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Originally Posted by Mancie
12.4 billion is a hell of alot of money... but not when compared to the untold 100's of billions of north sea oil money that was squanderd, given away to big business and used to prop up the unemployment/social security payouts that a nation with offically more 3 million unemployed and over 7 million cliaming unemplyment related benifits.... A one off windfall of 100's of billions that will never return.
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And that somehow justifies the billions mis-spent in the NHS over the last few years? Same old story from you Blair apologists - you can't justify the present, so let's retreat into the past.
Tony's lot poured a heck of a lot of money into the NHS (raised from our taxes, of course). It presented a great opportunity to really transform the health service...an opportunity that has, to a large part been squandered. Apart from the little matter of the wasted £12.4 billion, so much money has been thrown away on pointless bureacracy, policy initiatives, quangos, committees and all the other gimmickry that is so beloved of this headline-obsessed government. Just ask anyone who actually works in the NHS. If the government had actually thought about how to spend the money wisely on front-line services, instead of blindly rushing from one spin-making stunt to the next, the health service could now be so, so much better. Blair has sold the British people short over this and I, for one, will never forgive him for it. Still, why involve yourself in tiresome arguments about the present, Mancie? Much better to discuss what Thatcher was doing in 1986!
