You have to be labotomised if you are unable to see what the intention of the Tories is with the NHS.
Cash is only part of it. Badly managed departments, and wasting money is also a big part. Although the badly managed departments is probably partly due to not paying enough to attract good talent to run them
Naturally, even if you don’t take their blatant distain for public goods into account. Or that they go to bed at Tufton Street each night. Or that we’ve had health ministers that have literally co-authored papers on privatising the NHS.
Tory ideology can be boiled down to fecklessness with the promise of tax cuts. This was never, ever going to be good for the NHS.
Well, yes. It’s basically like that scene in The New Statesman where Alan B’Stard talks of shutting down the NHS.
I mean they’ve all but completed the dentistry side. How is this a matter of opinion?
Wait, the politicians funded by private US healthcare firms want to destroy public healthcare? No, you don’t fucking say!
They’ve been trying to since they got in. Remember Andrew lansley?
Well they’re right. I’m guilty of resenting the NHS sometimes because of how bad it has become. Even though I know intellectually that it has been ground down via a deliberate campaign, it’s hard not to feel resentment when you’re on the sharp end of the resultant poor service.
Since the only party with a cat’s chance in hell of obtaining power is Labour, more should be done to induce them to prioritise this issue. I do not trust their manifesto promises as they currently stand. This is the issue of the decade as I do not see the NHS being fit for purpose for much longer, which will of course provide the planned pretext to move toward a private system.
The NHS cannot continue in its current form because it just does not work. We’ve tried throwing money at the problem all through the last labour government and that didn’t fix anything.
It’s time the left embraced the idea of reform of the NHS and stopped using it as a political football.
A proper grown up cross party plan for reform is what is needed, not privatisation, but lets be very clear about it, the next labour government will be the last one to have the chance at reform. The NHS won’t exist by the 2nd labour government if it has not been substantially modernised and delivering far greater productivity and outcomes.
Lionization of a truly terrible service just doesn’t help anyone.
And heres the full text of the 2005 of “Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party”, A book which explains why the authors think the NHS needs to be dismantled and replaced by a private insurance based healthcare system
Authors include Jeremy Hunt, Douglas Carswell and Michael Gove
Whenever I think about the literal traitors who want to sell our NHS I get so angry and I feel so powerless about it.
It’s being done indirectly and that makes it easier to deny the obvious and hoodwink voters who do not understand how the numbers the Tories toss around are pathetic. The Tories might claim to invest billions in the NHS, which sounds great to people who do not understand that those billions still do not go far enough to fix a decade of austerity. It’s the same with their new hospital claim or recruitment plan. It all sounds great in the headlines but it hides the fact that the Tories are starving the NHS.
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You have to be labotomised if you are unable to see what the intention of the Tories is with the NHS.
Cash is only part of it. Badly managed departments, and wasting money is also a big part. Although the badly managed departments is probably partly due to not paying enough to attract good talent to run them
Naturally, even if you don’t take their blatant distain for public goods into account. Or that they go to bed at Tufton Street each night. Or that we’ve had health ministers that have literally co-authored papers on privatising the NHS.
Tory ideology can be boiled down to fecklessness with the promise of tax cuts. This was never, ever going to be good for the NHS.
Well, yes. It’s basically like that scene in The New Statesman where Alan B’Stard talks of shutting down the NHS.
I mean they’ve all but completed the dentistry side. How is this a matter of opinion?
Wait, the politicians funded by private US healthcare firms want to destroy public healthcare? No, you don’t fucking say!
They’ve been trying to since they got in. Remember Andrew lansley?
Well they’re right. I’m guilty of resenting the NHS sometimes because of how bad it has become. Even though I know intellectually that it has been ground down via a deliberate campaign, it’s hard not to feel resentment when you’re on the sharp end of the resultant poor service.
Since the only party with a cat’s chance in hell of obtaining power is Labour, more should be done to induce them to prioritise this issue. I do not trust their manifesto promises as they currently stand. This is the issue of the decade as I do not see the NHS being fit for purpose for much longer, which will of course provide the planned pretext to move toward a private system.
The NHS cannot continue in its current form because it just does not work. We’ve tried throwing money at the problem all through the last labour government and that didn’t fix anything.
It’s time the left embraced the idea of reform of the NHS and stopped using it as a political football.
A proper grown up cross party plan for reform is what is needed, not privatisation, but lets be very clear about it, the next labour government will be the last one to have the chance at reform. The NHS won’t exist by the 2nd labour government if it has not been substantially modernised and delivering far greater productivity and outcomes.
Lionization of a truly terrible service just doesn’t help anyone.
And heres the full text of the 2005 of “Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party”, A book which explains why the authors think the NHS needs to be dismantled and replaced by a private insurance based healthcare system
Authors include Jeremy Hunt, Douglas Carswell and Michael Gove
https://whatwouldvirchowdo.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/direct_democracy___an_agenda_for_a_new_model_party.pdf
Its not even up for debate
Whenever I think about the literal traitors who want to sell our NHS I get so angry and I feel so powerless about it.
It’s being done indirectly and that makes it easier to deny the obvious and hoodwink voters who do not understand how the numbers the Tories toss around are pathetic. The Tories might claim to invest billions in the NHS, which sounds great to people who do not understand that those billions still do not go far enough to fix a decade of austerity. It’s the same with their new hospital claim or recruitment plan. It all sounds great in the headlines but it hides the fact that the Tories are starving the NHS.