I hate to say I told you so (well I don't really)

The Tories dogmatic ideological blindness has assumed a form of illness, rendering them incapable of accepting reality or empathising on even the most basic level with their fellow human beings. If you follow British news you will know that the NHS in Britain is in a serious crisis just now. The government blames it on many factors, but as you will know if you read this blog, I have consistently told you over its lifetime that this situation is a deliberate strategy by the free market ideologues within all parties in the pigsty to create an insoluble situation within the NHS that will provide them with the perfect excuse to privatise it and end all free at the point of care health provision. However, things have gotten so bad, and the governments war against the health service has become so blatant that even the medical profession is beginning to face up to what has been staring them in the face since the Blessed Margaret first polluted this nation with her malign presence. Two articles in different papers today by two different NHS consultants are now admitting what I have been telling you all these years, and as you know, it must be bad when consultant doctors, who have a Tory gene implanted in them on graduation, are admitting what I have been warning against. 

Commenting on the NHS crisis in The Independent today, an accident and emergency specialist asked the question "How has this been allowed to happen?" and answers "It is not the fault of patients, doctors, nurses, immigrants, drunks, Australian flu or hospital managers" (those are all the stock excuses trotted out ad nauseam by the Tories and their lackeys in the media). "It is entirely down to the Department of Health focusing so much on financial targets that the point of what we are trying to do is being lost. The health service is there for the patients who need it. We seem to be in a situation where the patients have become something of an expensive inconvenience who drain state resources.....I can only put this down to either incompetence or a deliberate strategy on the part of the Government to underfund the NHS to the point that it fails to provide a safe service in order to prove some kind of ideological point."

This was then reinforced by an article in the Guardian when a consultant wrote that "What’s worse is that this situation was entirely predictable. The inadequate care we are providing is the inevitable reality of the government’s funding decisions. If you strip back funding, force hospitals to make savings they can’t afford, devastate primary and social care, and fail to invest in staffing or resources to match demand, we are forced to tell our patients: “I’m so sorry, we can’t look after you safely today.”"

These articles led me to return to material I posted in 2012. On 26th November 2012 I wrote that.....A fundamental and repeated assertion of this blog is that Britain's fundamental problems are ideological. Britain is bedevilled by an obsession with free market ideology, both economic and political..... And on 28th November 2012 I wrote..... Warnings that the Tories are determined to completely privatise the health service are being ignored by the British public because they find it difficult to believe that the Tories would do something so enormous after constantly assuring us that they will do no such thing. As Goebbels said, if your going to tell a lie then tell a big one and tell it often. A report from the Kings Fund just released shows how 'unprecedented financial pressures' are speeding up the demolition of the service as we know it. They state that because of a combination of financial cuts and policy changes "signs that the impact on patient care could be felt as early as 2013" and that "the stakes could hardly be higher" with some hospitals "experiencing serious challenges in delivering services of an acceptable quality" Analysing the government's reforms to the health service the report states that "major organisational changes and the loss of experienced managers leave the service in a precarious position" and argues that the core of the government's reforms, GP-led commissioning, will undermine the national system and concludes that "it is no exaggeration to say that the NHS is heading into treacherous waters, and the risks are high." What the Tories are doing is applying the Shock Doctrine to the Health Service. Neoliberal policy is aimed at creating crisis within states and organisations that will bring them to the edge of collapse and then using that state of collapse as an excuse to completely remodel them as neoliberal privatised industries. Despite all the promises of the health service being safe in their hands the Tories are bringing the health service to a state of collapse when they will then step in and tell everyone that the only way to save it is to hand it over to the private sector, the same sector that they all have interests in and have their family fortunes invested in. In other words, the financial crisis and the crisis in health care is being deliberately engineered by this government in order to destroy all public health provision and replace it with private.... they will not rest until all public service provision has been abolished. The public do not believe this and so it has an inevitability about it as nothing is being done to prevent it. . All that can be done is for people like me me to keep warning an electorate who refuse to see the reality of life in modern Britain. 

I do not apologise for recreating material I have posted before. I have never done this before, but this is becoming so serious that it must be repeated as often as necessary until the public waken up to what is happening under their noses. If you don't choose to believe me, then surely you will believe the professionals who experience this poisonous end product of a poisonous ideological policy agenda on a daily basis. This is happening before Brexit, you should be very afraid of what lies ahead. The poor in America are already facing a medical nightmare thanks to the 45, it is about to happen here as well. But, as I always remind you, the poor in both nations voted for it, so, all I can do is repeat, you have been warned.

Your Servant

Doktor Kommirat