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These are all imponderables that will affect the UK in the future. Brexit was never scrutinised to the extent that
The SNP runs the NHS in Scotland. They've been running it down for years.
Are you sick of the SNP?
@AlexGallagher Being bound to the UK, their Govt and tax regime has caused this. Not the SNP, who have had taxation still heaily influenced by Westminster decisions. Income tax was devolved only a few years ago when tax was at 20%. It used to be above 30%! And don't miss Labour's contribution to this. That is what has taken us here. You know that. If you can't face that and look to blame the SNP for the last few years, you are encouraging the demise of the NHS.
1948 Clement Attlee (Labour) sets up the National Health Service, a publicly financed, publicly provided healthcare system for all, including optician and dental care. 1983 Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) introduces competitive tendering to outsource ancillary services including porters, kitchens and cleaning to private companies, which eventually leads to increased levels of hospital-acquired infections. Access to NHS [...]Read More...
@erskine Hi there π I was listening to #BBC #Radio4 this morning and here was the argument they presented on behalf of the Times:
p1 The 'country' doesn't have enough money
p2 We can have an #NHS or spend on 'other' #SocialProgrammes
q We can't have both
I didn't hear the whole show but simple repetition of this puts it into the minds of the peeps that 'Oh no! That's awful but if the BBC are saying it, it must be true'
There are many issues with the argument not least its BS
@erskine 1/x "The overarching desire to be a more socially equasl [sic] society should be the driver" BOOM! There it is! Forget any self help book, that's the way to inner peace & harmony!
Westminster loves to tell us how divided the working class are but as a purely fact based matter, it is not correct. Any anecdote I offer is just that, anecdotal. However, shop workers to solicitors, postal workers to physicians want a society that doesn't scapegoat or demonise swaths of their fellow humans
@erskine 3/x It is not only the petty, cruel, disengenuous &, at times, disgusting, Feudal Lords of the Tory Gov., HMMLO, the Labour party have a lot to answer for, as do the 4th Estate.
The institutions of the Uk generally are fearful of not the working class, per se, but the potential loss of power that necessarily must follow a resurgent strong, independent & FAIR working class.
I agree with Marx on a whole lot, never move so than on equality it is the individual that can judge equality...
@erskine 4/4 However, without The People's desire to have, maintain & exist within an' equal society' steps will never be taken to reach a place where the individual can ever judge for themselve whether they have 'equality' or not!
Sorg about that somewhat angry rant. Thank you to @erskine who's fine post's provoked those thoughts & expression from me.
Cheers all,
Dave
@erskine Hi Erskine π Thank you for your kind wordsπ Honestly, I wanted to quote you as firstIy, it felt real, visceral, the way I think a lot of us feel. Secondly, I didn't want to mess with another persons work. It spoke to me, I imagine many others too so l wanted to preserve exactly what was on the page. I like to see the genuine outpouring of emotion & rationality meeting
Besides, if I spent time correcting the spelling errors my predictive text creates I'd Naked Gun anteater dong! π
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