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Originally Posted by Eric

What's all this I'm reading in the British media about what is happening to the NHS? How the British system is set to become more like that ill-functioning and costly bs they have south of our border? And what are all the students po'd at? Is this part of the legacy of Labour mis-government? And Clegg, where the hell is his head at? This could be the end of the Lib-Dems and the beginning of a permanent and bitter polarization of British politics.

I don't think that either of these two messes can be blamed on Labour. Unless one considers it a "mess" to provide health care to all citizens regardless of their ability to pay for it up front, and to give the opportunity for post secondary education to all who qualify, not just to the gin and Jaguar crowd. The EU, I don't know about, or really care; it seems to me, at a distance, such an obviously stupid idea, that I'm surprised it ever got as far as it has.

The tories seem to be blaming Labour for the harshness of their policies; but the dismantling of the NHS and the elitizisation (I made that word up) of post-secondary education would have happened anyway under a tory govt. It's ideology, not economics.

agreed