Yep, the last Labour Govt. privatised more of the NHS than all previous and subsequent Govts. put together.
I was speaking to someone last week who has worked in the NHS for decades and asked them who was telling the truth. Those who say the NHS desperately needs money, or those who say it is being given more money than at any time in its history.
His opinion was that they are both telling the truth, but ignoring the elephant in the room.
The elephant being Labours PFI hospitals, which saddled the NHS with new hospitals, bought on hire purchase, with payments deferred for a while (basically until the people who introduced it have retired or lost an election) and then payments kick in with almost payday loan interest rates, on sums involving £ billions.
They were the most cynical Govt. in living memory.
The bare fact is that Labour more than doubled the NHS budget - and made it worse !
Anne Widdecombe mad an interesting statement on the subject recently. She said that the NHS was introduced on the assumption that once the populations ailments had been treated and attended to then demand would drop and so would the required budget.
History shows that the complete opposite has happened and there isn't a sum of money which would be enough.
She then said, we need to have an adult conversation about where we are now with healthcare, where we want to be, and then decide how we are going to try to get there.
Makes sense to me.
Personally I believe it pretty unlikely that the Tories want to completely privatise the NHS, but its about the only thing Labour have left to scare people with. Labour seem to think they actually own the NHS.
Personally, I don't have a problem with more privatisation of the NHS if its done sensibly. So far it hasn't been done sensibly. They are even allowing that cretin Branson to start getting his claws into it.
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