The British Come Forward To Fight Openly for Their System

August 16, 2009 (LPAC)—The major British newspapers devoted pages of coverage today to promoting their National Health Service against their opponents in America, whom they revile. Financial Times, which leads the rest in American readership and has an edition printed Stateside, runs five articles, beginning with the lead item, "Health Attacks Rile Britons." Like the other London papers, the FT records that Labour's Gordon Brown and his Tory rival David Cameron have put aside their differences to tweet and twitter ecstatically about the National Health Service and to answer American charges that it is "Orwellian" and "evil." The article adds helpfully that Margaret Thatcher once headed the Tory Party, to tell the dumb American cousins that they they are defying the sainted Lady Thatcher with their insolence.

In one of his two articles, FT Washington bureau chief Edward Luce goes so far as to say that, "opposition to Mr. Obama's healthcare proposals is a lightning rod to a far larger world view, which seeks to protect American values and the U.S. constitution from an alien takeover.... Their issues are diverse. But their sentiment is common: America's Constitution is being trashed by un-American values."

The Guardian runs still more articles. Their editorial, "Diseased Debate," fibs that it was the Washington Times, rather than LaRouche, which originated the comparison of the Obama plan with Hitler's T4, and laments that the NHS was brought into the debate. Political leadership is needed, they say. Faced with demagoguery, the onus is on all politicians to stand up and disown it. A Guardian op-ed has the title, "My Credit-Card Saved My Life in the U.S.," with the subtitle, "Thanks to the NHS, no one in Britain fears getting ill!"

The Independent has five articles, leading with, "The Brutal Truth about America's Healthcare." The Telegraph has three, leading with one titled, "U.S. Healthcare Expenditure: The Biggest Waste of Money in the World."