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he ConDems are wavering over their plans to privatise and cut the NHS but now we have to knock them out. If we don’t, the greatest gain for workingclass people will be demolished by Cameron, Clegg and Osborne’s rich friends in the private sector. Their proposals would extend and deepen previous Tory and New Labour governments’ policies that brought the privateers more and more into the NHS and undermined its original ethos of being a comprehensive health service, free at the point of use, funded by taxes and publicly accountable to elected representatives locally and nationally.
The massive 500,000 plus strong TUC anti-cuts demonstration on March 26th has shaken the government and forced Cameron to put Lansley’s plans on hold but any version, however watered down is unacceptable. We have to continue the fight not only until the ConDems totally back off but also against the job losses that are happening on an almost daily basis.
on the ground. Nearly 900 London Ambulance workers face the sack as do thousands of NHS workers throughout the country.
The ConDems want us to pay the price for a crisis caused by the bankers. They say they can’t afford a decent health service because of the deficit but the NHS was created after the war when the country was in a far worse financial The Bill may have been put on ice position. It was the pressure of in Parliament but the cuts are still the organised working-class that biting and threatening health care made that happen and its still the continued over...
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