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Barbara, Well said. If nothing else, people who don't like Trump should respect the US office, and respect the war dead. Khan is trying to make it all about him, to divert away from his failure in office as Mayor.Philippa, This trip certainly won't be for positive publicity back home as only one TV channel, Fox News gives Trump fair airtime. All the other Democrat run channels and the Liberal MSM in USA tell lies about Trump #fakenews.Bare in mind in the US, similar to the UK 85% of the MSM is Liberal bias.Trump has only survived because the truth has got out there via his twitter feed. He has over 60M followers.I will give you an example of the bias he has to put up with.Last November the BBC, Sky all the MSM newspapers run a story that Trump whilst in Paris skipped the WW1 Armistice ceremony because it was raining and he didn't want to get wet. He instead stayed in his hotel.The truth from his own twitter feed and backed up by independent media.Due to Zero visibility the helicopter wasn't able to take off and his security team wouldn't let him travel by road because of safety fears re;short notice planning. All the public watching the BBC and reading this nonsense would have believed that he couldn't be bothered to go as per the MSM reports. It's just a constant smear campaign that he has to fight. Thank God for social media! Thomas/Lucille, I just looked at the history on the forum page and I made my my post Sept 2012, so maybe you are both suffering from memory loss.Matt/Lucille, In answer to your question, of course I don't want to see the NHS privatised. I was a member of the Labour Party in 97 when Blair first got into power so that should tell you.  Only left when Bliar and his spin doctor Campbell took us into an illegal war!The NHS is a hot potato, and no politician would ever have the courage to try and privatise it. It would be national disgrace if it were privatised and political suicide.Sue, thanks for your advise. As you mentioned, I had this 6 months ago about my membership and whether I was genuine. Maybe if I changed my surname to Khan by deed poll, the elitist Thomas Newton wouldn't dare challenge me.There have been many times when I have seen the elistists on this forum turn on you like a pack of wolves, hunting their prey, all because you don't conform to their views. Keep up the good work. They are maybe a majority on here in their Putney bubble but they are a small minority outside London.As Brexiteers we only have a few radio stations left now to listen to. All the TV stations for the last 3 years have been full of Project fear and #fakenews in their coverage of Brexit and the general public fall for it.Thinking about cancelling my BBC licence fee soon like many many other thousands in the country according to my twitter feed. 

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Paul. The honest answer to this is I don't know, and I suspect no one else has done a detailed prediction of the potential impact of this. Obviously, if you give people tax breaks that means a reduction in tax income potentially resulting in less money for the NHS so I've no ideas of the balance between the possible reduction on demand from people electing for private care versus the possible loss to the she was the device from reduced funds, unless the tax reduction impacts some other area or is part of anoivereall tax increase. In practice most people use private health care to jump the queue, particularly for tests if not the actual treatment. (I'll admit in the last I've done that in the days when my employer paid for medical insurance.) One has to keep in mind that in the UK the NHS is (in my understanding) still leading over the private market in new, cutting edge/pioneering treatments. There's also the issue that the NHS has emergency facilities which private facilities don't generally have hence if things go horribly wrong patients may need to be transferred to NHS facilities. (In practice private health care cherry picks the easy, routine care.) There's also the issue that many doctors and consultants work both in the NHS and private facilities, often in the same hospital; would this reduce the medical resources available to the NHS? I'm sure there's a number of  other factors that, as a non health care person, I'm not aware of. It's not a simple question to answer.

Michael Ixer ● 2717d