 Welcome to a new episode of the fix. It's a new year and guess what? We have a new Tory cabinet Michael So we had a reshuffle. It's not very new. What the fuck is going on? We haven't said happy new year. Happy new year Happy 2018. What's gonna happen this year Michael? Before we get into the real business end of things. What's gonna happen this year? Oh, I think we'll get one year closer to socialism But I'm not sure we'll achieve it before 2019 Okay, pessimist. What do you think? I have a I mean, I think we need to talk an election into happening I'm a big I'm a big believer in making things happen. We need to make an election happen The strongest theory I heard for they're gonna be an election. We'll do this very quickly is That even though it's completely irrational for the Tories to call an election because why would you call an election that you might lose? When you've got three years left or four years left of the Parliament or whatever is if The her cabinet just can't help themselves, you know, they know it's sort of like a really bad time for the conservative parties to rebel and completely Tip the whole thing up, but they just can't help it like with the the coup of Jeremy Corbyn Like it wasn't a good time for the moderates to attack But they just couldn't resist it any longer And so I think the only reason we might get an election is if like, you know Boris Johnson just blows his load Sort of before it makes after breakfast possible, right? Anyway, I personally think they probably aren't as stupid as The fucking idiots who the coup in 2016, but that's another conversation Boris Johnson smarter than Hillary then I mean Boris I mean, but you would need more success to serve the party to start the while well Fundamentally need dozens of them being up for it. I don't know. Anyway, anyway, the reshuffle the reshuffle the reshambles Go on Well, to be honest, it wasn't that event for we haven't had many big players move because Theresa May isn't in a strong enough position To move any big players because why do we have the reshuffle? Well partly Because Oh Damien Green had to go right from Wank gate So she had to work to work Wank to work David Davis you sell out. You said you'd resign You've let down you've let down Wankers at work everywhere. How can we trust a Brexit? So no no integrity exactly if that I'll tell you what if I'm watching Deputy Prime Minister If that was for Raj or Corbyn He would have resigned because you know, they're people of their word exactly. They're you know, they're they're value politicians Anyway, yeah, none of the big dogs have gone Boris Johnson hasn't gone despite Keeping I always forget her name Nazanin Zagari ratcliffe. That's right in an Iranian jail Yeah, screwing up in Parliament and saying she was a journalist when she was claiming to have been on holiday Obviously, we don't know which of which of these is she's with her grand She was with her daughter and she might have mom and I mean Whatever the day started shambolicly when the conservatives announced that Chris Grayling would be becoming party chairman This turned out to be a big mistake and was deleted 27 seconds later. So that's how the day started We then moved on to some minor minor changes minor positions Which probably won't be that important for the governing of the country But it's always a good opportunity to look through what weirdos the Tory party wait. So we're doing all of this just because Damien Green Wanked at work. We're doing this because they hold days news cycle has been determined by one man's porn addiction Yeah Well, apparently also she wanted to get rid of justine greening because justine greening doesn't like grammar schools And apparently justine greening goes on in cabinet Okay, this is so justine greening as well as the big justine greening has also finally gone Right after two hours of arguing the case that she didn't want to go she didn't want to go and Jeremy Hunt apparently argued for about an hour So he gets to stay as health secretary to finish the job and completely privatize our NHS and burn it to the ground Anyway, some some weird promotions we had today or promotions to motions. They moved anyway The new Tory party chairman is Brandon Lewis. No matter what he used to be the housing minister And when he was he urged against including sprinklers in fire safety rules as it could discourage property developers from building homes I mean, where do you draw the line, right? Where do you draw the central heating plumbing windows insulation? I mean, where do you lock on the doors? Look, we my Mike and I were talking about this We've actually got a radical innovative new solution to deal with Britain's housing crisis You just put up loads of tents and you know, we will put them on millions of housing units The key bit that the genius of it is is we don't put up the tents All right, what we do is well, we're not the government what we do is the state is we invite private businesses Okay, I think they want right and they can charge can be flammable tarpaulin. They can charge whatever they want to live Yeah, yeah, which might be quite Hi, I suppose if you don't get moved on the housing crisis. Yeah So that's our new Tory party chairman. The new vice-chair for policy is Chris Skidmore. All right, Ronan So in 2012 he said in defense of Tory policy at the time and which continues now Cuts aren't so bad as people aren't lying dead in the street Which is nice and comforting from I don't know what his job was at the time then anyway. Well, they're lying dead in the street They're lying dead in A&E's on trolleys. They're lying dead at home waiting for ambulances to take five hours to get there They're dying pretty much everywhere Chris. Congratulations. You've out exceeded expectations. Yeah in the street at home Everywhere fucking dying everywhere on a lighter note. He was in a weird-ass band when he was at university After the Queen Mother died they sung songs about sodomizing the Queen Mother to death Not very conservative really. That's not, you know, it's not appealing to your base. Is it worse than whatever? I'm a dank code ever said about the Royals. They also had songs entitled. I've got a big willy women are crap and I'm glad I'm not obese I'm not I'm not so into ruining people's career because whatever they did at the age of 21 But I mean this isn't even funny. This is just like They practice they practice they wrote and practiced and performed these songs. It's not like it's not like an off cuff Yeah, we all say something silly on Twitter. You're pissed or you write something you regret it Everybody's done that he's a clearly fucking weird people and our final Kind of wrong and is Maria Caulfield who is now vice chair for women in Cchq who's upset many women's charities because she is a pro-life Campaigner obviously completely at odds with with the population at large and with women in Britain It's not like Theresa May to just choose somebody who's got completely fucking odd opinions on things. Oh That is very unlike Theresa May the pro you know consummate politician that she is What was the first story? Oh, right? 2018 that's true. That's true. You one minute past minute. You've pulled me up. You've got me We've got the new office for students Which was announced the beginning of the month like you said the beginning of the year Which is set to be a regulator off-com style regulator of an increasingly privatized higher education in England and Wales not Scotland and Toby Young was one of the people on its kind of Committee board whatever the fuck is from a range of backgrounds including private enterprise free schools private enterprise private sector Lobbying and law right and one random student as a student rep So the office for students has one student on it who has you know, they haven't asked anyone from the NUS Nobody elected anyone. She's not elected. Just got no mandate student on the press release. It just says comma From Surrey University. What can you do? Anyway, Toby Young? I mean, so that's because we could talk about the the body that would mean that we were actually, you know Engaging in serious political analysis instead. We're gonna talk about the fatuous idiot The lump of ignorance is Toby Young. We'll do some serious analysis at the end. But in a way Tories being From a weird Creepy section of society. I think is telling in a way I think that can tell us something about politics really anyway, let's go on to Toby Young Well, they've only got we haven't actually got the graphic for this, but they've only got 70,000 members now Yeah, very when you have to be fucking weird to be a Tory party number 65,000 of them 5,000 of them still members by accident paper members joined six 60 years ago. They're in a coma. All right, Toby Young Tell me about Toby Young. What is credentials? He started free schools, right? Well, he initially he was saying that he tried for a PhD He taught in higher education. He've been a Kennedy Fulbright school all this stuff So he's got credentials. He went to Oxford then he taught these American He taught his dad his dad got him into Oxford, right? So that doesn't count. Okay He was rejected from the college his dad said his dad by the way. He wrote the 1945 labor manifesto outstanding social science is called Michael Young and He said I'll talk to the chap. I'll get you in and he got him in So, no, I mean his oxford credentials don't really that doesn't count But then he went on to do a PhD. He went on no, no, he didn't he didn't complete the PhD I didn't complete the PhD Was he going on to more important? No, I just think he just pulled out and then he started writing for I think Vanity Fair in the United States will go on to some of the right pieces later But he did start a free school. Yes, that is true. He did start a free one I think I think that's about just about his only credential really is free schools Which he later said were very difficult to actually run turns out. It's not easy to run a school It's not as easy as you think and then more recently actually we should we should talk about this candles But remember before we do that. Okay. He was also the director of the new schools network Which is basically about importing the US charter school system over the UK And he was earning We think around 90 to 100 grand a year So this is a man who has taken they've already they've already found out about the cocaine Aaron. Oh That's coming. That's coming. That's coming That's coming. That's coming. So he was on a hundred grand a year He had money from the state sectors from the states basically start his shitty free schools He got into a world-class university because of his father Basically, this man has been taking state handouts his entire life. He calls himself a classical liberal Toby young you've been suckling at the teat like a Parasitic tick for too long my friend and you want a minimal state. Are you fucking kidding me? Anyway, let's talk about the goss Because that's more important. You've got the first bit of goss. I have got the first bit of goss Should we should we start with the goss? Okay, so people might be saying typical left Moral panic, you know, you're taking it too far. Just a couple of errant tweets. We all do it hold up Toby young has admitted to being a drug dealer. He's admitted to selling drugs. Okay in a 2001 piece after he'd been thrown out of the this is madness. He's a drug dealer. He was writing for God knows where he'd been thrown out of the grout show and in Soho wasn't allowed to be a member anymore He documented this he said my crime was to write about a cocaine taking incident my crime Alleged crime. Yes. It's a fucking drug you idiot Cocaine taking incident occurred during a photo shoot for vanity fair school, Britannia I was the editor-in-charge in my recently published book I reveal that Damien Hurst and Keith Allen the photos to subjects demanded I supply them alcohol and cocaine as a condition for posing for the camera So he didn't just take drugs. He was selling drugs while at work my alleged crime If you're a white guy prestigious background you write about it You actually get paid for the article if you're a younger working-class person. You get a prison. Yeah I mean, it's also important to remember that he's not he's not a student when he does this It's not just a bit of he's in his 40s and 40s at this point. He's 40s then but yeah early 40s late 30s Besides being a drug dealer. What are that? What are? Well, he's also got the the standard assortment of abhorrent views about women the disabled gay people So we're gonna get a few examples up here Which I actually can't make out with my eyes. So we're gonna have to remember what some of them were We've got Well, basically, I think the evening stand talks about it quite well They said he had an obsession with commenting on the anatomy of women in the public arm So he's watched a lot of plays and said that the various actresses have great tits That was a theater of you. That was a theater. He said that the breasts of an actress in it in a play She wasn't a day over right now Danny Boyle's wife's got huge knockers. By the way, that was Danny Boyle's daughter who at the time was a minor. Oh She was a minor. She was a kid Not good. Right the next one in hotel room. Go on. Let's get that back back back for us to see In hotel room with five months pregnant. Oh Here we go Five months pregnant Padma her boobs are massive be careful what you wish with this Padma Lakshmi former wife of Salmon Rushdie. I mean just stop. He's in his 40s I mean men let's not lie men say loads of fucked up weird stuff 90% of men I mean everybody said something stupid. I've said something stupid. Everybody said something stupid This guy repeatedly is saying in public over and over again. He was a 20 year old. Yeah, and now he's in You know a position of public and they're completely Obsessive compulsive. He also called George Clooney queer as a coot. I think somebody's jealous Who's not come on? Oh, he's not jealous But I mean if you last out in different ways if you look like the hybrid child of an ostrich egg and a fetus You're gonna be angry that you know George Clooney is you know cleaning up. All right, the stories get worse than tweets Let's see his next Prank so Okay, so it's not a prank drug dealing drugs obviously criminal offense I think drugs should be decriminalized, but I think when we talk about I'm not a big fan of privilege The whole discourse around privilege white privilege class privilege But a white guy that's literally writing about selling drugs and being paid for the article that's privileged, right? So that was a criminal offense the other criminal offense is when he pretended to be a woman In order to make out with lesbians and again He planned to write about it now. This is pre-meditated sexual assault, and I'm not making this up He says here the line is the plan was to approach gorgeous young lesbians draw them into my confidence Then make out with them on the dance floor So again, this is another criminal act, you know sort of acts and he's writing about it I mean he should he should be in a Custody sweet. He should be in a prison. He shouldn't be overseeing free speech on campuses. All right. We're getting on to the eugenics So he had a campaign Against inclusion in schools so inclusion in schools is about making schools Welcoming to children of with different needs and different abilities different, you know different backgrounds I'm for it is to work in the special needs department Positive step in schools. He's not into it. So let's go for his What he's written about it here. So inclusive It's one of those ghastly political correct words that have survived the demise of new labor schools have got to be Inclusive these days air quotes. Yeah, air quotes. That means wheelchair ramp The complete works of Alice Walker in the library school in the school library They're no Mark Twain in a special education's needs department that can cope with everything from dyslexia. Imagine a school that can deal with dyslexia What? You can't read this is a school. We're not gonna fucking help you You can't read it right. That's it. You're in a wheelchair. Just stay outside. What do you expect us to do? Build a ramp. Do you want doors? Build a ramp for you? You want clean drinking water in a school? The expectations you want lunch? I think there's two things that are going on here. Toby. This isn't a place for children. He's confusing political correctness for the law and prisons for schools Right, I mean, it's a few sort of category errors which are going on here, right? Anyway, it gets a little bit worse if Gove is serious about wanting to bring back O-levels The government will have to repeal the Equality Act because any exam that isn't accessible to a functionally illiterate troglodyte with a mental age of six will be judged to be elitist and therefore forbidden by Harman's law I'm guessing that's Harriet Harman. That's right So he's talking about kids with special needs as being functionally illiterate troglodytes to mental age of six Yeah, I mean this is batshit and his solution is to separate them from from normal kids Well presumably not even to educate them presumably What does he put them in? What do you do with them? I don't know. Whatever. This guy would have been very happy in Ceauses Romania Well actually what they used to do was you know people with special needs They used to like fucking chain them up. I mean he's let's be honest. That's the kind of person this man is I mean his argument is that yet by not by not Abandoning anyone with any special need or extra need we're dragging down the rest of people. So fuck it There's no such thing as society everyone for themselves The funniest thing of all is that he has edited his own Wikipedia article guess how many times His own Wikipedia article. I've got it written down. I'm gonna go on. I'm gonna guess the different 282 times He's changed his own Wikipedia He cares about his public image so much the man who talks about doing Padma Lakshmi up there or talking about miners You know body parts. He's changed on Wikipedia article 282 times All right, we've we've talked for a long time about Toby Young because there's a lot of content He's still there. He's still there. Well, we're gonna look at I think now Theresa May's very Hold on one second. So Theresa May this weekend on the Andrew Ma had a very strong Theresa May like response lots of integrity and Some real leadership shown So we'll get that up when we can obviously we've also had Boris Johnson defend him to the hilt He called it a caustic witch which is exactly what we need to govern our universities Ridiculous outcry of a Toby young he will bring independence Rigor and oh stick wit. We don't have the video. So we're gonna have to act it out. It gives a fuck I mean, she's literally she could be she's like a wax work Well, I mean we could we could cut some madam to saws. Do you think it was the what she says is I? Have to admit Andrew. I wasn't I wasn't at all impressed with the tweets. I've seen But he has done some excellent work in free schools And I have to say I have to say Andrew that if he tweets anything like this again whilst he is in public office He will be fired tweets is like if you If like how low can your bar be like now you are One of the most important people in the higher education system who's been appointed to the drug dealing a drug-dealing nonce If now let's be honest your job You tweet about 18 year olds breasts in your current job if you tweet about having a dick up people's ass Then you're gonna get fired like also like he'd probably do it. She'd call him to number 10 They'd be there for two hours, and then like Boris would give her a call and be like if you're firing Fucking night. We've been in negotiations about his horse to quit That's too much Anyway, we should talk about the serious issues that are going on in Britain because whilst this game of musical chairs between Britain's biggest creeps continues the NHS is in absolute crisis and there is Only one bunch of people to blame which is the Tory party and to be honest That's you knew labor because of the PFI's which are sort of crushing the NHS a bit at least they funded it well So performance. I mean all the metrics were good, right? Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't sustainable, but the metrics were good at the time. So we've got a couple of stories. So Oh Turn the page. Sorry about that. Oh, it's like a new year. It's like a new year's turning the page. Oh, here we go This is the big one right all non-urgent operations cancelled in NHS hospitals usually this far because I've lost my bit of paper You wrote it. I wrote it. Yeah, but now I don't have it. Well, I mean that's quite big So I think I could not they call it a non-elective surgery don't make it was non-urgent stuff Yeah, the weighting list I think is in excess of four million at the moment for me. I mean, it's just incredible But it's called non-urgent, but it could be Incredibly key to your life. Yeah, you might hip operation. This is people who might not be able to move Yeah, it's it might people that stuck on their couch They're not gonna die because they haven't got their hip operation, but it is really gonna but they can't have money They might be depressed whatever Theresa may try to claim that it wasn't that much of a crisis because at least they cancelled them in advance So she's saying she's saying a crisis You know it would have been if people had turned up to hospital if they'd come into hospital with their fucked up hip and then We told them to go back home But at least we've given everyone in Britain everyone in Britain Advance not actually if you were on the first of January, you didn't get any advice We give it everyone of us that if you had an operation 50,000 people had an operation for January which you imagine Theresa may she's like she'll phone up her boss You know she's like meant to be working at ten minutes time and she's like hello I can't make it in to work for the next six weeks. Okay. Thank you. But I'm gonna go. Yes. I'm quite a model employee I did give them warning But it does get so well, I mean this is is anyone's Operations getting cancelled is incredibly serious. That's gonna really negatively impact and it's accumulating right? It's getting worse every year, but it is also killing people Yes, so we heard on the weekend that a woman in Essex over and pensioner 81 years old Had called an ambulance because she had pains in her chest Yeah, and the ambulance took three and three-quarters of an hour to get there Yeah, she was dead by the time the ambulance got there that doesn't need to happen in Britain I mean there's there's there's targets around ambulance waiting times And I don't think they've been met for about the best part of three years every single month that's failing and We can talk about PFI and new labor, but that never happened with labor and in instances like this that means something Yeah, so not drawn equivalence to the Tories and labor because this 81 year old lady She would have had an ambulance. She may have lived exactly. So no, I do have oh look. I found it go on Michael. Sorry about that So whenever Jeremy Hunt or Theresa May are confronted with these kind of facts on the television What they'll say is they'll try and make it sound like a natural disaster They'll try and say we do have an aging population act of God, right? It's an act of God and we're dealing with it And it's very difficult and we have put an extra one billion pounds in blah blah blah blah after Jeremy Hunt went on Channel 4 for this For an interview when the operations were first cancelled the channel 4 did quite a good bit of journalism afterwards Which was to fact-check everything he'd said so he was saying we've We're seeing more people under four hours That's partly true, but it turns out that The amount of people who aren't being seen in four hours has gone up Dramatic that's because demand has gone up. It's because there's more people. Yeah, so in the first three months of 2010 So that was when the last time labor in government a hundred thousand patients waited over four hours in A&E That's now gone up to 700,000 so that's an increase of 600% Well, it's 700% Well, if it goes up to 200,000 that's 100% Anyway, it's got up seven times. It's gone up by seven and Never question my math Populations don't age that quickly. This is not a natural disaster It's gone up gradually year after year after year and it's peaking. Well, it's not necessarily peaking it might go higher and higher It's that 700,000 people Waiting that much waiting that period of waiting over four hours There used to be a target to be seen within four hours that used to be that 95 It used to be that 98% of people were seen within four hours Which again new labor kept they kept a pretty solid 98% of people when you went to A&E you'd be seen within four hours What the Tory party did was first of all, they said oh, this is a little bit too ambitious Let's put it down to 95% so they changed the goalpost in 2012 to 95% and they have Spectacularly missed that changed goalpost and it is now 85% so only 85% of people are seen within four hours And all of this is happening while we see record levels of nurses leaving the profession We there are a bunch of we should do some stuff on this actually mental health issues They're saying they're suffering mental health problems Anxiety and it goes right from the bottom to the top so even you know junior doctors We don't need to go into that, you know huge grievances there So I mean on every measure in terms of it's another thing that drives me crazy They're destroying this thing Jeremy Hunt when he goes on TV his sort of like Because the line they like to use is one that sounds convincing even though it's got no basis in fact So he says well this problem obviously it's not really our fault because it takes seven years to train a doctor and we've only been in office for Seven years But what that doesn't take into account is how many people are leaving the profession because he's Treating them like shit Yeah, and also one of the reasons why there is much more demand in the NHS is because there have been real-term cuts in social care Which means that Whereas the cheapest thing to do as a country and the best thing for people's health is early intervention Seeing someone soon if they think that they might have a health problem or giving people advice about quitting smoking etc Especially important with mental health What the Tories have done by cutting social care dramatically is that this is massively increased the amount of people going into A&E And there hasn't been any extra funding to deal with that so true everybody you know every knows about that So you don't get a meeting meeting with your GP and then you consider going to end We all know we all live this thing every day. So anything else? No NHS wise. I think I mean you'll continue to see I Really should my new year's resolution is going to be to code to give page numbers to my notes Or some sort of like color coding something like that less shuffling in 2018 Anyway on that note go to support.navaramedia.com and we'll we we can then afford the extra ink to number the Pieces of paper and if you want a decent health service make 2018 the year we get socialism Okay, I'm ambitious Yeah Ambitious anything else. No good good. Well, Navara FM is back on Friday. I think we've got a new Episode the lockdown out soon mm-hmm all the best was out recently If you want to check out any of our podcast articles videos go to navara media comm like some Facebook Subscribe on YouTube for us on Twitter. I just want to add related to what we've just been discussing We also have a series of junior doctor who's writing articles about the NHS crisis very good Definitely check out the website. Excellent. 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