RowanDraper
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Didn't they start the NHS privitisation too? And tuition fees, hardly a left leaning policy.
Tuition Fees was a policy that increased the amount of money available as individual students chipped in as well as the Government putting money in. It’s hardly the most right wing policy either.
Labour didn’t start privatisation, and not within the NHS - that was Major, but they accelerated it yes. From my memory of that time period there was massive dissatisfaction with NHS at the time because people were spending a lot of time on waiting lists for operations in agony. Whilst privatisation can be labelled by some as an evil I’d rather people get quick and effective treatment, which is what the NHS was setup for, and that the bill for the treatment remain the responsibility of the NHS.