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Leading Tory MEP: NHS a Marxist mistake impossible to get rid of

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan seems to have decided to take his holidays in the USA, but the beach and ice creams are not for this man, instead he’s campaigning against President Obama’s healthcare reforms.

Apparently telling all who will listen, which happens to include the Washington Times and the right-wing Fox News, that the NHS is a disaster and the US should “ponder our example, and tremble”.

“You see a grizzly picture of your own country’s possible future… Do not make the same mistakes we have,” he warned. “I see this massive encroachment of the state… this huge power grab by the state machine… squeezing the private sector, to engorge the state.”

In Great Britain, he explained: “It is not uncommon to wait six, 10, even 12 months for a knee operation… It is exactly a Marxist system. You are treated as a supplicant and expected to be grateful for what you get.”

Then, just in case he hadn’t made his lack of support for the NHS, he describes NHS staff as “the electoral block that makes it impossible to get rid of”.

Here’s Hannan on Fox News:

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