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@ChrisMayLA6 Actually, public health used to dominate health budgets. Only after WWII did medicine take prime slot.
The Victorian sanitation boards were a public health system which invested heavily in crucial public health measures such as sewage disposal and clean water supply. Social housing was also administered a health measure.
Most of the great advances in public health have been achieved by engineers rather than doctors.
Yes, @etchedpixels, this is a unique opportunity. Technically not hard, cos it doesn't need fully new boundaries. Just clustering of 5-7 existing constituencies to form new multi-seat #STV constituencies.
I think that the Conservatives would oppose, but LibDems + SNP + Plaid + #GPEW + SDLP would support.
@ChrisMayLA6 This is what privatisation really looks like. Steady revenue streams, no competition, statutory guarantees of a market, bugger all quality control
It's easy money, and it's big money.
@ChrisMayLA6 And the reason UKLabour are out of time is #FPTP.
In 2007–11, #FiannaFail drove Ireland's economy over a cliff edge. #FF lost 58% of its vote share at Ireland's 2011 general election, but #STV ensured that #FF was not wiped out. It partially rebuilt, and by 2024 FF was again the largest party.
But #FPTP is far more brutal to losers. Labour's likely fall to under 20% of the vote will leave it as a tiny rump, too weak to rebuild.
@ChrisMayLA6 Several generations of Labour politicians have assumed that in England, voters had no choice to the left.
Now that there is a leftwing choice, Labour finds itself unable to listen or speak to leftwing voters. Forty years of triangulation has the party untrustworthy. "Keep the Tories out" doesn’t work when you look and sound like Tories and smear anti-genociders as "terrorists".
This can't be fixed from the top. And Labour is out of time. It doesn't have a decade to relearn.
@Lazarou But which head of government in Europe is standing up to Trump?
Where are the sanctions, the expulsions of diplomats, the cancelled contracts, the closures of American bases?
I despise Starmer, but sadly his weakness seems to be the European norm.