Dear Editor
Good to see you reporting the junior doctors' strike under
the headline, '"Cynical and deceitful" Junior doctors say Government
is trying to destroy the NHS' (Standard, 12 February, page 4). It is indeed cynical
and deceitful of David Cameron to tell the public how the NHS is safe in Conservative
hands while other Conservative politicians are talking of 'denationalising'
it.
As reported in The Independent on 10 February, the Conservative Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, co-authored a book in 2005 calling for the NHS to be replaced with private insurance. Hunt denies he wrote
the bit about 'denationalising' the NHS, but then he would, wouldn’t he?
The book, Direct
Democracy: An Agenda for a New Model Party, spells out on page 78: 'Our
ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public
provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain.'
If it wasn't Jeremy Hunt who wrote this, then it was one of
the other authors – Douglas Carswell, now UKIP MP in Clacton, and Michael Gove
among them – and, in any case, they all bear joint responsibility.
Yours sincerely, Robbie Spence, Colchester Green Party
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