Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 17th February 2025, 7:44 AM
Obnoxious little oik. A caring Socialist.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,919
Wow we're criticising people for being caring now ?!
Oy! Streeting, you caring bastard! Stop getting them waiting lists down!
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And pack it in wanting to murder people.
A caring murderer?
It gets better
It's funny how the old "he's a bit of a loose cannon, but at least he get's thing done " option is only available to the Right.
Quote: lofthouse @ 17th February 2025, 10:24 AMWow we're criticising people for being caring now ?!
Oy! Streeting, you caring bastard! Stop getting them waiting lists down!
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I was being sarcastic because socialists are supposed to be caring but he doesn't seem to be.
He doesn't care - yet he has got NHS waiting lists down more and faster than was actually promised in Labours manifesto
Yep he clearly couldn't give a shit
Did Jeremy Hunt care? Because it was his disastrous policies that gave us record breaking waiting times in the first place ?
The caring capitalist politicians that were prepared to stand outside Downing Street clapping doctors and nurses - but then refused to even discuss giving them the pay rises they richly deserved?
Maybe the extra £350m per week that the caring Brexiteers promised us for the NHS will help?
if it ever turns up...
Quote: Chappers @ 17th February 2025, 2:28 PMI was being sarcastic because socialists are supposed to be caring but he doesn't seem to be.
I thought you were being sarcastic by suggesting there was a socialist in the government.
Quote: lofthouse @ 17th February 2025, 2:38 PMyet he has got NHS waiting lists down more and faster than was actually promised in Labours manifesto
On the other hand:
Lies, damned lies & statistics eh?
Waiting times and admission numbers are two entirely different issues.
From the same article.
"Despite the enormous and ongoing pressure on hospitals, separate monthly figures from NHS England show that long waiting list times fell as NHS staff delivered a record 18 million treatments in 2024."
Quote: Lazzard @ 17th February 2025, 5:07 PMWaiting times and admission numbers are two entirely different issues.
From the same article."Despite the enormous and ongoing pressure on hospitals, separate monthly figures from NHS England show that long waiting list times fell as NHS staff delivered a record 18 million treatments in 2024."
I'm aware of that. But it's easy to claim that you've got waiting lists down if all you've done is pushed them somewhere else.
It's like saying we've halved the number of traffic hold-ups on the M1. While the number on the A1 have doubled.
No - your analogy doesn't hold up.
These figures refer to completely different cohorts.
The time you have to wait for a procedure has gone down - that's one set of people.
Separately, and entirely unconnected, the number of people coming into hospitals has gone up, due to a surge in nasty winter viruses - leading to bed -blocking.
A totally separate issue that also needs attending to - and is on the governments agenda.
Not if they take staff off one in order to deal with the other.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 17th February 2025, 5:28 PMNot if they take staff off one in order to deal with the other.
And that's what's happened has it?
Didn't see that in the article.
All I saw was an increase in admissions and the ongoing bed-blocking crisis.
Some people clearly can't bare the thought that the government might actually be making positive strides on certain things
You'd think a person would be happy that steps are being made to ensure that YOU can get a better service
Easier to get an appointment when I'm sick? Nah f**k that, I'd much rather slag off Wes Streeting instead , so let's not bother