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Originally Posted by Brillopad
Lefties, if you want to save the NHS become Brexiteers - an article from Spiked Magazine 12th May 2017.
'Yes, you can always tell when an election is upon us because it's time 'to save the NHS'. There are 14 days to save the NHS as Tony Blair said in April 1997 for example. Labour has been cynically wheeling out the line that the tories are going to privitise the NHS since the 1990s. They have vowed to 'save the NHS' since the 1980s. It's a dismal and pathetic strategy which only exposes the hollowness of a party that began to lose its heart and purpose in the 1960s, when the takeover of the working-class movement by the upper-middle class social liberals began in earnest. Shouty alarmism is all it's got left now.
Because, as you will have noticed, over the past 40 years the Conservatives have never privatised the NHS. Sure they have scaled back the number of free-upon-demand services and introduced the private sector into various areas. And some have talked of privatising it. But there's never been privatisation. And neither will the evil tories ever do so. It would be electoral suicide. Most conservative supporters are not free-market fundamentalists - they consider it 'our NHS' too.
Yet it is true that there is a body of free-market fundamentalists who would like to privitise the NHS, and it's the European Union - that body, which remember, dear Labour manifesto writers, still forbids the re-nationalisation of 'our railways' or our 'postal services', because that would break one of its iron principles: the free market'.
Very interesting article, which casts a dark shadow over Labour Party policies and its constant attempts to use the NHS as some sort of 'bargaining chip'. It is simply preying on the fears of the working-class on losing their much valued NHS. I personally found the above article informative and thought- provoking - thoughts please.
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This article is so very true
You only have to compare nhs england with nhs wales
oh the welsh labour claim always theyre more caring they will save the nhs and stop it being privatised....yet all theyve ever done is waste, is to double / treble ceo wages and of treble the amount of burocrats and middle management which wastes the nhs billions
under the so called caring labour mrsa spread like wildfire, the abuses and cover ups were at record highs...the reporting system and the ombudsman was scaled back and those who dared criticize were bullied ...50% of doctors interviewed said they felt bullied and intimidated into not complaining during labours reign...debts rose and we saw the biggest abuses in nhs history with over 1000 dying of thirst and neglect in stafford hospital
sadly people dont bother protesting against labour sick hypocrisy, waste and cover ups because the tories and other party voters are not bullies like the labour unionists....though they did have 1 march against labours illegal iraq war which killed a milliion innocents and labour ignored that as they have zero respect for joe public
lets not forget too nhs england is run infinitely smarter than labours nhs wales which is way way behind on most measurements and most waiting lists....in some cases its several months behind...the poor people of wales have a second class system now. even a simple eye test takes 10 weeks for the results, in england in many hospitals its the same day. the complacent burocratic mess that is welsh nhs is frightening. the way welsh labour try to define almost every improvement in nhs england as privatising is totally dishonest and misleading. for example nhs england has a computer system that allows everyon in england to be on a national waiting lists, so they a londonder can be seen in liverpool straight away if theyre willing to travel. wales, a way smaller nation doesnt even have such a nationwide database so everyone is only on a local narrower waiting list...you can barely get a private operation or private treatment for many things in wales even if you have the policies. why? because welsh labour stop it....welsh labour intriduced the car parking fees too oh and lets not forget welsh labour created the junior doctors strike in the first place...how you say?
They signed the insane 2004 gp doctors contract which allowed 90% of all gp doctors to opt out from doing any more out of hours work (for a 6% pay cut at the time , though their wages soon ballooned under labour) so we lost 90% of our gp's out of hours and dentists thanks to labour. that put 90% ore pressure on hospital doctors? insane and people got sicker bed blocking got worse, debts rose.
just insane
OH but its ok because labour SAY they are more caring, so that little bit of self praise they shower themselves with means we are supposed to ignore all the facts as labour always tend to do
neu bevan would be utterly ashamed of what labour has become and the lies and mismanagement and how they bankrupted the nation ruined the nhs and took us to illegal wars than killed a million innocents