Fight for the NHS and for education

I SUPPORT correspondent G Davies’ (Western Mail, May 6) views on the Welsh NHS.

I also had first-hand experience of Thatcher’s attempt at destroying the service.

The welfare state and the NHS are abhorrent to the Tories and it perplexes me when I read comments like “Labour has done nothing for Wales” from people who have enjoyed free healthcare and education.

Are they not aware it is not the Tories who gave them those privileges, and if what is going on here in England is anything to go by, these will be services no longer available to them.

Too many of the academies are failing and parents are being asked to pay up for shortfalls.

One school can no longer afford special needs teachers.

Some, like my daughter and sonin-law, pay up, some can’t afford it and some refuse as they feel they pay enough in taxes.

As for the English NHS, it is collapsing. It is accepted you pay now for minor surgery, and the NHS as Aneurin Bevan envisaged it is no longer.

Under the blanket of Brexit, the Tories have ploughed on with their inhuman austerity programme, left the NHS to rot and experimented callously with our children’s education.

I have to admit, I imagined people would fight to the last before they would let the NHS go, but instead they meekly pay or take out health insurance.

Meanwhile, reading the Sunday Times rich list, the rich are getting obscenely richer.

Wales has a chance to be a more equal and fairer society and preserve the NHS and free education. I hope it seizes that opportunity next month. J Price Coleford