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Originally posted by teddymeow View PostI'm starting to feel increasingly anxious about Covid-19 and really beginning to feel like it's the start of the end of the world.
The fact that it isn't going to go away, there'll be future spikes, the fact that the vaccine isn't guaranteed to work.
It's all piling on top of me and it's taking a huge amount of mental.energy to break down and bawl my eyes out.
Just me?
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Holding this back and then releasing it just as that vote on the NHS happens is misdirection upon misdirection. The public and the media don't know where to look right now. The UK is being hideously manipulated and it will eventually have far-reaching consequences. The Russian interference definitely warrants more investigation as far as I can make out from what they've released and yet it seems like next to nothing was done in the years since Brexit. And it's not an isolated incident. Russia are making a habit of interfering and they're getting away with it because the people it is benefiting don't want to shine a light on what it's helped them achieve. It's all very dark stuff.
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Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
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Time and time again people yell "they're going to sell the NHS" - I've lost count of how many times this crops up over the years.
Lucas and Starmer put that amendment into the Trade Bill knowing full well it would never pass, but that it would generate headlines when it didn't. Worked didn't it?
No government of any colour will ever sell the NHS. Why? Because any government that does so ensures they will never be re-elected - proof? Half a dozen posts here outraged about it even by the very concept, let alone the implementation.
Noone is selling the NHS, even without this clause in the trade bill.
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I don't believe that. I don't believe it because it requires thinking beyond the present. I'm not convinced anymore that the threat of not being elected again is something they fear. Or if they even should fear it given how well they did in the last election after an atrocious track record. I don't believe there is a low point at which the current government would really stop if they wanted to do something.
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Maybe not.
But yes, politicians are absolutely concerned about being elected. The very reason we have a Brexit is government now is because the Tories chased those votes massively shifting to the right in order to get them, just as they would have shifted massively towards stopping Brexit would that had of been a vote winner.
Selling the NHS to the US is an absolute assurity of there being a Labour government next time - because the stick Labour would get from it to bash the Tories would be able to knock down the very walls of parliament.
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Originally posted by Brad View PostBut Boris doesn’t care about the party at all. Nor do any of the others. Boris just wants whatever he wants for himself. Tories not being in power for another 100 years wouldn’t bother him
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