Unhealthy Signs

Of course the plan to end universal healthcare free at the point of need in Scotland was not just officials freelancing. Who would report that? We have been trying forever to tell you about the SNP, and this is also what Greens look like in government, as increasingly they are.

Meanwhile, 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. Of course, other than Blair, Milburn and Corrigan, no one has done more than Jeremy Hunt to privatise the English NHS.

We are heading for a hung Parliament. 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. 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. Who would you like to see hold the balance of power instead? The Greens? The SNP?