Cameron’s NHS/deficit poster comes back to haunt him (again)

August 21, 2012 3:45 pm

Back in January 2010 – David Cameron said:

But today, we’ve had:

 

And it also turns out that the NHS has lost nearly 5,000 nurses since the election. The whole slogan disproved in one day.

Luckily for Dave, the Advertising Standards Authority have no say over political advertising. If he were selling a detergent people would want their money back…

Here is what that poster should have looked like:

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JP42QNYATVR2UKDJIUXUEV6RNY Michael

    Same old Tories, same old lies. They know that the public are opposed to privatisation of the NHS so the Tories and their Lib Dem stooges are now engaged in a moving of the goal posts strategy. They propose to engage in a US style health policy of making profits from private hospitals abroad to make up for the draconian cuts in the NHS at home.  This can only result in the siphoning off of our NHS resources and expertise and their transfer abroad. It will also result in neglect of the British NHS, as managers will be forced to concentrate on overseas markets. Eventually, when privatisation is established overseas it will be described as the way forward to modernise the NHS and it will replace our free National Health Service.  This cynical strategy needs to be exposed by us for what it is and the Lib Dem stooges condemned for supporting it.

    • MarcusTankus

      How many health authorities are going to have to cut because of PFI commitments ? isn’t this the worst form of privatisation …what idiot would sign a contract that allows the charging of £350 to change a light bulb ? …oh wait …!

  • aracataca

    The £1.5 billion+ cost of NHS reorganisation (which amounts to a de jure cut) combined with the rising level of deficits confirms that what is actually taking place is the exact opposite of what was promised here. 

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