Lucky you, Barack. Not everyone is so lucky. Most people I know get a letter telling them to ring for an appointment, thus taking them off the waiting list. Trying to ring a hospital is no joke.
BertieB, you are absolutely right. I have not yet got round to saying that I apologise for having read your OP as saying something that it didn't say!
I'm hoping they win because at the moment DH and I (who earn around 40K per year - lots by many people's standards, and not much by others' standards) pay out all the time and receive nothing in return. We pay out for school fees because the local schools are rubbish; we pay tax, NI, prescription charges, etc, etc, etc, and receive nothing in return.
On top of that, I heartily detest the nanny state and everything to do with state interference in family life. DH and I know what is best for our children. We know when and how we want them to learn about sex, for example. We know what we want them to eat, and that they need to brush their teeth and walk to school. I am so utterly sick of this government telling me what to do. Even if our local schools were any good, I couldn't bear our children to go to schools where the state runs the show and decides what is best for my children. If we couldn't afford private schools (DS has a big scholarship, fortunately for us), I would home educate.
I loathe the EYFS. I loathe the way in which orthodoxy is peddled more or less from birth. Ditto ID cards. I hope a Conservative government would be less heavy handed about all this.
(I do of course realise that I will be stoned for much of this!)