“My Party Today Would Not Create the NHS”: Labour MP Condemns Government Refusal to Look at ‘Who Owns Our Water’
“My Party Today Would Not Create the NHS”: Labour MP Condemns Government Refusal to Look at 'Who Owns Our Water'
It's almost as if neither of the parties that will win through FPTP (first past the post) care about the people, and care more for satisfying the rich.
Due to FPTP, I can only vote labour as for my views they're the slightly lesser of two terrible parties.
At the same time, neither of the parties that benefit from FPTP will think about changing it and even if they did most of the population would fall for the propaganda machine anyway (see Brexit and decades of awful Tory government / the nonsense that the right are spewing out but gaining popularity)
I'm telling you, that kind of level of governmental reform is only possible by some great tumultuous event, like, for example, the houses of parliament burning completely to the ground.
It wouldn't take much, the place is a tinderbox. For arguments sake, if a crowd thousands strong surrounded the place and were all throwing fireworks at it, they couldn't arrest everyone.
There are better ways, but the points still stand.
If Labour wants to stay in power for the next election, they sure as hell better bring about proportional representation, because with the rise of the everything right now, this might be it for them
That's the world we're living in now. We can barely get governments to consider stopping doing big stupid things like daylight savings time, let alone set any grand expensive projects in motion.
It's horrible. None of the great projects governents have set up in the past like railway systems or sewers would be made in today's political climate.
The railway network was opened between 1825 and 1899, built by over 140 private companies. This meant that even tiny villages might have 2 or even more stations, each owned by a different company. This redundancy was a major factor in the closure of stations from 1923 (when the companies were forced to amalgamate into 4 big companies by government, after a brief nationalisation during the war) to the 1980s.
The first major route opened since 1899 was HS1 from 2003-7. Again this was built privately (the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 forbidding any public subsidy to the Channel Tunnel).
Just as a correction. Railways was set up as a privrate enterprise then nationalised. But unlike most of the rest the rail system was fairly national before gov involvement.
Sewers sorta. They were started as city states long before democracy was a thing iE most cities had basic systems in feudal times. But roll out to rural villages etc was def modern gov.
Electrical grid much the same but started in the 1900s. Privrate city systems some run by local gov some entirly privrate. Standardisation and national unification was def gov in 1938.
Same with the gas grid. A mix of privrate and city run town gas systems from mid 1800s linked and nationalised in 1949. (PS worked for British gas during the privatisation process)
thank you for the corrections.
big stupid things like daylight savings time,
In part because the population dose not agree on doing so.
Its been discussed in parliment several times over the decades. Each time the MPs realise voting to end it is voting for school children walking home in the dark through most of winter. So reject it.
His party today is trying to destroy the NHS.
What a horrible state of affairs