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This is all intentional. They can't outright privatise the NHS without major outcry so they've made it unusable for as many as possible.
“That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” — Noam Chomsky.
Prioritization of public infrastructure never works anywhere ever.
Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to try and make money out of the post office in the 21st century was clearly an idiot. Mostly all they deliver is letters from my bank telling me that I've already paid the credit card bill via direct debit. It doesn't really need to happen, but it does anyway.
Indeed. As a Yank who always has to pay for healthcare anyway, it's easy to see the parallels in labor/employment, civil rights, and financial security: We're facing a global regressive movement from the political right, and those people have no scruples. They absolutely want to claw back every single gain the general public has made in rights and benefits over the last 75 years, and making benefits unpopular is the first step to privatizing them.
Never forget the NHS, warts and all, is a thing that we Americans would die to have, and for want of it many of us too often literally do.
The Conservatives did that. I don't think Charles actually likes them much.
Does anyone care about major outcries in UK anymore? What do they ever achieve?
People forget and move on after a couple weeks of anger
The Tories haven't recovered in the polls since partygate and Truss, something has finally stuck.
They still need to get elected to carry out their plans.
Even the most zealous Tories I know are planning to vote against them this time.
Most of their voters aren't rich people and they need to keep them on side.
It doesn't matter how much money you have, if you're a Tory voter you never think you have enough money. The fact you don't have enough money is always the government's fault mostly due to immigration either there's too much of it, or not enough of it depending on your bank balance. Conservative voters only like the Tories come election time, the rest of the time they can't stand them like the rest of us.
In my experience that isn't true.
They think the Tories are doing good and if they mess something up labour would definitely have messed it up worse.
The ones I speak to genuinely support their policies even if they can't name any when asked haha
I don't know what you mean people are still very angry about all this, but we're not going to have riots in the street over it. I kind of wish we would in a sort of way, but realistically simply voting the idiots out is probably the best way to deal with the problem.
Of course Labour have their own issues but I feel like their issues that might actually be fixable, whereas the Tories just don't care.
I'm still waiting for the follow-up on the Panama Papers.