[gramey]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

The main cost that needs sorting out though is the NHS. In my view the NHS is no where near value for money and some more privatisation is urgently needed.

Whatever the shortcomings of the NHS, or the Education service, both reportedly received £1.9 billion less each last year while the MOD spent an extra £4.5 billion. I'm not sure how much of that money was for front line warfare and how much was for compensation to those who, having joined the army to travel to far off lands & kill foreign people, have been traumatised by their experience. Apparently in this day and age you don't join the army expecting to be injured or see others killed or injured.

I'm sure that the next thing is that the police, fire service, ambulance service and hospital staff will be entitled to compensation for dealing with casualities from assualts, collisions etc. After all you don't join any of those expecting to have to deal with dismembered torso's, lengths of crash barrier through a car drivers head, people kicked so badly they're not recognisable as human beings do you?

Strangely common sense still seems to hold sway in these services and it hasn't happened yet, otherwise our car taxes would have to go up even more!