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To play devil's advocate the extent to which a government can improve the economy is often overstated. Big events like the Global Financial Crash and Covid have a much bigger impact.
However, one could also argue that things like Brexit (as a whole and specifically the laughable handling of it which landed us with a no-deal) were self-inflicted. As was not squandering our early 2010s progress in renewals, creating an overall less attractive environment for investment, not having a clear industrial strategy, making us look like a hot mess by randomly killing massive infrastructure projects and continuely threaterning to upend the international rule of law.
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In response, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said:
Children’s healthcare must be evidence-led.
Dr Cass’s review found there was insufficient evidence that puberty blockers are safe and effective for children with gender dysphoria and gender incongruence.
[the cass report make explicit notice it does not reccomend the supension of puberty blockers, due to the harm it would have on children, and the number of kids actually making it through the system to be prescribed them, inconsequential]
[puberty blockers still will be prescribed to cis children, including, but not limited too, those experiencing puberty related gender dysphoria from hormone imbalences]
[there are some carve outs for those recieving medication already, but new apllication are to be paused. the political implications of a health body ruling this way are massive in a atmosphere where trans people already struggle to access care through the NHS, even if already prescribed. as a 29 year old adult who recieves that same puberty blocker, i regularly face denial of care due to rulings like this creating an atmosphere of fear within practitioners]
We must therefore act cautiously and with care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people.
I am working with NHS England to improve children’s gender identity services, and to set up a clinical trial to establish the evidence on puberty blockers.
was at trans pride this weekend, kids, families, trans people and their allies, fifty thousand of them, marching with one single message.
absalutely fuck wes streeting
medicalisation to restrict LGBT people healthcare is nothing new, nothing that the community hasn't forced change on before as the government and and sideline handwringers spoke about "evidence" and "fears". ironically so wes himself didn't have to live a life of criminilisation or forced castration. this sort of policy is up there with section 28. it also sparks fears of further restrictions as the cass report is introduced on 18-25 year olds.
trans people are united in this, the doctors and charities that speak for us and to us are united in this. transition is a right, to deny that is abuse. we do not question if our child says they're gay, we trust and support them, puberty blockers allow the child, with support of clinicians and family, to make that choice. allowing puberty while they learn who they are, takes that choice away from them. that causes irrecoverable damage to them and restricts their life. in worst case scenarios, leads them to take their life.
of course, even if you do not care about trans people, i find it hard to believe any person is excited by the precedent that any sitting health secutary can ban a globally accepted piece of health care at ideological whim. with roll back from womens rights, abortion, and wider lgbt rights all over the anglo political sphere at the moment. this is chilling. especially as the tories, and their right wing funders, are now seeing if they manafacture consent they can ban healthcare, then have labour cosign it.
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i think policy like this is positioned exactly because of the response to S35 in scotland, there is a direct line between the two in labours electoral stratagy and where they see a route to power. not to forget their own response to the bill. socially progressive policy takes arguing for something, explaining something and being able to bring that vision of change to the electorate. this is something of an antithesis of labours current electoral and governing stratagy which is to instead preside over the leavers of power as a naieve technocratic care taker. dogmatically ideological in professing they're of no ideology while others, with more material politics, use that to their advantage.
which is one of the great success's of the right, much as it was during the gay panic, treating christo conservative fundamentalism as a women and childrens rights conflict. backing this up with liberal technocratic concencus through emerging medical care fields like STD's and aids. it took 20 plus years of campaigning to have these two seperated. it was not done by political parties, but by queer people and people getting to know queer people. i imagine we're in for the same.
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Comedy gaslighting from the former third way tsar..
Clearly only the sensible grown ups understand the latest tractor production numbers.
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Abracadabra..
The Office of Value for Money!
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Comrade Wes is manning the money gun bravely. A true hero of the glorious workers revolution. More money for the bourgeois doctors (before Comrade Ang sends them for education in the ways of the proletariat).
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Bourgeois enemy of the revolution, Hugo has erected a glorious red strawman banner.
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I'm going to flounce.. Good luck to Comrade Rachel with her tractor production five year plan.
Socialism or death!
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Hospital and road projects face cuts to plug £22bn fiscal hole, Reeves says
“Upon my arrival at the Treasury three weeks ago, it became clear that there were things that I did not know, things that the party opposite covered up; covered up from the opposition, covered up from this house, covered up from the country,” she said.
A number of specific budgets were not “even close” to what was needed, leaving a “£22bn hole in the public finances now – not in the future, now – £22bn of spending this year that was covered up by the party opposite”.
A dash for growth: the shadow chancellor prepares for government - june 2024
https://archive.md/QJzWr#selection-1585.0-1588.0
"Reeves admitted that — unlike previous incoming chancellors — she would be unable to arrive at the Treasury and claim she had looked inside the books and realised things were even worse than they looked from the outside, giving a flimsy excuse for immediate tax rises or spending cuts."
"“We’ve got the OBR now,” she noted, referring to the fiscal watchdog’s detailed and public scrutiny of the public finances. “We know things are in a pretty bad state,” she said. “You don’t need to win an election to find that out.”"
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To be fair to Reeves, even the OBR has claimed that Hunt and co pretty much made up any data they passed to the OBR, and so any forecasts were worse than a work of fiction.
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agreed fully,
which is why it's wild reeves made the comment about the obr 5 months later, then proceeded to go band for band with hunt on preserving the tax cuts and projects in the election. in light of both the IFS and OBR saying they're being delusional, or purposefully misleading. if they want to live and die by treasury group think, they'll be tripped up by it like their predecessors and the losers are the electorate.
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