How important is the Health Service (NHS in the UK)?
For over 10 years the NHS was stripped and privatised,reducing it to a shell. Waiting lists in 2010 were the shortest they had ever been, satisfaction levels higher than they had ever been,at the end of 2019 they were the longest and lowest respectively since its founding.
The UK now has the second highest number of deaths in the world from Covid -19,others may be hiding their numbers but the UK is still undoubtedly disgustingly high regardless.
Let's not forget care homes, the tragedy that has unfolded is beyond negligence,it is criminal.
All of this is a fact,a fact that many seem to be ignoring. The massive underfunding of the NHS and care homes has led to massive deaths.
Yet,it has also had an unbelievably huge knock-on effect on society and the economy as well. The Lockdown,the loss of work for millions,the loss of education,the debt that will now need to be paid. Life will change again after this and what will the Tory government once again do? More austerity, more cuts to everyday people and society.
Frankie Boyle once said "How is it that a library and youth centre in Dudley in Birmingham was somehow responsible for the Banking Collapse and therefore needed to close?"
It is more serious than that...the worldwide Banking Collapse led to the NHS,the police,the military, education and welfare all being cut in a relentless cycle of cuts in the name of austerity,yet they didn't cause the banks to collapse,that then led the UK to be ill prepared for the pandemic we now have.
It is an economic policy that has been slowly destroying the UK, they blamed the immigrants(who paid MORE in taxes than they took out) they blamed the EU(Which provided our nation with more trade than any other economic group,and which on balance also our jobs and our wealth).
Other developed nations didn't punish their ordinary citizens for the Banking collapse and rejected austerity,they continued to fund their people,their welfare,education and their health services.
They haven't lost such a tragically high number of cases . Their health services coped or their neighbours helped them and even took each others' infected patients.
In the UK we have had the same government for 10 years.So the unnecessary deaths of so many thousands is either because of their policies over the last decade or the absolute incompetence of the Prime Minister over the last few months,even I cannot blame everything on Boris,but it is definitely a combination of the two factors.
The irony is,is that this disaster will now cost the people and economy of the UK much much much more than if they had just kept funding all of these services. The idea that they couldn't afford it is bullshit....now they can't afford the fallout and the massive changes that will come.
The money they cut will be nothing compared to what they will now need to spend, tenfold!
If they had made sure the very pillars that hold up our society remained solid,instead of propping up the banks and cutting taxes for the rich and allowing corporations to avoid tax and allowing labour laws to be overridden they would now be in a situation similar to Germany(500 deaths) and our other neighbours,instead, our children and grandchildren will be paying for this infinitus
Have the cuts to education now made British people too stupid to see what is in front of their eyes?
Times everything I have said by ten and then you also have the US.
