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July 6, 2012 5:59 pm

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Cameron said he wouldn’t cut the NHS – but he has, by £26 million this year. That’s the second NHS budget cut in a row. Here’s how that poster should have looked…

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  • Mark Myword

    Am I missing something? In my world an underspend is not a budget cut. Here we have the classic example of an organisation coming in under budget – £26M in a spend the size of the NHS is pretty good financial management in my view.

  • David Price

    I am still amazed by the sheer cheek that the Labour Party shows in making comments such as this. This comes from an ex-member of the party, and a long-time Labour voter, by the way (if anyone challenges this then let them supply an email address and I’ll send them a scan of my membership card)!

    The Labour government overspent by £50 billion approx. every year, for most of the last decade. Worse still, they made no plans for the inevitable economic downturn that was always going to happen (I learnt about the economic cycle when I was 15, in O Level economics, had Gordon never heard of this?) Instead, it was spend, spend, spend – leaving us (and the next government, of whatever party) shafted when the time came to pick up the pieces. 

    Frankly I’d feel sorry for the Monster Raving Loony party in this situation – it’s near impossible to undo the damage that Brown/Balls/Miliband E. did.

    Oh, and then there’s that “loose touch” regulation that the above three goons dreamed up, enacted almost on Gordon Brown’s first day of being Chancellor; this effectively allowed the banking crisis to be as bad as it turned out. 

    As far as I am concerned, the Labour party has its grubby fingerprints all over the terrible problems we now face. I have totally lost faith with the party, and will never vote for them again. They all deserve to rot in hell. I just hope someone emerges with the integrity and backbone emerges to get us out of this mess, right now there’s very little sign on this.

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