't claim these so-called 'benefits', and still people looked at me like I was making it all up.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7ejv

Health Secretary Wes Streeting
BBC NewsMental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting saysWes Streeting says too many young people are "being written off", as he defends upcoming welfare reforms.

Hey #Streeting . Now you've got your inner DOGE out of your system, what about making the NHS App work as intended by stopping privatised GP practices opting out of it to suit themselves? Each practice makes up its own "rules" for routine matters such as prescription renewal. I don't want or need to telephone. I don't want to listen to stupid recorded messages at my own expense & get left waiting in a queue, only to be told i've selected the "wrong" queue. Make it work.

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@aral @ChrisMayLA6

Lest we forget:

“Keir Starmer is without moral rectitude. He is a deceiver, utterly duplicitous, a political confidence trickster, and he surrounds himself with equally iniquitous and unvirtuous carpetbaggers, warmongers, and anti-socialist Machiavellian pantomime characters, such as the weasel Streeting.”

quoting Rachel Swindon in her blogpost of Feb 20, 2022

rachaelswindon.blogspot.com/20

Replied to Simon Flett

@RejoinEU

If he hasn’t already done so, Wes should read these two articles on Thiel and Palantir by CorporateWatch!

Mind you, #Zionist fanatic Thiel is probs one of Wes’ heroes! Not so #Labour?

@UKLabour

“PALANTIR: INTERNATIONAL TECH DESPOT”

corporatewatch.org/palantir-in

“PALANTIR IN THE UK: FROM THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE TO THE NHS”

corporatewatch.org/palantir-in

Corporate Watch · Palantir: International Tech Despot - Corporate WatchWhat do Trump, the CIA, Cambridge Analytica, Dominic Cummings, Benjamin Netanyahu and NHS data have in common?
#Thiel#Palantir#UK

Anonymised NHS patient records: X [redacted] was born on [redacted] at the [Redacted] General Hospital, Gender [redacted] weight [redacted] visible abnormalities [redacted], blood group [redacted] to mother [redacted] of [address redacted]. The dates on which MrMs X used the NHS were [all redacted] for the following maladies [all redacted]. X, then of [redacted] died on [redacted] at [redacted] of [redacted]. The End.

On your Bikes #Streeting #Starmer you inexcusable [redacted].

#RejoinEU
#nhs

The excellent UK blogger on all things health-related, Roy Lilley, gets it “spot on” yet again on #Starmer’s stupid prevarication on Social Care & NHS turn-around!

@UKLabour

“Before”

myemail.constantcontact.com/Be

“Currently Charmer has +70 committees and groups looking at policy options. I can’t believe it, he’s only gone and done it again… another one.”

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#UK#NHS#SocialCare