Boris Johnson: good morning (.) good morning (.) everybody (.) good
morning (.) everyone (2.0) fantastic to see you all here (.) thank you
(3.0) thank you (.) let’s get going (.) let’s get on with the job (1.0) good
morning, everybody listening (2.) so isn’t it amazing to be back here
in person (.) and the first time since so many of you worked to defy
the skeptics by winning councils and communities that conservatives
have never won in before (.) such as Hartlepool (2.0) and in fact (.) it’s
the first time since the general election of 2019 (.) when we finally
sent that corduroy Communist cosmonaut into orbit (.) where he
belongs (4.0) and why is it that we are back today for a traditional
Conservative cheek by jowler (2.0) it’s because for months we have
had one of the most open economies and societies (3.0) and on july
the 19th (.) we decided to open every single theatre and every concert
hall and nightclub in England (2.0) and we knew that some people
would still be anxious (.) so we sent top government representatives
to our sweatiest to show that anyone could dance perfectly safely
(4.0) and wasn’t he brilliant, my friends (2.0) let’s hear it (2.0) let’s
hear it for Jon Bon Jovi (3.0) living proof that we (.) you all represent
the most jiving (.) hip (.) happening and generally funkapolitan party
in the world (4.0) and how have we managed to open up ahead of so
many of our friends (3.0) you know the answer (2.0) it’s because of
the rollout of that vaccine (3.0) a UK phenomenon (.) the magic
potion invented in Oxford University (.) bottled in Wales (.)
distributed at incredible speed to vaccination centers everywhere
(3.0) I saw the army in action in Glasgow (.) firing staple guns like
carbines as they set up a huge vaccination center (2.0) in Fermanagh
I saw the needles go in like a collective sewing machine (3.0) they
vaccinated so rapidly that we were able to do those crucial groups
one to four (.) the oldest and most vulnerable (.) faster than any
,other major economy in the world (.) and though the disease has
sadly not gone away (.) the impact on death rates has been
astonishing (4.0) I urge you all to get your jabs (.) because every day
our vaccine defences are getting stronger and stronger (2.0) and you
(2.0) all of you and everybody watching (.) you made this roll out
possible (2.0) you made each other safer (2.0) so perhaps we should
all thank each other (3.0) go on (.) try it (.) I mean (.) you can try a
cautious fist bump (.) because it’s okay now (2.0) and we in turn
thank the volunteers (2.0) the public health workers (2.0) the council
workers (2.0) the pharmacists (2.0) but above all (2.0) our untiring (.)
unbeatable (.) unbelievable NHS (3.0) and as a responsible
Conservative government (2.0) we must recognize the sheer scale of
their achievement (2.0) but also the scale of the challenge ahead
(4.0) when I was lying in St. Thomas’ hospital last year (.) I looked
blearily out of my window at a hole in the ground between the ICU
and another much older Victorian section (2.0) and amid the rubble
of brick (.) they seemed to be digging a hole for someone or
something (2.0) or indeed someone (.)possibly me (3.0) but the NHS
saved me and our wonderful nurses pulled my chestnuts out of that
Tartarian pit (2.0) and I went back on a visit the other day (.) and I
saw that the hole had been filled in with three or four gleaming
stories of a new paediatrics unit (.) and there you have a metaphor
my friends for how we must build back better now (3.0) we have a
huge hole in the public finances (2.0) we spent 407 billion pounds on
COVID support and our debt now stands at over 2 trillion pounds
(3.0) and waiting lists will almost certainly go up before they come
down (4.0) covid pushed out a great bow wave of cases (3.0) people
did not or could not seek help (2.0) and that wave is now coming
back (2.0) a tide of anxiety washing into every A and E and every GP
, (2.0) your hip replacement (.) your mother’s surgery (.) and this is the
priority of the British people (2.0) does anyone seriously imagine that
we should not now be raising the funding to sort this out (3.0) is that
really the view of responsible Conservatives (3.0) I can tell you
something (2.0) Margaret Thatcher would not have ignored the
meteorite that has just crashed through the public finances (2.0) she
would’ve wagged her finger and said (.) “more borrowing now is just
higher interest rates and even higher taxes later” (4.0) when this
country was sick (.) our NHS was the nurse (2.0) frontline care
workers battled against a new disease (.) selflessly risking their lives
(.) sacrificing their lives (2.0) and it is right that this party that has
looked after the NHS for most of its history should be the one to rise
to the challenge (3.0) 48 new hospitals (.) 50000 more nurses (.) 50
million more GP appointments (.) 40 new diagnostic centres (2.0) and
fixing those backlogs with real change (2.0) because the pandemic
not only put colossal pressure on the NHS (.) it was a lightning flash
illumination of a problem we have failed to address for decades (4.0)
in 1948 (.) this country created the National Health Service but kept
social care local (2.0) and though that made sense in many ways (.)
generations of older people have found themselves lost in the gap
(3.0) when COVID broke (.) the 100,000 beds in the NHS and 30,000
occupied by people who could have been cared for elsewhere (.)
whether at home or in residential care (2.0) and we all know that this
problem of delayed discharge is one of the major reasons why it
takes too long to get the hospital treatment that your family
desperately need (3.0) and people worry that they will be the 1 in 10
to suffer from the potentially catastrophic cost of dementia (.) wiping
out everything they have and preventing them from passing on
anything to their families (4.0) and we Conservatives stand by those
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