RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: How dare the far-Left ideologues who run our well being provider talk over with their class-war bigotry on unwell youngsters

How steadily have you ever heard the Left scaremongering concerning the forthcoming privatisation of the NHS, caution of sufferers being became clear of hospitals and GP surgical procedures as a result of they may be able to’t manage to pay for to pay?

At each election I will be mindful they have got disingenuously raised the spectre of other people demise in agony since the Tories, and now Reform, have been making plans to scrap the ‘free-at-the-point-of-use’ concept which underpins the well being provider.

Had I advised you that sooner or later the other can be true and sufferers would if truth be told be denied remedy as it was once assumed they might manage to pay for to pay, I’d had been accused of creating it up.

But that’s the place we’re nowadays, as we be told that unwell youngsters – sure, youngsters – are being refused essential remedy through the NHS as a result of they attend personal college.

The scandal of an eight-year-old boy denied remedy for a incapacity referred to as hypermobility syndrome was once uncovered through The Mail on Sunday. The specialist NHS paediatric unit wrote to his GP:

‘We are unable to see this child as we do not provide a service to school-age children who attend an independent schools [sic]. We are only commissioned to provide a service to mainstream schools.’

I learn this file with incredulity and mounting anger. How dare the far-Left ideologues who run our well being products and services talk over with their class-war bigotry on a unwell kid?

Turns out this was once not at all an remoted incident. The MoS uncovered different instances, together with an autistic girl in Somerset who was once became down for psychological well being products and services as a result of she, too, is going to an impartial college.

Her mom was once advised: ‘If you can afford the school fees, you should pay privately.’

Other examples incorporated a boy with mobility difficulties in Norfolk denied a status body, and younger most cancers sufferers from personal faculties in Scotland being charged £115 through an Edinburgh clinic for tutoring products and services equipped unfastened to state college pupils.

Yesterday’s Nick Ferrari breakfast display on LBC radio yielded additional circumstances of privately trained youngsters being refused unfastened remedy.

Sadly, it additionally threw up a couple of callers who idea it was once most effective ‘fair’ that ‘rich’ oldsters who may manage to pay for to fork out for impartial faculties will have to need to pay for healthcare, too.

The incontrovertible fact that hundreds of those oldsters don’t seem to be wealthy through any stretch of the creativeness – and feature scrimped, scraped and long past with out luxuries similar to vacations and new automobiles to ship their youngsters to fee-paying faculties – cuts not more ice with those sour and twisted folks than it does with the bureaucratic category warriors in the back of the coverage.

Nor does the truth that they’ve already paid their now not inconsiderable taxes against the NHS and state training. Tough, they may be able to pay two times. Serves them proper, wealthy bastards.

So who’s guilty for this outrageous, discriminatory betrayal of the ‘free-at-the-point-of-use’ concept? Is it even prison? The NHS blame native councils, who give you the price range for added particular wishes remedy and occupational remedy.

Sounds about proper, up to some extent. Local government are riddled with hardline Guardianistas who consider ‘public sector good, private sector bad’.

But so, too, is the NHS, run through headbangers who hate the very concept of healthcare being equipped privately.

During the Covid lockdown, the Government spent masses of tens of millions of kilos requisitioning the entirety from MRI scans to running theatres from personal hospitals to ease the pressures at the NHS.

Yet, as I found out once I advanced a gammy leg in overdue 2020, those amenities have been too steadily left status idle as a result of NHS managers stubbornly refused to make use of them. My guide advised me this was once par for the route.

Their personal warped, quasi-Marxist ideals got here ahead of the actual wishes of unwell sufferers. They’d somewhat no person was once handled – together with NHS sufferers – than sully their ethical purity through utilising the hated personal well being sector.

How many lives have been misplaced as a result of this perverse refusal to make use of expensively procured, however politically unacceptable, clinic remedy we will by no means know.

What we do know now, because of The Mail on Sunday, is that the Left are ready to sacrifice inclined youngsters at the bonfire of their very own vanities just because they cross to the ‘wrong’ college.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is being prompt to intrude. But even if he makes probably the most proper noises about public/personal provision, I wouldn’t hang your breath.

He’s a member of a spiteful, unpopular, slash-and-burn Labour Government which has slapped 20 in step with cent VAT on college charges and is hell-bent on wiping out impartial faculties through stealth ahead of it’s booted out for just right in 4 years’ time.

Surkeir’s birthday party is steeped within the politics of resentment, motivated through loathing of person freedom, selection, ambition and endeavour.

It throws cash at an unreformed NHS run through entrenched Leftists. Privatisation? You should be joking. Remember all that intelligence-insulting guff about promoting off the NHS to Donald Trump? This lot are nearer to North Korea than North America.

And as soon as Labour has beaten personal training, personal healthcare can be subsequent within the crosshairs. Stand through for 20 in step with cent VAT on personal medical insurance ahead of lengthy.

Think I’m joking? How else have we ended up with a ‘free-at-the-point-of-use’ NHS which turns away unwell youngsters as a result of their oldsters can manage to pay for to pay?

Even I couldn’t make it up.

Love the speculation of Nigel Farage cosplaying as Arthur Scargill and promising to reopen the South Wales coalmines to offer the Port Talbot steelworks.

Here we cross, right here we cross, right here we cross!

It’s now not as daft because it sounds. In what sane global are we uploading coal from Australia, woodchips from America and fuel from Norway after we are sitting on considerable power reserves of our personal which the Net Zero nutcases refuse to take advantage of?

Arthur Scargill, former president of the National Union of Mineworkers and chief of the 1984-1985 miners’ strike

Barmy Arthur was once if truth be told chargeable for final extra pits than Mrs Thatcher. If he hadn’t launched into a suicidal strike aimed toward bringing down a democratically elected Tory executive, a couple of extra would possibly nonetheless had been generating coal nowadays.

This Back To The Future business nostalgia is catching. Surkeir became up on the outdated Govan shipyard in Glasgow final week to stipulate his defence technique. It’s the Eighties all over the place once more. New iciness coats and bicycles all spherical! Soon we’ll be shipbuilding.

The inclined, law-abiding, taxpaying ‘travelling community’ are colonising fields and paddocks in all places, most effective pausing to trash the Cumbrian geographical region right through the Appleby Horse Fair.

Still, you need to recognize the velocity and talent with which they organize to Tarmac their campsites.

I don’t assume there’s any probability of giving them the contract to fill within the tens of millions of potholes blighting Britain’s roads? They’d have the process executed through August Bank Holiday.

Rachel Reeves fashions herself on Gordon Brown, who raided pensions as Chancellor

Rachel From Complaints fashions herself on Gordon Brown, the Man Who Stole Your Old Age, which is why she’s going after what’s left of our personal pensions. Mind you, the tension is attending to her. These days she’s even starting to seem like Gordon.