• Don_DickleOP
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    32 months ago

    great answer…no sarcasm. But what does FPTP stand for?

      • NickwithaC
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        52 months ago

        How the Swedish parliament would look is how the current British government does look. For exactly this reason.

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          I was thinking about that just now.

          They did Corbyn dirty in almost exactly the same way that they did Sanders. It has been worst-case-scenario from there on out.

          Have they fully privatized NHS yet?

          • NickwithaC
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            32 months ago

            Thankfully not and the party that wanted to is the blue one that lost massively in July.

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              If it’s as bad as it is in the US, they ALL want to privatize it.

              I’ll never forget Joe Lieberman swooping in and literally letting health insurance companies completely rewrite (destroy) the Affordable Care Act from an incremental step toward Single Payer into a law that codifies their profiteering. It put everyone into three categories:

              A.) people who make more than their incredibly low income means testing are required to shop for expensive private health insurance on the free market. Health insurance companies literally raised their rates right after this. Because of Joe, health insurance profits, medical bankruptcy, and death from being under/uninsured (70,000 people per year) are at an all-time high! Any real illness won’t be covered and you’ll be forced to cover it with a GoFundMe!

              B.) people who face stiff fines if they don’t have health insurance (neoliberal paternalism much like charging people for plastic bags and sugary drinks)

              C.) people who somehow manage to sneak in under the means testing income bar! If you are 300% or more below the actual poverty line, you get the most bare bones medical insurance possible!