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Actor Michael Sheen's Excellent Speech Slams Parties About The NHS Cuts

jackbarron

jackbarron

Chelsea, London
Actor Michael Sheen has made a great speech about the role of the Tories and the other political parties in the NHS cuts.

Sheen quotes Aneurin Bevan by saying how he had a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. He castigates today's brand neutral political parties, who are scared about saying what they feel for fear of alienating part of the electorate. This is why they all more or less say the same thing.

As Bevan pointed out: "We know what happens to those who stay in the middle of the road - they get run down."

It's about time the f***ing Labour Party woke up to reality instead of playing their endless Neoliberal cards. Don't take only £3,000 off University fees, make them free. The taxpayer should pay for education and the NHS.

Meanwhile hit the c**ting corporations like Google and Amazon first and the rich who pay no tax. It doesn't take a genius to work out what to do.

Jack
 
Thats what happens with social mobility, apart from the lower social economic groups, most people have more to lose than they did 40+ years ago and tend to vote for the party that lies the best about letting them keep their wealth.
 
It's a broken country with a broken political system and broken public services.

Sadly those who might be able to change this are the very ones who would stand to lose most by doing so and morality is remarkably low on the agenda for an unfortunately high number of citizens in the 21st century.

IMHO, if the Thatcherite vision was an exercise in market economics it was a success. If it were to be judged on it's contribution to the greater good and to society as a whole however, it was an abject failure. It simply put too much faith in human nature.
 
merlin said:
It's a broken country with a broken political system and broken public services.
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I too hate the tories and the US republicans and the greed and selfishness that they stand for. They are not content to take people's money, they want to steal their opportunity as well by denying them access to healthcare and education.

However before getting carried away with hyperbole about the UK being broken ask yourself how many countries are not "broken" in some respects.

As a frequent visitor with most of my family still living in the UK it seems that the UK still has a lot of good things going on, but the British are very slow to acknowledge this.
 
Mullardman said:
Agree, but sadly too many here are happy with the situation.

Mull
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Mr Mull, "we" here are but a subset of a subset of a subset. If the masses can be convinced that a democracy is only a democracy if we can get rid of all current Political Parties 'in play', then we might make progress :)

Steve
 
What NHS cuts are we talking about?

AFAIK, health spending rises year-on-year, and we have one of the best healthcare systems in the world.
 
Rodrat said:
Thats what happens with social mobility, apart from the lower social economic groups, most people have more to lose than they did 40+ years ago and tend to vote for the party that lies the best about letting them keep their wealth.
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A view of social mobility not often encountered around election time or any time for that matter.
Social mobility is a good thing - right? Politicians worry that not enough people from less-privileged backgrounds get the opportunity to move up in life. But are we prepared to accept that others lose out - and move in the opposite direction? Jo Fidgen explores the implications of downward social mobility.
Producer: Charlotte McDonald.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052hvhn
 
Soundwave said:
They are not called the Biased Broadcasting Corporation for nothing.
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Bizarrely there seems to be similar quantities accusing them of left and right wing bias! Personally I'd certainly accuse them of deliberately not reporting anything embarrassing for the government of the day/the political elite....
 
There aren't any cuts, so the thread is just more labour propaganda which the weak-minded swallow.

Overall, NHS England has a budget of £95.6 billion to deliver the mandate. Within this overall funding, it has allocated £65.6 billion to local health economy commissioners: that is, CCGs and local authorities. This represents 2.6% growth compared to equivalent 2012/13 baselines – a real term increase of 0.6% at a time of limited resources.
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http://www.england.nhs.uk/allocations-2013-14/

We might have a more interesting debate about why labour-run NHS in wales is the worst performing in the UK.
 
NHS net expenditure (resource plus capital, minus depreciation) has increased from £64.173 billion in 2003/04 to £109.721bn in 2013/14. Planned expenditure for 2014/15 is £113.035bn.
Health expenditure per capita in England has risen from £1,712 in 2008/09 to £1,912 in 2012/13.
The NHS net surplus for the 2013/14 financial year was £722 million (£813m underspend by commissioners and a £91m net deficit for trusts and foundation trusts).
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http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs
 
Brian said:
Wonder how much of the spend goes to private sector mates of tories.
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A similar amount to what went to private sector mates of nulab.

As mentioned earlier there are no cuts to the NHS budget for England. No story here.
 
wyjsar said:
A similar amount to what went to private sector mates of nulab.

As mentioned earlier there are no cuts to the NHS budget for England. No story here.
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Not at all likely.

As I'm intimating, whether there are cuts in absolute terms is not the issue though tories want it to be since it's a simplistic diversion for them.

What matters is where the money is ending up and why.

Fact is, the NHS always deteriorates under a tory govt for whatever reason, it's one of the things Labour always has to throw more at fixing when they takeover.
 
NHS hospitals owe £80bn in PFI loan unitary charges. Between 1997 and 2008 90% of all hospital constrution was paid for using PFI.
PFI is a way of funding public infrastructure using private capital.
 
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