In terms of Westminster/England, but also the knock-on affect for Wales, the North of Ireland/Northern Ireland and Scotland in the current UK system, this is 100% correct. To be clear, it doesn’t matter at all whether you hate/love/don’t care about/are indifferent to Jeremy Corbyn, the end result is the same. Using ‘you’ in the general sense re the UK, you were very explicitly warned this was the case. Not only that, DOCTORS, NURSES and NHS STAFF THEMSELVES *LITERALLY* handed out the legitimate government documents to the media at a press conference Corbyn’s Labour held.
They did this of their own volition to make the point that this wasn’t political point-scoring, or propaganda, but the cold, hard truth. You didn’t listen and/or chose not to believe these front-line people AND the literal government papers leaked proving it.
The consequences are there for you to see. We are past crisis point. Years and years of *VERY DELIBERATE* under-funding (going from amongst the biggest healthcare spenders in Europe to now not even being in the top ten in Europe) to create his crisis. I 100% agree that Blair’s New Labour escalated the PFI disaster, but, as much as I despise Blair, his governments did spend WAY more on the NHS and we saw the massive difference compared to now.
Chalk and cheese. I also 100% agree that under Starmer’s UK Labour now, they will also-as they have openly admitted-embrace privatisation of the NHS. In fact, the Shadow Health Secretary seems proud of this fact.
Oh, and before anyone says “We can no longer afford the NHS as was”…or “that we cannot afford to give pay ‘rises’” that are literally not that, but treading water in real terms…or the classic “We have an aging population and we’ve got to be realistic, nobody loves the NHS more than me, blah, blah BS” etc etc…let us be very, very clear. We absolutely, 100% VERY MUCH CAN afford to properly fund the NHS. Anyone telling you otherwise is an outright liar. The sad truth is that you will probably believe them, and think I and others telling you otherwise are “looney Lefties/Communists/Marxists/Idealists/Student Politics” etc etc. You will believe, and actually defend, the downfall of the very thing the U.K. should be-and is-mostly proud of: OUR NHS.
This pattern always repeats, and quite frankly, apart from being literally, fatefully dangerous as we have seen over the last 13 years, and the consequences already being felt ruthlessly by all of us, it’s getting boring now.
FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER GOD YOU BELIEVE IN…STOP. VOTING. FOR. EVIL. *ACTUAL*. EVIL. C***S. STOP IT. YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE. FFS SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE AND WAKE THE F**K UP. BECAUSE IT’S ALMOST TOO LATE. GENUINELY.
Yes, this also means dictating to Starmer and his lying, racist, Establishment cronies that your vote for the ‘alternative’ comes with at least one non-negotiable condition: UK LABOUR, IF ELECTED, MUST DO THE TRIPLE-LOCK EQUIVALENT OF ENDING PRIVATISATION IN *OUR* NHS.
YOU don’t have the luxury of turning a blind eye, or not being ars*d, or being lazy, or thinking ‘someone else will do it’ etc etc. Those days have long, long gone. It’s time to start listening to the unbelievably brilliant, brave heroes that are our NHS workers, and the facts that have been there for years now, and actually ACT. DEMAND! DEMAND! DEMAND! I’m going to go further than I ever have before here too…shame those still in denial. Shame them into action, because nothing else has so far, so what do you have to lose?!
Their ignorance or denial is something we cannot afford. It’s life and death. Literally. So, as I have done and will continue to do, if that person is a family member, partner, friend-WHOEVER it is-CALL THEM OUT. IF THEY WANT TO VOTE TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THAT, THEN *THEY ARE VERY MUCH PART OF THE PROBLEM*!!! So call them out on it!! I cannot possibly think of anything more important than trying to save our NHS. So if that means some people get upset at being called out, so be it. That is a better consequence than the alternative. Unless you think allowing this to go unchallenged is an option of course?!
Don’t wait for someone else to do it, YOU DO IT! No one else will if you don’t! Solidarity, and let us all
THANK SO MUCH THE NHS WORKERS AND LET US SUPPORT THEM IN SAVING US!!
Adam Samuels
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Very well put, Adam.