After backtracking on leaked comments last year, the UKIP leader tells Radio 4 he still supports privatising healthcare
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has again suggested that he would support privatising the the NHS. In an interview with BBC political editor Nick Robinson, Farage admitted that his party were not behind him on the issue but that he had not changed his opinion:
“I triggered a debate within UKIP that was outright rejected by my colleagues, so I have to accept that. As time goes on, this is a debate that we’re all going to have to return to.”
Farage was responding to Robinson’s questions about a film uncovered last November by the Guardian, in which he told UKIP supporters that the he believed the NHS would be better funded by an insurance based system. He said:
“There is no question that healthcare provision is going to have to be very much greater in 10 years than it is today, with an ageing population, and we’re going to have to find ways to do it.”
Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary has responded to Farage’s comments:
“Nigel Farage has confirmed that a vote for UKIP is a vote for the privatisation of the NHS and for a full American healthcare system.
“Farage admits he says one thing in public about the NHS but another behind closed doors. He has shown UKIP’s statements on protecting the NHS to be hollow.
“UKIP claim to stand up for working people, but in reality they are more Tory than the Tories. Farage will never be able to distance himself from his real views. He should be honest with the public.”
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72 Responses to “Farage admits he still wants a private NHS”
McQueue
What witty repartee! What convincing and well articulated arguments! Well done, you are clearly an effing genius.
Neil Wilson
You’ll be really disappointed to learn there is a dynamic amount of money in the system designed to make sure all transactions that can complete do so.
I’m sure there is an island with coconuts and bananas on it. Feel free to emigrate there and leave the modern fiat financial system to those of us who can deal with it.
Neil Wilson
Going to be very difficult for there to be any patients at Calderdale A&E since they are closing it.
Still waiting for you to answer the question about where the 450 people are going to go.
Because of course you can’t.
Neil Wilson
The staff can always be paid. That is never an issue.
LB
There is a dynamic amount of money.
However the value in the system is far more restricted.
No doubt you will want to buy something with your pension.
Good luck, you’re down the list of priorities. You need the consent of others to get your pension. How are you going to convince them that they can’t have their health care to get you pension.
So you need to comprehend the difference between value and banknotes.