Dave's lying again...

lynzpower

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

Not sure of the specifics at this hospital, but Private Eye have long been arguing for certain services, specifically children's heart procedures, to be concentrated into a smaller number of units. This is based on clinical evidence that results improve when they are organised like this. Of course, this is extremely hard to sell to the public, because all people hear is "this unit/hospital is being closed."

What has alwaysd been the problem is that these "centres of excellence" are already over subscribed.

Trying to get a child to be seen at Great Ormond Street for example was crazy, it would just be no chance.

Children from all over the Uk are flown into Gt Ormond st. Not only that but when it is full children were transferred to some of the surrounding hospitals.

Im sure we dont actually want some centres of excellence and the rest dross, just a good enough service in the hospital we live nearest, or get taken to.

Rochdale_Pioneers

Another one at Prime Ministers Questions today, where Dave exaggerates the number of private sector jobs created by a factor of two. Having been corrected previously as to the real number you have to draw the conclusion that its a flat out lie.

Butterfly_Brain

Tories have long wanted to scrap the NHS in this country and are privatising it through the back door.
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lemonjelly

George Osborne (Jan 2009): "Quantitive Easing is the last resort of a desperate government when all other policies have failed"

Vince Cable (Jan 2009): "Quantitive Easing is from the Robert Mugabe School of Economics"

Iain Dale (March 2009): "'Nothing and I mean nothing will ever convince me that printing money is the solution to our problems... Mugabanomics"

......BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15196078 : "The Bank of England has said it will inject a further £75bn into the economy through quantitative easing (QE).

George Osborne (last week): "Quantitive Easing is an appropriate tool"


Just saying...

Graham_Devon

lemonjelly wrote: »

George Osborne (Jan 2009): "Quantitive Easing is the last resort of a desperate government when all other policies have failed"

Vince Cable (Jan 2009): "Quantitive Easing is from the Robert Mugabe School of Economics"

Iain Dale (March 2009): "'Nothing and I mean nothing will ever convince me that printing money is the solution to our problems... Mugabanomics"

......BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15196078 : "The Bank of England has said it will inject a further £75bn into the economy through quantitative easing (QE).

George Osborne (last week): "Quantitive Easing is an appropriate tool"


Just saying...

Ed Balls went on TV to hammer home the point that the tories said QE was used by desperate governments, and now the tories are using it.

2 mins later, he accused the government of being a desperate government and relying on QE to bail them out.

I think he even realised his faux pas, as he then tried to make out the current government has had more QE than labour did in their term.

They are politicians, they are all the same. All clambering to outdo each other.

Aberdeenangarse

lemonjelly wrote: »

George Osborne (last week): "Quantitive Easing is an appropriate tool"

.......and Gordon Brown was just a 'Tool'......not even an appropriate one!

lemonjelly

I still don't get how they continue to argue that the last government got us into all this debt & are costing the country millions blah blah blah.

In over a year, their policies have done diddly squat to improve stuff (though that is apparently because we're in the worst economic downturn ever!) But they're the party to fix the economy & not lose millions of £.

Er, ERM anyone? They cost us over £3 billion!

Thrugelmir

lemonjelly wrote: »

In over a year, their policies have done diddly squat to improve stuff (though that is apparently because we're in the worst economic downturn ever!) But they're the party to fix the economy & not lose millions of £.

Going to take far more than a year to turn the country around.

Not only will it require Government policy but a cultural change as well.

About time people realised the spending boom is over.

lemonjelly

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Going to take far more than a year to turn the country around.

Not only will it require Government policy but a cultural change as well.

About time people realised the spending boom is over.

Thats not in dispute thrugs.
The double standards stinks though.

Thrugelmir

lemonjelly wrote: »

Thats not in dispute thrugs.
The double standards stinks though.

No double standards. This is a recessionary period. Something many many people have never lived through having only ever known boom times. The impact of the debt overhang is going to take many years to resolve. Something no political party in power has the ability to address.