Weasel Streeting

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Weasel Streeting should slither back under his rock.

His self-serving career aspirations will make our country ungovernable.

That's nice dear.

They’re all are self serving, what would make Streeting stand out?

He's probably one of the most articulate of the current lot. Of course, that doesn't mean he'd make a good PM, but he has delivered a good deal of what he set out to deliver. We could do with a bit more of that.

@AtIusvue the fact that he is completely undermining the government when this is the country’s chance to break the cycle created by the Tories. A new prime minister every 2 minutes is not the norm.

And at least he’s taken action rather than those who’ll be bad mouthing the PM but are too scared to do anything about it.

@Sidebeforeself but what does he seriously think is going to happen next?

He is blinded by his own career aspirations if he doesn’t see it. It’s obvious.

Weasels don't live under rocks.

I am disgusted with them all! But I liked Wes, thought that he’d done a brilliant job with getting the NHS on the right path after the bloody mess it’s was left in, so I’m so disappointed with him. What the hell are they playing at? They’re proving themselves to be no bloody better than the Tory party, something I thought I’d never be saying.

It’s been the ‘norm’ for years now. It will continue to be this way until the adults come back into the room. If you think Streeting is the only one who will make a bid for the top, you’re being extremely naive.

@JudgementalCat 😂 ‘back to his hedge’ doesn’t quite carry the same weight though, eh.

@AtIusvue It’s been the norm since David Cameron.

ETA the underlying of that being Brexit and Cambridge Analytica. They need to cut out the noise and the bots, get their heads down and bloody govern the country.

it needed doing, for the reasons he said in his resignation letter - Starmer has awful management skills, blames other people and his speech showed he'd learned nothing about the bigger solutions needed from the local election defeats. Starmer is the weasel for thinking he can carry on with historic levels of losses for his party.

How do I know what he thinks? He might think he’s got a shot or he might think he’s doing it for the greater good, or he might just love the drama! But I will bet my pension that he’s not the only cabinet member ( or former cabinet member) who wants Kier to go.

That's a bit of an unfair comparison. Weasels are nothing like Wes, leave the Weasels out of this.

I do agree with you though. He's a self serving arsehole.

I just do not see what problem Streeting would solve. He has limited experience as a government Minister and limited support within the Labour Party. In what way do his policy ideas differ from Starmer‘s? Are they so different that he would need to call an election to be able to claim a mandate? Or are they the one‘s the Labour Party campaigned on?

I think many in the Labour Party forget that they were voted in because disillusioned Tory voters, and Centrist Labour voters who had voted Tory to stop Corbyn, saw Starmer as a safe pair of hands. Has this changed that much? I doubt many of them have heard of Streeting.

Too many politicians in UK are obsessed with drama and personality politics. I do not know whether because politics no longer attracts serious, hard working people or whether this intake is incapable of seeing beyond their own, personal short term interests. Perhaps they find the hard, complicated business of running a country too difficult?

They are egged on by a lightweight media who would rather talk about personalities and scandal than anything complicated like bond yields and interest rates.

It is all so tedious.

To be fair, the electorate has spoken; no way Labour are getting re-elected if Starmer stays and that's got nothing to do with Wes Streeting.

@TheGrimSqueakersFlea

I agree, I feel harsh on weasels. I do like them.

@Ernestina123

I so agree. A lot seem to now be under the impression that they’re celebrities.

Hostile nicknames and hateful language, as in the thread title and OP, don't make the criticism of a politician more biting and trenchant.
They just serve as a warning to readers that the person delivering the criticism has been whipped up by algorithms into a tribal fever.
We are so hardened now to faux-angry echo-chamber hyperbole that it doesn't have the impact that it used to. If you want to make your post impactful, try reason and evidence instead.

There’s some good figures today for the government and more scrutiny of Farage … but now all buried under Wes Streeting s resignation.

He has put his own ambition over country and party. He’s no more popular than Keir Starmer with his connections to Mandelson and his private medical industry donations.

if he thinks the voters will take to him , he is seriously deluded. You don’t have to like Starmer to realise that he needs to stay for now.

The whole thing is stoatily ridiculous

You will not find many Drs or NHS employees that agree Streeting is doing a good job with the NHS! He epitomises a top down approach to change without hearing those working in the NHS. His management of the GP practices is particularly bad. Mandating same day and all day response takes a GP away from all front facing work. At the moment this is leading to fewer appointments and an incredible level of stress for GPs. It will go the same way as dentistry unless Streeting starts to make changes after hearing those the people who know the system inside out.

I think he's made a poor decision, not least because I don't think he'll win.

Also because a campaign and a new PM is the last thing the country needs, obviously, but I don't think it will be him in any case.

So how is he different from any other politician?

You could say the same about every other PM, of any party in my lifetime.

I am not a member of the Labour Party and, to be honest, I really couldn't give a shit about their internal party wrangling.

I think we all need to care about their internal party wrangling because it is creating uncertainty in the markets and costing the country millions every day in increased borrowing costs.

This is all money that could be spent on schools, hospitals, defence, welfare (take your pick) …but is being squandered by people putting their personal intersts above those of the country they are supposed to be serving.