Nigel Farage via Daily Express on the NHS and the latest attack on his gathering two years ago- That is why two days ago, the Guardian trawled up an answer to a question I gave back in 2012, as part of a wider debate about the future of the NHS. Instead of focusing on the excellent conference speech given by Louise Bours in Doncaster this year, where she laid out the party’s health policy, they cropped a few lines from a discussion over two years ago and told their readers that UKIP wanted to privatise the NHS. Just like immigration, it is becoming increasingly impossible to even raise the NHS as a topic for closer examination. The debate is always shut down. Could this be because the NHS that was run by the Labour Party is in a mess, and actually the only way to fix it would be to abandon the core principles that underpinned its foundation as free at the point of service, afforded and owned by the taxpayers and run by and for the people? We are an aging society. We are a burgeoning society. We are a society with many different languages, living in an era of medical innovation, new pharmaceuticals and technologies to tackle a wider array of recognised conditions. It is becoming almost an impossibility to keep pace with the rate of change and afford world leading medical care out of the public purse. But we’re not allowed to talk about it.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:18:07 +0000
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