I’m glad Jeremy Hunt has finally realised the NHS problems are his fault

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Jeremy Hunt has apologised for the cancellation of operations (AFP/Getty)

If someone makes an apology it is an acknowledgement that they have done something wrong. Jeremy Hunt apologises for the NHS delays for treatment during the current A&E crisis, so it is gratifying that he admits that the NHS problems are his fault.

Alan Pack
Kent

The NHS crisis is no accident – it has been ideologically engineered

Jeremy Hunt apologises for the NHS cutting “non-essential” operations. John Ashworth, his shadow counterpart, declares it is because the Government are “burying their heads” about the parlous state of healthcare.

No! This is ideological. The Conservatives simply do not believe in a taxpayer-funded health service and this is part of a carefully worked-out plan to “slash, trash and privatise” what is widely acknowledged as the best health service in the world.

Until we start exposing this truth we will continue to sleepwalk towards disaster.

Patrick Moore
Bloxham

Theresa May is in La La Land

Almost everyone involved with the NHS from consultants to patients knows it is in crisis. Almost everyone involved in finance from business leaders to economists and most politicians in UK and abroad thinks Brexit will be a disaster, yet Theresa May seems to think the opposite.

I don’t know what planet she is living and on but she needs to be reminded that La La Land didn’t actually win the Oscar.

G Forward
Stirling

It seems to me that one of the biggest problems we have in the NHS today is that everyone has decided to talk at each other rather than talk to each other. So getting your point out has become more important than listening to opposing points of view.

To me this attitude has been epitomised by Jeremy Hunt trying to be open and apologising as distinct from Theresa May just trotting out worn-out platitudes.

My point is that at least Hunt gives the appearance of listening to and acknowledging the problems, whereas May just wants to brush the issues under the carpet in an attempt to convince us (and presumably herself) that we are making up these problems.

Steve Mumby
Bournemouth

We can rest easy if Gove and Johnson think Toby Young is fit for public service

Toby Young’s appointment to the Office for Students is extraordinary. He has voluntarily put his gratuitous, offensive comments concerning members of just about any non-alpha male group in the public domain and now, pathetically but unsurprisingly, regrets his “politically incorrect” (really: does anyone still use that defensive label?) remarks, bleating that some have been “deliberately misinterpreted”.

Poor lamb. Still, they all seemed entirely unambiguous to me, and would appear to disbar him from public service. Ministers have resigned for less.

But he has a “caustic wit”, according to Johnson, and we can’t criticise him unless we have his experience, according to Gove. Well, that’s all right then. At least we know how low we have set the bar.

Beryl Wall
London W4

Is hypocrisy contagious in politics?

There was a totally accurate letter yesterday by Rob Prince titled “Pot, kettle, black“!

Now I read that allegedly Donald Trump has claimed that Steve Bannon has “lost his mind”. Maybe there is some kind of pandemic among the political classes leading them to prove this well-worn phrase!

Robert Boston
Kent