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This from Hans Bromwich, Cowes. Ed
Does anyone trust a single word our esteemed leader says? A man who dangled a £6.4million a year ‘Island Deal’ carrot before the last General Election, and has failed to deliver.
But it’s worse, Bob Seely has used his time as our Island MP to vote in Parliament for Councils to receive even less money from Central Government, putting the onus on cash strapped Council Taxpayers to make up the shortfall with year on year above inflation rises in Council Tax. That’s the reality of this man supposedly, ‘delivering for the island’.
Now, with the £48 million investment in our Island’s NHS nearing completion, £10 million of which mysteriously ended up in the coffers of Portsmouth NHS Trust who now run our Island hospital, we are being primed for the second phase, with news that St Mary’s is running a huge £17.6 million deficit. But hang on, haven’t we been here before? Ah yes, St Mary’s was running a huge deficit a few years ago, which was wiped clean when the pandemic struck. It’s easy to engineer huge deficits, you simply don’t fund institutions adequately, then use them as an excuse to justify massive cuts.
With St Mary’s struggling to recruit medical staff my guess is that when the current works at St Mary’s and in Newport High Street are complete, much of it will be handed over to the private sector to run.
What was it David Cameron said back in 2015? The NHS is safe in Conservative hands’. With waiting lists for NHS treatment rising year on year, forcing those with the means to pay and go private, never has there been a bigger lie perpetrated on the British people by a Government.
What can one say? Other than to all you elderly Conservative voters out there, this is what you’ve voted for. Oh, and by the way, don’t worry about inheritance tax. The Tories reneged on fixing Social Care, so you probably won’t have anything to pass on to your nearest and dearest, just hand it all over to your friendly privately run ‘for profit’ £2000 a week care-home.
Remember, we’re all in it together, it’s just some of us are more ‘in it’ than others, unless of course you are one of the VIP Tories who has had all the money away.
