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Why it’s nonsense to say the NHS is the envy of the world

last week, I suggested that it would be a good thing if public sector unions showed some of the realism about cuts that the private sector has already had to demonstrate. Mike Kirby, convener of Unison Scotland, thinks this makes me an “ideologue”.

He might benefit from taking a squint at the beginning of the seventh chapter of St Matthew, if he can manage to read it through that bloody great beam in his eye.