Thursday 17 June 2021

Rees-Smug

"The NHS is there to support the people, not the people to support the NHS," says Rees-Mogg the lockdown skeptic.


I know he has a habit of cherry-picking his arguments in support of turning a pig's ear into a silk purse and habitually over-uses the informal fallacy of generalising from the specific, but I at least gave him credit for a bit of common sense - after all, he kept telling people like the Grenfell victims to use it and I thought he therefore put high store on it. 

If you don't have an NHS because it has been overwhelmed by a disease, how can it possibly serve the people? He's putting the barouche before the horse and showing an abject lack of common sense.

On the No.10 front, what I predicted has come to pass, with Dominick Cummings releasing explosive messages between himself and Boris Johnson. Naturally, Boris has 'full confidence' in Hopeless Hancock. Hancock must surely now resign, if only from sheer embarrassment. 

In another story, we hear that Australian beef and lamb will start rolling into the UK as soon as the deal is signed and not, as we were led to believe, over a period of time to give British farmers time to adjust and for Britain to drop its food standards. No wonder Boris didn't want scrutiny of the deal; he was stuffed, however, by Canberra releasing the details. Who would have thought the Australians would do something so dastardly and open?


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