GORDON BROWN: PUTTING UNIONS AHEAD OF THE GENERAL WELFARE

Gordon Brown accused of bowing to unions by freezing private companies out of NHS

Gordon Brown is facing a damaging rift with his party after slowing the pace of reform in the NHS, The Times has learnt.

Private companies and charities are being frozen out of the NHS, prompting accusations that the Government has bowed to pressure from the unions.

Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, is facing a Cabinet backlash, criticism from the former ministers John Hutton and Alan Milburn and attacks from the CBI and charity groups over proposals to limit outside involvement in the NHS.

The Department of Health will publish new guidelines shortly that limit private companies and charities to providing services not already offered or in areas where the existing NHS is failing.

BROWN - LIKE OBAMA - IS A CREATURE OF THE UNIONS, AND JUST AS BROWN MUST SERVE THEM BEFORE THE PUBLIC, EVEN IN HEALTHCARE, SO TO WILL OBAMA KOWTOW TO THE SEIU AND AFSCME BEFORE AMERICANS.

OBAMA WOULD RATHER CUT MEDICARE THEM MAKE THE UNIONS TAKE A HIT.

REMEMBER: THERE ARE MANY MORE NON-UNION WORKERS IN AMERICA THAN UNION WORKERS.

AND WE WILL MAKE THE DEMOCRATS PAY DEARLY FOR THEIR PATRONAGE TO THE UNIONS.