This is from the letter from more than 100 doctors to the Guardian tonight:
The NHS is withering away, and if things carry on as they are then in future people will be denied care they once had under the NHS and have to pay more for health services. Privatisation not only threatens coordinated services but also jeopardises training of our future healthcare providers and medical research, particularly that of public health.
I agree.
I am pleased they said it.
I would love the day when 100 accountants wrote to condemn tax avoidance.
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……if we take pur eye off the ball.
Given that over a million people signed an online petition for the reinstatement of the arch neo-lib piss-taker, Clarkson, we can see how the public is being fed bread and circuses to take their eye of the ball- dumb people down enough and you can get away with nearly anything.
It’s a new form of the (in)famous Montagu Norman quote:
““Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
“When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.
“These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.
“It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.”
Or as Napoleon put it
T’is a blessing to the ruler that the common man can’t think
OK , You can put your name on the letter, I will add mine, and then we have to find 98 Others. How will we define Avoidance, by the way?
Oh, Simon and Roger, how much you think the proletariat is so dumb, and you are so aware!
Stephen
Given your comments on many issues I would not wish to sign a letter with you
Richard
What if 1,000, or 10,000 or 100,000 or 1,000,000 signed a petition? I quote the quantitative analysis of Gilens and Page on US Govt policy:- “… analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on [U.S.] government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have **little** or **no** independent influence.” [1]
We have enough evidence that neoliberals abhor the NHS model and want to replace it with debt and “competition”. The challenge to the UK is not this neoliberal inevitability/fanaticism and copy the dead-beat [US] market solutions, but through establishing a true majoritarian electoral democracy that will lead to a better future, not the dystopia of Hunt/Cameron/Osborne plc.
[1] Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, “Perspectives on Politics”, September 2014, Vol. 12, pages 564- 581, American Political Science Association 2014. doi:10.1017/S1537592714001595
Aren’t GPs themselves private contractors to the NHS?
Not if I had my way they would not be