Hopefully, because by then Tories really will have no excuse for their incompetence and we can check how much bankrupt Britain (Their words not mine) owes by then.
They always seem to have something that comes along and saves them. Thatcher it was the Falklands (By design or incompetence? another argument) The Cameron, May & Johnson, run its been covid. We won't bring Brexit into it because everything was going to be so much better, so it can only be covid.
There's one gamble that did pay off.... the Vaccinations. Although Johnson is like the gambler that plays the fruit machines puts in £900 wins £400 and claims he's won.
The rest of the gamble/incompetence has cost fortunes, the one pays for the rest, although we are not seeing any financial evidence of that yet.
Upping NI to "Fund the NHS" just means that those with money pay less, normal for the tories.
I'm all for funding the NHS but everyone should pay the same percentage and not when the Tories are spunking our money up the wall ...to coin a phrase.
And let's not forget we would not have the NHS if it wasn't for William Beveridge (Beveridge Report 1942) who was Liberal and the Labour government who put it in place although Bevin couldn't get all measures through which is why doctors surgeries are privately owned to this day amongst other things.
The NHS was put in place when the UK really was bankrupt after the war. Would the Tories have done the same?
I'm sure you have availed yourself of NHS services over the years?
What would your circumstances be had you had to rely on the insurance-based model that was in place before the war that few could afford?
Your treatments and drugs over the years would have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and it's unlikely you would still be covered on insurance. Unless you're lucky enough to have not needed it in which case what a relief to know that it's always there as a safety blanket for that unlucky moment.
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