Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Too Late to Replace Tories with Real conservative party" video.

@markhenry192 there is no private healthcare model that provides better value, Germany and France put in 2-3% of gdp more the equivalent of our defence budget you'd need a couple points more onto that to provide profit for a private system. You've also got the problem of loosing tens of thousands of volunteers who help at hospitals for free who aren't going to do it if it's privatised
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@devlinX you've had 13 years of failed Thatcherite policies, Blaire was a centerist as far removed from the Supply Side Economic bollox the Tories pedal as ice is from fire
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Yet he pursued hard right Thatcherism destroying the economy on the way
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@royfearn4345 Blaire was a centrist Thatcher was a hard right neoliberal hard right free market fundamentalist as was Cameron May and now Sunak Truss was a libertarian
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He has no connection with the Rail Unions Lisa Nandy joined a picket line but was representing her sponsors and constituents the guy was doing gesture politics after being told not too. Labour's biggest voting block are young educated, uneducated older men over 50 turned to UKIP the Cons turned to English Nationalist policies to gain this block at the last election but there not Conservative they'd vote for the National Front or BNP given 1/2 a chance and are at odds with your standard blue wall voter
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@markhenry192 not without its problems that's an understatement you obviously don't understand how private healthcare works or any privatisation of a public service monopoly. As I've pointed out already the thousands of volunteers will be lost, absolutely irreplaceable, government borrowing at a fraction of rates available to private companies for capital investment will need to be paid for a whole tier of private sector workers needed to run an insurance scheme co-pays for everything under the sun. Basically take the gdp spend double it and shove 1/4 into shareholders and bosses pockets while screwing over the public Neoliberalism Everything's for sale
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@markhenry192 I had private care through work before I retired, first it sponges off the existing system but adds some relief from routine operations, it covered me for fk all else there where that many disclaimers and non cover areas. Any previous or congential condition was simply excluded there's also no A&E provision it was absolute chaos when my knee operation blew up. Cost wise I've already contributed my whole life to the current system why should I see it sold off for profit and now have to take out an insurance policy, obviously I won't so the government will be paying nearly double per person in insurance premiums because the elderly are its highest users. So you would rather pay double what you do now and see others excluded I have to say that's a sad and bitter life you lead Reminds me of the American story that when segregation stopped towns would rather close public swimming pools rather than let Negro's in
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@markhenry192 Its not failing its being made to fail by political decisions I could sort some of the bottlenecks immediately what there is is a desire by the Cons to sell it off. Granted some of the solutions would take time to peculate down the system but what has happened is cuts to other areas is pushing people to front-line services Ex - social care and bed blocking the government cut funding to local authorities which the closed special units, these units were staffed not by nurses and doctors but by better trained care workers. The cost of pumping these people into the NHS is x 40-50 the cost base of treating them in special units. Automation, how many nurses does it take to turn a patient who is bedridden
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@markhenry192 I used to work in IT and have a degree in economics and spent a lifetime solving complex problems with networks data flows etc. There is huge scope for improvement in the current system. I hear this Trope all the time if only it was run as a business but the Tories trying to run it as a business is why where at a crisis. I've worked for 2 different companies controlled by hedge funds they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. If you look at the privatised water companies they haven't improved services but have debt loaded the companies at the same time as paying out large dividends. There is concern in financial circles that if interest rates continue to climb they will go bankrupt. Privatisation is not for me
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@vacation_generation the Tories have never stood for self determination its always been pushing the millionaire billionaire agenda If you want a vibrant economy you need a healthy and well educated workforce If you want thriving businesses you need high quality transport links and other services for the employees
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Cameron was nothing like Blaire who was a centerist Cameron was a tarted up Thatcherite on the right of the Con party
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@wessexfox5197 deeds not words Austerity was pure Thatcherism pushed by the hard right think tanks as where the corporate tax cuts which ballooned the debt from 62% in 2010 to 92% They where told in 2012 what damage Austerity was doing to the economy but did it anyway it became a political choice then blamed the results of thier policies on migrant labour fueling the xenophobic and easily led
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