TINA again?

Published: 16 December, 2010

• IN the 1940s after six years of total war, with a massive national debt, bombed cities and food rationing, we got the NHS, free education and social housing. 

Today after the banks’ sub-prime crisis, the only houses at risk of collapse are the ones next door to city folk digging out basement swimming pools and banks are preparing to raise salaries to sidestep a European crackdown on bonuses. As for the rest of us, free further education is a thing of the past; nursery places, school sports and libraries are next to be cut and even Tory MP Stephen Dorrell can’t see how unprecedented  4 per cent “efficiency” savings can be surgically removed from the NHS – never mind the plans to “marketise” our hospitals. 

Look at our present government. Can anyone now convince me these policies aren’t ideological and there are no alternatives?

ANNE BOSTON
Inkerman Road, NW5