Thread by @A_Liberty_Rebel

In its current condition of being in dire need of major structural reform, the Hand Of Hancock should finally seal its fate.
His interventionist but incompetent micro-management will merely increase producer interest capture, but decrease patient outcomes.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/0…

Fluoride in water, health warnings on sausages, & 'orders to prevent obesity'.
thetimes.co.uk/article/minist…
With #lockdown-fanatic control-freak Hancock in direct charge, the #NHS will become the vehicle for authoritarian behavioural 'nudge'-Govt.
#NannyState

Whatever its ostensible healthcare rationale, also cynical political move leftwards by Tories.
Obviously calculating that with voters softened up, by success of Covid-scaremongering, for greater State role in public life, they can reap electoral benefit by taking direct control.

But, of course, when, as they will, things come unstuck, it's a poisoned chalice.
"At the moment, health secretaries can distance themselves from the NHS when things go wrong. But if they are in the driving seat in future, there is no hiding place."
thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-sh…

Though Johnson's fast-diminishingly 'Conservative' government appears increasingly enthusiastic about Big-State interventionism, such a policy is riddled with pitfalls for which, of course, they'll take (and deserve) the blame.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…