Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/14/blockers-checkers-bats-and-chainsaws-dont-talk-like-musk-starmer-is-warned
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He sometimes gives the impression of an over-enthusiastic sixth-former who's out of touch with the world & talks crap.
https://bsky.app/profile/harmoniouslvn.bsky.social/post/3lkfxqf5igc2c
🚨 NEW: Senior Kemi Badenoch ally hails Trump and Musk’s ‘refreshing dynamism’
https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/03/05/senior-kemi-badenoch-ally-hails-trump-and-musks-refreshing-dynamism/
Given his privatisation backers, this is abhorrent.
Note the inappropriate use of a party logo rather than a UK government ministry one more suited to comms material from a UK Foreign Secretary.
If you have done nothing so far then a tiny bit of action is "further and faster".
I do not use language like this widely or lightly.
I wonder which of Trump’s changes (with some slight adjustments) Wes would make.
They keep managing to plumb new depths of disappointment in a well I thought had already run dry.
And to pretend to be progressive at the same time.
It enrages me.
2. Wes Streeting, yet again, is telling us who he is.
Much of the way that the Trump administration operates will guarantee a more cruel and corrupt government. Even their methods shouldn't be emulated.
Instead of admiring Trump, as Streeting appears to do, the UK government should express support for Canada and Denmark, and explain precisely what it intends to do to protect the UK from Trump.
While these changes are not ideal from a staying alive perspective, they show you can go further and faster and that what SlimFast UK is doing."
Two main parties with influential sects within it harking back to something that either didn’t exist or they just misunderstand.
Misdirection 101.
It would have been far better to get the NHS fully functioning and in its best condition then carry out reform of NHS England. Timing is everything and totally wrong here.
Honestly, I just don't think Streeting is a very good communicator. He's prone to going off in odd directions.
Not so small now - just tipped into the majority (53:45) position for Reform:
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51739-how-have-recent-developments-in-ukraine-affected-favourability-ratings
If he needs schooled on swift pace of change he only needs to look at major radical achievements by one of his own predecessors governments - the Attlee gov’t
His point is that Trump carried out the planning and implementation of his (abhorrent) policies incredibly effectively and to ask whether we can learn from that.
We can dislike it as much as we like provided we learn.
We can all read, Simon.
Baffling politically, too. It’s not as though UK voters are going to be impressed either.
Or not.
If it wasn’t, that’s poor planning.
In any event, as you say, it’s easy to be quick in taking stuff down, less easy to build back in a way that works, for the long term.
Thought I'd just remind everyone.
It's politics... I suppose. ☹️
How is this even real?
Johnson let them slip through his.
Starmer's got them now.
Rushed constitutional legislation, based on an advisory opinion poll, favouring power of any executive isn't very clever.
Streeting is a stain on Britain's government and he should be removed
I should say, I don't think this is the case but I'm flailing around trying to imagine any sort of rationale for him saying this.
SACK STREETING NOW.
Destroying things can be done really quickly. He can literally destroy the entire world with a single button push. None of that is remotely admirable.
“Labour Together told The Guardian that it hopes to channel the far-right politicians’ ideas but “with a radical centre-left purpose”.”
Most reasonable people understand the need for diplomatic fluff and flattery, such as Starmer's handing of Trump. That doesn't extend to needless flattery/normalisation, such as the quote from Streeting. It isn't needed and is counter-productive.
He’s shitting on all of their legacies.
He’s a less colourful Roy Cohn.
Like his hero, Blair, he hasn't a single principle to believe in; it's all about opportunity and what you can get away with.
The machinery of government should be able to move quicker.
Not sure that's fair given what's happening with unsexy stuff like planning reform but it's a persistent criticism.
Don't know that the comms ought to be ...but not this!
That he breathes a word of admiration for Trump’s iconoclasm suggests typical ‘mirroring’ of a copycat - vacuous & shallow.
But how often were we promised palaces, parks or public housing, and were left with empty ruins?
I didn't vote for this thinking.
I'm appalled at them having turned policies on their head, blaming a 22million pound deficit for everything.
Wes Streeting's comment that he's centre-left?
I'm the queen of sheba!
It's very quick and easy to burn something to the ground not so much if you want to keep society running
As for “Operation Chainsaw”, just beggars belief.
Really highlights the problem of seeing people as numbers on a flowchart.
We really do need a Royal Commission to look at our electoral system before we end up like the US.
The wrong path.
“Labour Together told The Guardian that it hopes to channel the far-right politicians’ ideas but “with a radical centre-left purpose”.”
They didn't, and they aren't, so we won't.
I just wish they hadn't made promises on taxes because I think they probably need to put them up
When Streeting says those aren't the choices he would make, he means they are exactly the choices he would.
“Say what you like about Captain Vladimir Motin, but he certainly shook things up”.
https://news.sky.com/story/russian-captain-of-ship-in-crash-off-yorkshire-coast-charged-with-gross-negligence-manslaughter-13328603
Fucking hell, Wes
I despair of such idiocy.
What a W⚓️