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I'm 36 and I don't remember a time when NHS wasn't about to collapse, or be destroyed by the Tories. Meanwhile, the NHS has been around for about 70 years, and

I'm 36 and I don't remember a time when NHS wasn't about to collapse, or be destroyed by the Tories. Meanwhile, the NHS has been around for about 70 years, and nearly two thirds of that time was under the management of the Tories. I'm pretty sure, 50 years from now, when I'm 86, people will still be telling me that the NHS is about to be destroyed by the evil sinister Tories.

arethuza 9y ago
Note that I didn't single the Tories out for criticism - New Labour was just as bad.
DanBC 9y ago
There's a clear difference between the problems in the NHS today and the problems in the NHS 5 / 10 years ago. No one who works in health and social care is asking for unconstrained NuLabour style funding sprees. But now that they've made the NHS ruthlessly efficient, and we have NICE, it'd be a good idea to pay for what we know works, rather than weird ideas like 8 - 8 GPs, or 7 day services. (Especially since the information used to push 7 day services is a lie, and we've seen people die as a result.)