Saint Bevan And The BBC

Last night BBC4 showed a programme by Greg Dyke on Nye Bevan and it was the usual uncritical hagiography of a clearly wretched character who was almost singlehandedly responsible for the disastrous introduction of socialised healthcare in the UK.

Bully, thug, Bevan was a large burly figure not adverse to picking fights with employers and was from the start an aggressive agent provocateur trouble maker stirring up unrest in the work place.It was inevitable that he would go on to become an extreme Marxist Leftist in the Labour movement and the darling of the far Left which he came to dominate with his dubious powers of rhetoric and demagoguery.(As a recent controversy regarding a company blacklist of agitators in the workplace has shown, those seeking to disrupt businesses and stir up trouble often use the workplace as a springboard to politcal power and companies have every right to avoid employing such indivuduals and sharing inormation about them.)

The usual suspects were wheeled on to vouch for Bevan as a man of the people such as windbag Kinnock.The programme showed that there was a perfectly adequate healthcare insurance system run by employees long before the inception of the NHS which clearly provided all their medical needs but the obvious inference that there was therfor no need whatsoever for a universal national health care system was of course not drawn.The motivation for such a grandiose and unwieldly system was obcviously politically motivated,ideologically driven, designed to give meglamaniac political power lusters self advancement.

Born it would seem with a chip on his shoulder and a smouldering resentment of the successful Bevan was seen as a class warrior by his followers and his bile and inferiority complex came to the fore when well into his career of evil he declared at a public meeting that the Tories were 'vermin'.This played into the hands of his opponents and from that point his star faded and he mercifully died prematurely as all parasites do of cancer thus sparing the country from the fate of his prime ministership which would almost inevitably have taken Britain into Communist rule.