What did Labour say in its 2010 manifesto, when Andy Burnham was still Health Minister?….
‘We will continue to press ahead with bold NHS reforms. All hospitals will become Foundation Trusts, with successful FTs given the support and incentives to take over those that are under-performing. Failing hospitals will have their management replaced. Foundation Trusts will be given the freedom to expand their provision into primary and community care, and to increase their private services – where these are consistent with NHS values, and provided they generate surpluses that are invested directly into the NHS.
We will support an active role for the independent sector working alongside the NHS in the provision of care, particularly where they bring innovation – such as in end-of-life care and cancer services, and increase capacity. ‘
Where changes are needed, we will be fair to NHS services and staff and give them a chance to improve, but where they fail to do so we will look to alternative provision.
Labour quite happy with privatising the NHS if the NHS cannot provide as good a service as outside providers. Let’s not forget stuff like this from the BBC before we go on…the BBC headlining with a false Labour claim…
A third of NHS contracts awarded to private firms – report
The only clue (other than a lot of past experience) that the BBC might be misleading us was hearing Nick Clegg on PMQs responding to Labour’s claim, as above from the BBC, that 1/3 of NHS contracts had gone to private companies.
Clegg told us that a mere 6% of NHS spending had gone to private companies…a figure not dissimilar to Labour’s 5%.
Thanks to whomever [Mice Height] it was in the comments who reminded me that Old Holborn is still alive and kicking them up the arse.
Here’s 5 Live praising the audience for their passionate attack on the government’s NHS record….curiously it was only the other week that a 5 Live presenter suggested that the government was, ‘some would say’, running down the NHS so that it could be privatised…..
Government minister @Margot_James_MP was on the defensive about the #NHS from a passionate #bbcqt audience in Hereford.
Here's what you said… pic.twitter.com/BRxL2RVGTh
— BBC Radio 5 live (@bbc5live) January 19, 2018
Hang on…..Old Holborn has spotted something….the ‘passionate audience member’ is a Labour party plant….again and again the BBC fills the airwaves with Labour activists pretending they are merely concerned citizens…..
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/954649872266878976
Here being praised by a Labour MP….
Hats off to #bbcqt audience member @beccahampstead, challenging Govt on their NHS record last night, saying: "I wonder if the Conservative government that we have is ideologically making the NHS…under-funding it, so then they can make the argument for privatisation." Spot on. pic.twitter.com/L9wKtttOZl
— Laura Pidcock MP (@LauraPidcockMP) January 19, 2018
Rebecca Shirazi...on the far left of this picture….
Maybe the BBC can get a statement off her at this rally for the NHS tweeted by her…
In TWO weeks time | Help #SaveOurNHS – is the date in your diary? | Join the @pplsassembly march and rally on Saturday 3 February 2018 to #FundTheNHS to #FixTheNHS https://t.co/yf5kXaVK9b pic.twitter.com/RTA86Pw8Ed
— Unite the union (@unitetheunion) January 20, 2018
I would love to know the ragar? Viewing figures for QT…. it must be low and falling . Every week the same ritualistic bias – the manipulation of the audience with the outward respectability of a dimbly production company counting his dividend s on low corporation tax . A ritual of prolabour anti brexit poison .
With an occasional “fair” audience/ panel to cover it
There’s seven females and only four males in that photo of Labour activists. Where’s the gender balance? How come they allowed in the extra three females? Ah, of course, two of those females actually identify themselves as males. Obvious now I think about it.
But then one of the males identifies as a female . Back to seven to four . Oh no sorry five to five . No that’s ten , one missing , so that’s six females to six males . No that’s twelve , one extra . Who would be the one ? The transgender non specific male / female . Are you discriminating against the non person who doesn’t appear in the photo ?
“Clegg ”
Pass!
“Rebecca Shirazi…on the far left of this picture….”
Now, I wonder which one holds down a full-time job?
Now, I wonder which one in the photo is a single mum on benefits?
Now, which one in the photo owns their own home?
Which ones have paid up their mortgage, did nothing rebellious in their Uni days and now they are retired feel like being rebellious so are doing the anti-social gimmick for the “yuff”