As we approach the general election, we have been treated to two seven-way debates with representatives from Reform UK, The Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens, Plaid, and the SNP. Several subjects were discussed during the debates, from Immigration to the NHS. I want to focus on the latter briefly.
The most interesting exchanges for me were between the SNPs Stephen Flynn and Nigel Farage/Angela Rayner, respectively. At one point, Nigel advocated for a “reform” of the NHS, and Flynn responded like a screeching religious fanatic. He accused Nigel of “not believing in the NHS,” like the rebuke of a heretic. In the following debate, Angela Rayner suggested using private hospitals to help alleviate the NHS backlog, to which Flynn accused her of wanting to privatise the NHS, which is complete nonsense.
Over the last few decades, there has been an increasingly worrying trend of the NHS being treated as some great god of Britain to be worshipped at all times and beyond all reproach. Profaning against this golden calf is considered one of the worst crimes a politician can commit. One of the drivers for this is the increased need for benign “British values” to prop up the myth of a successful multicultural society. Indeed, praising a social healthcare institution is much easier than honouring our forebears and those who built this nation.
Flynn’s fanaticism comes from his own experience. He has been in NHS care for a not insignificant portion of his life and owes his life to the treatment he received. It is an admirable level of loyalty but entirely misplaced in such an institution. If we are to praise the NHS solely for its positive experiences, what about those who have had negative experiences? The Covid lockdowns were particularly traumatic and led to many negative NHS experiences.
Indeed, even after that period, many found they had become ill while NHS services remained shuttered, and by the time they were able to be diagnosed by medical staff, what had once been treatable became terminal, as happened to my father and many others. If we are to follow Mr Flynn’s fantasist logic, then those with negative experiences should become its most vocal detractors.
NHS spending takes up around 11/12% of the nation’s GDP. As Nigel pointed out, we’re spending more and getting less. Immigration is driving this; it’s the sole source of our population boom. We’re bringing in low-skilled economic non-contributors and their dependents. The system cannot last without change.
Immigration must stop, and the government must restructure the NHS to best suit our society. I spent time recently in A&E, and the number of people of immigrant origin there was shocking—both staff and patients. This level of irrational policy reminds me of an adage reworded for a modern problem: ‘Immigration is expanding to meet the needs of expanding Immigration’. We’re bringing foreign nurses/doctors in to serve an inflow of migrants.
It’s an insane pyramid scheme. I also wonder how many people, like visa mill students and their dependents, are using A&E as a GP surgery where they would not be able to register. Add to that the absolute outrage of seeing interpreters for migrants who can’t communicate in English. Why are they here? Where’s the justification for the investment in public funds for these people? Where is the return? The emperor has no clothes!
Flynn also spent his time during the debate baselessly extolling the virtues of Immigration. Indeed, it’s quite bizarre for somebody so clearly gunning for SNP leadership to be out of lockstep with the EU and its Parliament that has taken a significant rightward, anti-migrant swing! His party plans for Scotland to flood the country with immigrants should they get independence. Repeating the mistakes of all other Western countries in spite of the fact that these countries are now seriously flirting with reversing the disastrous mass migration project.
Our public services are at breaking point, and none more so than the NHS. It is insane and ultimately damaging not to be able to have healthy, constructive conversations about what needs to be done to bring them back from the brink. The behaviour of the NHS cultists will be its demise. All structural problems will be swept under the rug to preserve the facade of the Golden Calf.
If you believe in Britain and are a genuine nationalist, you should consider joining the only party that will be able to protect our national institutions without devolving into the mindless worship of them. The Homeland Party is focusing on local politics, and what is more local than how we interact with our public services? We can be the champions for our people to bring these issues to light, but we need to grow.
There is an increasing disquiet with the NHS, but still, there is a fear to speak up. As we develop, the Homeland Party will be the voice of our people. As nationalists, we will bring these issues to light without fear of the cultish behaviour of fanatics. Our people come first every time, and hard truths like the NHS can only exist if we have a nation, must be told.
