or it could just be that we were/are broke

I know it's tempting to ascribe a machiavellian style motive to it all, but sometimes the simple answers are the correct ones: we dont have buckets of surplus cash, politicians are generally pretty inept at deploying what we do have, and the voting public isn't terribly keen (generally) on the higher taxation that would be needed to deliver everything that the voting public actually wants.

And then the public goes and does stupid things like Brexit just to make life even more complicated and give Govt even less time and resource to try to fix things.

All that said, I don't know why there is such a reluctance to putting in an end-to-end health & social care system which has a more joined up strategy for dealing with the underlying problems. It should all be managed and funded by central government rather than passing the buck down to local authorities who have their own funding pressures and varying priorities.

And we all need to accept that this stuff costs ££££ that we don't have so we either need to pay (a lot) more or accept less public spending in other areas - welfare, education, transport infrastructure, defence. There are no easy choices.

Posted By: CWC on February 17th 2017 at 08:20:07

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The trouble with all the Trump and Brexit distraction (NCFC) - Gob on a Stick, Feb 17, 06:52:22
- And the £3 billion cut in education spending over the next 5 years. (NCFC) - avenging canary, Feb 17, 08:16:15
- A cynic might say that's part of the plan. (NCFC) - APB, Feb 17, 08:02:21
  - or it could just be that we were/are broke (NCFC) - CWC, Feb 17, 08:20:07
    - Are we broke tho.... is this false news? (NCFC) - Gob on a Stick, Feb 17, 10:29:40
      - We're not so broke that we can be bothered to chase up taxes from large companies. (NCFC) - APB, Feb 17, 14:36:00
        
        £12bn foreign aid ... *puts Kevlar on* (n/m) (NCFC) - Gob on a Stick, Feb 17, 18:37:37
        
        Ah but if we don't have Trident we'll get nuked. (NCFC) - megson, Feb 17, 15:09:00
        
        yebbut if we give up our nukes we give up our world influence (NCFC) - CWC, Feb 17, 15:44:08
        
        HS2. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Feb 17, 14:49:33
    - Very true. (NCFC) - avenging canary, Feb 17, 08:33:28
      - This is the point of devolving power to local government, gives central government... (NCFC) - DrDublin, Feb 17, 10:13:03
  - Also just heard the FN in France claim they're not racists. (NCFC) - APB, Feb 17, 08:05:52
- Pay to attention to what's going on behind the curtain (NCFC) - Bungle, Feb 17, 07:34:12
  - I know that's what they want,but there will be riots if they try it,believe me. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 17, 12:05:18
  - Yep. Privatisation via the back door. (NCFC) - admckechnie, Feb 17, 07:42:57
    - Whilst God pointed to the sun, the pubic stared at the finger. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Feb 17, 10:13:47
- Brexit basically means we will spend 5yrs trying not to have fuck off great car crash (NCFC) - Taxi 4 Johnson, Feb 17, 07:32:22

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