Alternatively, and get your tin foil hats out

, New Labour privatised it and then the 1970's wing of the party in cahoots with the unions deliberately set about its destruction to "prove" privatising the NHS didn't work and thus prevent further "privatising of the NHS"
I wouldn't put anything beyond belief with politicians.
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History is much like an endless waltz: The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever.
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