Note the date. 19.07.11. The day the Tories finally began to dismantle the NHS.

[non sociopath skin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/19/nhs-services-open-to-competition

Wonder whose bright idea it was to use the Murdochs and Brooks as a smokescreen? And maybe we should have seen that one coming ...?

Bastards!

The Skin

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Notice even without Murdoch, they'd have announced this after Parliament had left for the summer

So they can't use a "we would have released this today anyway" excuse. This was buried with a 10 foot shovel.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Very true.

And dear Davy would probably have been conveniently abroad.

[oldironside]

2. Bastards indeed.

They couldn't give a flying XXXX about the NHS, except in so far as it can provide an investment opportunity.

I apologise for going off the pretentiousness metre here, but I think a piece of Shelley is entirely appropriate.

'Men of England, heirs of Glory,
Heroes of unwritten story,
Nurslings of one mighty Mother,
Hopes of her, and one another;

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.

'What is Freedom? - ye can tell
That which slavery is, too well -
For its very name has grown
To an echo of your own.

'Tis to work and have such pay
As just keeps life from day to day
In your limbs, as in a cell
For the tyrants' use to dwell,

'So that ye for them are made
Loom, and plough, and sword, and spade,
With or without your own will bent
To their defence and nourishment.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Here's a link to 'Keep Our NHS Public'

http://www.keepournhspublic.com/index.php

They give some suggestions of actions we can take. But Lansley is so slippery and slimey that it's hard to keep track of his actions.