The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has strongly refuted claims that his government’s proposals to sell NHS hospitals to private health care companies means the NHS is being privatised:
Just because we’re selling hospitals to private companies and patients will have to pay for their treatment, it doesn’t mean the NHS is being privatised. If you look closely at what we said before the election we promised no part of the NHS would be privatised and I stand by that promise. Privatisation is not the same as privatised. For a start, our proposals have an ‘N at the end not a ‘D’. And there are as many as 2 syllables more in our plans.
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, whose party is supporting the Prime Minister in the NHS reforms, also denied he was cheating the electorate:
Although we promised not to privatise the NHS, everyone knows that as Liberal Democrats we never stand by our promises. Nobody takes our pre-election pledges seriously. Least of all us.
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Both Cameron and Clegg show here what extent they are willing to spin their lies as media attempts to undermine them. However, there is an arrogance in these statements that plays with the electorate to whom they have made and broken their pledges before the election. It is based on the fact that the public aren’t able to distinguish lies from truth, and unable to see through the fog that the Coalition are using to try and confuse their obvious betrayal of those who trusted them with their vote. I say to them now, we, the people of England, are astute to the lies jointly and severely corrupting your union, and our reply will be via the ballot box when we decisely vote you out. That time can’t come too soon for me. Never in my life have I had to endure such a shabby crew of the old school tie sucking up to one another whilst letting all around you not in your club down. Shame on them both.
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