Yay! Online Rally from the Labour Left Demanding Public Ownership

Gawd bless those evil Corbynite commies and trotskyites! I got this email yesterday from the organisers of the Arise Festival of left-wing ideas telling me and the world that they’re organising an online rally demanding public ownership, along with general details of the Arise Festival this year. Here’s the bit about the nationalisation event.

‘Public Ownership Now!

Online. Wednesday July 6, 19.00. Register here // Retweet here // Get ticket for the whole festival here.

With: Ian Lavery MP // Kevin Courtney, NEU General Secretary // Nadia Jama, Labour NEC // We Own It Speaker // Fraser McGuire, candidate on Socialist Future slate in Young Labour // Dr. Sonia Adesara, Keep Our NHS Public & more tbc.

Join the discussion on how public ownership, stopping the privatisation scandal & public control are essential to tackling the crises facing Britain. From addressing the cost-of-living crisis, to the climate emergency, to the urgent need for more resources for public services, extending public ownership across the economy is key.

An online event as part of Arise 2022 – A Festival of Left Ideas.‘

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Privatisation hasn’t worked. It hasn’t made anything more efficient, or provided value for money, or any of the other supposed benefits Thatcher was raving about in her 13 years in power. It’s just been destructive, giving us poorer services in return for higher prices on everything – gas, electricity, the railways, water, you name it. And it is absolutely destructive in the NHS where the piecemeal privatisation will eventually lead to a fully private healthcare system, funded by private health insurance, like the American system. The Guardian today has put up an article stating that the Tory experiment has failed. In fact it failed a long, long time ago, and it’s long past time that the Tories’ free market bilge was consigned to the dustbin along von Hayek, von Mises, Milton Friedman and the rest who promoted it.

Video on Five Times Bozo Has Lied

This should be ‘at least’, as Johnson lies so frequently that I think he’s constitutionally unable to tell the truth. I think Mike’s already put this video up, but it’s worth doing so again just remind everyone just what a flagrant liar he is. There’s also an irony in that this video was posted up by mad right-winger Alex Belfield. One of the lies Johnson gets caught out on is his claim that he isn’t going to privatise the NHS. The video shows Corbyn accusing him of this, and waving around the very documents that Johnson signed to hand parts of it to the Americans. It’s a bit ironic that Belfield should repost the video, as he seems to believe very much that privatising the NHS will solve its problems.

Here are the lies in the video.

1. An angry father in a hospital rails against him for destroying the NHS and then appearing there for a press opportunity. Johnson denies the press are present despite the fact they are. The father points them out.
2. TV interview in which he is asked about being sacked when he was part of Michael Howard’s team, the former head of the Tories at the time. Johnson was having an affair, and denied it.
3. A clip from Gogglebox, in which the viewers see a piece from the leader debates or a similar television confrontation. Jeremy Corbyn has caught Johnson promising in a secret document to open up the NHS to American private medical companies as part of the trade negotiations for a post-Brexit deal. Johnson lies that he has not done this. The Goggleboxers wonder if they’re being lied to, and what the document is, if it isn’t the secret deal.
4. GP registrar Sonia Adesara tears apart Johnson’s claim that he’s building 40 new hospitals. He isn’t. He was only refurbishing six, not building any new.
5. A piece from Sky News, in which they catch him lying about his statement that money was being ‘spaffed’ up the wall on historic sexual abuse claims. Johnson definitely said it, but when questioned by Sky News’ journo, went and denied it. There then follows a clip from LBC showing Johnson actually saying it.

The video ends with Johnson being questioned about whether he lies. True to form, he denies it, and says merely that he may have got things wrong.

Well yes, he did get things wrong. Deliberately. He’s a liar, who cannot be trusted. He is destroying the NHS. He did agree to open parts of it up to purchase by American healthcare companies. He most definitely hasn’t built anywhere near 40 new hospitals. And while he might think they’re a waste of police time and money, the victims of historic sexual abuse still deserve and demand these cases to be investigated and be given justice.

Unfortunately, the rest of his party are exactly like him, judging from the hundreds of lies or so one fact checking organisation found in their election statements. He’s a liar, who is head of a party of liars.

And if he goes, can we expect just another Tory liar?