Miliband to keep pressing on with his NHS attacks
James Forsyth 11:19am
The last PMQs before recess gives Ed Miliband a chance to have another go at the
coalition’s NHS reforms. I suspect that the ‘Andrew Lansley should be taken out and shot’ quote that appeared in Rachel Sylvester’s column (£) will make an appearance at some point.
Miliband will keep going on the NHS because he knows it is one of the Tories’ biggest vulnerabilities and one of the few subjects on which Cameron isn’t confident attacking. Based on
past performance, any PMQs where the focus is on NHS reform will produce at least a score draw for the Labour leader.
But I still don’t expect Cameron to move Lansley anytime soon. Doing so would be an admission that he had got his whole approach to the NHS wrong which is not something that Downing Street
wants to concede.
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Jeremy
February 8th, 2012 11:34am Report this commentLabour's inward-looking parochialism bores and irritates me. Regardless of whatever else is going on in the country and the wider world, all they ever talk about is the NHS and unemployment.
BigAl
February 8th, 2012 11:39am Report this commentInteresting to note that the NHS is a no go area for criticism and reform. Have you used in lately? As an employment agency and receptacle for union funded and wasteful jobs it is a paragon of efficiency. As a health care provider for the 21st century it is a complete joke.
Also, where are all the private patients going to come from to clog up the NHS hospitals and deprive others a place? This is complete rubbish and a story rattled out by Labour and the unions to maintain the stays quo.
and I'll go to bed at noon
February 8th, 2012 11:59am Report this comment@Jeremy
That's not all they talk about. You forgot the chocolate orange.
2trueblue
February 8th, 2012 10:05pm Report this commentAs stated yesterday I am amazed that Cameron does not keep telling Millipede that the NHS is broke in part because Liebore sold it down the river by setting up so many PFI deals and increasing the number of people who had access to it by making it accessable to all who visited and moved here.
Jon Stack
February 8th, 2012 10:47pm Report this commentThe NHS is too big to reform. Rip it up and start again.
Any organisation that is free at the point of use will drive up demand and fail to deter unhealthy lifestyles. At some point, that will have to stop and the value of healthcare will have to be clear to those accessing it. If the NHS is the "envy iof the world" as we are consistently told, why has no one copied it?
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