So we've got quite a few things going on here. Let's unpack some of them! https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1277917547342499841
Firstly the notion that any opposition to government creating the conditions for free market enterprise is communism. Hah. As if such a sentence isn't self contradictory. The government creating a free market? Capitalists want no such thing - they crave protectionism and subsidy.
Though it shows his appeal to those who support him - people stuck in the mindset of cold war, the false dichotomy of capitalism vs communism. A straw man that anyone who disagrees surely is a communist, which is implicitly terrible.
"Under this government we clap for" - hold on a second, the government don't get to co-opt a social activity originating in solidarity for the hard working medical and care workers that face the brunt of exposure to Coronavirus. There's no Minister for Clapping.
Next we have the fallacy that the groups listed "make our NHS possible". With the exception of wealth creators (see subsequent) these groups do not make the NHS possible. The NHS is made possible by the contributions of the working classes whose taxes fund the service.
The NHS was as I'm sure you're aware made possible by a Labour government delivering a mandate on the consensus that we needed a state security net, that healthcare was a right and not a privilege for the wealthy, and the duty of all of society who could, to contribute to it.
When he says wealth creators he presumably means the business owners and capitalists yet ironically the true wealth creators are those who labour. No value is created save by the effort of those who work. Owning or trading capital creates no value, it merely changes its form.
So to say wealth creators make our NHS possible he is unintentionally correct. Those who create wealth - those who work - contribute a portion of this wealth through taxation to the NHS.
Additionally, to thank "capitalists and financiers" for making the NHS possible is an inversion of what makes the NHS possible and what sustains it. Those capitalists and financiers used PFI contracts to weedle their way into NHS services to turn a profit, not to provide care.
Finally the idea that financiers and capitalists "take risks with their own money" is laughable. I suppose the financial crash must have left all the capitalists and financiers out of pocket, not the savers and taxpayers subsidising and funding their failed gambling debts?
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