Social media can be a wonderful gift:
” Since they were founded as a modern political force in 1834, the Conservatives have acted as the parliamentary wing of the wealthy elite. A one time very senior Tory figure put it succinctly at an off-the-record gathering: the Conservative Party, he explained, was a “coalition of privileged interests. Its main purpose is to defend that privilege. And the way it wins elections is by giving just enough to just enough other people”.
A stunning admission, I think: but this gravy train for the rich also happens to be the most successful electoral machine on earth. At the turn of the 20th century, many on the left thought that extending the franchise to working-class voters would inevitably lead to the victory of parliamentary socialism. If they knew the Tories would end up occupying 10 Downing Street for two-thirds of the past century, they would have been horrified.
Conservatism does well because it appeals to the lowest common denominator:- greed, self-interest, acquisition, wealth, possession and status – not of the country or the society in which you live, nor of the community in which you reside, but purely of yourself as a discrete individual. Indeed, there is no such thing as society – it is you against the rest, your interests against others, your perception, attitudes and objectives that must prevail in contrast to those of others. The Tory attitude displays itself too, in the well-worn strategy of “divide and rule” – the need to conquer by divisive policies that set one group in direct opposition to another, that encourage division and hostility; the single mother, the unemployed, those on “welfare” (the term being more divisive than “social-security”), the alleged scrounger, the benefit cheat. The young against the old, the well against the old, the private sector against the public sector. Without all these our taxes will go down; they are an obstacle to each of us becoming wealthy.
This time they may find that they will be going too far, their blatant engineering of the failure of the NHS by setting it up to cover too long a period with too few staff.
GPs having to tender for private contracts up against private companies meaning the lucrative ones going to the private health companies that they are close to.
All this will saddle the British people with huge private health insurance bills running into hundreds of pounds a month. The Tories preferred model is a disguised version of the American system.
The US, where the third most common reason for people sleeping on the street is due to medical costs. 60% of bankruptcies are due to med. costs and 70% of those are people have insurance, showing that adequate insurance is only for the well off.
People have to sell their houses to make up the shortfall – then the cancer returns.
The British people are being sold down the river, so that the Tories can make huge fortunes from the private health companies.
Maybe this time the British will rebel and keep up the support for the Dr’s who are trying to save our very valuable health service. “
Douglas James
