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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
I'm not calling the NHS, my missus works in it and I've been using it quite a bit for one thing and another over the last couple of years. The doctors, surgeons, nurses, technicians, porters and all the other front-line staff are hard-working, dedicated individuals who do their jobs incredibly well, sometimes under difficult conditions.
I am, however, calling this government for its mismanagement and squandering of precious resources in the NHS. Blair had a great opportunity to really transform the NHS and he blew it...and no amount of banging on about events of 20 years ago by the likes of Mancie and Shakey can change that!
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I couldn't have agreed more with you in this thread (until you posted about Cameron anyway
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All too often people look at "What it was like under Thatcher" without looking at the big picture. Look at the economy SHE inhreited, drastic changes needed to take place, and they did, and look at where we are now because of that.
Thatcher/Major built the foundations which Blair/Brown have built upon, just Thatcher had to make the hard decisions which not everyone agreed with so many of you compare now to then. When in reality if it wasn't for her Blair would not have had such great economic foundations to build on, infact he proberbly wouldn't have even become leader of the Labour party.
Because the foundations were so good, and we'd been taken out of a slump, things were on the up, the world not just the UK was in economic growth, he should have used the opporunities to sort out the NHS now that the foundations were set, but he squandered those oppertunities. Anyone including him can bang on about how much investment we have seen, but it means nothing because the performance has not improved in corrolation with the money invested, much of it has been wasted.
Yes the NHS was less funded in the early 90's, yes we had huge waiting times, but the staff could get on with their jobs.
My grandma has been working for the NHS for 50years now (which is a considerable amount of time since the NHS is 59 years old I think), she says it has
"never been worse". That speaks volumes from somebody who has been a working class Labour supporter all her life.