John Pilger on The Dirty War on the NHS | BFI
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2020
- John Pilger introduces the world premiere of a new documentary that uncovers a hidden and sustained campaign to undermine the idea of a British universal free health care system.
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Thank you John Pilger for your great films. This one is more valuable in the pandemic period. NHS should be there to protect all but the successive govts have undermined it to bring in private companies. Now big companies are building huge hospitals in the city to take profit from the misery of people. We need to defend the NHS. It is so vital for our existence.
And those private health care wntitirs surely are not in the business of care
I've been following Pilger's work for more than ten years. He has inspired me to make my own independent documentaries. I have made two so far (available on my channel) and, having just finished the second, am gutted I lost the chance to email them to him as intended. His feedback would have been dearly cherished. I'm also preparing to upload my 2021 expose on US-UK complicity in Yemen, for which I interviewed authors David Wearing and Isa Blumi.
Thanks John for your inspiration. Rest in power
John Pilger is one of the greatest men to have walked the earth certainly the greatest Australian .
Gosh, to hear, see and read John's books and his humanitarian work with Julian Assange is incomparable! Forget movie stars; this man is the real deal and Britain has again lost another treasure, the first being Christopher Hitchens. Terry from Monty Python died today so I really feel the passage of time and it's inconsolable. Nearing 70 years of age, I'll be glad to go. Thank you so very very much, Mr John Pilger. You are a credit to your parents your country, your profession, Britain and Humanity as a whole. I regret I never got to meet you in Australia when we were both there at the same time. Hanora in Ireland.
Hanora Brennan
This bloke is nothing like Peter Hinchensl. Peter Hinchens didn’t hate the Western Workd always blaming his own people and countries. Peter points out a lot of what had gone wrong with Britain and I lot of it had to do with the communistic global world view of the left. And also the globalist rightwing using cheap labor from globalisation.
The leftwing bringing in as many as possible to grab the ethnic vote. Pilger is right up there with those who have helped to pull Western civilisation and Europe down with his always blame Western Society for everythingon his own People Ignoring the evil in other leaders around the world.
Pilgers leftwing open borders ideologies have bought millions of extra people in from islamic and other countries to put massive strain on the NHS. All a part of Pilgers globalist communist utopian ideology.
Beautiful well said
John Pilger long coherent, impeccable and congruent professional life
Our greatest grandparents and all those after fought the most recent World wars, out of which something good has materialised for us Brits. It must surely be our cherished, yet under valued, NHS.
Don't let us forget...
As a private company shareholder, I still realise what our ancestors fought for, as British citizens, against fascism.
WHO is also dictating in Romania a constant diminishing of the hospital beds since several years. In one year the state - serve of SUA/UE- closed 75 hospitals in the entire country, at once!... in a country that is poor already and with a very bad infrastructure. We got used to it... My country has been sold little by little in exchange of favors to UE/USA regarding national resources mainly, closing factories etc. I saw the documentary of Oliver Stone about Ukraine and it was so familiar with what happens in Romania... Recently again I heard the WHO again demanding more hospital beds reduction in Romania. We still have too many it seams...
Thank you MR PILGER. 🖤♥️💛💚
We switched on every week to watch World in Action, ITV’s answer to Panorama. Pilger has been a respected journalist in our family ever since.
John Pilgers work reminds me of a quote by Jaswant Singh Khalra! Paraphrased: "A small candle will light up a dark room and challenge the darkness in all corners!"
This is so powerful
Why in the world has John Pilger's UA-cam channel disappeared? Such a shame! He's a light in the dark, the world needs people like him more than ever! C'mon everybody let's get him back on UA-cam!
He is a puppet of China, Russia and Iran. He turns a blind eye to the behaviour of totalitarian regimes in his quest for hatred of the West.
@@michaelwsperry How do you know this?
TRUTH TELLERS HAVE A PECULIAR WAY OF DISAPPEARING...
@@j.a.s.o.n.g.r.a.h.a.m Ok.
@@michaelwsperry 100% Agreed - puppet for the CCP. This man is a fool.
This Is An Eye Opener Film
Freedom to watch on Prime video can not get it
RIP John. His death yesterday, is a massive loss. Above all journalists I admired John Pilger. If the truth needed telling he would tell it, no matter who he upset. John was a strong critic of American, Australian, and British foreign policy, which he considered to be driven by an imperialist and colonialist agenda.. He had also criticised his native country's treatment of Indigenous Australians. He first came to my attention for his reports on the Cambodian genocide. He received awards from fellow journalists and BAFTAs supported by fellow film makers. He received no national awards from his own country or the UK, where he worked for much of his career. This is a good sign.
Love John pilger. David from Scotland
John Pilger is a boss.
Wow this man is brilliant
We need truth justice peace and no suffering
The UK should also privatise its government: let people choose which kind of governing system they prefer post covid-19...
We already have that..it's called democracy..
Guys were can i watch it ....not available anywhere ??
John Pilger is my favorite investigative journalist. Something i like to do is put hip hop instrumentals under john pilger speeches on youtube. It sounds really good. Go and try it now.
The English electorate don't care any more unfortunately.
I think you will find they do - maybe you dont but your opinion is not everybodys opinion
God bless sir
❤️💪🦋 best journalist ❤️
Why ? Because it is the worst-staffed, worst-run organisation in the World. I have suffered 5 trips to the Service in my life and each time I had to run away to save my life. I have evidence and proof of this.
it wasn't in the beginning but it was infiltrated by organised crime.
Where can I watch this film?! I'm in Spain...can I get it online?
Always very interesting . Poor people being exploited . He always speaks up for the poor .
Who else came here after hearing about what happened to George Floyd?
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Rubbish. Don't even think about buying these.
Hypocrite
Oh Dear. I used to so admire this mans work. What has happened? 6 minutes of waffle and sycophancy for a start. The NHS spends 75% to 80% of its funds on emplying its staff who are superb. The rest of the budget buys everything from power to buildings to drugs to huge scanners to a hip prosthesis...... are all supplied by and purchased from private companies. The NHS does not make anything so in that sense it has deals with private companies most of whom are USA based however many are EU and UK based. The UK gets very good prices on these products due to its size and bargaining power. Yes, there are trade deals but not to replace doctors or nurses but to cooperate on new therapies and devices. I suppose if you go looking for demons you find them.
“...its staff who are superb.” Blow that rhetoric out your creepy political arse for a start. Did you not listen to John's address?
Learn more about the undeniable yet oft-denied destruction of the NHS here: watch?v=Cz5dl9fhj7o
@@SimsulatedId Thank you for your comment and insult. Always good to see considered reasoned debate as opposed to blind wilful name calling. Mr Pilger's polemical speech was far from an address but that point aside, yes I did listen all the way through. Everything is a question of relativity and having been in healthcare for 40 years perhaps my perspective its different from yours but that does not invalidate my opinion nor indeed Mr Pilger's. They are just different views. He was a superb investigative journalist but it would appear to me his personal bias has overidden his common sense and reason. No sensible person wants the NHS privatised and forces are at work to have the US system more like the NHS ( i.e. single payer government socialised medicine) not the other way round. Any political party would commit immediate suicide by privatising the NHS. I was just pointing out specialist equipment is not what the NHS does. Care it does superbly.
@@TheTiedye123Been in the accounts department for 40 years? Just kidding, though it does offer a new angle to attack your flattering comment about the staff.
In your 40 years, have you really not noticed the gradual selling off, subcontracting and, let’s face it, privatising of the NHS? Did you not notice the significant change in 2012 when the government officially absolved itself of the obligation to provide healthcare to all?
The tax-funded single-payer aspect of NHS is not singularly what public/private is about.
“No sensible person wants the NHS privatised.” You wish. Either that, or a significant percentage of us don’t qualify as sensible by your measure. Some of the wealthiest voices want to make money from private healthcare.
“Any political party would commit immediate suicide by privatising the NHS.” Which is why they’re doing it by stealth.
You might spend a moment watching the video I linked. It’s six or seven years old, but it maps out the road to privatisation.
@@SimsulatedId Nope not in accounts....worked in operating theatres as it happens. Also worked in health care systems to varying degrees around the world from South America to Japan.
In a word "no" I have not noticed a sell off but I have seen an increasingly complex, responsive and caring system which has ever greater demands placed upon it as our population ages, demands for palliative care increase and technology produces wonders daily in the fight against suffering. This demands much wider skills and expertise than can ever be in one instituion so it is wise to sub contract some things as every institution today does. The hospitals I was in 40 years ago were simple places with patients in beds often on bed rest and little else. Now they are super high tech needing vast skill sets.I do not see the NHS or any other healthcare system as a political football or game with which to justify an already pre-set self gratifying code of values. Don't get me wrong in all my travels I have not seen a perfect system of healthcare yet but some are very close. As I said every single thing in an operating suite, hospital or clinic is made by a private company without whom the NHS staff would be weaponless. The competition between companies drives innovation. The NHS and it's staff chose whatever is best for their patients from their wares and use it wonderfully. They are all government employees focused on patients as they should be. Of course some services are bought in but every company, agency or government in the world uses specialists at times. Patients do not care where the drugs, the machines, the building or the care comes from just that it is free at the point of care, benign, efficient and as humane as possible. Mr Pilger puts his opinion out there. As I started, I did respect him but his analysis to my mind is wrong. I may be wrong. However like him my analysis is just as valid. You may wish to have "an angle to attack" (Really?) someone who has an opinion that differs from you. It does not assist your or Mr Pilger's conspiracy theories but detracts from them.
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_increasingly complex, responsive and caring system_
I’m seeing an increasingly complex and unresponsive system of increased waiting times and stronger barriers between patient and system; of 24 hour emergency response teams that fail to turn up; of ‘virtual surgeries’, phone consultations in place of face-to-face meetings, phone consultations that make wrong diagnoses because phone consultations are second best; a fragmented system in which nobody’s sure who’s in charge. Good luck finding out who’s actually responsible for your healthcare today - who to complain to when the [insert platitude about hardworking ] (often non-NHS) staff can’t offer you the time and care you need due to the financial decisions made by their CCG and admissions managers.
_The competition between companies drives innovation._
And cheating and mayhem, fragmentation and clamouring for profits. Doesn’t the desire for health drive innovation? Isn’t necessity the mother of invention? Patients don’t want choice: they want good healthcare. Private sector concerns lead hospital admissions managers to play games like offering patients operation dates to coincide with patients’ declared holiday dates, thus keeping them off waiting lists and out of hospitals; prioritising cheap treatments over expensive, regardless of patient need; prioritising quick operations not because they’re the most urgent or important but because they reduce waiting lists; double booking beds and operation theatres then turning patients away, sometimes on multiple occasions. All this is documented practise in the increasingly privatised health service; practises that suit the spreadsheets of 'results-driven' managers, not patients.
_They are all government employees focused on patients as they should be._
No, they’re not. Deloitte consultants being paid thousands of pounds a day to advise government on the management of the NHS are not government employees. Covid testing centres are being run by Deloitte, KPMG, Serco, Sodexo, Mitie, Boots and the US data mining group Palantir, funded by our money, none of them NHS.
"As a pathologist working for the NHS, I could not understand why accredited laboratories in the NHS and laboratory facilities such as the Crick Institute were not fully utilised for testing of Covid-19.” Pathologist Sarah Berney, reported in the Guardian.
_Patients do not care where the drugs, the machines, the building or the care comes from_
Taxpayers do. But NHS spending is difficult to track, isn’t it, due to inaccurate and incomplete reporting. Nonetheless, I think we can be sure that when the likes of Richard Branson are your key ‘care providers’, your prices will go up and care will be stripped to a minimum or less.
You seem a rather humourless sprite, full of rhetoric of the media spokesperson. Your points, amid the waffle, red-herrings, diversions and platitudes, demonstrate that you’re unsure if the National Health Service is better for the private sector involvement or if it needs an apologist to defend it. As far as I can see, the latter is clearly the case.
One of the worst apologists for dictatorial regimes. Go away John.
Say anything negative about the way the billions are spent for profit and lots of staff are low paid - must be the truth - and M.S. people like yourself clearly want that staus quo to continue feeding the greed of the corporate NWO state. John Pilger is an honest correspondent, always was. Well done John Pilger and your team.