The Tories and their Lib Dem/New Labour comrades have successfully alienated those people through governance changes that have destroyed the little editorial independence that existed in a post-Hutton Report world.
Back in 2010, I gave the corporation 10 years before privatisation and assumed it’d be done to a chorus of dismay. I should have given the Tories more credit than that, they have more time on their hands and are really fucking good at this sort of thing. Just wait until people complain about the wait times for the NHS in the next couple of years, and the Tories start making it easier to find “alternatives” with state-subsidised private health insurance…
The Tories and their Lib Dem/New Labour comrades have successfully alienated those people through governance changes that have destroyed the little editorial independence that existed in a post-Hutton Report world.
Back in 2010, I gave the corporation 10 years before privatisation and assumed it’d be done to a chorus of dismay. I should have given the Tories more credit than that, they have more time on their hands and are really fucking good at this sort of thing. Just wait until people complain about the wait times for the NHS in the next couple of years, and the Tories start making it easier to find “alternatives” with state-subsidised private health insurance…