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All the evidence suggests the parties haven’t been interested in growth for the last 20 years or so. The usual suspects on here all want higher spending without austerity but that’s impossible if you don’t generate the wealth required to fund it.
This is why Truss is taking a big political risk, but she’s doing it for exactly the right reasons. If it comes off — and it could — you’re likely to see the opinion polls changing just as fast as they have in recent weeks, only in the other direction.
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I’ll give you my opinion of Truss and her ilk, removed from the masses gits! Mrs Two’s mother had a fall earlier this year, I took her to a&e and after a six hour wait (pretty quick these days!) the doctor told us it was just soft tissue damage and there was no need for an x-ray and just to use something like Ralgex, so we took her home. Two days later she deteriorated so we called 111 and they advised calling for an ambulance, twelve hours later one turned up, then followed a four and a half hour wait outside a&e with another seventeen ambulances. An x-ray showed she’d broken her hip!
Yesterday a good friend of mine knew he was having a heart attack so called 999, they asked him if anyone could go to him until an ambulance could get there, his wife rushed home from work and had to give him CPR until the ambulance got there ‘just’ one hour later, absolutely disgusting in both cases.
I’m sure you’ll have all the answers to improve matters but I have just one. Make it mandatory that all politicians have to solely use the NHS for the rest of their life with private treatment banned, on pain of a jail sentence. I have a suspicion that things would improve, and improve somewhat rapidly.