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This from Hans Bromwich, Cowes. Ed
There are now over 7.6 million people awaiting NHS treatment. Rishi Sunak has been quick to point the finger of blame at junior doctors and consultants, but waiting lists have been steadily rising under the Conservatives for over a decade. In 2014 the number of patients waiting for treatment was 3million, in 2017 4million, in 2021 5 million, and in 2022 7 million. I don’t recall doctors being on strike throughout this period.
Junior doctors and consultants are simply asking for their salaries to be restored to 2010 levels. Surely that’s not unreasonable given their selfless sacrifice throughout the pandemic?
But where is the money going to come from I hear you ask?
Well, currently we have the highest taxes since the Second World War. Then there’s the Liz Truss fiasco, resulting in the cost of services and goods going through the roof. As prices rise so do VAT returns with this extra windfall money flooding into the Treasury like there’s no tomorrow. Finally, there’s the Brexit dividend. Let’s remind ourselves of it again, an extra £350million a week for our NHS.
So there’s plenty of money available to restore doctors pay back to where it was in 2010, and in any case, much of it would find its way back into the Treasury via taxes. What’s lacking is Government will to resolve the crisis because its continuation conveniently plays into their desire to further weaken our NHS by sowing division amongst staff and the public, in the hope of making the highly lucrative private healthcare sector seem more attractive.
Rishi Sunak is keen to inform us that his parents were pharmacists, but that doesn’t mean he cares about the NHS. Remember, he is the man who introduced, ‘Eat Out To Help Out’, which many believe helped spread Covid, and kept the public distracted whilst the Tory VIP chumocracy raided the Treasury coffers having it away large.
Perhaps most tellingly, Rishi chose ‘entrepreneur’ Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor, the man who many believe spent much of his time as Health Secretary surreptitiously undermining the NHS so the profitable Private Health Sector could be welcomed onto the field of play.
With over 7.6 million patients awaiting medical treatment, or put another way, 1 in every 8 people, think of the number of patient’s who are unable to work, racked with anxiety, and whose lives are put on hold whilst debilitated with chronic pain. What a diabolical state of affairs.
Do you real trust Conservatives to fix the shambles they have engineered over the last decade, or should every single one of these charlatans be kicked out of office, and government, in the next general election?
