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I have more faith in most of the Labour front bench to make positive progressive changes than a lot of people do. I think the manifesto will be a cautious "we won't f**k your mortgage up, we'll reduce NHS waiting times, and we'll do something nasty to young people to make up for the fact we're giving 16yo the vote". The fact that Starmer's "6 pledges" include "cracking down on anti-social behaviour" and nothing about the water companies is my big concern. I think you're right that ideologically, a lot of the shadow cabinet are fairly aligned with Ed Miliband. I have a lot of time and respect for Rachel Reeves, and while I don't like how she's only talking about the cost of things at the moment, not the social value, I do believe she'll be a competent chancellor, and use the position to drive forward positive policies for the country. My only concern about her is that she hasn't recently shown the rhetorical capacity of Gordon Brown to make the compassionate as well as the economic argument for her policies. Streeting is very much the exception to this (along with Ashworth in the campaign team and whips). On top of what I've already mentioned, there was his article about how Labour shouldn't offer hope, when frankly, the country needs to believe things will get better, because it will be 2-4 years before Labour's changes have meaningful effect. On top of this, he's done some hateful rhetoric that I won't go into because it'll bring the abusive bullies out.
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By efcfanwirral · Posted
not that its a problem for me but doesn't that mess with people's transport choices? Like if you didn't get one you could travel home on Monday if you know beforehand, book trains etc, but might need to stay over if you do get one? Doesn't impact us as we're staying over anyway but just interesting. Assuming Mondays are very sought after same as earlies? -
By sheffinghell · Posted
Just adding a bit in here about use of private hospitals for NHS ops. This has been going on for donkeys years as part of 'waiting list initiatives', first starting under New Labour and expanding massively under the Tories. I have had several rounds of knee treatment in private hospitals as an NHS patient over the last 10-12 years. It's bought as a package, including diagnostics, op and rehab. Invariably you are treated by senior NHS consultants and anaesthetists and the inpatient stay is nice because of the facilities they have. Apparently usage went down during Covid, and is now getting back up to pre-covid levels due to the horrendous waiting lists we have now. Whilst my conscience is conflicted about their use, it does help with wait times, and keeps NHS theatres open for the more complex cases (btw, if you are likely to need ICU, don't have your op in the private sector). The money side of it is invariably a major issue though. I can't see anything changing any time soon, and if anything there will be more NHS/private care as the push to drive down waiting lists accelerates. But, they are businesses, and it's up to them whether they choose to take NHS contracts or not - do date, it would appear they have taken them on wholesale.
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