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Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis (www.theguardian.com)

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Ex-health minister Dan Poulter who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg and the BBC, Dr. Poulter said:

“I found it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues in the eye and my patients in the eye and my constituents in the eye with good conscience.

“And I feel that the NHS deserves better than it has at the moment in terms of how it’s run and governed.

“The party I was elected into valued public services, it had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society. I think the Conservative Party today is in a very different place. Its focus is not on delivering or supporting high-quality public services.”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

The party I was elected into valued public services, it had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society.

Reading that got me the closest to a hearty laugh I've got in a while..

He's in about as much denial of what Tories stand for, as he is about what Starmer's Labour stand for (it's definitely not re-nationalising the NHS, it's barely even committing to do anything about its state at all), and is only making the jump to make himself feel better (and apparently be able to look NHS workers in the eye, don't think this move'll help much with that), not because he has any genuine concerns about the NHS.

Fuck these people using most of ours last life line as a political football none of them actually give a shit about. How anyone still believes these self serving career liars is beyond me..