Expect to see a number of negative UKIP threads on message boards like this one leading up to the election. Activists from each of the traditional parties will be posting negative stories everywhere they can between now and then. I'm looking forward to seeing which party offers the most realistically positive message...wouldn't that be something?
Haven't UKIP changed their policy on NHS privatisation to match the Conservatives ie claim they will protect the NHS but allow privatisation by stealth through the back door ?
One of the big myths of the NHS is that it's not already largely privatised e.g. Buildings, services, labour force...it's nearly all in private hands already. I am by no means exceptionally well informed to debate the NHS but I do wish the Great British Public would at least try and scratch the surface before joining in with the country's favourite political football match. The rhetoric that goes with the NHS is appallingly one sided at times when basically we all need to pay more for it. After all, what's more important than your health?
No change at all - they made their policy perfectly clear in their 2010 manifesto:-
"Encourage County Health Boards to put out to tender key NHS services ranging from Long Term Care to local hospitals and GP surgeries. This will be done by franchising key services run on a fixed budget to charitable associations, not-for-profit and profit-making private companies, partnerships and individuals."
http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge10/man/parties/UKIPManifesto2010.pdf
Because the NHS is such a marvelously run organization.
If you look at who cleans our hospitals that job is being run by a private company. For the life of me I don't know why something as important as cleaning especially in a hospital is being run by a private company in the first place, but there you go, and your right we all need be paying a little bit more for it, and stop wasting money.
Because the NHS is such a marvelously run organization.
Expect to see a number of negative UKIP threads on message boards like this one leading up to the election. Activists from each of the traditional parties will be posting negative stories everywhere they can between now and then. I'm looking forward to seeing which party offers the most realistically positive message...wouldn't that be something?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-farage-insurance-based-nhs-private-companies
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It may have escaped you but he is a politician, if you don't like what he advocates don't vote for him..........that's democracy right?
Another politician once said......
We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”
http://www.economist.com/node/1325309
He now wields more power than our democratically elected Government, what can I do about him?
One of the big myths of the NHS is that it's not already largely privatised e.g. Buildings, services, labour force...it's nearly all in private hands already. I am by no means exceptionally well informed to debate the NHS but I do wish the Great British Public would at least try and scratch the surface before joining in with the country's favourite political football match. The rhetoric that goes with the NHS is appallingly one sided at times when basically we all need to pay more for it. After all, what's more important than your health?