Free Britannia

Lansley, dressed as Dracula, tries to pacify an outraged Britannic subject on his way to an NHS Privatisation meeting with the Bullingdon Club Boys & a handful of millionaire american Health Insurance specialists in Downing Street, under orders from Washington. Minus any representatives of the British Medical Establishment.

Hopefully this may prove to be as seminal a moment as one-eye Brown being addressed by the angry woman, which indirectly led to his downfall. (At least Brown got a free glass eye via the NHS.)

Let's hope Lansley gets an aggressive cancer real soon, or has a heart attack, & tries to get that fixed through his fucking putative privatised health system, or that Cameron remembers all the free treatment his dead disabled son received through the NHS, & his wife having free emergency NHS treatment on holiday during her childbirth, despite his mum & dad being millionaires. No mention of bloody Harley Street then, was there?

Liberal Democrats? Where were they in this meeting? Hiding behind their broken liberal promises as usual. I can't wait til May, & the elections, & we'll see precisely how well received the coalition's policies are going down.

The "outraged British subject"

Oh dear, that nice little old lady who took against Andrew Lansley is no stranger to protest stunts. June Hautot, a former Unison rep, told the Workers Revolutionary Party magazine last month:

‘I’m all for occupations. That’s our only ammunition to stop closures’. 

She also once attempted to sue Wandsworth Council over plans to develop Battersea Power Station, but her looney-left activism doesn’t stop there.

According to the Glasgow Herald in 1997 she “shared a cell with Mrs Scargill”after she was arrested with Arthur’s wife protesting open cast mines. It was inevitable this seasoned activist was going to have her moment.Why on earth didn’t Lansley go round the back or through the Cabinet Office?


UPDATE: Even Labour are distancing themselves. Sources get in touch to say that say Hautot is a trot.

In 2002 she stood as a “Save our Services”candidate in Wandsworth’s Southfields in a bid to try to defeat the Tory cabinet member for care services, Jan Leigh. Of course Leigh easily won and all Hautot did was collapse Labour’s vote.

http://order-order.com/2012/02/20/scarg ... -agitator/

I must admit I have a touch of admiration for Lansley for trying his level best to sort out the mess in the NHS and reform it for the better under such difficult circumstances, whilst having to put up with all the flack from unruly lowlife left-wing activist scum like 'that woman'.

It won't turn out to be a seminal moment imo and I suspect you looney lefty types may well be surprised and disappointed in May.

"In 2002 she stood as a “Save our Services” candidate in Wandsworth’s Southfields in a bid to try to defeat the Tory cabinet member for care services, Jan Leigh. Of course Leigh easily won and all Hautot did was collapse Labour’s vote."

Now, I know my memory's fairly clouded at the best of times by my being a rabid 'Socialist', Northerner & professional irritant, but even my febrile memory doesn't recollect a Tory being included in Tony Blair's 2002 cabinet.

I can't be arsed to Google it though, so maybe it's correct. Or at least as correct as most of Paul Staines' (oh sorry, Guido Fawkes) outbursts are, when he's not stoned out of his crust on LSD:

"Staines acquired an interest in politics as a libertarian in the 1980s and promoted acid house parties in the early 1990s. He then spent several years in finance, before his business relationships broke down in a series of disputes.[3] Staines declared himself bankrupt in October 2003.[4]

"Staines offered an enthusiastic endorsement of rave drugs relating how "I have fond memories of taking LSD and pure MDMA, trance-dancing and thinking that I had turned into a psychedelic, orgiastic wisp of smoke – it was the most staggeringly enjoyable, mind-warping experience I have ever had."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Staines

I'd tend to take Guido Fawkes' blog with a large dose of salt.

Or whatever it is you guys take to make you like you are, but hey, I'm all for libertarianism, really. Particularly Mr. Staines' original sort. Just a pity that his drug-induced libertarianism widened out into a total anti-State monologue during one of his more prolonged drug stupors.

It might have been best, with hindsight, if he had remained a psychedelic, orgiastic wisp of smoke, rather than a quotable political pundit.