We are one small step away from this
Look at dentistry
People have to go private ( if the possibly can), wait months and months to see a NHS dentist, if they can find one, or pull their own teeth out

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It's a personal speech - it's not part of the formal sessions to decide things

🔹Market forces [and the lobby power of the finance industry and the construction industry have failed] people in desperate housing need

🔹We need something better and stronger - the building of council housing - to solve the housing crisis
4/4

🔹There is no solution to the housing crisis that does not involve mass building of council housing
🔹Secure rents, lifetime tenancies and protection of people's living standards
🔹The formulas brought forward by the lobby power of finance and construction industries
3/4

🔹A refusal by gov't to bring in rent controls
🔹Ministers telling me we need more private sector investment as it brings good returns
🔹Those good returns are £2k a month rent for people in my constituency, living in often very small, cramped flats; the same story in every big city country-wide
2/4

They are insulting our intelligence - we know the Lords can’t block something that was in the manifesto.