History is repeating itself. The Conservatives have crashed the economy, causing homeowners’ mortgage rates to soar, with the party paying a heavy price in public opinion. A changed Labour Party is speaking for the country again. Public services are on their knees. Patients are waiting months or even years for NHS treatment. And once again, the siren voices on the right are demanding “a hard look at how we fund the health service”.
It takes some brass neck for the Conservatives, who have run down the NHS and left seven million patients waiting for treatment, to now argue that a health service funded through general taxation, free at the point of use, can never provide good levels of care. That is the miserabilist argument coming from the right today.
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