Daniel Jones
The nhs is under immense pressure, beds are full and 89% are taken, A&E wait times are at a record high of 173 minutes and it can take 5-10 years to get a kidney or liver transplant, why is this, why in the 21st century do we have to wait this long for essential life saving treatment? I’ll be looking at this from a left and right wing angle, and giving my judgement on why this is happening.
Conservative:
Between 2008- 2020 gdp growth has been slow and the amount the government is getting in tax is not increasing, we simply just do not have enough money, not everything can be funded to the amount we would like it to and we cannot raise tax, to put it simply the amount the government gets in tax is not enough to fund everything to the amount everyone would like. Others might say that we simply shouldn’t fund everything and that it is already at a too high amount, people earning more than £150,000 have 45% of their money taken in tax.
Labour:
Foodbank use is up, NHS waiting times are at record highs, why is this, the tories are simply not funding things to the amount we need, every person deserves a free at the point of need healthcare system that is funded correctly and all resources are utilized and used correctly. More extreme people i have talked to have said that people earning more than a certain amount should not be able to have access to non emergency NHS treatments, but this simply goes against socialism and their ideology. Others might say that economic growth is slow henceforth the strain on public services, they say this is the conservatives fault because of their economic policies.
My opinion:
We don’t have a magic money tree where we can simply fund everything to the amount we need, I do wish we could but at a time of slow economic growth we cannot afford to fund the NHS more. Heaven knows the conservatives have made mistakes in the last ten years of leadership, but it's been a tough time, from rebuilding from the 2008 crash, to floods, to the migrant crisis, to brexit negotiations, to civil unrest, to coronavirus this has been a tough ten years for Britain, some blame the conservative party but if we look at other European countries led by centrists to socialists, we see an exact same trend of stagnation and mediocrity, and what i say is that it is not the conservatives fault but the whole systems fault, it has failed us, drastic change is needed now and fast. The simplest explanation is also the most depressing, lots of people will vote for free stuff, 2 in 5 people voted for semi marxists in 2019, now of course on one level no one wants to pay for anything, it would be lovely if everything would be free, but underpinning the labour manifesto with its promises with extra money on healthcare on schools, on pensions on public sector pay rises on care for the eldery on all of those things was the idea somehow the money would be rustled up without anyone having to pay for it, and that is not the real world, this extraordinary idea that had got around that austerity is not a fact in having ran out of money but it is a choice inflicted on the electorate by sadists. there are kids who have left school at 16 and are in a job and are paying tax, is it fair that they should carry the burden for everyone entirely who’s benefiting from university, we have to make these choices, but unless we tories can win this argument about the non existent magic money tree we are in a very bad situation and so is our country. let me spell it out in the simplest way i can, austerity is not a choice, inflicted on the country by stingy politicians, austerity is what happens when you still have a deficit, we are still spending more than we raise in to the tune of 50 billion pounds per year, in the time i’ve been typing this up our national debt has risen by more than £400,000, so you know what, we need to make drastic cuts or we’re going to crumble. We need to rebuild, cut corporation tax, make cuts in benefits, social services and councils so we don’t have a looming deficit, that gets worse by the minute. I'm sorry I'm having to write this, it does make you think that in a country like ours, we still don't have enough money to pay for everything we need, but it is the cold hard truth of having a strong welfare state, where 20,000,000 people are claiming some sort of support or benefits, where the majority of people use the NHS and other essential services, where people can waltz in and claim benefits for sitting on their bottom all day doing nothing and also people who cannot claim benefits as they do not have a permanent address or a bank account. People still starve in this country including children and elderly people, some don't get the mental health care they need, some don't get the right education they need, some simply just do not get enough. Some could say that we should change the whole system, go to a Norwegian style governance, where state enterprise is high and prisoners live in luxury, but I say no, and the people clearly say no. the simple fact is that Marxism and socialism does not work, and ideas like that should have crumbled with the Berlin wall 31 years ago, but we still have extremism on both sides, but what I find hard to understand is that while right wing extremism rightfully so is flagged down and trodden on, left wing extremism is celebrated excepted and embraced by the MSM. I've rambled on for the last 30 minutes about how terrible our life is in the west, and yes there are big problems going on but we still live in one of the fairest and most accepting times the world has ever seen, with the highest quality of life this world has ever seen.
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