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General Election 2017: Labour Manifesto Draft Leaked
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I will say I don't think it's entirely Corbyn's faction that has destroyed the Labour party. I think the situation is actually much worse than that. If it was just a coup by insurgent radicals (as is often represented)
09:09 Thu 11th May 2017
I am not advocating that the NHS should be run "as" a business. What I am saying is that it should be run in a business like manner and the outmoded political attitudes that are entrenched, not only within the organisation, but also outside it. The beliefs that we have some God given right to treat it as free and easily accessed with no regard for the well being of the actual organisation. It should be run as any business with a viable future would be. First step is root and branch wheedling out of the management structure that is crippling it.
“There is now talk of at least 100 Labour MPs forming a completely new party, and why not?”
Why not indeed. Provided that they either:
(a) Stand on June 8th either as Independents or members of the “Progressives” party (which I believe is the banner under which it has been suggested they may group themselves) or
(b) Resign their seats if elected under the Labour banner and they immediately resign the Labour Whip. This will force by-elections with them standing as under (a).
To be elected as a Labour MP and then resign the Labour Whip (as it has been suggested they will do) is hypocritical and disingenuous. If they have no belief in the Labour Party as it currently stands they have no right to stand for election under that party’s manifesto, particularly if they intend to disown that manifesto as soon as they are elected.
Why not indeed. Provided that they either:
(a) Stand on June 8th either as Independents or members of the “Progressives” party (which I believe is the banner under which it has been suggested they may group themselves) or
(b) Resign their seats if elected under the Labour banner and they immediately resign the Labour Whip. This will force by-elections with them standing as under (a).
To be elected as a Labour MP and then resign the Labour Whip (as it has been suggested they will do) is hypocritical and disingenuous. If they have no belief in the Labour Party as it currently stands they have no right to stand for election under that party’s manifesto, particularly if they intend to disown that manifesto as soon as they are elected.
All I can say is that you're in a fortunate position to afford private healthcare.
Is it the politics the deciding factor?
Or is it because the health of those in the customer pool doesn't include the very sick (because those who can afford private healthcare are usually wealthier and usually less likely to be ill)?
It's an interesting discussion.
Is it the politics the deciding factor?
Or is it because the health of those in the customer pool doesn't include the very sick (because those who can afford private healthcare are usually wealthier and usually less likely to be ill)?
It's an interesting discussion.
Renationalising the railways seems a good idea to me. What was at one time a single organisation is now split into over 90 companies!
How can you run a railway system where one company owns the trains another owns the track , another owns the signaling equipment and yet another owns the station buildings?
How can you run a railway system where one company owns the trains another owns the track , another owns the signaling equipment and yet another owns the station buildings?
“Renationalising the railways seems a good idea to me.”
You obviously don’t remember the railways before they were nationalised, Eddie. I do. I spent 35 years using the railways daily, twenty five under “British Rail(ways)” and ten under the privatised regime. I can tell you without a shadow of hesitation or doubt that privatisation has been an enormous benefit to rail travellers, both regular and occasional.
Rail passenger numbers have doubled in the last 10-12 years. If they are so terrible, why would that be? It is true that the way they were privatised was not the best model that could have been chosen. However, it was the only model that was allowed. It’s a fairly complex issue of which I do have a bit of knowledge (as a railway buff). Put simply, the EU (remember them?) had at the time its “First Railway Directive”. This said (among many other things):
“separating [of] the management of railway operation and infrastructure from the provision of railway transport services, separation of accounts being compulsory and organizational or institutional separation being optional.”
The Directive was updated in 2012. It still contains the same principles and these have been reinforced. In short, it means that multiple train operating companies must be allowed to use the same track competitively. This means that re-nationalisation of the railways, certainly along the lines Mr Corbyn and his mates would lead us to believe, is all but impossible at least until we leave the EU.
You obviously don’t remember the railways before they were nationalised, Eddie. I do. I spent 35 years using the railways daily, twenty five under “British Rail(ways)” and ten under the privatised regime. I can tell you without a shadow of hesitation or doubt that privatisation has been an enormous benefit to rail travellers, both regular and occasional.
Rail passenger numbers have doubled in the last 10-12 years. If they are so terrible, why would that be? It is true that the way they were privatised was not the best model that could have been chosen. However, it was the only model that was allowed. It’s a fairly complex issue of which I do have a bit of knowledge (as a railway buff). Put simply, the EU (remember them?) had at the time its “First Railway Directive”. This said (among many other things):
“separating [of] the management of railway operation and infrastructure from the provision of railway transport services, separation of accounts being compulsory and organizational or institutional separation being optional.”
The Directive was updated in 2012. It still contains the same principles and these have been reinforced. In short, it means that multiple train operating companies must be allowed to use the same track competitively. This means that re-nationalisation of the railways, certainly along the lines Mr Corbyn and his mates would lead us to believe, is all but impossible at least until we leave the EU.
I do remember the railways under British Rail NJ. I used to work in London and traveled in and and back every day back in British rail days!
But it does not have to be that way, other countries have nationalised rail services that are models of efficiency, and add a substantial contribution to their countries economy.
But it does not have to be that way, other countries have nationalised rail services that are models of efficiency, and add a substantial contribution to their countries economy.
"Or is it because the health of those in the customer pool doesn't include the very sick (because those who can afford private healthcare are usually wealthier and usually less likely to be ill)?”
Well my husband was sick enough to die after several serious operations. I am not “lucky enough” to afford private health care. Everything I have I or my husband worked for, we were both brought up in cold water council house dwellings by working class parents, although we didn’t live in a shoe box and lick t’road clean wi’ower tongues. Those of us who choose to spend our money on private health insurance pay for it with money that has been taxed once, its taxed again when we but the insurance and we take a burden off the NHS by paying in part or whole for our own healthcare.
yes....sensitive point with me. I have worked within the NHS and been a customer and my feeling is that it could do with a bit more of a business like attitude. All big businesses do not consume alive the people who work for them.
Well my husband was sick enough to die after several serious operations. I am not “lucky enough” to afford private health care. Everything I have I or my husband worked for, we were both brought up in cold water council house dwellings by working class parents, although we didn’t live in a shoe box and lick t’road clean wi’ower tongues. Those of us who choose to spend our money on private health insurance pay for it with money that has been taxed once, its taxed again when we but the insurance and we take a burden off the NHS by paying in part or whole for our own healthcare.
yes....sensitive point with me. I have worked within the NHS and been a customer and my feeling is that it could do with a bit more of a business like attitude. All big businesses do not consume alive the people who work for them.
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