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Originally Posted by Jack_
This really is one of the posts of the year for me. I honestly don't know whether to feel angry, disheartened, frustrated or amused anymore at the people who are just clueless as to what's really going on or fall over themselves trying to defend what is such a transparent operation. I despair, I really do.
The whole thing is so glaringly obvious. Deliberately underfund the NHS and treat the people who work for it like dog**** until it inevitably crumbles, and then peddle and pump out the 'it can't sustain itself!' rhetoric and all of a sudden people become more sympathetic to increased privatisation.
We are heading down a very dark road indeed and I feel like nobody realises it  |
party truth partly fiction
some of this is exaggerated hysterical paranoia conspiracy theories.....the nhs collapsed under labour , the waiting lists are down the mrsa and diseases are down, the ombudsmen complaints procedures have been strengthened...to privatise small parts of the nhs to ensure the whole thing runs better and the service is better and the waiting lists are shorter but the service is still free then that is for the good...the numbers getting private insurance cover has actually fallen which counters your argument...we must tear up the insane 2004 labour / gp doctors contract which let them off out of hours work....gp doctors MUST sign a new contract where they must cover some out of hours
The real corruption is in the medicines and tablets being bought up by private companies across the globe. cancer tablets costing 50p to make resold at £500? the amount of cancer treatments only available privately is a disgrace
in my experience the nhs was better under thatcher than under new labour, but that simply underlines how corrupt stupid and wasteful new labour were