And people still don’t get it. They keep voting tory despite it making them poorer in every sense, just because they think the ‘other guy’ is getting it worse. ‘it’s all them immigrants flooding the NHS’ ‘it’s all them immigrants in our houses’ ‘its all them benefits scroungers taking our money’.
None of them seem to question it
Easy answers for simple people. The actual solutions are more complicated but the average person doesn’t have the attention span or interest to hear that, so its repeat the mantra and swallow the lies.
We’re back to ‘its easier to fool a man than convince him he’s been fooled…’
For many, yes. But there are so many who aren’t stupid, far from it, who still parrot this bollocks. They’ve swallowed the whole ‘self sufficiency’ thing.
true but I think we’ll start to see a concerted media campaign starting soon, probably lots of stories in the Fail and Express about patients dead or at risk because of NHS failures
And they have plenty to report…
My wife has been waiting 2 years for a “simple” Asthma confirmation diagnosis. They can’t/don’t/won’t do spirometry tests at our GP’s any more
A friend waited 5 hours for an ambulance and spent another 4 waiting in it at the hospital over the weekend after his wife went downhill from food poisoning
We’ve had daft waits to speak to the GP and related services
I see this as the result of the attempt to privatise the NHS, but so many just see it as down to uncontrolled immigration and wasteful management (I’ve only got your word that the management isn’t wasteful… I believe you but it’s not easy given how shit management is everywhere else…)
I think we already have. They’ve laid into GPs big time from the onset of Covid, and the Fail has been running pieces on the NHS being in debt (artificially but hey why let that spoil the narrative), long waiting times, clinical negligence, overpaid managers, staff shortages, foreign docs & nurses (yeah that’s what happens if you cut training funding) etc in a drip drip fashion.
Quite oblivious of course as to who has been in charge for the last 12 years and presided over this deterioration.
That report is written by MPs in the select committee. The number of shortages is far higher than government figures. The government were only counting those vacancies they were actively advertising. Those not being advertised didn’t count. At least the select committee is doing it’s bloody job.
I’m currently seeing the NHS patient interface working from very, very close up. Given the names and physical ethnicities of all the people caring for me, I have literally no idea how the NHS would work had we not had decades of immigration and were we still not attracting foreign nationals to work in it. The four consumers of this resource in my bay are all stereotypically White British though.
I can’t comment from my bed about management efficiency, but I am seeing a constant stream of non-Neuroscience specialists (my Ortho/Trauma people, Barry’s physios, Alan’s oncologist, Robert’s discharge team) who seem to be interlocking pretty slickly with the clinicians who are working to make us better today than we were yesterday.
The irony of the racists moaning about immigration when the jobs being ‘stolen’ are almost universally those they would refuse (or be totally unable) to do…
Sadly it’s easier to blame than take personal responsibility.
And can’t spell ‘simultaneously’
LOL, while you all did that at the same time…
Dim witted Daily Heil fuck gets schooled.
Thought mad Frankie Fraser died years ago.
Imma voting for three rabid badgers in an overcoat rather the current incumbents, but you go right ahead continuing to enable them 
Audrey White was expelled from Labour over all that anti semitism stuff.
She doesn’t seem happy about it.
Except she wasn’t. She even took the Jewish Chronicle to the press complaints commission over that allegation, and others, she won.
Oops, must have read an incorrect thing.
