A bitter pill to swallow

THE Government declaring that the NHS is on the brink of collapse as it prepares to put up tax for everybody is a damning admission of 12 years of Tory failure.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who as the longest serving Health Secretary in NHS history shoulders much of the responsibility for this disaster, is an undertaker burying not only our most precious public service, but also the living standards of tens of millions of Britons.

The increasingly vocal leaders of our health workforce deserve to be heeded or the Tories will slash key services, hurting us all.

Thursday’s spending cuts and tax increases will hammer fresh nails in the Tory coffin. The party’s incompetence and warped politics are costing us dear, Britain’s economy since Covid doing much worse than major competitors.

Balancing the books on the backs of already struggling families is unfair and will backfire, financially and politically.

The austerity about to be intensified by Hunt and PM Rishi Sunak is madness, illegitimate punishment meted out by a Government without authority and running scared of an election that would deservedly sweep it away.