Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:
You keep claiming that politicians, with the press in the back pocket, are doing everything they can to privatise the NHS.
These aren't your political opponents?
I don't see them as "opponents" in the sense that the whole of parliament is run in an adversary style and the majority of voters "pick sides", often because their parents/grandparents/etc did - I don't go in for football supporter politics, they are all fair game for criticism and praise.
I happily concede that there MAY be areas of the NHS that are far more suitable for private ownership than a publicly owned operation, lets pick one, patient transport for instance - it may be cheaper for a Trust to send taxi's around the district picking up patients for appointments that the ambulance service would otherwise have to do - if that is the case then the current government would receive my support for doing that and not get an automatic criticism just because the blue & yellow side of the house suggested it and not the red side.
Unfortunately its not working like that, there is a political dogma at work behind the scenes and if the Conservatives win in 2015 with a majority of their own (and who is going to oppose them other than the voters, who can easily be led by the nose by a compliant media), then I believe we will see the acceleration of that dogma to a place in 2020 that we would not have believed possible.
