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If you want to stop the Tories privitising the NHS - and they are doing so with increasing urgency - you should start demanding paid healthcare from your employers now.
Let's see how popular privitisation is to the rich when the poor start demanding they take responsibility.
@adam_y This was the route of 19th century liberalism: Cadbury, Engles, etc. Enough "good" employers did provide healthcare and housing and the state had to provide a bit more (post and police?). But in Britain and many other places it was a stop-gap. The elites continued their colonisation-begins-at-home (and of the "home planet" - whose home??) policies.
@peaceful
I've heard landlords described as "work from home colonisers".
Honestly, I'd rather we could just make the social argument for the NHS and that would be enough... It's a good thing to have because it is civilised and kind. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case.
@adam_y at the same time as one energy company makes £32bn profit, another is crying crocodile tears about having to install electricity pay meters to extract the last fucking coins from the poorest people in the country on the highest unit tariff.
@adam_y No! Paid healthcare from employers is gone, till you change job, get made redundant, retire …. Let’s just protect and rebuild the NHS we have.
@ferryoons
I would love that to be the case, that we could protect it, and the idea of rebuilding it fills me with glee, but the things I've seen going on these last few months and the shift in middle-class rhetoric makes me think we are fighting a losing battle.
@ferryoons
And I want to be clear. I don't want privite healthcare. The NHS is a highwater mark of civilisation.
I just think we need to find the right, often financial or responsibility based, arguments to make the reality of losing the NHS hit home.
@adam_y Fair point Adam