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.
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femininemasculine@hexbear.net 10 months agobut Starmer’s labour has been saying he’ll do the same: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66319064
Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the government should have acted sooner to make more use of the private sector.
I don’t know how much things will change after the next GE. the current opposition leadership are neoliberals just like Rishi and co
Syldon@feddit.uk 10 months ago
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.
femininemasculine@hexbear.net 10 months ago
where from my comment did you get that I think major was better
anyway there’s a reason Blair is not very popular anymore, unlike when he won in '97. the Iraq War was not very good imo