Joke of the day - NHS myth explodes

News just in:

Three spin doctors working in the "NHS Propaganda" section of Labour's election campaign were killed today when the myth they were working on exploded.

The three had been trying to convince people that Labour had excellent policies for the NHS, when Labour's former Health secretary Alan Milburn was quoted in today's Times as saying that it would be a "fatal mistake" for Labour to just propose increasing the budget of the NHS without reforming it, and for the party to stick to its' comfort zone.

"You have got a pale imitation actually of the 1992 election campaign" he told the Labour spinners, exploding their myth with fatal results.

A spokesman for the Department of Health described the Labour spin doctors' condition as "satisfactory."


(P.S. Parts of this post are, of course, a joke but the quotes from Alan Milburn in this morning's Times are genuine.)

Comments

Jim said…
and every other election I can ever remember. Labour bang on about an "NHS crisis" and the conservatives about "the economy"

its alway's the same tune, every time.
7:26 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
Indeed.

It's fairly inevitable that both parties will try to fight the election on the grounds where they think they are strongest.

If my memory is correct I think we toned down the "Labour will wreck the economy" rhetoric in 2001 and 2005 which were the only elections in my lifetime when there was a Labour government in office which had not (yet) wrecked the economy.

But after the mess Labour left last time, it's inconceivable that all parties competing for votes with Labour, not just the Conservatives will be queuing up to remind people what happened to the economy on Labour's watch.

The challenge for both the Conservatives and Labour when talking about the economy and NHS respectively will be to say something new and preferably constructive rather than just repeat the same attack lines they have used in umpteen previous elections.

Judging by Andy Burnham's car crash interview yesterday, Labour are some way from rising to that challenge.
9:33 pm
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