• Labour - The NHS is 'Cameron's Poll Tax'
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[B]Labour leader Ed Miliband has told David Cameron he risks making NHS reform "his poll tax" - in noisy Commons clashes over the health bill.[/B] [B] Mr Miliband repeatedly accused the PM of refusing to listen to medics' concerns about the controversial bill.[/B] But [B]Mr Cameron attacked Labour as "rank opportunists"[/B] - for calling for the publication of documents on the bill. He said [B]Labour had refused to publish a similar document when in power and were "not fit for government"[/B]. The two clashed at Prime Minister's Questions, ahead of a Labour-led debate calling for the publication of the government's risk assessment of the impact of an NHS shake-up in England. [B] The controversial Health and Social Care Bill has passed through its Commons stages but has been amended several times by the House of Lords[/B]. In the Commons, [B]Mr Cameron said Labour frontbencher Andy Burnham had blocked the publication of a risk register in September 2009 [/B]- when he was health secretary. Mr Cameron said it [B]showed Labour "absolutely revealed as a bunch of rank opportunists, not fit to run opposition and not fit for government"[/B]. But Mr Miliband [B]accused the PM of having excluded the "vast majority" of health workers [/B]from a "ridiculous summit" on the Health and Social Care Bill on Monday. Having previously said he wanted to listen to NHS workers "[B]now he can't even be in the same room as the doctors and nurses[/B]" - suggesting he had "lost the confidence of those who work in the NHS". [B]He told the PM "nobody believes him and nobody trusts him on the health service"[/B] and claimed the bill had become a "symbol of his arrogance". Referring the hugely controversial policy seen as [B]helping hasten the end of Margaret Thatcher's leadership[/B] of the Conservative Party, Mr Miliband added: "[B]This will become his poll tax. He should listen to the public and he should drop this bill.[/B]" [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17125002[/url] For those that don't know, he's referring to the Poll Tax of 1990 which was introduced by Thatcher, which caused huge riots and eventually her resignation [img]http://libcom.org/files/images/blog/p00fvjdz_640_360.jpg[/img]
He's so out of touch with the real world it's silly.
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