Back when I was a younger man there was an advert for recordable audio tapes that extolled the virtues of the audio fidelity of the product. The brand’s advertising promised that you’d be hard pressed to hear the difference between the live audio performance and the recording and invited potential purchasers to ask the question ‘Is it real or is it Memorex?’

This old advert popped into my mind when reading about how the Health Secretary has decided to slim down the diversity and inclusion parasitism that feeds off of the National Health Service. Sajid Javid’s declaration that the proliferation of diversity and inclusion staff, often on obscenely high salaries for what the position entails, needs to be curbed made me think: ‘Is this a real reform or is it just cynical bollocks’.

To me it looks as if the Health Secretary has picked up, for cynical electoral reasons, on the issue of parasitical diversity and inclusion posts in the NHS because there is a growing furore about it among the public, especially at a time when the NHS is more than usually useless. Promising to reduce the burden of non-clinical posts that do not contribute to the efficiency of the NHS in any way and to cut back on sinecures for social justice activists, is politically popular.

Sajid Javid’s promise, in the wake of a major report into NHS management, that he’s going to war on ‘waste and wokery’, might end up like all the other promises that we’ve seen from this and previous governments that have been broken. What has happened for example to the Tories promise to reduce migration into Britain or to have a bonfire of the Quangos. The Tories have, either alone or in coalition, had twelve years to get to grips with the problem of social justice activists or similar types infiltrating themselves into highly paid jobs in the public sector, but the problem still remains. We still have, mostly left wing, activists earning massive amounts of money for jobs that either do not need to be done or which could be folded into existing HR structures.

Whilst I welcome the Health Secretary’s promise to go to war on waste and the destabilising cult of wokery, I don’t think that it will amount to much. We should not rely wholly on the words of politicians but concentrate on their actions and the Tories have a long history of speaking the right words to the British people on matters such as immigration or the economy or energy security, but abandoning these promises when in power.

Because of the Tories record in not carrying out the policies that many people vote Conservative to put into action, I’m not going to set too much store on whether anything will come of Sajid Javid’s words. There’s a high probability that when all is done and dusted regarding this NHS management report, we will still be left with the same problem of political activists in high paid NHS posts, just as the Tories have still not tackled immigration, nor have they done what is necessary to improve the economy or create energy security for Britons. What we may be looking at with the Health Secretary’s statement on woke parasites in the NHS may just be another massive steaming pile of bullshit.