Jonathan Pie on the NHS, cutting through the crap in his own distinctive style:
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If people were asked “would you vote for this” – most/many/all would say No. But for the most part, they were not asked. & thus the NHS gradually suffers death by a 1000 cuts by Tory1 and Tory2 politicos who intro private health care for those with money & leave the rest i.e. most UK serfs, to shift for themselves. The serfs, groomed over 40++ years are like turkeys voting for Christmas – whilst the politicos snigger & count the money from the brown envelopes they have been given by private health care providers (all to help with politico staffing costs – natch).
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/starmer-reinstate-the-nhs-fully-public-service
Have you signed this, Mike?
Don’t forget Private Finance Initiatives (PFI’s). (ie governments taking the credit for private investment spending on hospitals, schools & infrastructure when actually just passing on extremely expensive and often poorly built bum deals onto the public).
‘Take, for example, Bart’s Health, the biggest NHS Trust in England, which entered into a 35 year PFI contract for the provision of new medical facilities at two of its sites. The new buildings came into service in 2012. The cost of providing the facilities was £1.15 billion but with the cost of inflation-linked repayments rising every year, the total cost to the Trust will be over £7 billion by the end of the contract’
‘In 2017 there were around 700 PFI schemes in Britain, with an estimated capital value of about £59 billion but which cost taxpayers over £308 bn’.
‘Although governments can borrow money at more attractive rates than private companies because they are unlikely to default on repayments, successive governments favoured the PFI because it avoided the outlay of large one-off payments of public money and did not show up in government accounts as increased public borrowing’.
https://www.patients4nhs.org.uk/pfi-and-the-nhs/
Richard, I heard this short piece when doing some gardening last week. It’s on BBC Sounds episode 9 of the Call Jonathan Pie series. Each episode is about 40 minutes but he keeps coming up with “truth through humour”, your readers may like to follow when gardening too, or perhaps birdwatching?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fsyyfg?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
It is good