Forget two-tier policing – we need to talk about two-tier healthcare. Jess Phillips, Labour MP and Home Office minister, has reportedly said she was whizzed through an overcrowded A&E unit on account of her pro-Gaza campaigning. If this is true, it raises some truly troubling questions about the NHS.
‘The doctor who saw me was Palestinian’, and ‘he was sort of like, “I like you. You voted for a ceasefire.”’
It was at an event at the Kiln Theatre in North London that Phillips implied that she received preferential treatment in a publicly funded hospital because of her position on the Palestine question. According to the Daily Mail, she told the audience about a distressing medical episode where her lips turned blue and she couldn’t breathe properly. So she went for urgent treatment at a hospital in Birmingham. It was horrendously overcrowded. ‘I have genuinely seen better facilities, health facilities, in war zones’, she said.
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