I must sincerely apologise for neglecting to post in the past week, but I was otherwise engaged and was concerned that I had not posted recently. I have several issues I wish to comment on, but I feel that I must address the situation in the health service. As you will be aware, the government is denying the recent 1% wage rise to 615,000 non-medical workers in the NHS. Their reason is that they cannot afford it and that, as the Health Secretary Jeremy the Hunt tells us, 'it is the right thing to do' to ignore the NHS pay review body who recommended it.
Now I ask you to remember that this is the government who said that it could not ignore the recommendations of the pay review body for MPs and then proceeded to award themselves 14%. This is the government who told the nation that 'money is no object' when the South of England was flooded. They told us today that the pay rise for these workers would amount to £900 million and that this was unaffordable, just one week after the banks announced a combined £30 billion in bonuses that the government said they were powerless to prevent, even though they are the major shareholders in the two biggest. In addition, whilst the rise may indeed cost £900 million an average of 33% of that will immediately return to the government in the form of national insurance and tax. This is a good example of the old maxim that figures don't lie, but liars figure.
I have repeatedly warned you that the government is quite deliberately trying to wreck the health service so that they can completely privatise it. This is the American policy model that they adopted under Thatcher that the author Naomi Klein labelled 'The Shock Doctrine.' They are pursuing exactly the same strategy towards education. Should the health workers seek to protect their terms and conditions, the government and its lackeys in the press will launch a sustained campaign of hatred and denigration against the workers and their unions and will convince all the worker hating elements in this sorry country (who make up the bulk of the population) that the crisis in the health service is the fault of the workers and their unions. It is classic scapegoating and in line with their inherent fascist approach, taken from Goebbels, that if you are going to tell a lie, then tell a big one and tell it often.
I repeatedly implore you to never underestimate the Westminster hatred for working people, and that includes all of the parties. Don't forget, this policy of blaming the workers was promoted just as enthusiastically under Labour. Westminster is going to destroy the health service and the education system and completely privatise them. Anyone who cannot see that must be living with their head up their own backside, and those who do see it must support it because no-one is raising their voice to protest or prevent it. This is your future if you just accept it. Never mind whether we keep the pound or not, never mind all these firms warning that they will leave if the Scots vote for Independence. These people are capitalists, they will do whatever is necessary to make profit, and if they leave, then they will be immediately replaced by other capitalists who will see a gap in the market and therefore an opportunity. Scotland will survive and thrive. The destruction of the NHS, the class ridden incompetence and greed of Westminster, the continued pauperisation of working people, the poor, the disabled and the disadvantaged, these are why we must take our own future into our own hands. We must divorce ourselves from these disgusting people. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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