Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2024 9:20:51 GMT 1
I don't know whether anyone else has seen these reports over the last 3 days on the BBC News site. They are focused on the education, healthcare and justice systems in Telford, but are relevant in every single town and city up and down the country.
They cover everything from school teachers having to potty train 6 year olds, to getting GP appointments, to criminal cases taking upwards 5 years to get to court.
These issues aren't the fault of workers wanting better pay and conditions or the EU or the unions or a few migrants turning up on a Kent beach or people flying a rainbow flag or any of the other straw man arguments put up by the Tories or Reform. They are all down to 14 years of chronic mismanagement of the whole economy. Granted Covid did have a considerable effect, but due the incompetence that had been rampant for the previous 9 years we were woefully under-prepared for that too.
There is no excuse for example for the closure of Hereford Crown Court for 4 years due a roof collapse.
Then there's this and we all know of someone who has had something very close to this experience. “We phoned the GP again this morning at eight o'clock. Fully booked. So they asked us to phone 111. Phoned 111 and they called out an ambulance. The ambulance came, did an assessment and said, ‘you need a GP’. They phoned [the GP] and got one tomorrow. So that's how many services have been involved just to get a GP appointment.”
