Take your credit card if you go hill walking

I trust you are aware of our government's latest sacrifice to their free market god. They have privatised the search and rescue services presently provided by the navy and the air force to an American company; they hadn't even the decency to sell it to a British or European company.

In the United States, if you have an accident and do not have evidence of insurance with you at the time, you will not be picked up by an ambulance, you will simply be left to die, that is the reality of privatised rescue. So, if you go hill walking or sailing etc., you had better take your credit card with you as these people will probably be armed with swipe machines, because, if you require to be rescued by a helicopter or a rescue boat, you will be billed. At the present we have 12 search and rescue centres in the UK and two are about to be closed. Don't forget, the first thing that happens in any privatised service is that lots of jobs go.

This is ideological dogma gone mad, but I must remind you that what the Tories are doing is looting as much as they can before they are stopped. This has nothing to do with safety or efficiency, and everything to do with Tory ministers being given backhanders to sell off as much as they can to their mates for profit. In addition, the Tories are abdicating the very fundamental duties of government, the health and safety of their citizens. Governments are derivative, they derive their roles and functions, indeed their very existence from the electorate who put them in office to serve them. You were neither warned about, nor consulted on such decisions. These are national services, they are yours, not the governments, and no politician has any right whatsoever to take such decisions without the express permission of the electorate. The government does not provide such services, the state does and does it with your taxes. They are not government services, they are social services. The same applies to health, education etc.The Tories have such a visceral hatred of the state and anything public that they will leave this country with no facilities and with no public service sector. There is no low these people will not stoop to in their endless pursuit of wealth. If you think that anyone in the Palace of Westminster cares two hoots about you, about your health, welfare and safety, then you are genuinely deluded. This is outright and ferocious class warfare and we have only one solution left available to us. Scotland must take its independence as a matter of urgency as Labour and the Lib Dems are as guilty as the Tories. I trust you are all aware of the brain damaged man who cannot walk but was passed fit for work by Atos this week? Atos was given the workfare programme by Labour, not the Tories. This is the work of that appalling Yvette Cooper, so, if you think Labour are going to help you, you are in for a shock. Remember Blair started this sell off of services when he privatised ambulances.

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