Farage says a debate is needed on NHS privatisation (again)

At the end of last year, Nigel Farage had to engage in some furious back-peddling after a video from 2012 emerged in which he said believed the NHS should be run by private companies through an insurance-based system.

He argued that since this video was filmed Ukip’s other members didn’t support this policy and Farage had also changed his mind on the subject.

It seems, however, he’s now not so sure about his volte-face.  In an interview with BBC Radio 4, when asked about this subject, Farage responded:

“I triggered a debate within Ukip that was outright rejected by my colleagues, so I have to accept that. As time goes on, this is a debate that we’re all going to have to return to.”

The Ukip leader claimed that looking at different ways of running the NHS was in part related to ageing population, which is putting pressure on the health service:

“There is no question that healthcare provision is going to have to be very much greater in 10 years than it is today, with an ageing population, and we’re going to have to find ways to do it.”

We’re pretty sure that most people wouldn’t agree that the way to do this is privatisation…