[Malcolm Armsteen]

I remember back in the day, a letter to Viz going "The problem with the Channel Tunnel is that sooner or later the French will want to use it."

That seems to be the basic attitude Johnson's fans have.

You only have to witness the daily low-level anti-French racism perpetrated by people who would otherwise think of themselves as anti-racist to see that. Irish, same thing.

It's not as poisonous or dangerous as anti-semitism, but it all adds to a toxic zeitgeist.

[Andy McDandy]

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Johnson, eh? What a rebel, what a rule breaker? He's done something truly beyond the pale this time! What could that be? Kicked a nun in the head? Shagged a dead dog? Smoked crack at a kiddies' tea party?

No, he's used private healthcare. This act, of choosing to spend your own money to queue jump a bit and to get a better standard of healthcare than on the NHS, is apparently the great and terrible thing you can never do. And he's such a massive rebel about it that he's going to tell us all about it.

I look back at the sheer quantity of cash the UK state – that is you – has lavished on the healthcare of my immediate family. We have been born in the NHS, we have seen our children brought into the world by the amazing maternity teams and, surrounded by its comforts and mercies, some of us have inevitably died. We love the NHS, and we want to protect it, because we know that for all the big medical disasters – trauma, cancer, heart disease – the NHS cannot be beaten.

We must fund it properly and cherish it properly. But if you look at the demographic trends in this country – the vast number of senescent baby boomers – and if you look at the state of the public finances, you can see what every doctor really knows: that we are not going to fix the problems of the NHS, in the long term, if we rely on taxpayer funding alone.

So, it's private for your kidney stones, but NHS for all the really expensive stuff. And yes, it should be properly funded. And what's that they say about everything before the word 'but'?

See, I'd imagine that most of us would have no problem with people choosing to go private. It's your money, do as you wish. What we don't want is for people to be forced to pay for private healthcare. And if your attitude is "Why should I pay for the NHS when I've got private cover?", then you're a cunt. And your faux patriotism isn't fooling anyone. You're just too tight to fully embrace the private sector when it comes to serious money.

Cunt.

[Lardboy]

Not to mention that the sheer existence of the NHS drives down the cost of private cover.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Is there a policy there? Tax relief for private care? Co-payments?

But I'm sure he's got all the ideas, which he didn't have when he was Prime Minister.

[Andy McDandy]

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Gaza? Hard to tell what's going on there. Unless you're talking about the Palestinians - then we know for sure. But the nice IDF? Lovely folk, they must feel awful about whatever they might be doing. Anyway, it'll all be better if we just bulldoze the place and build some hotels. Hotel staff are always smiling.

Custard cunt.