A NHS that is 100% free should be enshrined in UK law requiring a 2/3 majority vote to make it otherwise. We all know the Farages of the world want to bring in US style health insurance.
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Unfortunately, they seem to be succeeding. Dentists are now pretty much private. If they do it slowly, nobody will notice until the service they need is suddenly not free, but then it's too late.
The NHS has never been 100% free and never will be as anyone who has ever needed dental work will say. Prescriptions and opticians/glasses are also only subsidised with limited free items.
It is implying that that is the current state and that a super majority would be required to change that - despite that's not how laws work anyway. All I was trying to say is people talk a lot of crap about "Free at point of use" & "Private companies in the NHS" without understanding the here & now.
Anyone with a brain knows that Reform are just the extremist section of the Tory voter base. They know that no one would vote for scrapping the NHS or slashing taxes on the wealthy, though, so they bang on about immigrants to get us plebs onside.
Does make me smile when they make themselves out to be the champions of the ordinary men and women on the street, when in fact they’d cut everything so thin they’d make the Tories look like Father Christmas!
Hey you might be in a period of voting dumb things into reality in America, but honestly, we are no stranger to it ourselves. I am not ruling anything out.
I mean, no. Long live the NHS and all that, but supermajority rules are a terrible idea. By making one, you're creating institutionalised conservatism. You're saying that you know better than any future generations what is best for them to the extent that they have go to extraordinary lengths >
to undo your handiwork.
That's not great for anyone who's left lumbered with something that is reasonably but not overwhelmingly unpopular. The political capital needed to overcome something ossified by a supermajority rule also slows the pace of other changes. It's a conservative trap.
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But this stance of its free is what I feel is actually causing its downfall! Many people are taking the mick with it and using it irresponsibility.
A manifesto isn't everything you intend to do for 4 years.. shame the BBC don't seem able to comprehend this ..
Now it's time to pay it all back, with national debt at over £3tn, and yearly interest payments of £90bn, the press make it out to be Labour's fault
But I’m sure they can afford it.
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That's not great for anyone who's left lumbered with something that is reasonably but not overwhelmingly unpopular. The political capital needed to overcome something ossified by a supermajority rule also slows the pace of other changes. It's a conservative trap.