Fat Chance Streeting’s Drug Ordinance Will Solve Social Ills

The Labour government’s minister for health, Wes Streeting, is burnishing his credentials as chief sales rep for the pharmaceutical industry. Drugs will increasingly be used as remedies for social problems. It would be interesting to compare, on the one hand, the number of pills being taken at present in Britain and, on the other hand, the number being taken by the end of this administration. Shake the average citizen and he or she will rattle. 

Streeting has started how he means to go on, by targeting the unemployed. Launching a trial of a fat-busting drug for obese recipients of unemployment benefits, he declared, ‘The long-term benefits of these drugs could be monumental in our approach to tackling obesity. For many people, these weight-loss jabs will be life-changing, help them get back to work, and ease the demands on our NHS.’

The 3,000 participants will receive Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro, a competitor to the highly publicised Ozempic jabs produced by Novo Nordisk. Streeting boasted that Eli Lilly has invested £280 million in the scheme – what a great deal for taxpayers! As Kit Knightly noted in OffGuardian: this means the British government is being paid by Big Pharma for the opportunity to test a potentially lucrative new drug on people dependent on the state. Recalling the ‘no jab, no job’ tyranny of the purported pandemic, Knightly asked ‘how long before the overweight and unemployed are told no jab, no unemployment benefits?’

If the government was really concerned about unemployment, it would stop mass immigration. Everyone knows by now that jobs are disappearing, and the Ponzi scheme of sustaining GDP by importing ever more people (mostly for low-skilled work) is abjectly unsustainable. Wages have been cut to the bone, so that anyone on the dole is hardly encouraged to get off the sofa. 

Streeting and his boss, Keir Starmer, who also waxed lyrical about the potential for weight-loss drugs to get people back to work, are seeing the link between obesity and unemployment in reverse. Obesity is associated with unemployment because inactivity, low self-esteem, mental health problems and reduced income contribute to a sedentary and aimless life. And unemployment is a problem which has been caused and compounded by successive governments.

Smokers, drinkers, dissenters, and those making the wrong choices (from a twisted ‘public health’ perspective) will find themselves in a dilemma: either comply or face serious curtailments. The government knows most people will take the easy option. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was a society run on Soma, the ultimate medicinal control. 

The fundamental difference between ‘public health’ and healthcare is that the former is impersonal and collectivist while the latter is (or should be) patient-centred. Health ministers and Whitehall bureaucrats do not care about individual impact; they are concerned only with policy objectives and delivery. 

Callous decisions by central government, such as withdrawing the winter heating allowance for older people, are made without loss of sleep. Inevitably, pensioners will perish this coming winter as they succumb to the cold and damp of inadequately heated homes. As Josef Stalin is alleged to have said, the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic. The very notion of ‘public health’ detaches policymakers from patients, as shown by the reckless imposition of covid vaccines on children and pregnant women. 

In the 19th century public-health pioneers such as Edwin Chadwick saved countless lives by improving urban sanitation and provision of fever hospitals. But the likes of Bill Gates, a man without medical qualifications who played a leading role in the covid debacle, deserve little credit. Their priorities are not your health and longevity, but the ‘great reset’ of public-health policy as an instrument of power and profit. 

The French thinker and activist Michel Foucault warned of this back in the 1960s. Health, a prime concern for every human being, is being manipulated as a means of totalitarian surveillance. To paraphrase Foucault in contemporary terms, it has become the currency of a dystopian social-credit system. 

Let us remember the words of Cicero: ‘The health of the people is the highest law.’ The Great Reset must be confronted – before it’s too late – with a Great Resist. 

This article (Fat chance Streeting’s drug ordinance will solve social ills ) was created and published by The Conservative Woman and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the authors Niall McCrae and Roger Watson