The NEN – North Edinburgh News

Dear Editor

Rightly so, the NHS is looked upon as a public service, an absolute essential for the vast majority of people living in the UK. It took many decades of struggle and activity against conservative opposition to get this principle established and brought into being by the Labour Party supported by the Trade Unions and the unity of the people.

As a public service the NHS is literally a lifeline: how on earth would people cope with the financial cost of private treatment? They just could not.

There are other essential services needed by everyone every day to be able to function.

First, every home need power: electricity or gas for heating and cooking. Many households cannot do both properly as it is too expensive, yet millions of pounds aer made by investors in these private companies. They should be publicly owned and the millions made used for the benefit of consumers.

The same applies to the essential industries of passenger transport;, rail, bus and tram. Millions are made by investors out of people having to use them just to get to and from work. As essential servces they too should be publicly owned.

All these issues are common to all and as necessary as the NHS. To achieve these ojectives, pressure and demand must be developed showing how the greed of the few wealthy investors affects us all.

A. Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens