That was called privatisation

Only thing I saw happen was more regulations and less funding. Which ≠ privatisation

Rather than being honest about spending, Blair contrived a private funding agreement for new hospitals that meant a £20m hospital ended up costing often over £200m

Same was used with new schools they built in that era

And opening up the borders to mass immigration

SO pissing all the money away, hugely increasing the demand, then wondering why the NHS can't cope

Fucking PeP-level genius move

300k per annum is too much for an island

Just let the Free Market do it's thing and end government intervention into the Economy

All very well letting the free market do it, provided you're willing to have the blood of millions of dead poor, disabled, ill, and elderly on your hands

You need a balance

If you have total control you get stalin

I would be ok with that, It's not like I really care being a nihilist and all

If you have total free morket you have watergate but much worse.

Don't expect widespread agreement with you on that point, Lizard

As with most things

@The Electric Lizard no governance on the free market = crony capitalism and corporate Monopolies within months

Balance is key

How you balance it

Depends on the leaning of the government in power

And the voters ofc

However balance around the centre is usually very stable

@Eccles I don't really expect it

Ofc it's never perfectly centre

@randomNPCno3 The government is the thing causing crony Capitalism because they give certain businesses too much power

Society is like an organism, and we're just some particularly advanced hindgut bacteria

And what once they go away we all get in big circles and sing kumbyahh?

They may be able to amass that in pure free market Capitalism too but far fewer would

Or do the big eat the small until there is no competition

Since competition makes life hard

Capitalism works brilliantly for as long as their are frontier markets to exploit

@The Electric Lizard yes, instead of a cabal of inhumane Rich folk. It's one really monstrous overlord

When you run out of frontiers, as we have, then it really does lead to the big eating the small until there only a handful of monopolies remaning

One is accountable and one isn't. However you are using extremes

You are saying free market is preferable to socialism or authoritarianism

Socialism -is- authoritarianism

You arnt arguing for free market over a mixed economy.

Tbf, it's too early for me to think in nuances atm

I was saying "or" to include more types of auth

teens man :/ https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1174327643975684097?s=20

when I was a teen I was in cadets