Nice try - but this misses the point. When a civil servant, no matter how 'high', can receive an income rise of twice that of the new state pension, paid for from our taxes; when "new guests" are so well looked after that more of our taxes go towards their 'welfare'; when there are more and more local and national 'administrators, i.e. bureaucrats i.e. civil serpents, and when there are more and more 'projects' being paid for out of our taxes, no matter how 'worthy' according to the latest NGO 'paper'; when ever more taxes go towards a bloated NHS which doesn't;t deliver; when the state is incapable of fulfilling the main task a state ought to, to keep the citizens safe - internally and externally (prisons, armed forces, police) - then surely it is time to go through the costs of this state and cut everything back to the bare minimum, ministries included.
"Afuera!", as a certain PM of a certain South American country said.
After that, we can talk about who has to pay how much in taxation.
For the system to work we need to stop importing low earning people and start employing slackers here on disability because they won't stop drinking and taking drugs. We need to re-onshore our productive capacity to increase earnings per head.
Or kill the old, and I'm not sure that's just a conspiracy theory.
Or let the system crash and call in the IMF so we can blame them.
Btw Vernon Coleman (retired GP and pundit) says the first major step to fix the NHS is to make GPs do evening and weekend cover, as they (and he) used to. That takes the strain off the hospitals.
'Let the system crash and call in the IMF' - oh, didn't we have this once already, under a Labour government IIRC?
As for Dr Coleman's proposal re GP surgeries? Absolutely! But also make GP surgeries one-GP-surgeries, one practice nurse allowed, so that surgeries can be distributed across towns and cities, allowing patients to walk there. Well, we had that 10, 20 years ago ... it worked fine.
GPs - 24/7 cover works better with multi-GP practices, otherwise the GP uses a locum and they can be lethally useless. In the old days the GP could visit a patient in need using a car, a form of transport owned by a select few; today most people can get to a surgery in their own or someone else's.
Yes, that's the 'going cap-in-hand to the IMF' event. Note well that this is after we'd joined the Common Market - I recall the uproar about this causing food to become more expensive, e.g. no more butter from NZ ... and yes, I think there's a direct line from there, via the 'Winter of discontent', to Mrs Thatcher.
As for GPs: normal GPs can be as lethal as locums ... not just by not diagnosis things amiss but by prescribing pills for everything, regardless, missing things because they're not on their computer screen.
Nice try - but this misses the point. When a civil servant, no matter how 'high', can receive an income rise of twice that of the new state pension, paid for from our taxes; when "new guests" are so well looked after that more of our taxes go towards their 'welfare'; when there are more and more local and national 'administrators, i.e. bureaucrats i.e. civil serpents, and when there are more and more 'projects' being paid for out of our taxes, no matter how 'worthy' according to the latest NGO 'paper'; when ever more taxes go towards a bloated NHS which doesn't;t deliver; when the state is incapable of fulfilling the main task a state ought to, to keep the citizens safe - internally and externally (prisons, armed forces, police) - then surely it is time to go through the costs of this state and cut everything back to the bare minimum, ministries included.
"Afuera!", as a certain PM of a certain South American country said.
After that, we can talk about who has to pay how much in taxation.
For the system to work we need to stop importing low earning people and start employing slackers here on disability because they won't stop drinking and taking drugs. We need to re-onshore our productive capacity to increase earnings per head.
Or kill the old, and I'm not sure that's just a conspiracy theory.
Or let the system crash and call in the IMF so we can blame them.
Btw Vernon Coleman (retired GP and pundit) says the first major step to fix the NHS is to make GPs do evening and weekend cover, as they (and he) used to. That takes the strain off the hospitals.
'Let the system crash and call in the IMF' - oh, didn't we have this once already, under a Labour government IIRC?
As for Dr Coleman's proposal re GP surgeries? Absolutely! But also make GP surgeries one-GP-surgeries, one practice nurse allowed, so that surgeries can be distributed across towns and cities, allowing patients to walk there. Well, we had that 10, 20 years ago ... it worked fine.
IMF: 1976. I guess the fallout is what led to 1979.
N.B. the plotted coup against Wilson in 1974: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/15/comment.labour1
GPs - 24/7 cover works better with multi-GP practices, otherwise the GP uses a locum and they can be lethally useless. In the old days the GP could visit a patient in need using a car, a form of transport owned by a select few; today most people can get to a surgery in their own or someone else's.
Yes, that's the 'going cap-in-hand to the IMF' event. Note well that this is after we'd joined the Common Market - I recall the uproar about this causing food to become more expensive, e.g. no more butter from NZ ... and yes, I think there's a direct line from there, via the 'Winter of discontent', to Mrs Thatcher.
As for GPs: normal GPs can be as lethal as locums ... not just by not diagnosis things amiss but by prescribing pills for everything, regardless, missing things because they're not on their computer screen.