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AIBU to ask if you believe that a labour government will go some way to fixing the NHS?

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TabithaTwitchel · 07/03/2024 21:01

I'm not a labour voter but I could potentially be persuaded for obvious reasons right now

I'd like to believe a new government could do 'something' to stem the rot in the NHS. But I'm not convinced.

Do you think it will help?

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BIossomtoes · 31/10/2024 08:35

Alexandra2001 · 31/10/2024 08:23

Healthcare delivery in France, let alone Germany is incredibly complicated and very admin heavy.

Both countries spend far more per head of population than the UK does and they have done over decades.

People are up in arms over NI rises for business, if we had a French German HC system, they'd be paying far more.

Love it that Hunt is doing the media shows, telling us all how he would have done things differently....... yet no one is asking him who gave this state affairs after 14 years of his party in Govt.

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I honestly have no idea why the man who damaged the NHS and mismanaged the economy is being asked for his views on anything. Why would anyone want to know what someone so demonstrably inept thinks?

Alexandra2001 · 31/10/2024 09:48

BIossomtoes · 31/10/2024 08:35

I honestly have no idea why the man who damaged the NHS and mismanaged the economy is being asked for his views on anything. Why would anyone want to know what someone so demonstrably inept thinks?

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Quite, he has also damaged the UK with his unfunded NI cuts and not funding pay rises, that his govt commissioned.

Yet interviewers do not question him about this, its all back slapping, wishing him the best on the backbenches and time with his family.

Papyrophile · 31/10/2024 21:34

If he wants to stay in politics, and I suspect Hunt feels he's done his stint, then there is nothing to be gained by keeping him around to be a whipping boy. Except for the delight of Labour voters who enjoy political blood sports.

Zonder · 31/10/2024 22:19

Alexandra2001 · 31/10/2024 09:48

Quite, he has also damaged the UK with his unfunded NI cuts and not funding pay rises, that his govt commissioned.

Yet interviewers do not question him about this, its all back slapping, wishing him the best on the backbenches and time with his family.

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You'd almost think the media was biased!

BIossomtoes · 31/10/2024 22:24

Papyrophile · 31/10/2024 21:34

If he wants to stay in politics, and I suspect Hunt feels he's done his stint, then there is nothing to be gained by keeping him around to be a whipping boy. Except for the delight of Labour voters who enjoy political blood sports.

That’s really unfair. His long stint at the DoH did absolutely nothing to improve the NHS and was part of the reason it was in such bad shape when Covid hit - for which there was no plan or preparedness. As chancellor he took the decision to make unfunded, unaffordable tax cuts and promised more. Pointing that out is hardly a blood sport.

Alexandra2001 · 01/11/2024 07:23

Papyrophile · 31/10/2024 21:34

If he wants to stay in politics, and I suspect Hunt feels he's done his stint, then there is nothing to be gained by keeping him around to be a whipping boy. Except for the delight of Labour voters who enjoy political blood sports.

He is responsible for the collapse in maternity services, he admitted this himself when on the back benches, BUT then did nothing about it when he became Chancellor.

The sooner people like him leave so called public service and politics, the better.

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