The Nasty Labour Party - what they really stand for.

Maw

Us left wingers have still rumbled you!

Can I point out to several posters that it's is not the possessive pronoun, it's a contraction of 'it is

And of course you “can”
In fact you may if you do wish.

Can I point out to several posters that it's is not the possessive pronoun, it's a contraction of 'it is

I think we had rumbled that one MaizieD. Unfortunately spellcheckers/predictive texting too often decrees otherwise and the pesky things slip through.

Cuba also sent medics to help with the Ebola outbreak.

Cuba? Another utopia

Especially since when Castro came to power they had one of the lowest rates of literacy in the world. (thanks to American involvement)

Cuba also has a nearly 100% literacy rate, according to UNESCO. If true, it's rather better than the UK's.

Us left-wingers have rumbled you
“We” trisher, not “us”
Just saying.

Ooh. Is it open house on corrections of SPAG now, MawB?

Can I point out to several posters that it's is not the possessive pronoun, it's a contraction of 'it is'?

muffin so pleased for your friend. The extraordinary work of the health service in Cuba is seldom recognised or applauded. They have survived years of sanctions from the US but have provided health care, support, aid and education for other countries including crisis torn Haiti. A friend in health care visited professionally and was amazed to find they built their own equipment including dialysis machines.

My childhood best friend sustained a very serious eye infection whilst travelling through Latin America.

If it had not been for the speed and quality of the free treatment he received when he eventually entered Cuba, he would have lost his sight. I am profoundly grateful that he was looked after.

He was also found work and housing by the state. He’s not a person especially good at keeping himself safe, and Cuba was his best experience of the trip. It was also the only point of his travels where I was not acutely anxious for his welfare.

MawBroon Shall we have the whole thing?
When Britain emerged victorious from the Second World War, the Labour Party under Clement Attlee came to power and created a comprehensive welfare state, with the establishment of the National Health Service giving free healthcare to all British citizens, and other reforms to benefits. The Bank of England, railways, heavy industry, and coal mining were all nationalised. The most controversial issue was nationalisation of steel, which was profitable unlike the others. Economic recovery was slow, housing was in short supply, bread was rationed along with many necessities in short supply. It was an "age of austerity". American loans and Marshall Plan grants kept the economy afloat. India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon gained independence. Britain was a strong anti-Soviet factor in the Cold War and helped found NATO in 1949.

The Labour Party introduced charges for NHS dental services and glasses in 1951.[1][2] The Conservatives returned to power in 1951, accepting most of Labour's postwar reforms, but introduced prescription charges to the NHS in 1952 and denationalized steel in 1953. They presided over 13 years of economic recovery and stability. However the Suez Crisis of 1956 demonstrated Britain was no longer a superpower. Ghana, Malaya, Nigeria and Kenya were granted independence during this period. Labour returned to power under Harold Wilson in 1964 and oversaw a series of social reforms including the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion, the relaxing of divorce laws and the end of capital punishment.
Strange isn't it a Socialist Government being strongly "anti-Soviet" Not what the right wing want you to believe.
And it was a system (which ever party were in government) that was based on socialism and socialist ideas.
POGS I'm just quoting Nye, make of it what you will.

FWIW my understanding is that Cuba has an outstanding health service for a poor country:

"The Cuban healthcare system, borne out of its revolutionary socialist ideology, regards accessibility to healthcare as a fundamental right of its citizens. It focuses heavily on a preventative approach to medicine and offering the simplest check-up to the most complex surgery, free of charge. Dental care, medicines and even home visits from doctors are all covered by the system.

The island has the health statistics to support this seemingly impeccable system. An infant mortality rate of 4.2 per thousand births (compared with a rate of 3.5 per thousand births in the UK in 2015), life expectancy of 77 years for men and 81 years for women (on par with the UK’s life expectancy of 79 years for men and 83 years for women), and a doctor to patient ratio of one per 150, which surpasses many developed nations (UK ratio from the latest World Bank data is 2.8 doctors per 1,000 patients). It is no surprise therefore, that the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, during a visit to Cuba hailed its healthcare service as, “a model for many countries”."

We socialists do not accept communism

I have a sweet photograph of me being nursed by Jennie Lee- Mrs Aneurin Bevan ?

Us left-wingers have rumbled you
“We” trisher, not “us”
Just saying.

trisher

" You were brought up in a socialist country POGS and Day6 "

Ah but it was it ever a ' True Socialist ' country as some would have us be.

trisher

"Day 6 Read the quotes. Nye knew, you are either 'vermin" or "road kill" Why should anyone acknowledge you care?
Us left-wingers have rumbled you."
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Are you calling people who do not agree with you ' Vermin' 'Road Kill' by using somebody else's quote?

Or am I misreading your post?

Is this the period you mean trisher?
(With apologies for the cut and paste)

The Conservatives returned to power in 1951, accepting most of Labour's postwar reforms, but introduced prescription charges to the NHS in 1952 and denationalized steel in 1953. They presided over 13 years of economic recovery and stability. However the Suez Crisis of 1956 demonstrated Britain was no longer a superpower. Ghana, Malaya, Nigeria and Kenya were granted independence during this period. Labour returned to power under Harold Wilson in 1964 and oversaw a series of social reforms including the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion, the relaxing of divorce laws and the end of capital punishment. Edward Heath returned the Conservatives to power from 1970 to 1974, and oversaw the decimalisation of British currency, the accession of Britain to the European Economic Community, and the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. In the wake of the 1973 oil crisis and a miner's strike, Heath introduced the three-day working week to conserve power

You were brought up in a socialist country POGS and Day6 Until the 80s we had socialist beliefs underpinning all government. Since then succesive governments have undermined the system that enabled you to survive.

Day 6 Read the quotes. Nye knew, you are either 'vermin" or "road kill" Why should anyone acknowledge you care?
Us left-wingers have rumbled you.

Can anybody name a ' True Socialist' country that has overthrown Capitalism' and has been successful with it's economy and it's people? I struggle to think of one

Excellent question POGS

The silence from Corbynista left wingers on here is deafening.....

MaizieD - I don't think that Nye Bevan would stand much of a chance with Gnetters were he alive today. He was a bit left-wing

How typically, sneeringly, patronising of the left.

Pathetic.

Only they care. What a joke. You have been rumbled. Your arrogance speaks volumes.

I wasn't 'binding' you to answer my question. You simply could have done as others will do ignore the question.

Well, true, POGS. Forgive me for deflecting from your purpose.

So they say!