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I believe the new policy document from the Labour party is trying to put healthcare in the constitution, which would help with this.


The UK doesn't have a constitution in the sense that countries like the US do. Are they going create a constition as well?


Yes, and get rid of the House of Lords etc.

It seems quite a smart strategy, they're effectively talking about Brexiting from the Westminster elites and "taking back control".

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/labour-...


>"taking back control"

I never want to hear that phrase again.


Clearly something has to change.


We have a constitution - it just isn't codified [1]. Therefore doing so would just mean having a set of written laws that effectively make public healthcare part of the UK political structure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...


Labour (under Jeremy Corbyn) shares a lot of blame for this situation. Why? In the last election, Labour refused to take a stance on remaining in the UK [1]. To be fair, there was also a massive, coordinated and successful smear campaign against Corbyn. Brexit won by a narrow majority (52-48) and there was no party to vote for to vote against it in the election.

The Conservatives went from having a narrow majority (and requiring DUP support for that) to having a massive majority not seen in 40+ years.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-election-corbyn-b...


And now the tories are imploding it looks like we are going to get a massive Labour majority at the next election. And that probably isn't good either. Especially given that Labour prefer to spend all their energy fighting each other.

I think the antiquated first-past-the-post system is at least partly to blame for the mess that is UK politics.




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