The Pride of Britain

It seems that some people cannot recognise a good thing when it stares them in the face. I speak of course about the current denigration of the NHS by the Republican right over the pond in our erstwhile colony. When in 1948 the service was created it represented the single most humane and important development of government activity since the abolition of slavery and it has come on in leaps and bounds since then.

In any vast organisation employing over a million people (it is the world's third largest employer) one will find stories of things that went wrong but these are dwarfed by its successes. The vitriol directed at it from it opponents is borne out of fear of losing lucrative contracts rather than from any shred of sustained truth.