Ok deep breath................
As others have noted, the individuals in the NHS on the whole, seem to be dedicated and professional. Certainly I've had my fair share off the NHS in the last few years with more to come. I couldn't fault any of it really. Sure there have been a couple of minor grumbles but it's a huge organisation and I doubt very much whether any system is infallible. And yes, there is always room for improvement or modernisation.
But the ideological basis for what is going on comes from a very different place. Forget about anything coming from within, this is an imposition driven by a government with it's own agenda. This is nothing to do with improvement or patient care, it is (from their point of view) simply the next golden egg to sell off. The belief is that there is nothing that should not be "commodified" there has to be money made or else a thing has no value. End Of.
Now we are being asked to pay £10 a month each to fund OUR NHS on top of the NI & tax we already pay. Mark my words we won't get that back when it's sold to the lowest bidder. Nothing is worth a spit if you can't make profit. Sorry but for me that really sticks in the throat. Our forebears did not create the NHS to build a business to sell decades later for profit - they set it up to create a National Health SERVICE.
For what it's worth I don't believe any of the other "shades of grey" parties would/will be any different because they are all in bed with the deity of profit. And another thing - wait until our Police and Armed Forces are a profit chasing private enterprise then we really will be fucked.
As for the lies and lies and lies we're all sold in regard to what "they" are going to do "when" elected? Don't fool yourself it's not directed at "us" - it's directed at a tiny handful of swing voters in a even tinier handful of marginal key constituencies (if I remember correctly it works out that around 120,000 people in the UK are all that matters to any of them) Where is the None Of The Above voting box? (that's a whole different load of waffle in the making right there
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And in relation to the NHS being the envy of the world - yes to your average Joe/Joanne it probably is as they cannot help but look at us with envious eyes (wouldn't you if you couldn't get your child treatment because you had no money?). But to the spawn of Mammon in the corridors of power in those countries? They just see it as a money making opportunity same as our rapacious, self-centered bastard politicians.
Sorry if that's a really gloomy opinion but I'm afraid it's the only one I've got.
