Agreed. This so-called 'opting out' is often just desperation. People are being squeezed out because the underfunding has led to undercapacity.
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Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said in the Sunday Express:
"When the NHS has been funded to meet the needs of the population, access to private healthcare has been static. This is a sign of how govts have failed to provide essential healthcare for all."
Daily Telegraph disinformation check
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Agreed, we are the 99% and we should never forget it!
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
Yes. Extreme wealth is not positive or even neutral: is a threat to all the rest of us.
Extreme wealth vs the 99% - 99% share.google/i49pKhqMtIvx...
We should all remember we are the 99%! Since I got this image originally from you, may I recommend you use it more 😀
Vitally important analysis here.
Healthcare Privatisation -- Should We Care? 99-percent.org/healthcare-p...
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves
Last week’s Spring Statement makes little sense given both domestic realities and new global challenges.
We have more articles about and by @99organisation in the media.
Our next meeting will focus on our economic work. Take a look and come along.
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A bunch of puerile frat boys, getting off on killing people. I do not have the vocabulary to express my disgust for this.
An article setting out what it would take for Labour to be an effective progressive party again - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate share.google/7HR97QhMgMQO...
Yes, the Labour Party urgently "needs to decide what kind of country it is trying to build — does it want to be a centre-right party with a high tolerance for racism or does it want to be a dynamic progressive party?"
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My latest piece for the @bigissue.com is out today, on how Labour's attacks on those seeking asylum are not only inhumane, potentially illegal, and seriously counterproductive, but also politically incoherent for a party which claims to be "progressive".
www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...
I think Sadiq Khan is right about the threat being existential.
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“Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton”
Sadiq Khan
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Very simple: his sound bites are treated as reality, and his blunders are ignored in almost all media.
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Yes. It is even more evident today than when we wrote this.
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Rachel's plan is working, it's just not working for the majority.
No change there.
My guess would be that he wants to complete the transition of the UK into a Plunderland.
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9/ If someone calls transparency “censorship,” translate it: “Let us target voters in private, with no public receipt.” Democracy cannot survive as a dark market. The choice is simple. Turn on the lights now, or learn what happened after it was too late.
A long excellent thread. Economic renewal is possible, if the government had the courage and political will of the 1945 government.
Great analysis here.
If Labour Meant Business 99-percent.org/if-labour-me...
For me the question is how will Labour ever rebuild trust. They are now a tarnished brand.
A principled and articulate Green Party are pointing out Labour’s duplicity every day.
As revealed by my colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social last year, the BBC drew up a strategy to appeal more to Reform voters.
Might be waiting a while for them to do the same for Green voters...
Yes, they could finish themselves off, if they are not prepared to change.
If Labour Meant Business - 99% share.google/XmJ0D2oPfwd2...
Agreed.
Time for a Progressive Tax System? - 99% share.google/U3HUG1w9ijqI...
99% rebuts 7% privatisation figure and says
'we need to be thinking 30%...some specialties, more than 50% of treatments already paid for privately.. ophthalmology ...dentistry.'
MPs hear evidence-debate on NHS privatisation in Parliament morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-... #morningstaronline
This is damning.
Full report is here: 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...
and shorter piece here: 99-percent.org/healthcare-p...
99% rebuts 7% privatisation figure and says
'we need to be thinking 30%...some specialties, more than 50% of treatments already paid for privately.. ophthalmology ...dentistry.'
MPs hear evidence-debate on NHS privatisation in Parliament morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-... #morningstaronline
Richard Holden on Politics Live.
I'm old enough to remember when Conservative politicians used to back the UK. Nowadays, it seems they will back anyone other than the UK, purely for reasons of having a stick with which to beat the PM and, hopefully, gain some political advantage. This is not business as usual.
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