[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

my worry(if you can call it that) is that this may be just one of those 'sound bites' that Tony Blair was so fond of.......it is what he thinks the electorate want to hear.......and then it will be followed up by more sound bites, none of which do anything.

Is what he is proposing do-able? Well, he could always make a bigger step and take us out of the EHR fiasco.......this would show that he means what he says.....failing that, it is just words, which can be blown away like chaff in the wind.

You might be right.

It might be empty rhetoric.

But the fact remains, no leader of any mainstream political party has even talked publicly about any of these issues.

Ever.