EXCL: New clip unearthed exclusively by The Red Roar shows Boris Johnson call for the break up of the “monolithic, monopolistic” NHS in 2002 speech. theredroar.com/2019/12/exclus…
THREAD: Here are TEN MORE times Boris Johnson backed NHS privatisation on the record. 👇
1⃣ "...we need to think about new ways of getting private money into the NHS." Boris Johnson, 'Friends, Voters, Countrymen', 17 June 2002
2⃣ “Why shouldn’t the Tories continue to match Labour funding on the NHS, but try to find ways of bringing in additional, private money?” Boris Johnson, The Spectator, 12 May 2001
3⃣ “Perhaps that extra money should come not just from taxation but from the kind of insurance-based schemes they have on the Continent.” Boris Johnson, The Spectator, 2 June 2001
4⃣ “Of course it would be better if there were more choice in the NHS, and more opportunity to buy optional services – but that is another story.” Boris Johnson, The Telegraph, 20 December 2001
5⃣ “At the risk of tempting him into a departure from Labour’s approved ideology, I invite him to agree that it shows what private enterprise can do in the field of health care.” Boris Johnson, Parliament, 2 July 2002
6⃣ “Look at the NHS, where ministers finally seem to accept – after abolishing tax breaks for private insurance and persecuting consultants in private practice – that private beds will be necessary to stave off a flu crisis this winter.” Boris Johnson, Telegraph, 2 November 2000
7⃣ “...obsessed as they are with the monopolistic, top-down, state-driven solutions... they’ve done their best to make private health insurance unaffordable for the elderly.” Boris Johnson, The Telegraph, 7 December 2000
8⃣ “One of the reasons why the NHS is no longer the envy of the world is that it is still top-down, statist and treats patients like serfs and dolts. To be fair to Blair and Labour... They talk endlessly about mixing in the private sector.” Boris Johnson, Telegraph, 14 June 2001
9⃣ “...we have what is in many ways a deteriorating health service, and an unhappy “Third Way” compromise... Private firms are increasingly involved in NHS infrastructure projects, but the taxpayer picks up the tab.” Boris Johnson, The Telegraph, 5 December 2002
🔟 “Blair comes on all pseudo-Tory and says it is time to end the “monolith” of NHS provision. Gordon defends the monolith with the fundamentalist fervour of a mullah protecting that big black cube at Mecca.” Boris Johnson, The Telegraph, 7 November 2002
Full quotes and links to the relevant articles available in our piece here. 👇 theredroar.com/2019/12/exclus…
