Voting for Reform.the north/south

[Jollyjupiter]

As a proud Northerner i can say 80 per cent of my peer group will vote for Reform in May. Do you think it will be a North v South split?

It certainly isn’t. When you’re really ill it comes up trumps. We have a lot of very recent experience of the NHS and clinically it’s been faultless.

I agree with this. My cousin recently had some odd symptoms. Went to the GP. GP recognised at once it was a potential medical emergency in the making. The care was excellent and swift. All sorted now and he is fine.

Nope.

No.

Now everyone is looking to get a 30 second clip of themselves for TikTok or Facebook.

Nhs is brilliant (usually) in an emergency/urgent. But for routine care it's gone downhill. Staff are also working way over capacity and making up for shortages by doing unpaid overtime. I cut my hours to part time (3 and half days), to mean that I can actually do my job within full time hours and not need to work evenings and weekends to catch up. Staff are at breaking point and sooner or later it's all going to fall apart, or thats how it feels

.

What would help? More staff?

Same, I regularly need it for a condition and it's always great.

Agree routine is awful. Have been waiting nearly a year for an appointment in respiratory medicine and when I from time to time try and find out how much longer the wait might be I get an answering machine saying due to staff sickness they cannot take phone calls. Same message for months.

I will say as a cynical millennial. Governments only care about what the boomers want and as such I won't waste my time voting. North & South be damned.

That is appalling service. Have you tried complaining to PALS or asking your GP surgery to chase things up? Sadly, being a squeaky wheel is sometimes needed.

What is it you think baby boomers want that is different to the wants of the general population?

If you mean the triple lock, many baby boomers are still working and not getting the state pension, and plenty who are getting the SP think the triple lock unfair.

Eta,: but parties will court the "grey vote" as it is the contingent that tends to get out and vote. If millennials can't be arsed to vote, parties won't be arsed to woo them at the ballot box.

Yes my GP is now going to chase - I do sometimes wonder if the referral letter has been lost and that’s why I haven’t heard anything but really no way of checking.

Yes more staff, but also better staff - its really hard to get rid of underperforming staff. And the whole thing needs a complete overhaul. It's such a complicated, clunky and mammoth system, with many inefficiencies. For example, I spent about 10 hours last week trying to get a child who had moved house accepted by the new team for their area - somehow their postcode combined with their new gp somehow made them ineligible for care for my profession in their new area. Then I finally got them accepted, and a different speciality asked them to change their gp and I was back to square one. Poor use of my time and delayed care for the child

My daughter needed to be seen by a specific consultant Dr D. Our GP cannot refer to them, so referred to Dr B, who then still couldn't refer to Dr D, so referred to Dr C, who then could refer to Dr D. Drs B and C only saw her for max 5 mins to say yes will do the referral. 4 appts when only 2 were needed.

You sound like a bit of a fool

Wow how profound

Just matching your energy

I'm in the south, too, and I haven't seen any evidence of the country being out of control in any way.

I feel the same. @IAmBeaIDrinkTea. My town, and the other towns in the area, feel perfectly safe at night, I had incredibly prompt GP and hospital treatment when I needed it last year, I've been able to get an NHS dentist locally for the first time in a few years, and new social housing is being built in my area.

The only gripe I have about public services is that we now have to book an appointment to take stuff to the tip. Oh, and potholes!

That's such a stupid stance. Governments only care about voters- if you don't vote, then don't complain that they don't listen to you.

Which is why voting should be mandatory.

It would force political parties to consider carefully what they offer all age groups.

I don't think it was ever defined prior to the referendum. Voting for it was akin to writing a blank cheque imo.

Well said. The snobbery and classism is appalling.

What will Reform do for carers?

Cut the benefits. If the person you care for is no longer deemed disabled enough for a carer, you are getting nothing