There’s plenty to be sceptical about with this #welovetheNHS Twitter campaign – not least the manner in which it’s falsely polarising the debate into “lovers” or “haters”, given that 140-character “tweets” hardly allow for nuanced arguments. But, as Fraser pointed out last night, there’s little doubting that it’s a spot of good luck for Gordon Brown: a campaign by the left, for the left, which he managed to seize on with uncharacteristic speed.
Indeed, Brown beat David Cameron to the punch for perhaps the first time in months, and has put the Tory leader on the defensive. Hence Cameron’s blog post last night, which set out his own #reasonsforlovingtheNHSbutstillwantingittoimprove, so to speak. Here’s a key passage:
“That’s why we as a Party are so committed not just to the principles behind the NHS, but to doing all we can to improve the way it works in practice.
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