Woke NHS Rainbow Badge scheme is completely wrong priority after Letby case
Sick priorities
THE appalling crimes of killer nurse Lucy Letby showed what can happen when politically correct groupthink takes over an institution.
Ultimately, Letby’s rights as an individual trumped those of the parents asking why their babies had died — or the doctors who tried to raise the alarm.
Now our health service seems hellbent on wiping out the rights of all women.
Around a third of Trusts have signed up to the woke NHS Rainbow Badge scheme, which awards points to hospitals for ditching “gendered” language.
In effect, it rewards virtue-signalling trust bosses for agreeing to scrub out the words “woman” and “mother”.
Meanwhile, London’s flagship Royal Free hospital has a poster on its walls ordering staff not to ask patients’ names for fear of being labelled transphobic.
This dangerous nonsense is not only offensive to common decency, it also does nothing to help treat the sick and may even risk patient safety.
It’s a woke disease threatening to infect the whole NHS — and must be cured.
Axe and spend
WHAT is the point of Labour?
Wannabe Chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out any future smash-and-grab tax on the wealthy.
It’s the latest in a long line of U-turns as almost every pledge made by Sir Keir Starmer over the last two years has been ditched — including borrowing £28billion for grandiose green schemes.
Starmer and Reeves have done this as they know whoever forms the next Government faces empty Treasury coffers.
Yet every Labour idea for decades has involved splurging huge sums of cash.
And if they don’t spend and they don’t cut tax, why vote for them at all?
Judge dread
HOME Secretary Suella Braverman is right to say that the European Court of Human Rights is highly politicised.
One of its judges in Strasbourg was able to torpedo the Rwanda migration scheme on spurious grounds without even revealing their name.
A key reason 17.4million people voted for Brexit was to take back control of our borders and our laws.
Yet this is proving impossible while we remain shackled to the ECHR.
Its judges need to stop their harmful meddling — or risk us quitting their court.
Pound the beat
THE thin blue line has been replaced by the great fat waistline.
We reveal today that more than 5,000 Met cops are waddling around in super-sized uniform trousers.
That’s thousands of officers who couldn’t run for a bus — never mind hare after any criminals.
Time to ditch the doughnuts.