Steve Shaw wrote: Answer the question, Stanron. If I'm wrong about what your party has done to the NHS, contradict what I've said. With facts.

This is a good example of the underlying dishonesty of Labour's attacks on the government over the NHS. Remember the financial crisis of 2008. A deficit in National Economics inherited from Labour which saw National Debt growing at a rate that can only be called out of control.

Had the Conservative Government not brought Public Spending under control our current position would be far worse than it is. You might point out that National Debt has grown since 2008 but if spending has not been cut, the current debt would have been far higher. Despite the low interest rates an even larger part of tax income would have gone into paying interest.

And none of this takes Baby Boomers into account. I get the impression that the term may have changed it's meaning recently but originally it was the boom in births in the UK as serving men came home after the war. 1946 to 1948 saw a boom in births. This lot are now in their 70s and needing the NHS. The commercialization of bad food has led to an epidemic of obesity and diabetes. We are now, mostly, a nation of fatties. More drain on the NHS.

But, Hey!, we'll ignore overspending, baby boomers, HIV, obesity and an overall less active lifestyle and let's just blame it all on the Tories! That worked well in the last election didn't it?