Protest about the state of our NHS, not Trump!
“I might be 44, but I was at so many different parties in so many different countries I haven’t slept for 20 years” CAN I just say how ludicrous it is that thousands of people all over the UK are openly protesting on the streets and petitioning online against President Trump yet when it comes to our underfunded and overstretched NHS in this country, where all these people actually live, they do nothing!
The Tories have created the A&E crisis by closing down and downgrading A&Es all over the country yet Jeremy Hunt has the cheek to blame seriously ill patients for causing the chaos.
Local hospitals have lost hundreds of beds as services have been centralised elsewhere with an overall smaller number of beds available.
Centralisation is taking services away from local people and making it difficult and sometimes impossible for patients to travel the long distances we are now expected to go for treatment.
We pay our taxes to fund the NHS but clearly the Government is allocating much of this funding elsewhere. We need a free NHS for all, we don’t want to go back to the days of only the rich being able to afford healthcare and leaving the poor to die of curable everyday diseases.
We should not be following America and turning the health service into a cash cow for insurance companies. All NHS services should be free and not open to any kind of privatisation.
The care system too is in crisis due to a lack of funding and underpaid, undervalued care workers who work unsociable hours for low pay.
It is wrong that a profession generally seen as women’s work is treated this way and there is little wonder women don’t want to do this work, hence the shortage of care workers.
The foreign aid budget should be drastically cut and money diverted to our NHS and social care. Why is this country hell-bent on looking after foreign countries but not interested in looking after its own people?
We have an ageing population, many of whom may be willing to pay for healthcare while they are working or who may be entitled to free company health care schemes but they wouldn’t be able to afford it on retirement when income drops substantially which results in many people’s homes falling into disrepair.
Needless to say the Tories want you to pay into a pension scheme and then work until you drop.
Let’s face it, the way things are going there will be no such thing as retirement.
I urge you to get out on to the streets in your thousands and march to save the NHS. You may be healthy now but you never know when you, a close relative, or friend, may need the NHS.