Are we sleepwalking?

It looks likely the the break up of the N.H.S is finally going to happen with the advent of the introduction of foundation hospitals, even, the tv doctor David Bull has said as much!.In parliament over 130 backbench M.P.s have tabled a motion opposing it, although the rebellion is now looking much smaller. Setting hospitals 'free'(where have we heard that before?)to manage thier own affairs will create a competitive process of hospital against hospital and ultimately a two tier service. These 'autonomous' hospitals will then be much easier to privatise when the Tories make their return. But my question is, where is the left, radicals, progressives, etc, where are the big demos, meetings, actions etc?to oppose this. Maybe Blair has used the smokescreen of a war to push things thru, and it was right we opposed it with all our soul. But now we seem to be almost fetishizing international issues. Monitoring Indymedia one has to look hard for posts relating to poverty , housing, services, etc. Surely we must also now turn our gaze somewhat inwards for a time and look to the domestic issues. After all, the BNP are doing that, with some unfortunate good results



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