No Energy Even to Lie

In what may well be the most significant moment of his hitherto unremarkable career, the Minister for Profitable Healthcare managed to produce a falsehood so blatant that even Fishy Rishi's government didn't consider it worth doubling down on. Steve Barclay, who is not the one who is Steve Baker, either didn't know or didn't care what sort of pensions consultants receive when they mend their horrid ways and stop working for the National Heath Service, and therefore defended the Government's assault on junior doctors by claiming that consultants get tax-free pensions. Doubtless it all sounded frightfully coherent at the time, but the beastly blob that is the British Medical Association challenged the assertion and even had the gall to assert that the un-Baker was "at best not across his brief, or at worst deliberately setting out to mislead the public," for all the world as if settling disputes and making working conditions liveable should be some sort of priority even in the hated NHS.