surely not
The papers and the politicians will say and spin things as they wish. But I saw Blair being interviewed on Monday night and he was discussing Howard's plan whereby the NHS would pay half the (NHS) cost of an NHS operation to a private hospital if the patient wanted to take his business there. (Good plan if you have the extra cash, I reckon.) But Blair constantly referred to the Conservative plan whereby the NHS would pay half the (private) cost of a private operation, which would be an entirely different and probably larger sum. Now, was this spin, lying or scaremongering? It was a bit of the last but more of something else: Blair just did not understand the very simple maths of the proposal. Now that alarms me.