Quote Originally Posted by MyNameIsTerry View Post
Started under PFI. The interest on that has been killing the NHS for ages.

I do think the NHS needs protecting from forces though and should not be the political football it always has been.

One problem in this election was there was a danger of this whether your voted Tory or Labour. If the US gets it's trade deal into the EU under the same terms as last time, and we are no longer members, it will be up to the EU to give us an opt out of that deal (something no other CU has) when it comes to the clauses about opening up nationalised industries including health (EU states get an opt out...but that won't be us anymore if a 2nd ref voted for Corbyn's CU deal if he didn't get his special opt out that the EU won't allow the other CU's to have). This issue was just ignored in the debate yet was one big reason why we were opposed to TTIP last time.

Better to enshrine some local UK laws to protect it from such agreements so we can't sign up to stuff like that without law change.


Ah yes, but at that time NHS funding was far, far higher and staff were still being recruited, not axed. To reverse the damage in time stated by Tories isn't realistic or viable. We need action right now, this min. And incredible sums of funding. Today.

Thus the inexorable slide into more and more private hands. The sacred NHS cow will become the cash cow. Look at how large chunks of the Welfare State have been sold off. Ditto for education system. Tory ideology has always been to shrink the "State" to the size of a pea.

But at least the banks and large corps will be happy!