Guest, what I'm saying is that in two fields, health and education I think it morally wrong that those with money can buy their way out of the health queue or into a good school.I could buy a doctor to operate on me next week. The same doctor, who also works for the health service, would put me on a waiting list of many months. If he operated only in the health service the waiting lists would be cut dramatically. And if those who buy their way out of the State education system had to send their children to local schools you can bet those schools would be a damned sight better in no time at all.
Choice of itself is not necessarily a good thing, in fact I think one of our problems today is choice overload. Ask the british who now try to find a telephone enquiries number without being ripped off!
In Abbotts case she got votes by saying she would not buy her way out as she found it morally wrong. Therefore by breaking her own code she should forfeit those votes, as I hope she will at the next election.