Rudeboy
Trump this morning:
The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2018
UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt:
I may disagree with claims made on that march but not ONE of them wants to live in a system where 28m people have no cover. NHS may have challenges but I’m proud to be from the country that invented universal coverage – where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance https://t.co/YJsKBAHsw7
— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) February 5, 2018
In the UK even the Tories don’t attack the principle of a national health, at least not in public statements.
Theresa May has rebuked Donald Trump over his claim the NHS is failing, publicly backing her health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, after he tweeted disagreement with the US president’s view.
The response from May – who generally seeks to avoid criticising Trump – came after the president condemned Democrat plans for a universal healthcare system by noting in a tweet Saturday’s protest march in London demanding more NHS funding.
Democratic plans. Not Democrat plans; “Democrat” is not the adjective; the adjective is Democratic. Using “Democrat” as the adjective is a calculated insult from the other side, and it’s also illiterate.
Asked whether May backed Hunt’s opinion, her spokesman said: “The prime minister is proud of having an NHS which is free at the point of delivery.
I guess real Americans cherish the freedom to pay more for less.
Of course American doctors and nurses are excellent, and American medical technology is excellent.
It’s the system that delivers worse outcomes for more money than the rest of the developed world.
Fucking Nigel fucking Farage. I should have bloody guessed. That odious wanker keeps bloody threatening to retire, so when oh when is he finally going to fuck off for good, to get the peace and quiet he keeps claiming he wants, and give the fucking rest of us the peace and quiet of being rid of him that that we fucking deserve? Fucking shithead.
I’ve never embedded a ‘tweet’ before but this is brilliant:
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/960497274953531392
Karellen #2
Quoted for absolute fucking truth.
#2
Wrong thread?
I assume that Trump doesn’t understand that the NHS has the problems it does because the Conservatives ensure it is under-funded. Hunt is such a hypocritical tosspot. It is the American system of healthcare that is at the centre of his, and his party’s, most feverishly exciting dreams. To the Labour Party’s eternal shame, Tory-lite Blair and his government allowed creeping privatisation to happen, too, when they could amd should have made the NHS so much stronger.
Yeah, Trump seems to think they are protesting against having the NHS, rather than that they are protesting FOR having the NHS, and giving it proper funding.
That’s long been a conservative propaganda thing, though, claiming that Brits and Canadians hate their health care and want to have what we have. And there is always someone they can find to trot out over and over again to proclaim how awful their system is…and there are always plenty of Americans who will believe every word of it, because, well, just because.
What I don’t get is why Nigel “Fucking” Farage (that’s his name now as far as I’m concerned!) is everyone’s go-to guy. You don’t see any other ex-MP, ex-party leader that gets this level of attention.
@Holms #5 – no, right thread. Check out the last paragraph quoted by Ophelia in her post. This is all due to Farage getting interviewed on Fox and spouting a load of bollocks about the NHS, which Trump then picked up on.
Karellen – your comment wouldn’t be out of place in any comment thread, on any topic, anywhere.
In fact, I think that it should be on every comment thread, on every topic, everywhere.