NHS in my lifetime
Aye, paid for on the PFI never never though.
Comment on Starmer promotes Blairites as Labour thoughts turn to governing
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I think Blair was a mixed bag. Illegal war, best NHS in my lifetime, student loans, privatisation, expansion of the welfare state. A mixed bag at best. I wasn’t happy with him. But at this point I would bite your hand off to get that government back. They knew what they were doing, and they pretended to give a shit about the people they governed. That’s six steps up from where we are now. Corbyn would have been better but we don’t have that choice anymore do we.
G4Z@feddit.uk 9 months ago
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Rather we accrued debt for that than water company dividends.
G4Z@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Does it have to be either or?
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It shouldn’t be, no. But it looks like we either get to choose between this (gestures broadly) or revenge of the Blair years, so I suppose it does.
If you’re asking specifically about financing, then no it doesn’t. I believe our economy has shifted way too fast over to the free market side since Thatcher and we need to undo what she did so we can have a common sense mixed economy. The landscape would be so different in this situation that PFI wouldn’t be feasible, let alone necessary. In the current landscape, or as it was in the Blair years, I don’t think I can propose a better way to pay, though I’m sure there was one.
Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I’ve been told that now is the time to get behind the leader and put old allegiances aside for the greater good. You know, just like the right of the party did during the Corbyn years.
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yeah! The Corbyn years, that was the time to do character assassinations, takedowns and infighting, didn’t you know? Squabbling with the leader is passé these days.