You keep claiming that politicians, with the press in the back pocket, are doing everything they can to privatise the NHS.

These aren't your political opponents?

I don't see them as "opponents" in the sense that the whole of parliament is run in an adversary style and the majority of voters "pick sides", often because their parents/grandparents/etc did - I don't go in for football supporter politics, they are all fair game for criticism and praise.

I happily concede that there MAY be areas of the NHS that are far more suitable for private ownership than a publicly owned operation, lets pick one, patient transport for instance - it may be cheaper for a Trust to send taxi's around the district picking up patients for appointments that the ambulance service would otherwise have to do - if that is the case then the current government would receive my support for doing that and not get an automatic criticism just because the blue & yellow side of the house suggested it and not the red side.

Unfortunately its not working like that, there is a political dogma at work behind the scenes and if the Conservatives win in 2015 with a majority of their own (and who is going to oppose them other than the voters, who can easily be led by the nose by a compliant media), then I believe we will see the acceleration of that dogma to a place in 2020 that we would not have believed possible.

How true this is.
BBC Breakfast presenter this morning telling the plebs that, ''we are all waiting for the royal baby'', and ''thank goodness she is in an air conditioned hospital'', whilst in labour.

BBC Radio News reader just two minutes ago ...

"Kate Middleton is now in labour, something which is not without risk..."

Dear God are they preparing us for some terrible news later today, I'm on tenterhooks and will not venture far from a radio today as I'm sur enone of you will ...

Bloody left-wing royal sycophants.

Yes, the entire nation is waiting to hear that an heir has been produced ... I must be on my own in my almost total indifference then.
At least it doesn't matter whether it's a boy or a girl nowadays as we've got that tricky primogeniture issue sorted, thank goodness we're not living in the past anymore.

I'm hoping it's a nice "brown" baby like Waynetta Slob wanted.

Apart from women who really, really get off on babies and the ultra royalists I don't think anyone else really gives a damn. I think there is a slight compulsion to act like it's important. But I think the journos are just as indifferent as everyone but feel they have to exaggerate so they don't cause offence.

... apart from Nicholas Witchell, I guess, as he only gets on-screen these days to stand outside hospitals.

Would he be as excited about the issue if he'd been replaced as royal correspondent? He might be. All that time covering the subject could have converted him into the countries biggest royalist.

But I think if he'd been replaced by someone new his feelings would be more focused on hatred towards the new person for stealing his job.