My Good Old Mums Response To The Budget

[nicebloke1]

Just spoken to mum, bearing in mind she was born in the 20s, in 4 months time she will be 104 years young. What did she say? Its about time the purse strings were tightened. Keep on giving and you keep wanting alive. By giving no one learns to stand on their own to feet and sooner or later become useless. :0))

[Old_Geezer]

Many of us have been putting up with tight purse strings for some time. Wars and lockdowns don't come cheap. Last thing we need is to be hit further when already low.

[nicebloke1]

And if the labour government don't take action now OG we could sink even lower. The cons closed this country down during covid and gave billions away.  One of the biggest complaints I've seen of late on AB is the lack of health care within the NHS. So this government is trying to fix that problem, those same people are now complaining about them trying to fix it. What a ruddy joke. The new equipment this government is prepared to invest in for the NHS is going to see 40k more patients PER DAY. Ask yourself this question, did the cons have any such plan in the pipeline? No they didn't, neither did they have any plans to end the strikes within the NHS, they were more than happy to sit back and let people die, while they fought over who was going to become top dog in number 10. Slagging each other off in the process, fighting like little school kids.

[newmodarmy]

New equipment is unlikely to see anyone. It needs more trained staff the NHS hasn't got and more wards....and better organisation first.

[nicebloke1]

The new equipment now being bought require less staff to opperate. The whole idea of buying advanced equipment hence the increase turnover of patients. 

[newmodarmy]

Have you got some examples then of the new equipment and the resultant savings in the number of staff needed to operate them?