Mark Steyn: Home truths not welcome at Tory HQ

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 04/18/05 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Tax-chick]

Free citizens of advanced western democracies are increasingly the world's wrinkliest teenagers: the state makes the grown-up decisions and we spend our pocket money on our record collection. Hillaire Belloc, incidentally, foresaw this very clearly in his book The Servile State in 1912 - before teenagers or record collections had been invented.

Insightful! (Library list)

[ken5050]

If 90% of Brits have only experienced the NHS...how do you sell them on making a change?

[Cicero]

Since the Second World War, the Tory's have come out of their "Me too" response to Labour only twice, with Antony Eden and Margaret Thatcher. Indeed, I suspect you could pretty well move that back to the First World War, and add Winston Churchill as the third exception.

Why would anyone vote for "Me too," when you can have the genuine article instead? And if you don't like the genuine article, you can stay home, because there's no real alternative?

[An Old Marine]

One day the pendulum will swing,

Yeah but how bad will it have to get before they wake up and start the journey back to adulthood?

[Teacher317]

Steyn Ping

[eureka!]

marking

[hattend]

BTTT

[hattend]

NHS= "No Hillarycare, Sir"

[FreedomFarmer]

I actually changed a Dem's mind about Government Health Care.

Told him it will have all the privacy, care, expertise, and quality of his pre-induction physical into the service.

[Dog Gone]

It really is sad to see the UK in the grip of Socialism. Tony Blair was a stand up guy on Iraq, but the Labour Party has greatly damaged that fine country and our cousins across the pond are too indoctrinated to realize it.

[COUNTrecount]

Thank you !

[prairiebreeze]

When the government runs the system, every time you get operated on, it costs the government money.

Bingo. Scarey how many in this country don't get that.

[griswold3]

The crisis in health care in the UK is due to fewer NHS doctors. Will they be able to force them into service?

[Fintan]

Is Steyn a FReeper???

 

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey! Maybe he'll turn his laser eye on Canada's health system as well, before sHrillary starts to sell her wares again.

[irv]

Britons expect "control" over the cars they drive and the DVD players they buy and the internet porn sites they subscribe to, yet they live with a health system frozen in 1945. It's a curious inversion of priorities to demand "control" over peripheral leisure activities but to contract out the big life-changing stuff to the government.

Throw in "control" over whether or not to kill their babies and they sound like Liberals everywhere.

[expatpat]

Exactly right.

[Rummyfan]

Scott, my neighbour in New Hampshire, ran for the state legislature last November and in the campaign was frequently asked what his health care plan was. "My health care plan is that you should pay for your own damn health care," he'd reply.

This guy should run for President!