Despite the government doing its level best to encourage a quite frankly idolatrous quasi religious cult about the NHS, it seems that some are really not buying it and are engaging in various forms of protest. Some of this protest is done by those such as myself who protest in written form and by talking to others about the massive shortcomings of the NHS, the dishonestly named ‘envy of the world’ that no other nation has really either envied or copied. Others appear to be getting a little more ‘kinetic’ when it comes to the NHS.

Whilst this is not the sort of protest that I would engage in with regards calling attention to this crappy and inefficient healthcare system, I can understand how it appeals to some, especially those who have been pissed off with the service, or rather lack of it, that Britons have had from the NHS, not just over a year of pandemic, but generally and who don’t have any sort of platform.

According to a report in the Liverpool Echo, police are searching for three women who ‘invaded’ a hospital in Merseyside and screamed ‘murderers’ at NHS staff and called one male nurse a ‘poof’. I dare say that Merseyside police will spend far more resources catching this trio than they would ever expend on a real crime.

This is utterly laughable. Of course I do not condone invading a hospital and shouting nor calling people ‘poofs’ but to treat this as a ‘hate crime’ – a dubious and over flexible term at the best of times – rather than just a common or garden public order offence, shows that the police operation to catch these women is profoundly political.

This is not the sort of activism that I would personally engage in but I would certainly not grass these women up if I knew them and believe that others should take a similar attitude. Despite the attempt to fit these women up with a ‘hate crime’ charge, at heart what they have done is ‘offend’ the great god NHS and have committed a ‘blasphemy’ against the NHS cult and therefore the State is going to go after them and try to make an example of them, in a similar way to how Tudor tyrants burned heretics to frighten population into religious conformity. When compared to all the other crime that Merseyside Police should be looking at, this is a nothingburger of an incident, dealt with by the security staff and no different, or even probably less serious, than which hospital security deals with on a normal Saturday night in Accident and Emergency.