‘Ten problems the Tories have created this week’ | James O’Brien on LBC
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2024
- James O'Brien reacts to news headlines this week so far, listing the ‘immense problems’ the UK has faced.
He identifies these as:
1. Maternity
2. Prisons
3. Schools
4. NHS
5. Care homes
6. Water
7. Border checks
8. Probation services
9. Homelessness
10. Shoplifting
James asks: ‘How did they manage to fluff everything up in such a relatively short amount of time?’
'Almost every area of life has been decimated... by the arrogance, austerity and entitlement.'
This comes as Rishi Sunak delivered a major speech in London in a pre-election pitch. He refused, however, to call a general election at this time.
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Nothing scares me more than the thought of another 5 years of the Tories.
Same here.
If this happens, I’m Emigrating
agree and the position would be totally unrecoverable by then
@@stevenclarke5606I said the same to my missus. I would
Like to think there no chance but the right media will go into overdrive to try and get them back in…
Yep. We could kiss goodbye to our human rights.
We've had 14 years of state sponsored decline & deprivation, I used to think it was incompetence but now I've come to the conclusion that it has all been done deliberately & systematically.
The poorer we are the richer they become. It's really that simple. They don't want us to be economically active, they want us to be economically suppressed. This will maintain the class system they so firmly believe in.
not really, it's just a by product of greedy sociopaths taking everything that isn't actually bolted to the floor for themselves and their donors
Precisely. It's all in "Britannia Unchained".
Specifically their passion to dismantle the NHS . It's been their goal to get rid of it from the day it was created
You are exaggerating
We got 99 problems and the Tories are most of them.
The tories are all of them.
Labour is going to be worse
@@anonomous8719your fear mongering won’t win you the vote buddy
Well there is also Asteroid strikes and Extra Terrestrial attacks but at the bottom of the list in order of severity. But otherwise yes.
@anonomous8719 you're incorrect, sorry.
The biggest threat to us all would be another 5 years of the utterly wretched Tories.
100%
Well Done Tory Voters,it’s all your FAULT.
@harrydebastardeharris. We desperately need more and better education. Our system has been systematically destroyed by our masters - and quite cleverly. Those Mickey-Mouse degrees and 2 -a - penny certificates. All designed to sideline and remove critical thinking. They want an “easy-meat” electorate. Not a smart people who can see through their wiles.
It is yes but some of them will do it again unbelievable.
If something scary is coming, I don’t want the Conservatives in charge.
Sunak will be off to America. Won’t go down on the titanic.
Something scary happened in 2020 and we cannot afford to have idiots in charge again.
Total shambles who would put truss or Johnson back in charge if given the chance.
@@Gaza-vu6gl Escape plan already firmly in place...
@@Gaza-vu6gl Yup, the rich elites will never suffer like the rest of us have to
The Tories ARE the vampire at the door! They should never be allowed anywhere near power again after the damage they've done to this country.
Yup, over zealous austerity, pointless hard Brexit, Covid waste and mismanagement, the Truss budget
And all we need to do is NOT invite them in this time around. I hope MOST people have learnt their lesson.
@@keithpanton I’m glad you mentioned that. The voters themselves must take a big share of the responsibility for the catastrophe. One Tory government after another, despite the policies of destruction and theft.
Unfortunately memories are short.
They will do, their lemming-like friends in the media will ensure they do!
The Tories should never be forgiven for the misery , Anxiety , trauma they have inflicted on millions of people . Tories out !!! .
General Election Now.
@@susanmorgan3104 totally Agree 👍
Thatcher started ALL this decline.
You can only sell things once.
She said it’s too late to catch up with Germany, Japan and South Korea.
China said….. hold my beer.
Yep , we are living her vision .
Indeed...sadly most now have no idea, ...you 100% had to be there !
And that provides the answer to James's question "Is this all baked-in now?" Just as most of the tenets of Thatcherism have become permanent, the same forces will be applied to make the current status ... "quo".
Surely the minister for common sense who is looking to shut down "pointless" jobs to save money should resign! It's basic common sense!
Sorry but I can’t agree, don’t you realise She’s trying to outlaw colourful lanyards !!!
The rich should be paying more taxes.
@clare Unless you're rich of course.
@@chatham43 it’s not a human right to be rich
@@Dazzerthegooner666 And it's bad for the environment. Rich people waste resources at a phenomenal rate. Nobody should be rich, and resources should be rationed per person, not per person who has more money.
How Rich? Super rich or just slightly richer than you?
@@pseudonayme7717so communism then?
2 simple rules for life;
No.1 - Never trust a tory
No.2 - Never forget rule number 1
Similar with Labour too. More subtle than these plain evil tories, but still awful.
Rule no. 3 - never EVER trust the SNP
Labour are very cozy with capitalism, no?
Q: "What do I fear the most?"
A: I fear these Tory ghouls win the next GE.
Terrifying!!!! 🫣
That means WAR! 😮
Corruption and utter contempt for the general population.
All parties unfortunately.
@@Lindisfarnefarmer Except under Blair/Brown there wasn't this many scandals. Lazy thinking
The MPs responsible do not send their kids to state schools, swim in our rivers and seas, use the NHS, drive on public roads day in day out, etc, etc. Basically they do not care unless it affects them and they can profit form it.
@andyzandy Its from...and basically is just a filler word.
No humility. No regrets. Ladies and gentlemen, the Conservative Party.
the IEA
@@grateberk6435 ... and also the Policy Exchange, another dodgy opaquely funded Tory-supporting think-tank.
And Keith Starver's Labour
Plenty of tax free bonuses, donor back handers and lifetime pensions though
@@user-xc8ir7ng9z When he gets into -power you can judge him. But what isn't debatable is that the Tories have been awful.
The answer is to tax the rich. At the moment, the poor are paying more tax due to the thresholds being frozen and the gap between rich and poor is widening as we speak. There is going to be no middle class etc in between just the rich and poor. Tax the wealthy before it is too late.
Conservatives - "If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie, lie again."
Why do people shoplift? They shoplift because they are desperate for food,money and a decent place to live. The rise in crime is all to do with poverty and hopelessness about a decent job and future.
But thats not a new thing, Jean Valjean stole a loaf of bread in 1862 and if he hadnt done that we wouldnt have the longest running musical ever.
@clare Or just criminals on the make. You're not a shopworker are you.
@@chatham43there has always been shoplifters many stole to sell the goods, others stole things they wanted alcohol, clothes now some of them are stealing to feed their families, don't agree with stealing but desperation can make people do things they normally wouldn't do.
Supermarkets are stealing from you with their artificially inflated prices. Only seems fair to rob them back.
Exactly and we all know who is responsible for it.
The conservatives have taken us back to 1890,s
Where are we going to admit to ourselves at the Tories have asset stripped the country.
All because you didn’t want corbyn
So why give Tory voters a choice they don’t want?
& we still don't.
And we don't really want Starmer either but we need to con men out.
Corbyn allowed the Tories to hold the election in 2019, when he had them boxed in he let them out. What a naive fella.
@@user-ol6rd7pl5t You believe Corbyn would have done worse? I do not. Corbyn is compassionate and not corrupt for starters. I am Jewish and I know he is not antisemitic. Have you ever actually READ his manifesto, instead of just taking your lead from the Murdoch press?
We need protecting from the Tories. The enemy within is doing more damage than the enemy without.
Look at who funds Policy Exchange where Sunak's speech was given.
Ajew do jew 😮
HOW MANY RECENT PAST AND PRESENT POLITICIANS HAVE BECOME WEALTHIER AS A RESULT OF THEIR TIME IN PUBLIC OFFICE DESPITE THE CATASTROPHIC FINANCIAL OUTCOME FOR UK CITIZENS?
Is there a prize for the person who gets the right answer?
Look how wealthy Tony Blair is
I only now realise that my spinal surgery happened at the end of the labour govt beginning of the coalition before the NHS was ruined. If my injury happened 10 years later I'd probably still be on benefits and being hounded instead of being fixed up and able to work again
I had an ectopic pregnancy and emergency surgery 16 years ago, I was minutes from death when I collapsed on the floor in A&E. I always think I’d be dead if that was now, I’m sure many many people are suffering or worse dying because of the state the Tories have left every thing
Simples…. Follow the money. Once you work out where it has gone, that gives you a start for where to get it back from. Start with the £37bn paid out during covid. How much went out via the VIP lane contracts?
They have reduced the police ,nurses, doctors and the armed forces
It's pretty easy to back trace all the woes of our country today to Cameron's Austerity added to by corruption.
and Brexit.
Yep, that's my understanding of it.
They managed to double the UK debt while running an austerity campaign and while they were getting back 80% of the money that labour had to pay out to keep the banks afloat.
Hey! Give Thatcher her credit!
Austerity was a reboot of disproven 80s trickle-down economics. Inequality now at record levels. Who thought this could ever end well? Austerity enabled Brexit, which enabled the last five years of Tory incompetence and open corruption.
As Esther sat there talking about lanyards, didn’t the “journalist” think to question her on her priorities. They get a smooth ride every time on interviews with no push back from the placating media so they just carry on as normal. The media are just as much to blame for the mess we are in.
The Tories have made it standard practice to cut off/disinvite journalists that ask difficult questions. The sad thing is, this is a tonal shift - alongside many others - that probably won't be second-guessed by Labour.
Landyard
The Conservatives haven't finished breaking Britain, they want another 5 years (Truss wants another 10).
NHS is next if they win. ironically its pensioners who are the only ones left who will vote tory and they need the NHS the most.
@@kanedNunable
Turkeys, Voting & Christmas - all of a sudden spring to mind!
People believed all the nonsense of how Libertarianism would free them from shackles of government regulation and taxation and that austerity would lead them to 'real freedom'. That's why we're in this mess
Well... It kind of did. They left out the part where we would leave government shackles in favour of corporate shackles and economic abuse. That's the bit they conveniently leave out.
Maybe idiots and npc's accepted that but some of us know the script and knew exactly where it was leading. They need unrest.
@@7ookee well said
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
Nick Ferrari has been spending at least the last 20 years demonising prisoners, and stoking up fear and hate, helping contribute towards successive governments being too scared to invest in the system.
And now he turns round and talks about the state of the prison system like he is not responsible. Shame on him
@pancak Hope you're not getting vertigo high up on that moral high ground.
FEAR is always their "go to" card.
@terry It's a handy tool used by both main parties!
How about a Minister of Doing Something Useful?
I second that 😅
😂👍
now now.....don't be silly, that's not in their interests
They’ve created this fear. 🤦
I can guarantee that on the morning of the Election, the Tory Rags will have front page headlines warning of the disastrous consequences of Voting Labour!
Really 14 years of disastrous Tory government has run the country into the ground, remember what the Tory government has done, Do the Right Thing and vote Labour!
Waiting lists for NHS are over 3 x higher than when labour left power. Maternal mortality rates are heading back up towards pre 2005 levels. So what are we scared of? Tories in power i'd say.
They were already failing by 2015 . So they distracted us from that with Brexit.
So now we have sovereignty, cheaper food, clothes and shoes, world record breaking trade deals with every country outside the EU, everyone earning great wages and industry thriving, our green spaces are filled with unicorns browsing under blue skies, life is effing brilliant!!!!!
Sorry forgot to add just like they told us it would be.😅😅
His party has spent 14+ years destroying everything, so, deflecting to Labour is plainly ridiculous.
Take Mr O'briens list and try to explain how mass immigration is not responsible for each item on the list.
@@seamuspadraigsanders431try to explain why Brexit is not the answer
@@seamuspadraigsanders431how is mass immigration responsible for raw sewage being pumped into our rivers?
@@biga1398 If Brexit was the answer, the elites wouldn't include Covid, the war in Ukraine and the failure of the BOE over inflation rates as Brexit related.
An example of this baffling with bs Remain ideology is, there is a shortage of medicines in UK because of Brexit? Then why have 95 per cent of pharmacies in the EU faced shortages.
@@seamuspadraigsanders431 imagine if only we had processed most of those immigrants and got them working resulting in contribution to our crumbling economy, oh wait the Tories decided not to do that, fail on everything and when the chickens come home to roost just blame Labour.
Labour's worst day is still better than anything in the last 14 years.
Bring back Sangita Myska
Careful what you say, James is a little sensitive and now blocking people on twitter for such comments
'I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want every man, woman and child to understand how close we are to chaos. I want everyone to remember why they need us!' - Chancellor Sutler - V For Vendetta.
Frightening...
Look how they spend money, who is getting the most and why.
Israel and Ukraine
You forgot DWP monitoring people's bank accounts. ,
The only thing the British public need to be worried about is getting another 5 years of the Tories, we can all do our bit to protect the nation from that potential catastrophe at the next GE.
I’m not helping a mug who doesn’t s scared to use a real name
@user-ol6rd. Another 5 years - or even 2 - and we’ll be so weak, we’ll wake up and find that we’ve become a colony of a new Imperial Power. A “cyber-empire” perhaps.
The Tories learned that irresponsible actions and corruption have no consequences for them…
Only for the rest of us.
That's because the English think that there great people standing against something that doesn't exist anymore Commies
Don't look at all those problems........ Look over here and be scared enough to vote tory.
The usual Tory smoke and mirrors tactics.
Never going to happen.
Project fear!
the tories dont have anything to offer so going for the fear factor makes sense, it is tragic though.
I always think that when someone invokes the "it's just common sense" argument, is precisely the moment when they know they have lost the debate to logic and reason.
The fact that we now have a minister for common sense shows just how far we have descended from reality.
@MrGrumtastic Moot point.
"How do we fix it"? Vote Labour, rejoin the single market and the Customes Union, introduce a windfall tax and double the benefit payments to the needy for a start ...
the tories have even made the dwp twisted and cruel by the way they treat people
in other countries citizens visit the job centre's for a gander, see what's about, see what they are entitles too. nobody goes to the DWP's cruel centres unless ordered too, under pain of sanctions. sad state of affairs!
We must never forget what they have done. We knew it, now others must.
Privatisation and deregulation are slowly destroying everything
Tackling non-existent problems - Voter ID is a classic (unless it was to make it difficult for some to cast their votes for others rather than the Tories).
Voter ID, lol. You can’t get people out to vote,lol. But be scared be very, very scared, someone might double vote, right? It’s crazy
I find it personally offensive that a man who is as morally and physically weak as Sunak thinks he can offer me any level of protection whatsoever.
He was beaten by a lettuce ffs. I suspect many of our adversaries lick their lips at the prospect of going up against him.
That's a weird thing to say. His physical strength has got nothing to do with it. He's not offering to stick up for you at the pub. I expect he's referring to the protection that a state offers its' citizens through diplomatic efforts or the armed forces.
Just to be clear I feckin hate the Tories and Sunak and his speech was nonsense but your take on it is just odd.
@@gary_c2376 no, my take is that at the global level, having something about you goes a long way. You think Putin looks at Sunak as anything other than fresh meat? He's weak in all meanings of the word
@@Jericho642 that doesn't explain the first part of your original comment. Sunak may be pretty pathetic but he's the prime minister of the UK which I assume is where you live.
Citizens are protected from outside aggression by the state in which they live.
Sunak controls the state in which you live.
Therefore you are protected by Sunak.
People will cease to commit atrocities only when they cease to believe absurdities. -Voltaire
You forgot about the railways, fisheries, farming and manufacturing
This whole government now needs to be in therapy. Oh. Forgot....they've removed funding for mental health haven’t they?
When will they be gone???
I need to sleep at night.
Labour shopping list of rectification:
Repair the high street; the water companies; train infrastructure; worker relations; the rivers; energy transition; transportation electrification; housing costs; housing market; business corruption; political corruption; NHS; Council funding.... keep this going, as evidence of Conservatives mismanagement, incompetence, corruption & destruction
Plus international relations with the EU in particular.
What have this lot actually achieved? Leave aside all the negatives... They are not achievements... Actual positive achievements for the people in this country.... What?
More profits and less regulations for big corporations
I think just like Brexit supporters all Tory supporters can come up with is bitter nasty stuff like: "well, at least it upsets you!"
The "I hate people so want to make their life a misery" crowd. They vote Tory.
More money in their own pockets.
Example Boris Johnson.
Went from using parliamentary expenses to pay for a new bed at his girlfriend's and borrowing money for wallpaper to owning a million pound home in a few years.
Disgusting but typical of our current political establishment.
Don't be so pessimistic, they're working on banning rainbow lanyards.
@@Jdsfbgfvbvxv Not really a benefit to the voting British public, since despite the right-wing fiction of trickle down economics, growth is stagnant and in real terms, most of us are poorer than we were in 2010. Foreign shareholders and offshore bank managers have no doubt made a killing, though - at our expense!
The answer is simple. To many tory governments. We need to radically re shape our electoral system to better represent all of the people. No more Conservatives
Hear! Hear!
Tories are toast.
I'm a vegetarian but your recipe sounds interesting.
I think that it would be an insult to us all for one Tory MP to retain his seat. They are worth nothing. No votes. No seats. NOTHING.
He said that he was the only one that could stand up to China and Russia. How would anybody know he's stood up?
China and Russia, more like US and Tories. The Tories will get rid of the NHS, Starmer will too, just you wait and see. Labour and Tories two cheeks
What would it take James, End privatisation.... That would go a long way to ending the tory chaos!
We do know what the problem is and has been the problem since Thatcher. Neo-liberal capitalism, rampant profiteering with little or no regulation of the market and limited taxation of those companies that are extracting the most.
Sort that and you can raise wages, living standards, educational, health, justice, social care and infrastructure standards too.
Tax the wealthy, tax the rich, tax the corporations and feed that money back into developing the nations people.
I feel sorry for anyone who thinks that the Tories have a chance at the election.
I don’t. The country is in such a state that anyone who thinks otherwise needs a talking to, not sympathy.
@@Martinbeef ...what? Have you even seen the polls? They're on for an absolute hiding, and rightly so - you're kidding nobody but yourself pal lol
I feel sorry for anyone who still thinks Labour Liberal or Tory can save this country.
I don't know if they do, but I fervently hope they don't.
@@paulpearce4570I know they seem unaware that both parties are owned by the same people, you'd think that the last 7 months would have made that obvious to even the most fanatical mono party acolyte. If I don't edit yt delete me 😮
How did it get so bad so quickly? A group of very clever people set their talents to coming up with ways to to destroy public services whilst retaining a level of plausible deniability. This idea that our rulers are thick, or incompetent is popular fiction. Certainly, many of the figureheads have fitted that description but the people who actually do the planning have been chosen from the best educated, cleverest minds available. This has happened by design. A better question is: How were so many people persuaded to vote for it?
Hear hear. This has not happened by accident, the architects of this would have known what they were doing to get the country into such chaos so quickly. Some of the theatrical puppets (politicians) carrying out the plans may have been incompetent, but the architects were not. People were manipulated into voting for these changes by some very clever minds by convincing them to believe that Europe was the enemy rather than our friend.
As for the question of how do we reconstruct our public services? For that to be achieved our politicians will have to work across parties in ways they are not accustomed to.
Exactly.....my guess is they read the Daily Fail, the Express, the Sun, the Telegraph. They also listen to journalists on the BBC who never challenge Tory Politicians.
If the date was 1997, then I could easily say that the new Labour Government could fix the damage...but...we're not in 1997: we now have Brexit.
Brexit is the rope around the neck of the UK, choking the life out of the country.
I don't think the country can be fixed this time.
The damage is permanent. And it will get worse.
Sangita got sick of Torries so she left LBC
you mean sangita got sick of zio lies, so they pulled strings and got rid of her
If politicians don't get to grips with the concept of tipping points, immigration, Russians, Hamas, pandemics, et al will be completely irrelevant in 50 years or so. Thank providence I will be dead but I worry for my children, nephews and nieces, and any grandchildren.
The electorate have to take some responsibility
when things were running well, changing direction after an election is harder than what we face today, and people understand how bad it is. so labour have a unique opportunity to really change things from the bottom to the top. even if labour messes up, it still not as bad as the Tories after 14 years!
Bring back Sangita!
Stop stalking her. She is in your head. Get over your crush.
@maneshipocrates2264 it's funny you think yourself funny
Go follow her
@@maneshipocrates2264Am just thankful the Red Wall are over their BoJo crush well most of them 😂
@@Silver-st2zq :) Some of them still feel Boris J should be PM. He went to their constituency to deceive them,
There is no will in this post-Thatcher, neo-liberal, Conservative Party to do anything. Thanks to the likes of Hayek, Friedman and Thatcher, we are stuck with the belief that the ONLY role of central government is defence of the nation. But….people voted the Tories in and I am constantly amazed by the number of people who complain about all these things in one breath and then complain about how much tax they are paying in the next. There is no such thing as a free lunch and it is about time we all faced up to this fact.
If the Tory plan is to cut tax, then could you please ask how they will fix the NHS, schools, prisons, roads, homelessness with less money. Is this something new? Political alchemy.
@ alastaordonaldson perhaps they've found a forest of. Those magic money trees
The money they've sent to Ukraine must be comming from a money tree in the garden in Downing Street or maybe Sunack has decided to be a Philanthropist & use his own wealth.
My wife is a midwife specialising in induction. Local birth centres have been underfunded and closed, putting greater stress on her hospital. Was her hospital given greater funding or staff? Of course not. She naturally needs to prioritise high risk patients so there is an ever growing list of low risk patients that need to be called every day and told they don't have capacity for them which takes most of her shift up. Taking her away from actual patient care.
Get the Tories out now!
Scotland has to get out of this madhouse asap
Not with an SNP government in power, as Sunak has already called we Scots terrorists could we not just get rid of the SNP, declare ourselves a people's republic and vote put people with morals, common sense and a belief in the country into our parliament.
I agree and the way to do that is to vote for Independence, then we the people of Scotland can vote who we want to govern our country.
How did it get so bad so quickly, really! can 14 years of deliberate incompetence be described as quickly?
Shame that Rod Hull and Emu are no more. They would make fantastic ministers for common sense.
They think Plebs will vote for them again.
And I fear they will. Never underestimate the brainwashing power of the right wing media
Some still will
@@Jdsfbgfvbvxvand the rest will vote for the undercover Tories aka Starmer’s Labour.
You can't blame the Tories for thinking that as even Red Wall areas have helped keep them in power and with a big majority.
@@arghjayemBest hope is that the NHS will improve, less corruption, more tax collection from the evaders but not much more.
Never forget what they did to Sangita
Careful what you say, James is a little sensitive and now blocking people on twitter for such comments
@phillaysheo. I thought we had already dealt with this.
mental health services
Not much will happen in the first year, it's like having a new manager and team at the office, only the last manager and team have run off with all the computers, all the chairs are broken, the paint is peeling off the walls, the staff room has a unpleasant smell and what is that stain on the carpet, it's going to take whoever is in charge (assuming its someone different) at least a year to get the building back up to code, what they can do is send memo's to lower staff members and halt operations that are waiting to be carried out or are currently being carried out in favour of temporary measures, to be perfectly honest I think the country will breath a sigh of relief once wishy washy Sunak and his cronies have been booted off the property, that makes me feel better!
Perhaps the "Minister for Common Sense" should be shadowed by a "Minister for a Sense of Proportion"?
Sunak doesn't get it that the majority don't trust him. Why would they.He was chancellor when £8 BILLION was 'lost' on PPE contracts..IN ONE YEAR.....'Account' for the money sonny..
You’re missing the big picture, clearly banning lanyards is the answer to the nhs crisis
True imagine going into a hospital and everyone had different coloured and decorated ones, 🌈 🦄 🤡 it would be chaos.
Judging by their achievements over the past 14 years I'm appalled that the The Conservative and Unionist Party have the gall to contest the next General Election.
And for all those who think we live in a wonderful Democracy...
Figures from the 2019 General Election:
Smallest constituency - 21,600 odd.
Largest constituency - 113,400 odd.
Number of votes taken to elect a Tory MP - 38,300 odd.
Number of votes taken to elect a Labour MP - 50,800 odd.
Number of votes taken to elect a LibDem MP - 336,000 odd.
Number of Votes taken to elect an SNP MP - 25,900 odd.
Number of Votes taken to elect a Green MP - 866,400 odd.
Number of Votes taken to elect a Brexit Party MP - None, because they didn't get any. 🤣
I won't go any further down the list because they're not particularly relevant.
Figures courtesy of the House of Commons Library.
I have always said this, Starmer is facing such an uphill battle.... he needs to be honest. He needs to tell the people that this WILL be a long difficult journey, that will require time and sacrifice to put right. Make no mistake, even if we were to confiscate all of the assets of those mega rich and corporatoons that have willfully avoided tax, this will still cost everyone of the rest of us more money, and will take YEARS, if not a decade or even two to even get close to where we were in 2010. Such is the damage that the Tories have done. LABOUR need to be honest. The first 5 years will be, at best triage, stopping the bleeding stabilising the patient. The second is surgery... then you'll have a decade or more of recovery. My fear is people won't listen and expect an instant fix. Then we'll truly be on a merry-go-round of parties while we flush down the drain.
Tot
Where is Sangita?
It's Sabotage not incompetence .a deliberate plan of action..against the most disadvantaged.
Hurrah, pint sized Rishi is going to save us all. How lucky we are.
This government James is only one I have lived under who solve 1 problem by causing another 100! That is how bad they are. To answer your question mainly aimed at Maternity and not so widely as the NHS itself, but they go hand in hand. I put it down to 3 things:
1) Lack of meaningful investment - Don't be fooled by we've invested £12B in the NHS as they'll ask for £12B in efficiency savings! Equipment is outdated, buildings not maintained enough and too focused on operating as a business rather than as a service.
2) Staff salaries (especially nurses) haven't kept up with inflation either causing nurses to find more hours on agency thus working themselves like mules or just leaving the NHS and profession altogether.
3) Training, recruitment and retention - Tories went all in on overseas recruitment (cheaper to pinch staff from countries who have invested in their people to train and qualify) until they decided Brexit would be a cracking idea. They are failing massively on those 3 fronts.
The other massive challenge for most wards and departments is rostering. Odds are a single consultant, doctor or nurse are likely caring for anywhere between 15-20 patients per shift. It's not sustainable and patient care is what craps out.
It's taken the Tories a decade to decimate public services. Will take probably 2 decades to repair them.
I used to be teacher and managed it for 33 happy and sometimes not so happy years. In 2010 when the Tories returned to power, I left within a matter of months. Somehow I could foresee what was about to happen. And it has so quickly.
How do you fix it? It's quite straightforward. Money. These systems, the infrastructure, work alright if and when they are adequately funded. So, tax the rich and the corporations. Tax them until they squeal. Take the money and invest it in the infrastructure, and the people that run it.
They should be called "Trollies" not "Tories".
There is a Global Economic Depression coming but I would rather a Labour Government in power as they are more likely to protect the most Vulnerable people in Society as well as ordinary Income dependent Citizens rather than focusing exclusively on the Asset Class and the 1%
Where is SANGITTA. ????
And the roads are falling to pieces everywhere !
Bring back Sangita 😅😅
Careful what you say, James is a little sensitive and now blocking people on twitter for such comments
Viva Sangita
Record 3.1 million food bank parcels handed out in a year, says charity
We need the Tory party out, a fair tax system, take back the utilities for free. We also need to stop privatised MOD contracts, stop privatisation of NHS but bring in accountability for all roles in public service and senior management. Then jail Boris Johnson and all his cabinet members who supported him over the last few years. Oh and put Farage in the Tower. Being so pro the British way of life he will love that.
Invest in Education (no not higher paid vice chancellors in universities)
Fixing is one thing, what about consequences?