Pontius,
My reply was the first on here, now that’s hardly “silence” is it?
Whoever was in power would have made no difference to this tragic tale, in an organisation as large as the NHS you will always have tales of woe and tales of joy. Is it better than it was after 18 years of Tory rundown, lack of investment and undermining of its very raison detre? Yes I think it is. Is it good enough? No I don’t think it is.
One hopefully positive outcome of the high profile NHS funding is receiving in this campaign is that who ever is returned to power will now feel obliged to continue high level funding whatever their previous plans had been. (Fingers crossed).
Swinging Monkey,
True, true, and he has had long enough to have an effect, but who CAN put right an organisation larger than the Swiss army?
glum,
Where did it all breakdown? I know this is a party political point and for that I apologise, but it WAS a Conservative Government who removed the right to free or subsidised health care for the elderly and replaced it with a deliberate policy of forcing people to use the inherited wealth in property to fund long term care in old age, until THAT is changed then we will all be in this situation. Before you point out that Blair has had 8 years to put this right, I agree ,a fair point and one that needs addressing.
Lee jung,
I will, thanks.
You make some good points but then ruin it by calling anyone who votes the other way a fool and ruining it even further with a wildly inaccurate cheap shot at Europe.