Fell apart implies gravity, or something. This is resulting from a systematic attack.
“fell” is like saying that Shireen Abu Akleh “died”, it strips away the conscious and deliberate attack on them by groups that can only be accurately described as terrorists.
It’s not a mystery. You under-invest in health and social care; under-pay staff and make them work long hours, only to demonise them in the media; and then use immigrants as a scapegoat for all your problems and this is what you get. The NHS is still a good idea, although some modernisation would not go amiss, the problem is that it just does not have enough money or staff to offer the level of service required at any level. It is simple to reverse this, if expensive and time-consuming but it can be done, just not under the Tories. While foxes run the hen house, we can only expect things to get worse and privatisation to increase as a result.
It didn’t fall apart. It was disassembled on purpose. It was understaffed on purpose. Death by 1000 cuts. Just a little here and there. Each year a little more. Just enough so you won’t notice or complain too much. If you do, they will dangle a shiny thing. Something else to draw your attention someplace else. Something like….Brexit.
By the time you have noticed, it will be beyond repair. Time for something new.
Say hello to Privatized healthcare!
‘*Fell* apart’‽‽‽
It was *ripped* to fucking shreds! From reducing staff forgetting that secretaries are needed to do paperwork so that highly trained nurses use their time to take care of patients, to contracting out essential services (basically firing staff to be rehired by private firms paying half with no benefits — all cleaning & food) to piling on multiple levels of middle management to write up KPIs as if health was a saleable commodity like widgets and geegaws.
The incredible level of waste can be seen in all of the stupid and pointless posters about how likely someone might be to *recommend* one particular hospital over another… because of the food and pillows. The money wasted on those alone could cover the raises that staff need a hell of a lot more than they need people standing outside clapping Tuesday mornings. And *that* idea wasn’t free, either.
And then there’s Carillion, its predecessors, and the next generation.
“No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party… So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation.”
– Aneurin Bevan
Ball was set rolling by Blair and Brown as members of the red team. Blue team have just nudged it down that same path.
This suggests that funding has increased at quite a rate under the tories. Can someone explain how this isn’t the case
Fell apart?
They deliberately destroyed it as they ideologically hate it.
If it was up to me, anyone who voted Tory should be denied access to the NHS.
Since most as tax avoiding cunts, anyhow, they should also be denied access to roads, schools, fire brigade, the police etc, too.
Just the Tories? It has been a team effort from these career politician scumbags for the past 25 years.
Fell apart makes it sound like this wasn’t 100% intentional with the aim of breaking it up and privatising it, selling it off to American healthcare firms and Tory donors so that they can extract massive profits.
Ultimately Tories don’t give a shit if the common person dies, so long as they have money they are fine with anything.
Of course it did, that was their fucking strategy the whole time. They’ve always known that something so unprofitable but yet so beloved of the British people couldn’t be dismantled overtly as an event so they made it a process. The NHS is one the most successful socialist policies ever enacted and *any* Tory who tells you “the NHS is safe with us” is a bastard liar. Everyone, imho, should feel empowered to give them a bloody nose the second they utter the words.
There’s quite a few things coming together.
– Tories
– COVID
– Brexit
– The enormous challenges of providing increasingly costly care to an ageing population
– The NHS’s own inability to properly modernise
How the UK fell apart under the Tories……
It’s not ‘the Tories’ in reality, it’s the ‘private = always good’ ideology that is the problem.
Sometimes it’s best to have private firms doing a job, sometimes it isn’t. In healthcare/care it isn’t.
what ever you do dont look at the NHS in wales….
that shitshow was ALL Labours fault.
The tories have been systematically dismantling the NHS, they full intend to destroy the NHS for self gain.
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Indefensible.
Fell apart implies gravity, or something. This is resulting from a systematic attack.
“fell” is like saying that Shireen Abu Akleh “died”, it strips away the conscious and deliberate attack on them by groups that can only be accurately described as terrorists.
It’s not a mystery. You under-invest in health and social care; under-pay staff and make them work long hours, only to demonise them in the media; and then use immigrants as a scapegoat for all your problems and this is what you get. The NHS is still a good idea, although some modernisation would not go amiss, the problem is that it just does not have enough money or staff to offer the level of service required at any level. It is simple to reverse this, if expensive and time-consuming but it can be done, just not under the Tories. While foxes run the hen house, we can only expect things to get worse and privatisation to increase as a result.
It didn’t fall apart. It was disassembled on purpose. It was understaffed on purpose. Death by 1000 cuts. Just a little here and there. Each year a little more. Just enough so you won’t notice or complain too much. If you do, they will dangle a shiny thing. Something else to draw your attention someplace else. Something like….Brexit.
By the time you have noticed, it will be beyond repair. Time for something new.
Say hello to Privatized healthcare!
‘*Fell* apart’‽‽‽
It was *ripped* to fucking shreds! From reducing staff forgetting that secretaries are needed to do paperwork so that highly trained nurses use their time to take care of patients, to contracting out essential services (basically firing staff to be rehired by private firms paying half with no benefits — all cleaning & food) to piling on multiple levels of middle management to write up KPIs as if health was a saleable commodity like widgets and geegaws.
The incredible level of waste can be seen in all of the stupid and pointless posters about how likely someone might be to *recommend* one particular hospital over another… because of the food and pillows. The money wasted on those alone could cover the raises that staff need a hell of a lot more than they need people standing outside clapping Tuesday mornings. And *that* idea wasn’t free, either.
And then there’s Carillion, its predecessors, and the next generation.
“No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party… So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation.”
– Aneurin Bevan
Ball was set rolling by Blair and Brown as members of the red team. Blue team have just nudged it down that same path.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget
This suggests that funding has increased at quite a rate under the tories. Can someone explain how this isn’t the case
Fell apart?
They deliberately destroyed it as they ideologically hate it.
If it was up to me, anyone who voted Tory should be denied access to the NHS.
Since most as tax avoiding cunts, anyhow, they should also be denied access to roads, schools, fire brigade, the police etc, too.
Just the Tories? It has been a team effort from these career politician scumbags for the past 25 years.
Fell apart makes it sound like this wasn’t 100% intentional with the aim of breaking it up and privatising it, selling it off to American healthcare firms and Tory donors so that they can extract massive profits.
Ultimately Tories don’t give a shit if the common person dies, so long as they have money they are fine with anything.
Of course it did, that was their fucking strategy the whole time. They’ve always known that something so unprofitable but yet so beloved of the British people couldn’t be dismantled overtly as an event so they made it a process. The NHS is one the most successful socialist policies ever enacted and *any* Tory who tells you “the NHS is safe with us” is a bastard liar. Everyone, imho, should feel empowered to give them a bloody nose the second they utter the words.
There’s quite a few things coming together.
– Tories
– COVID
– Brexit
– The enormous challenges of providing increasingly costly care to an ageing population
– The NHS’s own inability to properly modernise
How the UK fell apart under the Tories……
It’s not ‘the Tories’ in reality, it’s the ‘private = always good’ ideology that is the problem.
Sometimes it’s best to have private firms doing a job, sometimes it isn’t. In healthcare/care it isn’t.
what ever you do dont look at the NHS in wales….
that shitshow was ALL Labours fault.
The tories have been systematically dismantling the NHS, they full intend to destroy the NHS for self gain.
We must not let them do so.