Warfare not Welfare says Streeting.

 

Labour's health minister, Wes Streeting, wants to cut welfare spending to increase defence spending. You might call it WARFARE NOT WELFARE. 

How did a pox doctors' clerk, like Wes Streeting, get into the Labour Party and rise through the ranks of the Labour Party? This Labour stalwart, entered British Labour politics, by a familiar route. A position within the National Union of Students (NUS), a stint working for a charity like Stonewall, and then as an errand boy for Peter Mandelson. You would hardly call that working at the coal face, would you? Streeting seems to believe that cutting welfare spending is the only way of increasing defence spending and you have to make the poor pay for it.

As most UK social security spending goes on state pensions, welfare cuts are likely to impact on the elderly. You could make the rich pay for it, or the Royal Family, or increase taxation, or crackdown on tax dodgers and tax exiles, but this so-called Labour man, doesn't seem to think that's a good idea. 

I think Streeting as just dashed any hopes that he may have of replacing Sir Keir Starmer-oid as the next Labour leader.