Its been clearly said on numerous occasions that if you repeat a lie often enough people will begin to believe its true. During the early days of the pandemic, the UK prime minister Johnson repeated the slogan 'let's save the NHS' every day until he got bored with having to turn out each evening to speak to the nation.
His latest questionable 'build Britain better may be much more important to the Tory Party nationally than save the NHS as the builders and developers who lash out fortunes into the Tories coffers all want a bit of the NHS his new slogan covers, 40 new hospitals and this week he promised they would be built on new sites, leaving prime building land where the current hospitals stand to be scooped up by their supporters, and he's going to change UK planning law to ensure they get their cut.
Its been said in the mainstream press that his changes to planning law following his first national consultation on the changes (closed 1st October 2020) will be hurried through to begin a retraining program for people who's furlough ends on 31st October to get them to change direction and join the construction industry now they find their current careers defunct as the Governments new job support scheme makes it much cheaper for employers to sack staff than to offer half time work to two people per job as the Tories hoped.
As elements of the construction industry lean in favour of male dominated jobs due to the extremely heavy nature of the work involved we need to know where he is going to house those who's physical attributes require them to locate employment better suited to their needs. So we need to ask where will Johnson pitch his next slogan to hopefully steer people towards a new future. Its the NHS and care work isn't it?
At the very beginning when Johnson was using his original pandemic buzz words his team announced that all non-EU migrant workers in the NHS and care sectors would have their visas extended cost free. This Tory promise ended last week and now workers need not only to fill in forms by the ton to apply for new visas they have to find the hundreds of pounds to cover the costs. Doctors, nurses, care staffs and paramedics from outside the EU will be exposed to the needs of the nation to find jobs for ex- furlough retraining folk at the expense of foreign nationals already in the system. The Home Office and the DHSS insist it isn't necessary to renew NHS workers automatically because they can apply for the newly rolled out health and care visa a computer driven system that is cheaper for applicants but also checks newly trained personnel against the needs of each NHS Trust and overseas applicant.
