We’ll never re-elect you if you wreck our #NHS #dropthebill #Lansley RT this song and video
Posted by labourblogger on February 7, 2012
This song and the stills that go with it try to explain the anger and dismay that we – along with most people connected with English healthcare – feel about the Health and Social Care Bill. This may sound a boring topic but wait till you get ill in a few years if Lansley and his pals get their way!
This parliamentary Bill, dressed as up as a simple reform, threatens to destroy the NHS by stealth. The song tells it like it is. At the end of the video are some suggestions about how you can help stop this destructive Bill becoming law.
A SONG FOR LANSLEY AND HIS PALS (lyrics)
Oh the year is 2020 (and) my auntie’s had a stroke Just basic care and send her home next day Some rehab would have helped her but the price was just a joke And that new insurance company wouldn’t pay
It has its faults our NHS, but still it’s up there with the best
We didn’t vote you in for you to leave it such a mess
In Europe and the poor U.S. they pay much more and get much less
Your Bill will kill our public health and make us like the rest
We’ll never re-elect you if you wreck our NHS
Oh the year is 2025; can’t find my own GP The only free one’s twenty miles away……..our local Surgery’s run for profit while pretending that it’s free Coz that new insurance company’s got its way
After 60 years our NHS is still regarded as the best (…at)
.. joining up our health care, and at keeping up our welfare,(…Now)
…your corporate pals are queuing up for a mega profit fest
That’ll land us in the same old mess they’ve made in the US
We’ll never re-elect you if you wreck our NHS
-You knew, didn’t you, the damage you would do`
Coz everyone who knows has told you so
-So you hid the risks and lied, insisted you were right
Your so-called “listening” pause was just for show …..
-It would take a man insane to ignore what they’ve been saying
But you’re not mad, you knew what you were doing…..
-You’re opening up the path for your corporate pals to make
A killing from the tax we pay to you …..
When you deny you’ll privatise, your lawyers know you’re telling lies
GPs will find they’re legally tied to private enterprise
So tell your money grabbing friends “Go back to the US!”
And leave our nurses and GPs to do what they do best
We’ll never re-elect you if you wreck our NHS
Oh the year is 2030 and there’s not much care for free The best is only there if you can pay The good old logo’s there to see, but it’s not meant for you and me Coz that new insurance company’s here to stay
It has its faults our NHS, but still it’s up there with the best
Yet still you want your Bill made law to kill our NHS
You promised not to shake it up but launched this bloody mess
We’ll never re-elect you if you wreck our NHS
(repeat chorus ad lib)
John Gabbay 1 2 12 (© waived. Please copy and perform!)
Video uploaded to Youtube by http://www.youtube.com/user/maylejon
