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  The UK’s vaunted NHS is a National Health Shambles, protect them! you are joking

  Posted by Nigel on 23 January 2021 at 3:22 am

  The UK’s new lockdown is driven by the NHS’s failings – even in a normal winter, it can barely cope with a rise in demand. We need to have an honest debate about it, not put it on a pedestal as the so-called ‘envy of the world.’

  The MSM has been full of fake images of NHS intensive care units full to bursting. When cases shot up from mid-December, particularly in London and the South East, rising hospital admissions soon followed. This potential to ‘overwhelm‘ NHS capacity was a significant factor in introducing the third lockdown and in the refusal to give any date by which these restrictions might be eased.

  But given the human and economic costs of further lockdown measures, increasing NHS capacity so that it could more easily cope with a rise in cases seems like a bargain. So why didn’t it happen? It’s not as if a second wave was unexpected.

  It was assumed by many leading figures ever since the first wave died down. In mid-September, Boris Johnson declared that the UK was “now seeing a second wave,” something which was “inevitable.”

  Year after year, there are headlines about the NHS supposedly being in crisis. Politicians have been claiming that we have ‘six weeks/ 14 days/ 24 hours to save the NHS’ for more than 20 years. As a list from satirical magazine, Private Eye, points out, it started with Tony Blair back in 1997 and the idea has been dug up practically every year.

  in this year of Covid, spending on the NHS – already running at a whopping £150 BILLION a year – has been boosted by an injection of a further £50 billion to allow it to cope. Yet it can’t. Like most nationalized state enterprises, it is lethargic, bureaucratic, slow to respond and unenterprising.

  

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