A new campaign to save the NHS from privatisation-from-within (#yourNHSneedsYou) is going from strength to strength in the UK. In this New Statesman article, Yanis Varoufakis, Nathalie Bennett and John McDonnell explain why and how the NHS is being eaten up from within by Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big Business more generally. What makes this DiEM25-inspired campaign more pertinent in this historic moment is that it is a template for a new way of doing progressive politics: one that involves people from different progressive organisations, parties, trades unions – leaders and rank-and-file activists who have hitherto failed to work together. DiEM25 will work hard to ensure that #yourNHSneedsYou campaign is only the beginning!
Ever since Margaret Thatcher began to vandalise Britain’s pubic goods, her heirs and successors have loathed the NHS for three reasons. First, because it demonstrably gives the lie to their creed that markets always know best. Secondly, because the British public love the freedom-from-the-market that the NHS affords them when it comes to their
— source yanisvaroufakis.eu | Yanis Varoufakis, Nathalie Bennett, John McDonnell | 06/11/2021