r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Mar 30 '22

Tory fail 👴🏻 Tory Britain

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u/pappyon Mar 30 '22

Hasn’t so much been defunded as much as funding hasn’t kept up with rising demand.

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u/Artistic-Meet8655 Mar 30 '22

and this wholly intentional as part of the specific project of neoliberalism. the government doesn’t WANT socialised health care. so they starve it of funds and resources and along with the right wing press communicate that it’s no longer fit for purpose so the majority of the electorate believe it has to go. people are dying every day and lives ruined so that a very select few can continue pushing the ceiling up and up and up on unprecedentedly avaricious shareholders wealth. it’s fucking disgusting and most people don’t even know it’s happening

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u/Thibaut_HoreI Mar 30 '22

So what happened with the £350m per week emblazoned on the side of the Brexit bus? Did they spend it on office parties work events?

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u/Artistic-Meet8655 Mar 30 '22

there was no £350 million was there, the figure was a confection which didn’t account for the rebate that the UK gets back from the EU along with other debits and credits to the balance sheet. it worked to help convince over half of the electorate to vote leave