With Wes Streeting as its Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Labour Party is firmly committed to the Blair Government's signature domestic policy of the privatisation of the National Health Service in England.
That idea existed only on the fringes of the think tank circuit until Tony Blair, Alan Milburn and Paul Corrigan took office in 1997. Since then, it has been the policy of all three parties except under Jeremy Corbyn, and of most Labour MPs and all Labour Party staffers continuously.
It is in this cause that generationally definitive figures such as James Frith, Jo Platt, Gareth Snell, Heidi Alexander, Emma Reynolds, Anna Turley and Melanie Onn are seeking to reenter the House of Commons from which they were removed in 2019, with the little-known Corbyn quaking at the prospect of his being unseated at Islington North by the living legend that is Mary Creagh.
While there was and is a case that the pound was undervalued to the detriment of manufacturing industry, it has not been shorted in order to correct that. A weak pound against the dollar makes British assets, and especially the NHS, far cheaper for American corporations to buy up. Since Labour also wants that to happen, then there is no reason to expect any change under that party.
To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power in the next Parliament. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.
In the meantime, and indeed immediately, there is more than enough evidence from Odey Asset Management, from The Labour Files, and from Ferguson Marine Engineering, to call the Police on the people at the top of all three of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, and the Scottish National Party. Anyone may report a crime. Who is going to do it here? Corbyn? Nigel Farage? Alex Salmond? George Galloway? Who?
Why don't you call the cops on them?
ReplyDeleteWhy should I have to do it? But I might.
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ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about? To my knowledge, nobody is proposing abolishing the principle of healthcare free at the point of use (which it is in every advanced economy anyway). Nor is any party proposing the much more effective systems they have in Singapore or on the continent, even though they produce better health outcomes than the NHS does. And we already had an "insurance-based" system-it's called National Insurance (and the NHS swallows the entire intake from our National Insurance contributions each year).
So when you say "privatising the NHS" are you referring to merely relying on some private providers for (taxpayer-funded) provision?
You should stand for election specifically saying that. Go on. I dare you.
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