He was also not a left winger

I rail on this site against right wingers quite a lot, but equally Jesus was not a left winger, and my intention is to try and keep this blog as neutral as possible, also to remove from some people I chat with the room for the accusation that I'm just playing party politics...

Here's an example of left wingers being deceptive in their arguments with maximal effect. There's a private provider of care homes for the elderly in the UK and it's looking like going bust. It's an example of bad management, full stop, period.

However, the linked article would suggest it's much, much more than that. It shows, proves, why we can never, ever trust the private sector with anything to do with healthcare. In what way does it do this? Well, it doesn't, so deception, scaremongering has to take the place of genuine arguments.

The writer doesn't even bother to recognise the fact that more competition would weed out the bad management like this, and a lower level of concentration in the industry amongst private providers would ensure that a failing provider wasn't "too big to fail", as people are suggesting this one is.

Now I say that not as someone advocating opening up the whole of healthcare to the private sector; other articles on here should have made it clear that there are economic efficiency arguments for government intervention in healthcare and that I base my position on that, fairly simple, economic theory. However, the form that that intervention would take would probably not be what most conventional Labour or Conservative voters (and certainly MPs) might propose.

I think most of these MPs, and also the writers of leftie pieces like the one linked above at Liberal Conspiracy, suffer either from a lack of knowledge of the tenets of very, very basic economics, or are seriously bent on deceiving the public. So as a result, lefties are just as bad as right wingers!