The president of the KO of the New Left, Alexis Haritsis lashed out at the government’s mental health bill, telling the House of Commons that the bill essentially “constitutes a classic example of counter-reform, conservative backsliding”.
“This bill is the forerunner of the right-wing government’s final attack on the NHS. No reform, only demolition,” he argued. He spoke of an administrative arrangement for the benefit of certain private interests, arguing that “whoever has the money should be able to have the services.” He stated that “no reform can be done when the NSS is dissolved”.
Mr. Haritsis argued that “this bill is one more tile in the mosaic of dismantling the NHS” and that “we have another pilot application on how the NHS will be abolished in the coming years”. He said that “the mock consultation and the piecemeal passing of the bill are once again indicative and revealing of the politics and the way the ND government implements policy” and that “this is not a reform for which the government can she is proud, but it is another step of dissolution, another step into the deep darkness of the neoliberal anachronism”. He added that what the government is doing encapsulates its policy on everything: “it is tearing down the very logic of a universal right of access to services and replacing it with the logic of a fee-for-service privilege. The right turns into a privilege.”
He asked the government how it explains that “not a single organization was found among all those active in the field to support the bill in question”. She commented that if her goal was to vote the bill “on the floor” in the last days of July, “she didn’t succeed because the people who are affected by this bill are out there protesting.”
He said, among other things, that with article 65 of the bill “you are tearing up the Constitution” and that on the other hand, “you are baptizing as a privilege, the sacred right of the patient and the obligation of the state to protect health”. He said that with authoritarianism the government is trying to cover its own “huge responsibilities” for the problem that has been created.
The president of the KO of the New Left began his statement on the occasion of the latest reports on the wiretapping case: “No one can convince us that this whole scene that has been set up is just another big coincidence. Whatever you do secretly or openly, however many obstacles you try to put up, you will be held accountable for this unspeakable scandal that is laying a bomb on the foundations of democracy. You will be accountable for the single illegal EYP-Predator monitoring center whose headquarters were in the Maximos mansion and headed by Mr. Mitsotakis, who himself had personally taken responsibility for EYP.” He added that “the alleged assumption of political responsibility by the removal of Mr. Dimitriadis is, to say the least, funny…”.
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