As someone who has paranoid schizophrenia and is currently unable to hold down full time work, I can attest first hand that over the last 3/4 years the amount of support I have had from the mental health services has gone from brilliant to abysmal. Every lifeline I had has gradually been removed because of the obsessive policy of austerity which this current government has persued while at the same time giving tax breaks to the richest minority. To be honest it makes sick and angry. I wish Cameron could spend a month walking in my shoes.
My GP and my CPN and my Psychiatrist are best qualified to deal with me. Not some private company motivated by targets and profit.
There is this thing where, if you painfully push up spending way beyond what you have, at some point you have to do something to stop the spending. Having a go at the people trying to get spending back to something we can remotely afford while ignoring who did that absurd spending to start with is just ignorant.
Take me personally, lets say I can afford to spend £500 a month on whatever, but in fact I spend £2000 a month.... at some stage the credit card company gets a bit upset and asks me to pay it back and reduces my credit till I do. I can at this point not afford even £500 a month more because I have to actually pay money back and £500 was what I could afford. So now I pay £250 back and can afford to spend only £250.
So by overspending massively at some point you realistically have to reduce what you can actually have afforded to spend to have any chance of some financial health.
The problem is Labour's MASSIVE and disgusting overspend was on things like a 5billion ID scheme, that got scrapped, a 20billion NHS scheme, that got scrapped. When you invest £10billion in real infrastructure that both generates jobs and WORKS in the end to provide a benefit to society, then you have long term growth. For a decade Labour wasted money on projects that had no long term benefit, provided no long term jobs, and just wasted the money completely. They ran this country completely into the ground, and yet you are blaming Tories for attempting to fix this problem, not the people who generated the problem.
Labour got our finances in a disgustingly bad position and whoever was in charge had to both reduce spending and do this while having to put up with things like Atos contracts costing billions for stupid things that Labour left them with. Plans governments put in extend beyond the next election and the next PM. Many of the absurd increases in spending Labour implemented simply can't be undone until for instance contracts run out, much of the money spent can't be gotten back ever, like the money spent on the ID scheme with zero long term benefit.
Cuts in the NHS are happening because of the insane spending Labour enacted during their time in charge, if Labour were in charge they would have had to(and have said as much) do the majority of the spending cuts the Tories have done to date themselves.
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