In Labour’s Budget, charities will not be exempt from increases in employer National Insurance, even those operating within the NHS. Staff costs will rise in an already hard-pushed sector. “This is crazy,” Daltrey says. Of course, he notes, the government will be putting money into the NHS. “But what will actually come out to the charities? Nothing.”
Does he think the new health secretary Wes Streeting is capable of reforming the NHS? “Well, I’ve written to him,” Daltrey says, “and he hasn’t written back. I wrote to him four weeks ago.” The problem, though, is bigger than one political party, he stresses. “All my life, all I’ve ever heard is the state of the health service blamed on the previous government. The public doesn’t deserve that. They deserve politics to be out of it, it should be a cross party thing.”
He believes people have their part to play, too. “We need to change the public’s perception of the NHS. They treat it as a buffet. When you see people eat at buffets, they usually eat twice as much as they usually do. Well, I don’t think that’s a good idea. We need to take more responsibility for ourselves.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/roger-daltrey-people-treat-the-nhs-like-a-buffet-we-need-to-take-more-responsibility/ar-AA1v3CLh?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Man's a fool. Not least for talking to the Shttygraph and giving them an anti-NHS quote for their headline.
M.
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