Quote ="cod'ead"How am I brainwashed?
I was born during Winston Churchill's 3rd term as Prime Minister. Churchill and the tory administrations of Eden, MacMillan and Douglas-Home continued to build upon the work started by Clement Atlee to renew infrastructure, the biggest house building programme this country had ever seen, the development of the welfare state and the NHS.
By the time Thatcher came to power, I was married and paying a mortgage, even with interest rates that were upward of 15%. I spent my time on the cobbles while on picket duty. I saw the sell-off of nationally owned assets, sometimes sold off back to those who already owned them. I saw swingeing increases in VAT while North Sea oil revenues paid for tax cuts for the rich. I saw the numbers on benefits increase from 2 miilions to 6 millions, again all paid for through North Sea oil & gas revenues and seen as "a price worth paying". I've seen grown men reduced to tears because they couldn't provide for their families. I saw the gap between rich and poor widen dramatically. I saw schoold fall into disrepair while their sports fields were sold off. I saw patients lined in corridors because there wasn't sufficient space in wards to treat them properly.
Don't even begin to tell ME that I'm brainwashed sunshine'"
yet give you a ballot paper and this is what you vote for. dry your crocodile tears. go and ask the nhs that you vote to privatise if they'll fit a backbone for you.
