2013 July 29 « Dr Alf's Blog

English: An external shot of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is an excellent MUST READ article from Kevin Maguire, published in the Mirror.

via Kevin Maguire: David Cameron smears NHS to hide his own failure – Kevin Maguire – Mirror Online.

Whilst I understand all of Kevin Maguire’s argument, I think he fails to recognize that it is the NHS itself which has failed to serve the UK public properly; it is not just down to David Cameron’s catastrophic policy bungling. However, I tend to agree with Maguire that one of the Government’s major policies is outsourcing the NHS in “bite-size-pieces”.

The position of this blog is clear on the NHS. It’s in terminal decline and needs to be replaced with an effective model of public healthcare, modeled on best practice in other countries like Germany, France or indeed Italy.

Let me turn this to an open question:

Do you think it is time for the UK to have an adult debate about replacing the NHS?

This is a truly amazing and MUST READ article from the Telegraph. Check it out!

via Ministers feud over migrants message – Telegraph.

Personally, I think the latest initiative of David Cameron’s Government is a waste of money. In addition, Cameron is promising to cut numbers of immigrants by 2015 yet most MPs would argue that statistics on illegal immigration are seriously inaccurate; so this is more nonsense. In the last ten years, the Home Office has completed failed in its policy of halting, punishing and repatriating illegal immigrants.

Let ask the following open question:

How should the UK Government effectively stop illegal immigration and deal with the illegal immigrants already in the UK?

Home Office (Photo credit: Wikipedia)