Yeah, this sounds ridiculous. So basically grab as much cash as possible on your way out? It always baffles me as to why and who votes for people like these? People who clearly work so hard against their own citizens.
Comment on Private equity has its sights on the NHS – and with it our faith in public services altogether
Syldon@feddit.uk 10 months agoTories have total control until the next GE. Everything is a smash grab with them right now. They know their card is marked for at least a decade after this lot.
donut4ever@lemm.ee 10 months ago
merridew@feddit.uk 10 months ago
“Contemporarily speaking, the term carpetbagger refers to roving financial opportunists, often of modest means, who spot investment opportunities and aim to benefit from a set of circumstances to which they are not ordinarily entitled.”
Syldon@feddit.uk 10 months ago
People are conned by expensive campaigns.
donut4ever@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Absolutely. Expensive campaigns made Trump look amazing to a lot of people, and some are even willing to die for him.
FatLegTed@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Worked for Hitler as well.
femininemasculine@hexbear.net 10 months ago
but Starmer’s labour has been saying he’ll do the same: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66319064
I don’t know how much things will change after the next GE. the current opposition leadership are neoliberals just like Rishi and co
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh, man, as a murican, sounds like you somehow received our shipment of Democrats.
femininemasculine@hexbear.net 10 months ago
yeah… actually we got them back in '97 with Blair and co, this is them on their comeback 😟
merridew@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Ah yes, those terrible Blair years. If only the Major government had kept going for longer.
Syldon@feddit.uk 10 months ago
What Starmer said was that the private use would run alongside efforts to train new staff and create new infrastructure. People need treatment and we do not have the infrastructure to do that. Health services don’t just materialise out of thin air.