NHS Reform

Allowing private sector to compete with NHS doesn't exactly privatise NHS, but opens up NHS outwards to better serve their patients or lose them to better providers. Sure, it is there and better than nothing, and a comfort factor to know that I can get to a hospital and it is a cheap service. But that is exactly what NHS is dishing out now - endless wait for patients till they give up on the Hospital or Life itself.

Competition is necessary and vital for any public service to continue being efficient and responsive. Or we end up with decision makers with no responsibility or accountability for anything but their own pockets - look at Ed Milliband's recent call for responsible capitalism and Producers vs Predators in the economy. The political establishment does not always manage to not be swayed by big lobbies. nobody questioned the government emptying the taxpayers' coffers into casino banking.

Joe Rogers: "Competition - have you seen the trains lately?"

There is no competition there. You have no choice, but to use the train operator in your area! The Dept of Transport is one of the worst government departments, creating private monopolies, with no competition and holding the public to virtual ransom.