Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "Asking nurses about the cost of living" video.

All the best to the Nurses, the things they've seen and the horrors they witness on a daily basis are more than most of us could stand. Solidarity!
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Agreed, I was astounded when I went into the supermarket the other day and saw a nurse being refused at the till when trying to pay for her groceries with claps! Solidarity with nurses, claps don't pay the rent!
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@eightiesmusic1984 I agree in part, But since Thatcher brought in anti-Union regulations, and anti-Strike regulations it's very difficult to have a legal strike and to support workers. The NHS funding since 2012 and the Health and Social Care act is prioritising for-profit organisations, meaning NHS funding is being siphoned off to shareholders. There are always a few in any organisation that allow power to get to their heads, unfortunately, that's down to human fallibility. If the unions had more support and more power then maybe we could get everyone out of working poverty.
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@eightiesmusic1984 Thank you and likewise, we are of a similar age and similar philosophy, I'm 50. I keep my fav posts as my memory isn't that good these days. "Corbyn chose to go against his own beliefs for the good of the party he was leading. We all know that Labour would have been sunk if they'd gone against the referendum as the tabloids were frothing at mouth with bile against anyone who didn't support 'the public mandate'. Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. They were chanting his name at concerts and nightclubs up and down the country. The media assassination of Corbyn and misrepresentation of him was the only flaw in his leadership and not of his own making. No one is perfect, I don't always agree with Corbyn but Britain would be in a far better place if we'd had him instead of Boris. Imagine the difference to the challenges the UK has recently faced Pandemic, lockdowns, Brexit negotiations if Corbyn had won with his Free Broadband, Green Industrial Revolution, Rebuilding Public Services, Tackling Poverty and Inequality ensuring the NHS was funded and that no school child goes hungry. Not to mention the re-nationalisation of the energy market and the fact that all that was offered for around £60 billion, a tiny fraction of what the Tories have wasted."
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@eightiesmusic1984 Just subscribed to you so I can follow your posts and back you up if needed. So we can just sit back and enjoy the show as corporate billionaires ascend to omnipotent deities in a dystopian corporatocracy while the human race, our history and achievements are gradually devoured by the rancid, festering disease known as disaster capitalism. I'm also an optimist lol
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@EGF1000 Agreed, The Tories are running the country with all the compassion and empathy of Fred and Rosemary West, and the NHS is their patio!
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@eightiesmusic1984 It's actually amazing to me that we have a decent thread here that isn't ruined by the usual types. Lots of history and understanding that covers much of what the UK has been through and the main points of our political history and where things went wrong. Thank you and the other commenters for an intelligent, comprehensive thread!
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@Beans on Toast Thank you for that erudite, eloquent, intelligent and though-provoking comment. I'll be looking forward to hearing more from you in the near future!
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@eightiesmusic1984 Agreed, I've said similar myself many times regarding Thatcher and Reagan and neoliberalism - which has been used to siphon off taxpayers' money via privatisation, small government and deregulation of the banking sector for over 4 decades. As for Blair, he's the reason I left Labour, the moment he dropped clause 4 and now we're stuck with a second-rate tribute act in Starmer. Keir Hardie, Clement Attlee and Nye Bevan would be ashamed of what has become of Labour. Before Thatcher's neoliberalism debt-to-GDP ratio was around 40% or less, now most countries that practice these policies have a debt-to-GDP of almost 100% if not more in cases like Italy which I think under their far-right has reached 170%. Also allowing HP and Credit to trap the working class in debt and poverty by bringing it in during the 80s.
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@eightiesmusic1984 Though Blair will flinch and Starmer sneers, we'll keep the red flag flying here! 🚩
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@eightiesmusic1984 Agreed mate. We'd be in a far better position now, with far fewer losses due to the pandemic, a far better economic position, and more control over energy prices. So much was lost when the Blairites and centrists torpedoed their own leader in the GE. But media mogul non-doms were worried about his pledge to remove transparency from the crown dependencies and overseas territories. I think that was their main incentive in demonizing him.
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@eightiesmusic1984 Agreed, His manifesto was nowhere near as left as Attlee's and would have been considered mainstream democracy in much of Europe. Especially in countries that use the Scandinavian model of Social Democracy.
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@lamestreammedia3154 Foundation Trusts are not managed by the Department of Health they are a semi-autonomous body that generates funding from non-NHS treatments. You should also know that Foundation trusts inhabit a halfway house between the public and private sectors: independent corporations on paper yet entirely dependent on the state in reality. IE taking money off the taxpayer but also reliant on bailouts when things go wrong.
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