The new LDV members’ survey is now live. So if you are one of the 1,000+ registered members of the Liberal Democrat Voice forum – and any paid-up party member is welcome to join – then you now have the opportunity to make your views known.
Questions we are asking your opinion on include:
- your views on nuclear power;
- whether the Lib Dems should make any electoral arrangement with the Conservatives;
- your views on the Alternative Vote;
- is the media giving the Lib Dems a fair hearing;
- what you think are the biggest immediate threats to the Lib Dems;
- whether you think the Lib Dems and Nick Clegg are on the right/wrong track;
- how you rate the performance of leading Lib Dems and our government ministers;
- your view on the Lib Dems involvement in the Coalition Government, and its record to date; and
- what impact you think the coalition will have on the party’s electoral fortunes.
It should take no longer than 5-10 minutes to fill in. All registered members of the Forum will today be e-mailed with a unique link to take you to the survey. It takes a few hours to email these out, so please bear with the system. If you haven’t received the email by the end of today, or if you are signing up to the Forum now, please drop Ryan Cullen a line at [email protected]
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I am a labour supporter, but I ask you this question in all good faith.
Do you and your party really understand what you are doing regarding the tory policies on the NHS? It seems to me that we are seeing the end of the NHS. I was not happy with what New Labour was doing, but I am appauled that you are letting the tories do what they have wanted to do for decades.
Lansley has said he He will privatise ALL NHS hospitals . Well, not in so many words. He of couse calls them
“social enterprises”, but these are private businesses: public assets and public employees will be transferred to private businesses. Lansley’s plans will create 250 separate businesses which means that the NHS will no longer exist as a single organisation.
The White Paper says that the private sector (other than the privatised NHS hospitals) will provide more care, but has NOT said how they will be paid. Private providers are unhappy because they are FAR more expensive than the NHS. The only solution is to introduce co-pay, where patients will have to contribute towards part of their treatment out of their pocket. This will inevitably lead to health insurance, which is Nick Clegg’s preferred option.
How many people who voted for you thought they were voting for the destruction of the NHS? Not many I would think.
Who profits from a social enterprise? The users of the service:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_enterprise
Are you against charities as well?
@ Sally – it’s a real shame that so many people voted Tory then it’s it. Are you appalled with them too?
Er, “Isn’t it?”
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I am not quite sure what to make of that comment. As far as I know the tory party did not say they were going to sell off the NHS before the last election. Just like they said they would not raise VAT. But I would expect nothing from the tories becasue I know they hate the NHS.
But however many voted for them they did not get a majority. They are only in power thanks to you. Is it now Lib Dems policy to destroy the NHS?
Destroy the NHS? Significantly reorganise, but destroy?
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Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure Lansley’s health plans were in the Conservative manifesto, weren’t they? Someone voted for them. And people voting for Labour were voting for a manifesto commitment to make all hospitals Foundation Trusts, which are also independent social enterprises, able to raise money from private companies, decide their own affairs etc.
So I find it hard, to be honest, to get het up about the privatisation angle, since that was pretty much what we were going to get in either blue or red flavour. But in answer to Sally’s question, my main worry about the whole thing is that it’s too much expensive reform too quickly, and at a time when the NHS will have to be dealing with cuts anyway. Curiously, the Tory version of “less meddling” always seems to include an extra-big dose of meddling at the outset. (I also think, if it’s any comfort, that Lansley has shot himself in the foot, because any problem in any hospital for five years can now be blamed squarely on him and his reform programme, rather than on the more general “cuts”.)
Speaking of feedback (don’t ban or censor me Mark!), did we decide to get rid of the comments sorting tab instead having featured because it was broken? It was a much easier way to keep track of the action here and to know when you were being dragged into an argument!
Andrew: yup, the tab was causing problems with load on the server so Ryan took it off. We hope to have the feature return at some point as you’re not the only one to mention how useful they found it.
Yes, if we support Tory policy on the NHS then we support its destruction. If things go on as they are, in about a year or two there`ll still be something called the NHS only no-one working in it will be working for the public. Health workers will work for private providers, working hard to make money for them, to make dividends for shareholders, to make fat fudgin salaries and fat fudgin bonuses. That’s not he kind of NHS I want to see in this country.