No thoughts on the content. Quelle Surprise.

Indeed. Read Colin Leys book [Link]
On how the Coalition accelerated the process.

Doesn't detract from the fact that:
a) the blood plasma firm was sold very cheaply (is this Jeremy Hunts gold sell off)
b) could end up in the hands of anybody. What if (and it is a big if I know but I'm using it to illustrate a point) the Chinese sold it to North Korea.
C) is asset stripping still a thing? Can these corporations suddenly increase their prices - there's been plenty of scandal about the price of some drugs going up hundreds of percent in price.

What used to be ours is now left to the markets. You can say labour started it, which may be a valid point. But it doesn't answer are address the issues now.
Check how many mp's (yes I know dissolution of Parliament happened today pedants) have financial interests in heathcare companies. The same companies that are being awarded contracts.
Same with schools, Lord Harris Tory donor gets his hands loads of schools.

Think about this when you are voting.

Indeed. Read Colin Leys book [Link]
On how the Coalition accelerated the process.

Doesn't detract from the fact that:
a) the blood plasma firm was sold very cheaply (is this Jeremy Hunts gold sell off)
b) could end up in the hands of anybody. What if (and it is a big if I know but I'm using it to illustrate a point) the Chinese sold it to North Korea.
C) is asset stripping still a thing? Can these corporations suddenly increase their prices - there's been plenty of scandal about the price of some drugs going up hundreds of percent in price.

What used to be ours is now left to the markets. You can say labour started it, which may be a valid point. But it doesn't answer are address the issues now.
Check how many mp's (yes I know dissolution of Parliament happened today pedants) have financial interests in heathcare companies. The same companies that are being awarded contracts.
Same with schools, Lord Harris Tory donor gets his hands loads of schools.

Think about this when you are voting.

This is true. There's no getting away from the fact the Abbott thing was jaw droppingly awful.

However it's a sad indictment of the press that they use it to gloss over other stories, that had they been labour 'gaffes' it would be everywhere.

I would like whoever is in power to review the NHS from top to bottom. Everything from funding and training to use and where private health fits in. The trouble is it will take years and anyone who mentions it in a manifesto will get slaughtered and accused of trying make cuts. We cannot carry on the way we are it was never designed to do what it is currently expected to do.

Wait for the manifestos... When are they out?

Couldn't not agree more,the huge swathes of people that use it now.
Because it's now so big there are far to many "managers" on huge salaries that could be spent on front line services.
The waste within the NHS is huge.

The inconvenient truth.
The use of paper towels upwards needs scrutinising.

A pal of mine who worked in the NHS for about twenty years once told me that it was literally impossible to be sacked for incompetence or failure to perform duties. Whether the management feared the unions, or (which I think is more likely) there was simply a gentlemen's agreement to lead a quiet life, I don't know. But that's the sort of extreme sloppiness that occurs when money is endlessly poured into an organisation.