I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the issue of NHS "privatisation" is secondary to the issue of *trust*. Like, I think what people want is a medical service that is a) of good quality; b) widely available; c) free at the point of use; and d) not an excessive burden on the public purse. This is in principle compatible with some kinds of private provision. I mean, the NHS doesn't manufacture any of its own equipment under the status quo, but buys it from private providers.
Why I think the issue is one of trust is simply that people don't believe a Tory government (or a Labour government, for that matter) is genuinely trying to achieving these good things when they push through more privatisation. We think their long-term plan is to reduce service provision, impose costs on patients, provide profits to friendly corporations, or simply privatise as an ideological imperative regardless of how well it actually works in particular cases. So I wish we could have a conversation about these issues, rather than debating endlessly about whether "privatisation" is a good or bad thing.
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SA prevents the UN special rapporteur on violence against women from making an official visit to the country. No doubt because her findings would be extremely embarrassing.
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This is still an isolated case, but an immense step forward
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This is South African immigration policy.
“We were sleeping,” Samadziripi told me, “when the police and the soldiers came. They did not give us time to change from our nighties. They just took us outside and said, ‘Where are your papers?’”
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Where sex work is criminalised, as in South Africa, the police will feel free to rob sex workers or coerce them into sex. Ordinary citizens will feel free to assault them. I'm sorry, residents' feelings about *seeing* sex workers in public spaces just do not rate.
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"Most historians side with a single narrative, captive to stories of capitalism as either liberating or satanic, springing from below or imposed from above. In order to plumb the past of global capitalism, however, they need a stock of global narratives that get beyond the dichotomies of force or free will, external or internal agents. To explain why some parts of the world struggled, one should not have to choose between externalist theories, which rely on global injustices, and internalist ones, which invoke local constraints." Foreign Affairs
Why I think the issue is one of trust is simply that people don't believe a Tory government (or a Labour government, for that matter) is genuinely trying to achieving these good things when they push through more privatisation. We think their long-term plan is to reduce service provision, impose costs on patients, provide profits to friendly corporations, or simply privatise as an ideological imperative regardless of how well it actually works in particular cases. So I wish we could have a conversation about these issues, rather than debating endlessly about whether "privatisation" is a good or bad thing.
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SA prevents the UN special rapporteur on violence against women from making an official visit to the country. No doubt because her findings would be extremely embarrassing.
>>><<<
This is still an isolated case, but an immense step forward
>>><<<
This is South African immigration policy.
“We were sleeping,” Samadziripi told me, “when the police and the soldiers came. They did not give us time to change from our nighties. They just took us outside and said, ‘Where are your papers?’”
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Where sex work is criminalised, as in South Africa, the police will feel free to rob sex workers or coerce them into sex. Ordinary citizens will feel free to assault them. I'm sorry, residents' feelings about *seeing* sex workers in public spaces just do not rate.
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"Most historians side with a single narrative, captive to stories of capitalism as either liberating or satanic, springing from below or imposed from above. In order to plumb the past of global capitalism, however, they need a stock of global narratives that get beyond the dichotomies of force or free will, external or internal agents. To explain why some parts of the world struggled, one should not have to choose between externalist theories, which rely on global injustices, and internalist ones, which invoke local constraints." Foreign Affairs
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