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Lord Grantham's mum scorches big government - Video
2016-01-26
[HotAir] "For years, I've watched governments take control of our lives. Their argument is always the same: 'Fewer costs, greater efficiency.' But the result is the same, too. Less control by the people, more control by the State -- until the individual's anguishes count for nothing. That is what I consider my duty to resist."
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  ...until the individual's anguishes count for nothing.

The National Health Service in a nutshell, as they delay testing and treatment until people die of it, and choose others to be withheld food, water, and bedpans while they die in agony on a hospital bed in their own filth, because odds are they're going to die soon enough anyway.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-01-26 10:18  

#1  The background of the Dowager's comment comes from her dispute regarding the take over of the village hospital by a larger hospital syndicate in York. A subtle indictment, but not very.

Bemoaning the ills of modern [1926] society, other snarky predictions from the Dowager included a "female Field Marshall" and a "female Pope." The more I see and hear of her, the more I enjoy.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-01-26 08:44  

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