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As a Brit, if we're ranking those things in order of practical importance, I'd put the Royal Family dead last. People will whinge about the NHS being slow or b
by weevil 3y ago
As a Brit, if we're ranking those things in order of practical importance, I'd put the Royal Family dead last.
People will whinge about the NHS being slow or badly managed, but generally defend its existence to the hilt. Barring some free market extremists, there's no political will in this country to explicitly privatise and dissolve the NHS as a free at point-of-care nationalised healthcare service.
The BBC gets teased for being old-fashioned, quite a bit of stick for the mandatory licence fee, and a lot of well-deserved criticism for the Jimmy Saville mess. Excluding some absolute nutters with dubious motivation and funding, no one's trying to get rid of the BBC.
By contrast, there's a significant political bloc who are at least apathetic towards the monarchy, especially now the late Queen, the last symbol of continuity, has died.
- 0xy 3y agoThe NHS is a slavery farm delivering questionable value to citizens. As an example, a British brain surgeon will earn less than an American car wash manager while British health outcomes are worse than ever. 35% of people with EMERGENCY cancer referrals don't get seen within 2 months, and wait lists now hold over 6,000,000 people, and the worst wait periods (over a year) are rising rapidly. Doctors and nurses get absolutely scammed, while citizens get left to die. Additionally, despite the use of slave doctors, NHS funding is rising 2,000% faster than close neighbor France -- with further massive increases planned to 2025.
- weevil 3y agoYou should dial back the hyperbole and get some more sources in there, if you actually want to debate, and not come across as a for-profit healthcare shill.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoIs the "car wash manager" an intended reference to Breaking Bad, where the genius teacher becomes a drug lord to pay for healthcare and avoid bankrupting his family and then uses the car wash where he used to work a second job to launder money?
- 0xy 3y agoBuc-ees Car Wash Manager $125k USD (100k pounds) -> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjXd9k7XkAAFTSn?format=jpg&name=medium https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjXd9k7XkAAFTSn?format=jpg&name=... NHS Brain Surgeon 96k pounds -> https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Neurosurgeon/Salary https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Neurosurgeon/Salary If you decide you can move on up to checks board managing the production of burritos and burgers as a Food Service Manager, you can out-earn a British brain surgeon by 50% :) Pretty depressing to be a British doctor.