PMQs began with Janet Daby calling for a mass-cull of the working-class. The Labour MP relayed the experience of an industrious constituent who already has two jobs, on zero-hour contracts, and seeks a third. ‘Ban zero hours contracts!’ she declared in outrage. Obviously she’s fed up with people working in her constituency. Much easier if they all starve to death. And with her policies they will.
Labour leader Jeremy Corybn had good news about the NHS which he’d failed to interpret correctly. Forty per cent of staff last year, he said, had suffered ‘work-related stress’. This means that 60 per cent of them hadn’t. Not a twinge, not a whisper of anxiety during 12 long months of underfunded chaos. Labour likes to depict the NHS as a country-wide network of torture units where wheezing pensioners twist and sprawl in dung-soaked sheets which will shortly serve as their shrouds. And yet, according to Corbyn, the staff at these charnel-houses go skipping about their work whistling merrily without a care in the world.
He accused the Prime Minister of creating a ‘dangerous’ health service through sheer miserliness.
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