GP's, NHS & sportsmen - a rant

[CL]

I'm a touch confused Christopher, but I'm sure someone of your omniscience will be able to help me out. I thought the issue here was the narrower point of some GPs dealing with sports injuries poorly, and also whether it should be their role to treat them at all. The problem of the world being a near socialist superstate seems a bit peripheral to this. Tell me if I'm wrong, but otherwise let's not be distracted from our fell running harmony by politics. Phone up FiveLive if you need to vent your anger.

By the way, the First Opium War was undoubtedly capitalist in its very objectives, but it contributed to the Taiping Rebellion (1850s I think) and more casualties than any war except WW2. You may need to find a new anecdote.

Timmy C I don't think you're confused at all. What you want is to skirt around the fundamental issue. Peter wanted to know why he had to pay for his medical, and I've told him in fundamental terms.

What you want is a discussion based on non essentials, which is superficial and peripheral,because then we don't have to get down to the root causes of this country's problems, including the NHS.

Now the conflict you mentioned was a civil war, not a world war. China at that time was a theocracy and was committed to land 'socialization,' and the suppression of private trade. In fact some of the very things a capitalist system is against.