On Clarkson on the NHS

 (Via) Jeremy Clarkson takes on that most sacred of cows: Boris Johnson will be branded a Covid serial killer but no one will lay a glove on our bloated NHS. RTWH

I particularly liked this part:

'You can already sense the hyenas of the left, circling and gurgling, aroused by the bloodbath to come. For months now we’ve been listening to their questions in press conferences, and they’re not really questions at all. “Do you accept, prime minister, that you are now responsible, personally, for the deaths of 125,000 people and that as a result, you are Britain’s biggest ever serial killer?”'

It's true how the left, in particular, blames cock-ups on the hapless ministers rather than those lower down the chain, and how they always characterize the right as being malevolent. Is pretty common in media to see the right portrayed as downright evil, rather than having come to a different conclusion to the left as to how to deal with a particular issue.

Lots of other good points, though I disagree when he says 'we should have locked down earlier and not encouraged people to eat out quite so quickly after the first wave passed', It's increasingly clear that lockdowns don't work and long-term cause more hard than good. Another minor quibble is his point on John Lewis as 'another example of socialism'- mutuals are not socialism, and there are ways they can raise capital (loans, bond issues, etc)

Having worked in an NHS trust for nearly 7 years I recognize all the points made about bloat and bureaucracy, and it is interesting how many commentators agree with him. Maybe all the talk of the NHS as 'the new national religion' are overblown, and we may get a 'Ceausescu moment' in the not too distant future.