Comments by "Safir Ahmed" (@safirahmed) on "Margaret Thatcher | The Miners Strike | British Economy | TV Eye | 1985" video.

Margaret Thatcher would have fully privatised the NHS and scrapped social security benefits if she wasn't warned off by fellow Tories. Margaret Thatcher is responsible for rip off Britain with privatisation.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Labour continued NHS privatisation from the Tories.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Margaret Thatcher started NHS privatisation in 1983.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw No he didn't.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Aneurin Bevan resigned because of the introduction of charges for dentures and spectacles not because of NHS privatisation.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Bevan resigned on principle that NHS services would increasingly be chargeable at point of use not because of NHS privatisation where publicly funded and operated NHS services were tendered and operated by the private sector.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Privatisation is the transfer of ownership of public sector business, assets and services owned by the public sector to the private sector. Therefore it's the Conservatives in 1983 that started the process of NHS privatisation.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Clement Attlee did not begin the privatisation of the NHS in 1951. Margaret Thatcher started NHS privatisation in 1983. Labour (branded by some as New Labour) from 1997 continued Conservative privatisation of public services including NHS privatisation. The current Labour Party is the continuation of New Labour and will continue the Thatcherite agenda that is Neoliberalism, privatisation and austerity.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw PFI schemes were created by John Major's government but not widely used. Gordon Brown used PFI schemes to hide public spending to maintain his reputation as a prudent Chancellor. However EU rules changed and so PFI schemes expenditure had to be declared with public spending. PFI schemes are incredibly expensive and poor value for money the equivalent of taking out a mortgage for a single meal.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Which NHS services were privatised by Attlee?
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Gas, water, electricity, GPO, rail and bus companies were nationalised and operated by the public sector by 1950 yet they still charged customers and this was not seen as privatisation. Attlee did not start NHS privatisation because NHS services were still provided by the NHS and the NHS was at that time still owned and operated by the government and fully within the public sector. King George VI was like his successors the late Queen and the New King the world's largest landowners. The late Queen according to the New Statesman and Business Insider in 2011 owned 6.6 billion acres of land therefore the amount given under the Marshall Plan could have been reduced with the sale of some of this land.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw The only reason the NHS, welfare state and nationalisation was allowed to happen was to prevent the possibility of revolution in the UK from those who returned from active military service.
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