slakemoth

Cuts aside, the biggest concern will be the lack of regulation. Or increased politicisation of the NHS.

I expect Streeting wants to increase his ability to force NHS to pay for services from private companies. The talk of cutting red tape likely means a move towards American style healthcare where 'the customer is Always right'

In effect this means that patients will be able to demand more procedures which private companies will provide. However, they will only do profitable ones. This will ultimately leave less money for more complex health issues in the budget. Remember private healthcare always costs the NHS way more than if they had the capacity themselves. Purposely using private healthcare is a way of diminishing the service NHS is able to provide, paving the way for full private systems. Its also another fuck you to complex cases, ie disabled people.

This BBC article is just manufactured consent for cuts.

These concentration camps are just temporary until we can grow the economy enough, promise!

Remember how we were told that Labour would actually be different to the tories?

I said continuously that they are just as bad and everyone got mad.

Hopefully the wool has been pulled from their eyes now and next election people will feel confident to vote for alternatives like the greens or any other party that may or may not be being formed.

Lol mate you really are a dimwit

Your idea of what the left wing is reads like a fucking spectator opinion piece.

What are you describing is the bogeyman liberal of right wing pundits, not socialists.

No one has ever said is marxism the answer. Marxism is a philosophical and historical theory of change. left wing people are often Marxists because it accurately describes how capitalism works. It just shows how little you understand. Numnuts

Thought provoking piece if a little misguided Monbiot is usually about geopolitics.

I think that the main reason Europe is ramping up it's defence spending and reducing welfare is because Trump has threatened to pull out of Nato, leaving Europe without any military defence. Whatever you think about the military, its clear this would make liberal leaders uneasy. The republicans have long considered Europe to be spongers off the USA. This increase in spending is probably due to some wrangling going on behind the scenes.

It shows how little power Europe has against the USA. If any country really deviated from USA's agenda they would be really risking USA denying them nato support or other Usain infrastructure.

Ill accept this a small piece of good news.

However, this is really small fry stuff. Why not allow Unions to vote for industrial action online instead of it being by post. There is loads of other anti union legislation that remains. None of this stuff actually threatens capital otherwise starmer wouldn't have done it.

We arrested the gentleman for suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation. They held a bunch of flowers which contained the colours green and white, colours which represent the Hamas flag.

Im a long time novara supporter but not sure i see the point of this book. The left has been critical of identity politics for years now. I don't enjoy the fact that she submitted to a guardian interview either, but i guess that's up for debate.

An asset is something you own and have heavy influence on or control. I.e. Israel is an USAian asset, nazarbaev was a Russian asset.

This is just two powers taking their spoils. Russia spent a lot on this war , as did the usa. Now they want récompense.

Putin is a rational actor, not some demon. He is working with Trump because it benefits Russia in this instance.

This is such double speak. On what planet is Trump, commander of the worlds most powerful military and the dollar, an asset of Russia?

Trump is merely doing what the USA always does. Make favourable outcomes for it's corporations. Stopping the war once Ukraine was desperate and allowing Blackrock to hoover up the minerals was always the aim.

I mean what is the difference between terrorists and freedom fighters in your opinion? Its not a term serious academics of politics tend to use.