#Tory policies to attack the #NHS have crippled UK healthcare far more than #Covid19 [tweets]
Tory political policies are causing huge harm to the health of people in the UK – in many ways.
In fact, the number of different ways in which the government headed by Boris Johnson is attacking you is hard to quantify – because there are so many and they come at you from so many angles.
So we should be grateful to Labour’s Clive Lewis for the Twitter thread below:
The NHS is there to provide universal healthcare, and the virus is with us for the foreseeable future.
The total NHS waiting list is now 5.9m & growing. This is symptomatic of the Tory's failure to build a resilient NHS that's adapted to our new reality.https://t.co/OdpGZWsVSt
— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) December 21, 2021
What about the damage done by systematically underfunding the NHS?
In October the BMA warned that the Budget "fails to fully account for the enormous challenges now facing the health service as it heads into the most challenging winter on record."https://t.co/CQ5vQm9HRs
— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) December 21, 2021
Under the cover of the pandemic the Govt is setting up authoritarian infrastructure, while failing to put in place all the measures that would protect public health and reduce the chances of new variants flourishing. They must be held to account for this.https://t.co/trZ221Uivt
— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) December 21, 2021
Some people have responded by pointing out that Labour under Keir Starmer is unlikely to do anything about the problems that Mr Lewis raises.
While this is probably accurate, This Writer would say it is misguided.
The aim isn’t to score party political points.
It is to demonstrate that the Conservative government is trying to harm you – and if you support it with your votes, then you are actually self-harming.
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Whilst expecting the NHS not to creak under the weight of a pandemic is disingenuous the truth of it is that the NHS creaks every year under the weight of seasonal flu and the winter vomiting bug. Scheduled procedures are routinely cancelled every year as there is no built in margin to account for something that happens EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
I won’t even start on about how the NHS has depended on foreign labour to keep costs down at the expense of those country’s health services.