REMEMBER WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SAID THEY WOULD NOT PRIVATISE THE NHS?

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Virgin handed contract to run 200 NHS services as Tories sell off more of our health service

A Tory-led council agreed Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Care could run more than 200 NHS services - and campaigners fear it is the start of the health service being sold off.

Virgin is to become the first private firm to run adult social care after winning a controversial £700million contract.
A Tory-led council last night agreed Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Care could run more than 200 NHS services.
But campaigners fear it is the start of the health service being sold off.
Cllr Eleanor Jackson said: “Make no mistake about it, what has happened here is the beginning of the privatisation of the NHS in this country.
“The Tories have let us all down and everyone should be horrified about this decision.
"Woe betide you getting ill in this area if you are old, disabled or have learning difficulties in the next seven years. It is just a horrifying decision.”
Protesters in the council chamber booed as Bath and North East Somerset councillors voted in favour of the landmark deal.
The decision was approved with 35 votes to 22. It came after a unanimously favourable vote by the council’s NHS Clinical Commissioning Group.
The decision has been the subject of controversy for months.
One protester who descended on the Guildhall in Bath before last night’s vote said: “This could be a huge watershed for healthcare in this country and finally realise the Tory dream of killing off the NHS once for all. We will be vocal in our outrage.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/700m-virgin-social-care-deal-9237399



On top of all the other parts of the NHS that have been handed to him on a plate.

Tommy Monk wrote:Not if we had a govt that was not being ordered to be doing it by the eu!!!

Maggie was an enthusiast as I have shown.

Fact remains... it is the eu rules that are forcing the privatisation of public services.


While we remain in the eu then this will not change.

Tommy Monk wrote:

Fact remains... it is the eu rules that are forcing the privatisation of public services.


While we remain in the eu then this will not change.

That is just happenstance - privatization would have happened anyway because Maggie saw it as a means of undoing socialism.

LAST QUESTION! Who did Original Quill say Hillary Clinton looked like?

Thatcher hasn't been prime minister for nearly 30 years!!!

Tommy Monk wrote:

Thatcher hasn't been prime minister for nearly 30 years!!!

True - but Major and Blair were also enthusiasts, as I said earlier.

Tommy Monk wrote:

Thatcher hasn't been prime minister for nearly 30 years!!!

Not physically nor from this side of the grave, but her sick and twisted spirit still haunts and possesses the filth that is the Tory party and elements of old new Labour.

Ziz wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:

Fact remains... it is the eu rules that are forcing the privatisation of public services.


While we remain in the eu then this will not change.

That is just happenstance - privatization would have happened anyway because Maggie saw it as a means of undoing socialism.

If privatisation is a means of undoing socialism... then the eu must also be undoing socialism by imposing it...?


So why do you support the eu if you are against the forced privatisation of our public services...?

Tommy Monk wrote:

Ziz wrote:

That is just happenstance - privatization would have happened anyway because Maggie saw it as a means of undoing socialism.

If privatisation is a means of undoing socialism... then the eu must also be undoing socialism by imposing it...?


So why do you support the eu if you are against the forced privatisation of our public services...?

Could be.

I choose not to leave the EU, that does not mean I support everything about it - just as I don't support everything that Britain is or does.

We can't control what Britain is or does when we are controlled by the eu.

Tommy Monk wrote:

We can't control what Britain is or does when we are controlled by the eu.

I was around before the EU - I didn't control anything then, and I don't control anything now.

Demos kratos.

Tommy Monk wrote:Demos kratos.

Tell that to the controlling class.

Meanwhile, hopefully this will be passed - I'll be among the first to apply.

European Parliament considers plan to let individual Brits opt-in to keep their EU citizenship

The proposal, which has been put before a parliamentary committee as an amendment, would grant the citizens of former member states the voluntary right to retain “associate citizenship” of the EU, such as after Brexit.

Associate citizens would be allowed to keep free movement across the EU as full citizens currently enjoy and would be allowed to vote in European Parliament elections, meaning they were still represented in Brussels.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-citizenship-freedom-of-movement-passport-how-to-keep-parliament-live-move-abroad-a7405196.html

The uk will not be accepting the free movement of other eu citizens to this country.

But do you expect every other EU country to offer unlimited free circulation of Brits?

Tommy Monk wrote:

The uk will not be accepting the free movement of other eu citizens to this country.

Why should that trouble me if the measure is passed?

Handy Andy wrote:But do you expect every other EU country  to offer unlimited free circulation of  Brits?

No.

And why would any of us want to vote in any eu elections when there are no longer any uk representatives to vote for or uk mep positions there... and when we are no longer under the rule of any eu legislation done there...?

Who they gonna vote for?

Other countries mep's?

For what?

And you think other countries will be happy about some Brits here having a vote in an eu that we are no longer part of and who's decisions only apply to them...?


Dream on...

Many of us would have liked a vote in the American Presidential election - so why not?

Idiot.

Tommy Monk wrote:

Idiot.

Genius.

No... you are an idiot if you don't know the answer to your last question...

Tommy Monk wrote:No... you are an idiot if you don't know the answer to your last question...

I'm asking a self proclaimed genius to answer it.

Sorry... better things to do...


And I'm not a 'self proclaimed' genius... I did a test... and the resulting score i achieved is accredited with being considered as a genius...


That is all.

Tommy Monk wrote:Sorry... better things to do...


And I'm not a 'self proclaimed' genius... I did a test... and the resulting score i achieved is accredited with being considered as a genius...


That is all.

You say you did, there's certainly no independent evidence - I call that self-proclaimed.

sassy wrote:Virgin handed contract to run 200 NHS services as Tories sell off more of our health service

A Tory-led council agreed Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Care

Nothing to do with the sale of chastity belts then. What a corny name.