“Andrew Lansley greedy, Andrew Lansley tosser…”
The Andrew Lansley rap.
Public Services
Whatever happened to “compassionate Conservatism”?
Rachael Maskell, national officer for the health and voluntary sectors at Unite the Union, reports on the human impact of the Tory-led government’s massive cuts.
Pickles’s prescription is a recipe for exploitation
Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, Britain’s biggest public sector trade union, on communities secretary Eric Pickles’s latest bonkers plans.
It’s Europe that will kill the Tory NHS reforms
Andrew Georgiou looks at the Tory NHS and welfare reforms and whether they will open up the service to European Union competition law.
Cameron’s rush to outsource threatens our public services
The Conservative-led government’s ‘Open public services’ white paper is expected any day; it is a rush to outsource our public services on a scale that threatens the very notion of what is ‘public’, writes Unite’s John Earls.
The challenges facing students in Scotland today
Liam Burns, the President of NUS Scotland, writes about the “Reclaim Your Voice” campaign, and looks at the challenges facing students in Scotland today.
Exposed: Lansley’s NHS reform cheerleaders
Tamasin Cave of Spinwatch exposes the anti-NHS, linked-to-private-health-companies individuals who’ve taken to the airwaves today to defend the government’s NHS reforms.
Has Cameron declared war on the BMA?
At Prime Minister’s Questions today, David Cameron complained of “roadblocks” to reform of the NHS, but at first did not refer directly to the BMA.
BMA’s ‘Glasgow Kiss’ for the coalition
Yesterday’s series of rebukes of the proposed NHS reforms by the British Medical Association (BMA) represented grassroots members going over the heads of their leaders, who had advised caution.
Doctors tell Lansley: “Stop this bill”
The British Medical Association’s call today for the coalition to halt the NHS reforms adds to the array of experts, political veterans and grassroots campaigners now lined up against the Health and Social Care Bill.