Original sentence: Hostile to the National Health Service, he attacked Danny Boyle's Olympics Opening Ceremony 2012 - which had included a tribute to the health service and its staff - as "dim-brained leftwing history" and  Boyle, "a miserable northern socialist"
Edited sentence: Hostile to the National Health Service, he attacked Danny Boyle's Olympics Opening Ceremony 2012 - which had included a tribute to the health service and its staff - as "dim-brained leftwing history" and  Boyle, "a miserable northern socialist", even though he himself originally comes from Newcastle upon Tyne, and was very much a socialist before becoming a so-called libertarian