It seems more like a cry for help than a celebration...and does it not undermine our faith in it to see how badly it is doing? - some really frightening programmes of the old and sick being left in ambulances outside hospitals that have no room. And we all know that Brexit will make it worse for staffing. It is very scary indeed.
I have just learnt that because of austerity life expectancy has gone down for the first time that records began. There should be far more protest. NHS70 was funded by the heritage lottery fund and so far it has got a promise of 20 billion from the government (over many years) and still no increase in social care which is what is reckoned to have reduced life expectancy.
It is political. It’s not a time to get sentimental and say how good we are it is time for anger and protest. And did you know that the bonus pool in the finance sector in the UK last year was £15 billion? The largest since 2007? And it was the banking crisis that caused austerity and the cut backs on our social services...never ever the welfare spending by the previous Labour government, yet that myth continues to be spun and believed?
In a way Brexit was a ‘tug from below’ revolution but not not a bright one just a clumsy punishment/revenge on feelings of being ignored and not listened to. And the wrong idea that it was caused by poor immigrants coming to this country. What a mess we are in, I wish people would stop being so complacent and get angry about it. The more the better.
Kate Garroway-Care at home costs