Mr Johnson said: "What you see here in Scotland is political parties trying to steal our clothes. I think it's great that people laud the NHS and admire the NHS and try to make it their own popular policy.
As stated before on this blog:
The NHS no longer exists.
The NHS was destroyed by the Labour Party’s constitutional vandals when they decided to press ahead with their Devolution Experiment.
Johnson continues:
"A brief glance at the history books at what's happened, over the last 11 years in particular, shows that this is very much Labour's territory.
"And we're entitled to make it our territory. This is the ethos that Labour believes in."
He added: "Labour established the NHS and Labour after 1997 has restored the NHS.
They restored it?
On the contrary, they've split it into four, separate, dysfunctional parts, the consequences of which we are all now suffering from, whatever part of the UK we may reside in.
Labour claimed that spending under the SNP had fallen behind that of England and Wales. Ms Jamieson said: "There have been some things we welcome, like targets for C-diff that is something we have been pressing for.
"But if we look at the funding in future years the rate of growth is not the same as south of the border. I do not think that health is a top priority for the SNP."
Labour said yesterday health spending will increase in England and Wales by 4% each year, in Scotland they said it is only 1.5%.
An alleged Unionist crowing about the disparities in health spending existing between different parts of our nation? If she were a true Unionist, then she would be ashamed of that fact and would be looking to make the NHS truly national once again.
3 comments:
There has always been at least three different NHSes in the UK. The NHS in England was formed by a completely different Act of Parliament from the NHS in Scotland; with the former being accountable to the Secretary of State for Health, and the latter being accountable to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
It is of course what dg says it is true - and I know O'Neill has answered that.
However on "Question Time" last week one of the audience said the "national" element of the NHS had also been undermined by the creation of regional primary health care trusts etc with some areas even within England supplying different sorts of drugs.
The minister (canot remember the name) said that local health authorities prioritised their spending according to the health needs of the local areas whilst the UK government gave money to English health authorities on the basis of need (the example given was that lower spending per head was given to those in the South-East of England as prosperity there generally meant better health).
Not just devolution apparently that is undermining the "national" element.
There has always been at least three different NHSes in the UK.
My argument is that devolution has accentuated regional differences to the extent that it is no longer valid to speak of a National HS- I really can't remember prior to 1998such publicity as we've seen in the last two to three years given to the differences between eg the English and Welsh waiting lists.
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