This is the last article you can read this month
You can read more article this month
You can read more articles this month
Sorry your limit is up for this month
Reset on:
Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here
DAVID Cameron’s public relations nightmare continued yesterday as Labour once again hammered Tory NHS privatisation plans.
A Tory poster parodied thousands of times since it was published at the last general election came back to haunt the Prime Minister again.
The original poster bearing Mr Cameron’s airbrushed face read: “We can’t go on like this. I’ll cut the deficit, not the NHS.”
But the latest reworking published by Labour yesterday said: “The Tories want to cut spending on public services back to the levels of the 1930s, when there was no NHS.”
It was launched by Labour’s election strategy chief Douglas Alexander along with a dossier detailing the damage done to the NHS under the Tories.
It shows how seven out of 15 patients’ rights enshrined in the NHS constitution have been breached — including by soaring waiting times for A&E and cancer tests.
And, in a bid to make the general election a referendum on the NHS, Mr Alexander warned that the NHS “won’t survive another five years of David Cameron.”
“There is nothing which better symbolises the difference between Labour’s vision for the future and that of the Tories than our NHS,” he said.
“Another five years of this rotten government could put us on course for a doubling of the scale of privatisation as competition is put before patient care.”
British Medical Association chairman Dr Mark Porter also delivered a blow to the government’s record.
Responding to the dossier, Dr Porter agreed that “increased privatisation and competition are eroding the core principles of our healthcare system.”
Tories’ road to socialism
PM David Cameron appears to have put Britain on the road to socialism in the Tories’ first general election poster, writes Luke James.
The nasty party’s spin doctors selected a stock image of a countryside road for their poster which urged voters to “stay on the road to a stronger economy.”
They failed to spot that the photograph is of a road that runs through the German region of Thuringia — which has been led by the country’s Left party since November.
Chancellor George Osborne insisted “it’s a British picture, a British road” when quizzed by Channel 4 News on Saturday.
But Alexander Burzik confirmed that he took the snap in the region in an email to Twitter user @scattermoon on Saturday.
She was among hundreds who used social media to tear apart and parody the Tory advert after it was launched by Mr Cameron on Friday, using the hashtag #ToryRoadtoRuin.