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Originally Posted by Kizzy
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Yawn.
This three year old clip is 'old hat' and has been 'raised and answered' and 'raised and answered' so many times it has lost any 'news' worthiness or 'shock value' and is tedious.
If any IMPARTIAL person actually listens to everything which Farage actually says about the NHS he is NOT proposing total Privatisation of it nor doing away with it and to claim otherwise is false.
Left Wing extremists protested about BUPA and other Private Health Initiatives for the same reasons which they opposed Grammar Schools and numerous other perfectly sane and reasonable institutions - an inane hatred of anyone they perceive to be financially 'better off' or 'more able' or 'more gifted' than they are, and a desire to 'tear down' anything which serves to measure or register such differences.
The message is 'Not To Aspire' but 'To Lower Those Or That Which Is Higher' - or in Kirk-Speak; 'Don't higher the bridge - lower the water'.
We are not all Mao Tse Tung-style grey, uniformly-clad, standard little entities we are all different.
Academically gifted children should never have to be taught to the standards of the lowest common denominator, and those with hard-earned money - whether saved by making sacrifices in material spending or earned by gaining qualifications and securing suitably well paid jobs, or whether inherited because your ancestors did either, should have THE CHOICE of PAYING for private healthcare if they so wish.
It does not damage the NHS in ANY WAY, in fact quite the opposite, because it helps alleviate the strain on its underfunded over demanded resources - both fiscal and staff wise.
And NO it does not lead to a 'Two Tier System of Healthcare' because the majority of top Health staff will not work in the NHS, choosing instead to emigrate to where the remuneration adequately rewards their skills.
The more people who can afford to take out Private Insurance Cover and who freely elect to do so, then the more the NHS can concentrate on caring for those who cannot afford to - and NHS staff will have more funds with which to elevate the standard of that care.
Farage has said NOTHING wrong in your cliched clip, but actually MAKES UTTER SENSE.
I could write a lengthy post laden with INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS which will utterly DESTROY any credibility which the LABOUR party has, but will that be fair?