There are very few people who’d say the Tories did a good job managing the NHS between 2010 and 2014. In fact, there are very few people who wouldn’t say that period was an absolute catastrophe. Given that, you’d think the Tories would steer clear of what is or isn’t good for the NHS. Katie Lam MP is clearly not someone who thinks:

There’s a lot to cover here, but we’re going to start with this:

If Katie Lam thinks an entire group of people should be damned because one of them gets caught in a sex scandal, THEN I HAVE VERY BAD NEWS FOR HER ABOUT THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.

Katie Lam MP on NHS scandal: racism on clear display

Before we dig into her tweet, let’s address the story she’s talking about. This is how the BBC covered it:

A doctor who left a patient midway through an operation to have sex with a nurse is at “very low risk” of repeating his serious misconduct, a medical tribunal has ruled.

Married father-of-three Dr Suhail Anjum and the unnamed nurse were caught in a “compromising position” by a shocked colleague who walked in on the pair at Tameside Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.

The consultant anaesthetist, 44, had asked a colleague to monitor the male patient, who was under general anaesthetic, so he could go to the bathroom.

Instead Dr Anjum, who was gone for eight minutes, went to another operating theatre where sexual activity took place with the nurse on 16 September 2023.

I have a very simple way of judging scandals, which I call the ‘Tesco Test’. This method revolves around one simple question: “Would I get fired for this if I were caught doing it at Tesco?”

With the case of Dr Anjum, it’s a very clear ‘yes’ – perhaps one of the clearest yeses I’ve ever had.

In that sense, I agree with Lam – this guy should have been fired.

In every other sense, I disagree with her entirely.

Tarring all Pakistanis with the same brush

Some say the term ‘racism’ gets thrown around too liberally these days, and yet some things are just unmistakably racist. This is how the Oxford Languages dictionary defines ‘racism’:

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

What Lam has done is the precise inverse of this, which is to suggest all Pakistani people pose a danger to the NHS because one doctor couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. The place she gets to is exactly the same, though, which is discriminating against an entire ethnic group based on their membership of said group.

Which leads me to my next point.

A Tory MP calling out sexual misconduct? Really?

Did Lam really forget about her party’s long and grubby history of sexual impropriety?

Let’s look back, shall we:

The year is 1993, and PM John Major’s ‘Back to Basics’ morality crusade is torpedoed by “an unending sequence of sex scandals among Tory MPs”.

The year is 2002, and Edwina Currie reveals she had an affair with the supposedly moral crusader John Major.

The year is 2015, and certain pig-related accusations are made against then-prime minister David Cameron.

The year is 2022, and eight Tory MPs have had sexual misconduct allegations against them since 2019, including two convictions.

Now, let’s rewrite Lam’s tweet from a different viewpoint:

A Tory MP comes here from the Cotswolds.

He has sex with a teenager and/or severed pigs head during a parliamentary debate on the NHS.

He promises it won’t happen again, so a tribunal says he can return to politicking in the UK.

This is insane. The Tories cannot fix the NHS, and unless we raise our standards, actually damage it.

In this situation, I’d agree the Tory MP shouldn’t have been allowed to return, but I’d disagree that all Tories should be banned from managing the NHS.

Not because of the sex scandal, anyway.

Hands up, I don’t think the Tories should be anywhere near the NHS; not because some of them are sex perverts, but because all of them are health-hating privatisers who would sell their own grandmothers if they could get away with it. They weren’t born like that, though, and being right-wing isn’t a protected characteristic.

These people were born, they grew up, and they dedicated themselves to a party which has always hated the NHS.

Is Lam on the way out?

I’ve described Lam’s actions as a ‘sad attempt for attention’, because that’s what it looks like. No one takes the Tories seriously anymore, so increasingly they have to copy Reform to get attention. The problem is the Tories spent 14 years stoking up racial antagonism while maintaining high levels of migration, and now Reform has taken the baton by shifting even further right.

Absolutely no one trusts these people anymore.

14 years of their bullshit is too much.

— Jim Cognito (@JimCognito2016) September 22, 2025

The problem Reform will have is that nothing will satisfy these people besides the forced re-migration of the non-white population (which is what they called for at Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom‘ rally in early September). It’s a grim and dangerous game our politicians are playing, and it’s in play to draw attention away from their billionaire mates rinsing this country for everything it’s got.

Given how blatantly racist Lam’s tweet is, there’s a good chance she’s about to defect to Reform, and this is her going out in a blaze of slurry. With the Tory Party as desperate as it is, though, there’s every chance they won’t give her the bollocking she’s hoping for. Even worse, we may see some of them copy her.

Given that, thank god we have some politicians who are making the arguments that Keir Starmer doesn’t dare to:

This journalist’s face when Polanski starts proudly proclaiming he is pro-immigration is a sight to behold. pic.twitter.com/rAVyeXNvsH

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) September 11, 2025

For more about how politicians are using issues like migration and the climate to distract from their mates ripping us off, read this.

Featured image via the Canary.