The National Health Service IS is a huge political issue.
David Cameron knew that when he claimed 10 years ago he wanted to be defined by the letters NHS.
Ed Miliband knows that now, as do Nick Clegg, Natalie Bennett, Nigel Farage and Cameron himself as the service goes down the bedpan.
It can't be any other way when medical care is publicly funded and run by whichever mob is in power in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Cameron's nose should be longer than Pinocchio's when the Tory leader's pretending he doesn't treat it as a political issue but the Labour leader does.
This ConDem coalition's £3-billion bureaucratic upheaval to invite private bids for services, privatising chunks of the NHS, was incredibly political.
Miliband should come clean if he did tell aides he'd "weaponise" the NHS.
Because the NHS badly needs somebody to fight for it.
Jobs and wages are other weapons in the political battle ahead.
Who governs Britain influences our living standards, the NHS and 1,001 other things in our lives.
Politics matters and Cameron posing as a politician taking the politics out of politics is the oldest Con-servative trick in the book.
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