2003 All Over Again

The Lib Dems have worked out that they can save themselves by having become the party that saved the English NHS. It might very well work.

Such supporters as there are of the Blairite scheme for its dismantlement are like such supporters as there were for the Blairite invasion of Iraq. Now as then, they comprise only a few evil and rather more stupid MPs, plus a handful of journalists and think tank weirdoes egging them on: considerably fewer than one thousand people, in a nation of 60 million. And now as then, they are simply living in the wrong country, if they are living here much of the time at all, such that they should clear off to the right one and let those of us who want to be British get on with being British.

If the Conservatives really believed in this policy, then they would avail themselves of Westminster's supreme legislative power throughout the United Kingdom and enact it for the entire Realm, come whatever constitutional crises because they were truly committed to what they were doing. I am not suggesting that they ought to do that. But if they were, then they would.