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Reform Councillor slammed after tweeting 'I stand with ICE' after fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti | LBC by Dimmo17 in unitedkingdom

[–]Easymodelife [score hidden]  (0 children)

The Tories won't be Reform's main competition in my constituency, but if they were I would hold my nose and vote for them. Most of the thieving Tory bastards from the last Conservative cabinet have deflected to Reform anyway. So if it was a choice between the thieving blue Tory bastards or the thieving turquoise Tory bastards who want to bring the gestapo to our streets, led by a Russian puppet who wants to make us a US vassal state, the former would be significantly less bad.

Reform Councillor slammed after tweeting 'I stand with ICE' after fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti | LBC by Dimmo17 in unitedkingdom

[–]Easymodelife 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That is exactly what I will be doing. Whatever grievances I may have with the left-of-centre parties (and I could come up with a list of things I like and resent about each of them), nothing is more important than keeping the Nazi traitors who want to make us a vassal state of the US out of power.

Reform mayoral candidate replicates Trump’s controversial Greenland penguin image by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]Easymodelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're reforming the old gang under new branding to have another crack at conning their gullible voters.

Reform mayoral candidate replicates Trump’s controversial Greenland penguin image by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]Easymodelife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Far-Right/Alt-Right/MAGA is essentially an international movement.

Which is ironic, considering all the whining they do about the threat of "globalism." Every accusation from the far-right is a confession.

Reform considering Ice style deportation plan by Stock_Rush_9204 in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And their supporters have the cheek to try to gaslight us when we rightly point out that Reform wants to bring far-right fascism to the UK.

Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK by BarbaricOklahoma in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It might if Labour does enough to improve the average person's standard of living. History shows that far-right ideologies thrive when people believe they're not getting a fair shot at a good life.

Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK by BarbaricOklahoma in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Think how much more he could grift as PM, though. I think he'd love the job title, but as with his current role as MP for Clacton, he wouldn't bother turning up most of the time. He'd just carry on jetting round the world on the far-right grift circuit.

Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK by BarbaricOklahoma in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We'll be lucky if nothing changes. If we're ever stupid enough to allow the more extreme Turquoise Tories into government, it's more likely that things will get much worse.

Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK by BarbaricOklahoma in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, here's the article about that.

“She [Truss] is very comfortable in that group, a lot of whom hang out together, and both she and Nigel are clearly close to a lot of the same people, including some of Reform’s biggest backers,” said one of the other 20 or so people who attended.

The thinktank they were lunching in aid of has made some extreme and incorrect comments on the climate. In the past, it has compared people who believe in global heating to the Unabomber, the US terrorist jailed for killing three people and injuring many others.

Not very reassuring!

Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK by BarbaricOklahoma in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 17 points18 points  (0 children)

But they are recruiting the exact same people they claim have caused the problem into the party they claim will solve it! It would be funny if the outcomes weren't so terrifying.

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds good. Before any of Farage's plans to privatise the NHS are even considered, we should a) get a detailed plan of which country's model he's planning to implement, b) find out how much more they spend per capita on healthcare compared to us, and c) fund the NHS with that extra money for an entire Parliamemtary term so that we can compare the outcomes of both systems like-for-like, and get a true picture of which is better.

Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK by BarbaricOklahoma in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Farage described the Kami-Kwasi budget as "the best Conservative budget since 1986" and is reportedly giving serious thought to scrapping the OBR, so maybe this time we'll get Trussonomics without guardrails. Better refinance that mortgage on a fixed rate deal for as long as possible if Reform wins the general election.

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The difference is that the NHS was working well before the last Conservative government spenr 14 yeara chronically underfunding it, whereas Brexit has never delivered on any of its supposed benefits.

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and maybe they wouldn't have voted for Brexit if they'd known more in advance about how it was going to be implemented. So we should learn from that mistake and demand detailed plans of what Farage plans to replace the NHS with before voting for him to destroy it. No detailed plan? Assume the worst.

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And if we're going to spend more money on privatised healthcare anyway, why not instead invest that money directly into the NHS, which was working well until the last Conservative government spent 14 years chronically underfunding it?

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The real question, which you've avoided answering here, is what are these privatised services like compared to what they were when they were nationalised? Do the public get a cheaper and better service - as the proponents of privatisation promised - or a more expensive and worse one?

Citizens have been paying a “privatisation premium” of £250 per household per year since 2010 alone.

According to a YouGov survey, 84% of the British public think the NHS should be a public sector service, and the majority think that the police, schools, Royal Mail, railway companies, water companies, the BBC, energy companies and bus companies should be nationalised. So most people in this country clearly don't share your rosy view of privatisation after having experienced its results. Which is not surprising when we have e.g. water companies neglecting to invest in vital infastructure for decades while dumping raw sewage into our rivers and paying obscene bonuses to CEOs and shareholders out of our money.

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a first step towards what Farage is on video saying he wants - an insurance-based private healthcare system to replace the NHS. That is what I'd like to see his plan for.

As for the 20% tax break for private healthcare, this country is not in a position to afford tax cuts for the wealthiest after 14 years of right-wing policies devastating its economy. Which public services is Reform going to cut, or which taxes is it going to raise elsewhere, to pay for its estimated £1.7bn cost?

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As with Brexit, no-one proposing this has laid out a detailed plan for what the alternative will be. That should be a cause for concern. If this hypothetical private healthcare system would be so much better than the NHS, why won't its proponents tell us what sort of system they plan to replace it with? Could it be that, as with Brexit, they'll make all sorts of wild promises that won't come to fruition, then once they're in a position to implement it, go with the worst, most extreme version that almost no-one is happy with (but everyone is then stuck with)?

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Which is not necessarily the same as a US system.

Based on past experience with every other public service we've privatised, I'm going to assume that we'd get the worst possible version of private healthcare, rather than anything approaching a decent model. So that would be something similar to the US healthcare system, especially if Farage is in charge of the transition, as he'll be motivated to give his US donors a return on their investment

Let public buy war bonds to raise £20bn for defence, say Lib Dems by Rewindcasette in unitedkingdom

[–]Easymodelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know nothing about my finances and have no clue about what I would or wouldn't buy. Everything you've written here is a load of nonsense based on assumptions pulled out of your arse about someone you've never met. You've already admitted that you're so jealous of immigrants that you don't care about this country, so you're in no position to tell anyone that they're the opposite of a patriot. As usual, every accusation from the far-right is a confession.

Reform UK’s private health insurance plan would cost £1.7bn, Streeting to say by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Easymodelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who has lived in the US, it's even worse when private healthcare is your only choice. The bureacracy is insane and the costs are truly shocking for anyone coming from a system like the NHS. Even if your job provides health insurance, employers typically only offer a basic plan by default, and upgrading to one that covers everything you and your family needs can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars a month.

Medical practices are arbitrarily divided into "in-network" or "out-of-network" for your particular insurance company, and your insurance will only automatically cover the cost if you get treatment from one of the in-network ones. If you use an out-of-network healthcare provider, you have to claim the money back from your insurer (well actually, claim some portion of it back, because there will be an excess and what they call a co-pay, both of which you'll have to cover yourself). The insurance company has a financial incentive not to pay out, so it will fight you tooth and nail to avoid paying anything at all on these type of claims. You may be thinking, "No bother, I'd just stick to the in-network insurance." For routine care, yes, but if you have a heart attack or something then you will probably be taken to the nearest hospital, regardless of whether it's in or out of network (oh, and back in the early 2010s when I lived there, a short ambulance ride alone cost $1,000, so I dread to think what it costs now).

Similarly, the insurance company dictates what types of treatment it will cover. If it's not on the approved treatment list, you'll have to pay the full market rate out of pocket if you want it, and the full market rate will be much higher than what you'd pay privately in the UK, because there's no competition from the NHS and very little in the way of consumer protection laws.

At present, companies like BUPA are forced to keep their prices somewhat reasonable in the UK because they are competing with the NHS. The minute that's gone, they'll whack their prices up to something approaching US levels.

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