Labour is always more trusted on the NHS than the Conservatives are, and the NHS is always the electorate's Number One policy priority.
The Coalition, and I mean both parties to it, is engaged in the dismantlement of the NHS in England, motivated by a combination of wild ideological zealotry and outrageous commercial conflicts of interest.
Therefore, recent and ongoing events are being spun as a crisis of legitimacy in and for the English NHS itself.
With absolutely no success whatever.
"the NHS is always the electorate's Number One policy priority."
ReplyDeleteIndeed-how very odd that, since Christianity has declined, an inefficient bureaucratic state healthcare system has become a sort of sacred national religion (that dreadful Olympic opening ceremony even featured a hospital bed as a symbol of our nation) and we think politicians have the power to help us avoid death.
It is a terrible example of how state-worship has come to replace Christianity since the French Revolution that we've nationalised our own bodies, our physical health and wellbeing has become politicised and we think politicians can save us from sickness and pain.
It is, as Peter Hitchens says, more of a "national sickness service" than a "health service" (since a health service would surely encourage us to lead healthier lives so as to prevent illness in the first place).
Silly boy.
ReplyDeleteIt is almost charming that you think that you have just invented all of this, or at the very least just discovered it.
The grown-ups have heard it, and dismissed it, all before. Including, for the umpteenth time, this week.
Stupid boy, more like.
ReplyDeleteIt was in the 50s. The NHS had been in all three manifestos in 1945, Tory Liberal and Labour. To her credit, Thatcher barely touched it. What we have now is completely new and based on an ideology deriving from anything but Christianity.
Quite so. The NHS remains enmeshed with the churches to an extent which is now extremely rare in public institutions.
ReplyDeleteIf this scheme - partly motivated by ideology, but don't forget plain, old-fashioned venality and greed - had been put to the electorate in 2010, then Labour would have won outright.
It is being given effect in England only, weakening the Union, and denying England's British identity, of which the NHS is definitive (not exclusively, but even so), while preserving that of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
And its roots are in EU competition law, which at best would make it difficult to reverse. Thatcher's Single Market strikes again.
To Lindsay's little groupie "Captain Mainwaring" (what a name).
ReplyDeleteAre you desperately seeking the honour of being David Lindsay's only fan?
You've already won-you've achieved it. You're the only person stupid enough.
My dear boy, if you could only begin to imagine...
ReplyDeleteI am a huge David Lindsay fan. There are a lot of us about.
ReplyDeleteThey don't like it up 'em, Sir. They do not like it up 'em.