Starmer isn't making that claim. He said, "Lower food and petrol prices are helping ease the pressure on household budgets." That is, he is claiming those things have gone down, and th… (View Post)

Yes, but not for a long time! They were second from bottom, beating UKIP, in Kingswood in 2024 and likewise before that in the 2011 Inverclyde by-election. They were second from bottom, beating the G… (View Post)

More myths! The NHS is not at some sort of extreme with most countries “somewhere in the middle”. The US is very clearly a massive outlier. Most of the OECD has systems fairly similar to the NHS, som… (View Post)

No-one around the world has exactly the same health system as the UK, but many other countries have pretty similar systems, e.g. Italy, Spain, Portugal, New Zealand. The constant repetition of this m… (View Post)

This all goes back to GPs in 1945 being opposed to the creation of the NHS, so the government let them stay out of the system and remain independent. (View Post)