I was listening to Jonathon Millar on This Week, last week. Sadly his sister had died recently. He praised the NHS for giving her terminal care that would have cost his family a quarter of a million pounds in America. The other people in the studio were too Tory (Portillo and Neill) or too nice (D. Abbott) to do anything but make sympathetic noises.

I felt a great deal of sympathy too and rich brothers can easily have poor sisters but for the very rich (without redistributive taxation) such means tested charges would not be unreasonnable. They would of course insist on going private but that would make the whole private thing look v. expensive.
So then we could offer NHS surcharged services for the very rich.

Glad to hear that the Labour Party is still engaging in blue skys thinking and controversially so. I think the prospect of vigilante-ism recedes the more you give genuine power to local communities. With power comes a feeling of responsibility and the loss of htat feeling of irresponsibility that the Daily Mail and the Sun trade on.