Could have been much worse.

I still have huge concerns that we don't have a private sector that can operate independently of the public sector, and he is relying on just that. But overall, even allowing for the lies and deceits, he did argue for a much more radical approach, so as I said, it could have been worse...

In fact, there is no good answer, just different shades of a difficult one, regardless of which party is rearranging the deck chairs.

(Oh, the lies and deceits; the ones I can rattle on about from a position of being involved... he talks of not cutting the NHS, just google QUIIP. £15Billion savings being required of The NHS. the Department of Health, which franchises, regulates and "owns" the NHS from its budget is seeing a 33% cut in the small print of his statement. Prior to that, most of the people I work with, myself included, are having roles reassessed. In short, an average £10K wage cut is expected to be announced, so level down the people from different commissions that merged into ours... My cynicism tells me such contradictions amplify around all government departments.