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Thread #168430   Message #4143755
Posted By: Steve Shaw
09-Jun-22 - 05:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Well quite. This excellent Conservative government, in charge for twelve years now, has overseen the superb transformation of an NHS that used to have 18-week waiting lists and easy access to GPs into one in which six million people are waiting for years for treatment, which has A&E departments that never meet their waiting targets, ambulances (which often take hours to reach seriously ill patients, if they get there at all)) in long queues outside hospitals and in which it's impossible to see your own doctor for weeks. This excellent government has also overseen the burgeoning of food banks, more children in poverty than ever before, crumbling schools, years-long public sector pay freezes, millions more workers on insecure contracts, hundred-quid tankfuls of petrol, hundreds of metres of empty shelves in supermarkets, real inflation at over ten percent, staff shortages everywhere as a result of the amazingly visionary decision to leave the EU, and an OECD forecast that we will have the lowest growth of any major economy except for Russia's. And what a brilliant move it was to put untested people into care homes in 2020, resulting in at least 20,000 unnecessary deaths, and what an achievement it was to be one of the worst countries in the world when it came to the outcome of the pandemic. On top of all that, the government is headed by a fat, racist, entitled liar and law-breaker in charge of a cabinet of complete no-hopers.   

Apart from all that, yes, truly excellent!