Coming soon :: NHS followed by tax-avoidance/UK wealth distribution

Time I pulled my finger out.

Starting tomorrow for a week or so a series of articles on the NHS. I’ll be mostly lifting the articles from OpenDemocracy with a few embelishments. The following week or so I intend to be featuring articles about tax-avoidance and UK wealth distribution. The intention is to inform.

and season’s greetings

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Thank you Mr. Corbyn but I am obliged respectfully to decline

< I’ve got an absolutely fantastic bit to put in here but I need to ask first >

I’m sorry Mr. Corbyn, I can’t accept because in accepting I feel that it would legitimise the absolute disregard for human rights that I have experienced together of course with so many others.

ed: I’m making this up of course. Imagination is good. Mr. Corbyn is welcome to offer and I confirm that I will refuse as stated.

ed: ed: I’m not making the top fantastic bit up.

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The NHS is ours. The NHS is what makes us special. We care for people.

ed: I’ve amended this post. The title originally had ‘ That’s what Socialism is ‘ at the end. I’m not sure that it is appropriate. While I accept that Socialists certainly do care about people, I don’t consider that it is correct to associate the NHS so clearly (tightly) with Socialism. Although – of course – that is exactly the reality.

later ed: It’s yours and mine?

The NHS is so important. It is ours and it’s important. It cares for people when they’re sick  and vulnerable.

Do you ever get that feeling that as your write it’s not so much that you’re writing on a tractor as your flicking a doganoo!

Let that be a lesson to you!

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New Labour were crap, weren’t they?

Tony Blair, what a child

what a child

what a child

ed: did you notice I called him a child?

What a child, eh?

ed: I suggest that this has no relevance to anything and should be ignored. While this is nonsense, I think that people and politicians etc, should pay attention to all the false-flag BS that’s happened. Politicians particularly should pay attention because its BS and they’re expected to behave as if it’s real shit. That must be awkward – so much BS which politicians have got to pretend is real.

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