What would Nye Bevan be thinking, if he could see a Labour government driving through a privatisation agenda into the heart of the National Health Service? Of course there's been a conflict between NHS and private profit ever since the birth of the NHS saw Bevan compromise with hospital doctors over private beds in NHS hospitals, and Bevan was always a 'realist' rather than an 'idealist'. But that didn't mean he did not have principles, something which today's crop of Labour ministers seem to be devoid of completely.