I thought I’d write some articles about the decline of our country into a Third World hellhole, I’ll start by talking about the National Health Service.
Some years ago while living in a Third World country (I’ll leave it nameless), my wife handed me a medical insurance card that she’d arranged for us. Very soon afterwards I had a serious paragliding accident deep in the mountains, I’d sustained a very nasty compound fracture of the leg.
My friends loaded me into a four wheel drive and took me in search of a hospital, not all of them accepted my medical insurance company; eventually we found one that did. It seemed like I was the only patient, the staff seemed drunk and after taking some bungled x-rays, wrapped my arm and leg in a massive amount of bandages, declared that I’d damaged some ligaments and sent me home.
I was still in screaming agony and had to pay somebody to drive me home to the city. Over a period of 10 days, much agony and failed attempts to walk, my wife took me to a very good private hospital in the city, where the compound fracture to my leg, one of multiple fractures, was diagnosed.
Until my medical costs had been confirmed with my insurance company, the hospital placed me overnight in a crowded ward, still private but for people with a much lower level of insurance. This ward was horribly overcrowded, stifling in the tropical heat and very understaffed.
As I lay there in my bed, unable to move, the woman opposite me, surrounded by her grieving husband and son, died. The woman’s family seemed (understandably) to resent us looking on, but they were so close. Eventually a doctor turned up and encouraged the family to leave, but then left me staring at the corpse for hours.
Hours later, nurses turned up to start preparing the woman’s body and about that time, after my medical costs had been approved, I was moved to my private apartment in the hospital. There was a huge flat screen TV, extra beds for guests and family, an en-suite bathroom and my own personal nurse, whose blouse was cut lower and her skirt higher: a different world.
Some Third World countries have a rudimentary public health service, in others people are reduced to begging and charity to have access to health care. I am not wealthy but my wife did a very good deal on that medical insurance.
Polarisation though is the hallmark of the Third World and it’s something that we are increasingly having to come to terms with here in the United Kingdom. As we’re confronted by a wall of globalist propaganda from celebrities, politicians and businessmen, perhaps we should ask: if these people were ill, where would they receive treatment?
I think it’s very unlikely that many of our political leaders would end up on a very overcrowded and understaffed ward, they would be in a private apartment with the best facilities. In truth, you can live very comfortably anywhere in the world if you have the money to pay, globalisation does not affect these people.
I often think of the woman that died in front of me, I’ll never even know her name. At that time, I would have gladly swapped my luxurious apartment for her bed in an overcrowded ward and let her pass away in peace and privacy.
In reality, our own National Health Service is increasingly coming to resemble those of the Third World as it staggers from crisis to crisis. I would be very reluctant to live in the UK without private medical insurance and I wrote this article to illustrate why and also why globalisation just doesn’t work for the majority of indigenous Brits: you’ve been stitched up, lied to and conned.
As the number of income tax payers in the UK declines, our population increases dramatically through immigration and we allow health tourists to fly in from all over the Third World to avail themselves of free health care, we have to face the fact that we will eventually lose our NHS. Countries like New Zealand and Australia have put a stop to this health tourism; it wasn’t hard to do so there is no excuse.
In addition, as our country continues to be invaded by migrants, they’re bringing their diseases with them. I’ll include for illustrative purposes this video but I have this information from numerous other sources.
“We Were Warned! Hospital(s) Turning Down Visitors – Pestilence Spreading In USA – TB, Measles…”
The above video refers to the US but applies equally to the UK and Europe. We’re being exposed to everything from rare strains of tuberculosis to Denghi fever; a further stress on our already overburdened health service and likely to cost the lives of many of us and our loved ones.
The once Great Britain then is heading towards Third World status at an ever increasing rate, this is the sum total of the efforts of our mainstream political parties (LibLabCon) over many generations. Perhaps if our political leaders, career politicians as they now are, had done their democratic duty and represented the people that they were elected to represent, things would have been different, but here we are.
The globalist club must be a very lucrative place to be, our political leaders and senior civil servants were just too willing to sell us down the river and betray us to be on board and feed at the trough. Globalisation started with the European Union and since the act of treason that took us into it, the great betrayal has continued into what can only be described as a global nightmare that will cost us our country and everything we once had.
Our country and way of life cannot survive globalisation and don’t let the lefties and globalist acolytes convince you otherwise. I’ll refer you here to one of my early articles that I think is still very much worth a read:
I’ll be having more to say and looking at other aspects of this soon.
I was in and out of hospitals in 2017 and I saw two men die, one in an ICU and the other in a general ward. In both cases the bodies were removed quickly and quietly and one doctor actually apologised to me, why I don’t know.
Coincidentally I had follow-ups at both hospitals today. One was the Royal London in Whitechapel and the other was it’s sister hospital St Bartholomew’s (Bart’s) While in the waiting room of the Royal I counted approximately seventy patients and I (rather loosely) counted 17 of them who appeared to be white British. All the rest were either immigrants or from immigrant parents. Of course someone who looks British more that thirty feet away could easily be Polish or Hungarian. But at least they’d be Christians. The great majority of the others were muslims.
The NHS simply cannot cope with a crisis.
Thank you another great article. The NHS to my mind is another case of the dead hand of Socialism. I know we all wanted it t work and, considering the under-funding, mismanagement and abuse it has received year on year, it has done remarkably well.
We cannot fight against a series of Governments that are now quite openly ignoring the will of the people and working against us.
There is as far as I know only one thing to do and everyone here knows what that is. We either lie down and die or do something about it.
It certainly seems they are working against us.
flyer,
To me the NHS is a busted flush. No other country in the world operates a system like this, and there is a reason for that.
That system does not work. As Milton Friedman said, you cannot have a socialized system and mass immigration, one, or the other, but not both. Sure some systems are good like A&E, but that is the exception to the rule.
The left moan about not enough money is provided. That is nonsense, as any businessman will tell you throwing money at a problem does not necessarily fix it. The NHS no longer serves its customers, it is there to perpetuate itself, it is a behemoth that can never be sated. Eventually it will consume all the tax receipts. If the same money was provided to Thai hospitals to provide private health care for Britons we would get a better service AND save money. We could fly people out for surgery and have them back in two weeks, rather than waiting 6 months.
The hospitals lose valuable money on health tourism, and don’t even bother checking entitlement. Why, because they know every year they get a budget regardless if wasted or not. They don’t have to earn their keep and that’s the public sector attitude.
We need a proper adult discuss on the future of UK healthcare by politicians, not tell people what they want to hear, but the truth. The NHS is unsustainable, and will end up like hospitals in Ceausescu’s Romania eventually. It really is the elephant in the room.
JL
Interesting point about the Thai hospitals vs the NHS; I have experience of both. After delays owing to shambolic administration I enquired about going private in the UK or Bangkok. The UK direct cost was around 10x that of the direct Thai cost. Eventually I got my operation scheduled in the UK and didn’t have to pay but only after unreasonable delay.
I did witness one foreign guy being refused treatment but he seemed to be on holiday and was not one of the usual suspects.
A&E is also very poor at eg nites and weekends
nhs is 24/7 but back up is 9-5 monday to friday
it really is dreadful
I’m of the personal belief that the only way to ‘save’ the NHS is to scale it back to what it should be: a national health service.
The reason it needs so much money, is because it has been overloaded (overburdened?) with excessive levels of bureaucracy, such as various trusts, regional structures, executive commissions etc etc.
Patients’ needs and requirements seem to be at the bottom of the priority list in many cases. Far too much NHS funding goes into the pockets of external bodies and private companies, lining the bank accounts of shareholders. Vital money is being ‘leeched’ out of the system by parasites who don’t deserve it.
And it is always our doctors and nurses that cry out for more funding, which they rarely see.
The obvious priority should be for emergency care, A&E for example. Then GPs and walk-in centres. Obviously there are also various departments and branches that are more specialised, such as cancer treatment, maternity, eye-care, hip/knee replacements etc etc, that should also get attention.
What should be stripped away from the NHS is so-called ‘non-essential’ treatments. Cosmetic surgery, such as boob-jobs, teeth whitening etc where a persons health is not at serious risk, should not be funded by the NHS. Likewise, consider things such as obesity, which are in my opinion mostly caused by lifestyle choices, should they be treated by the NHS? As a smoker myself, I would not expect the NHS to fund helping me to quit smoking. Another ‘lifestyle choice’.
There is obviously a whole minefield to explore here, but the point is that I think the NHS needs to get ‘back to basics’ and focus on critical care and treatment. And it could probably be run far more efficiently if some of the levels and layers of bureaucracy and administration could be stripped away.
The NHS should be run ‘like’ a business, not ‘as’ a business, to get the best out of it. Treat the causes, not the symptoms. It should be a ‘service’, and not for profit.
And of course, while the NHS should continue to be “free at the point of use”, this should apply only to British citizens. The NHS is not a “free service”, it is paid for through contributions from hard-working British taxpayers. Visitors and non-residents should be expected to pay for their treatment, as British citizens would have to in other countries.
I wonder how much is going to bolster the profits of the private companies such as Spire which are deeply embedded in the NHS?
Privatisation by stealth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz5dl9fhj7o
it is nationalized–that explains why it is hopeless
To get Britain back to good value and honest service, we need a brand new political Party like UKIP, with experienced and skilled members, who could look at every public service with fresh eyes, unencumbered and independent outlook, unafraid of challenges and hard work. The problem with our EU membership is the culture of relying on someone else to do the job, so nobody is productive, all bureaucrats swanning around making speeches, taking nine years to agree free trade with the likes of well-developed Canada!
Interestingly, all those MPs who are still clamouring for a second referendum, are basically lazy, they would rather pay the EU from our taxpayers coffer to do the job of governing, than to get off their backside to investigate and make laws for this country. It’s all talk and no achievement! Allowing the NHS to degenerate into begging for hand-outs. The £39 billion promised to pay the EU by Theresa May could have bought us new hospitals and new prisons, and our annual payment of £12 billion to the EU could have saved this country from years of austerity, house shortages due to astronomical immigration and poor education.
The UKIP’s 20 or so MEPs did a good investigative job into the EU bias and lavish spending habits, that informed the public into voting for Leave at the 2016 referendum.
The payment of £12 to £15 billion annual British contribution, second largest in the EU, had helped to developed all EU infrastructure, encouraging lavish spending for thousands of staff to move between Brussels and Strasbourg, and the joining of 18 poorer, ex-communist and ex-soviet union nations to augment the existing 9 original EEC members with much higher levels of economies and development. This unfortunately served to make the German dream come true, that of total control of Europe.
“experienced and skilled members” – a really important requirement especially for government ministers who should have the appropriate qualifications and experience rather than having to rely on advice from the civil service.
Private UK medical cover is essential if you should happen to have a condition that causes severe physical discomfort but one whose treatment is classified by the NHS as “cosmetic” and thus they won’t touch it. The choice faced is to either continue suffering, affecting general living standards….or go private. Most of us on modest pensions find private insurance near impossible to afford. Re diseases coming in with immigrants, I’ve been on to people for years about this….there’s absolutely no control…God knows what this country is infected with now.
Yet legal immigrants are required to undergo examination to prove that they are free form TB in countries where it is prevalent.
Just being a member of UKIP is not the answer, but it beats continuation with Lib/Lab/Con !
The answer is in the hands of the people, with the use of their powerful vote, which some don’t even use !
It will need an end to ‘Tribal Conformity’. Some folk vote the way their parents did, by respect or loyalty !
Think what your doing. Read manifestos, rather than letting the media tell you their highly edited and bent version !
Check the Party’s track record of keeping to their manifesto promises ! UKIP has a clean record on this !
Without this action by the people, the Nation will continue its slide down the toilet, for all sections of the community !
Abandon the fear of voting UKIP, and allowing Party X into Government ! (A PR system of voting is required now) !
With UKIP, change for the better WILL TAKE PLACE, and Gerard Batten is the leader to guarantee this !
Your British. Be proud of that. Ditch the Parties that want us controlled in some way from Brussels. VOTE UKIP !
Snowflake Democrats want a rerun of our referendum. They are too stupid to realise that this is anti Democratic !
Grow a backbone. SHOW THE WORLD THAT WE WON’T TAKE THIS NONSENSE ANY MORE !
Have control over your own minds, and you will control your own British future, but do it now before election time !
Agreed. Those who complain and still vote LIB/LAB/CON/Green should look in the mirror if they want someone to blame. They are the real idiots in all of this not the politicians who are laughing all the way to the bank at their stupidity. Wake up!
Unfortunately, Jake, those who still vote LIB/LAB/CON/GREEN are unlikely to read this site.
You’re right Debbie. But UKIP gives us more fun and all sorts of things to worry about that we had never thought of before.
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Mike, the tribal nature of 65% of the voting public choosing LabCons is not that they are voting FOR either of these parties, but desperately trying KEEP OUT the ‘other lot’.
This is why bucketloads of people who always vote Tory are afraid to pick UKIP, despite the fact they hate Sharia May’s guts, all that will do is let the local Labour candidate in. Similarly people who always vote Labour and hate Corbyn and his Momentum puppetmasters DAREN’T vote for UKIP, all they will do is let the Tory candidate win.
The only answer is to keep banging on about PR, which point I think is not lost on you. Although, sadly, it is on a vast number of UKIP members who think miraculously the Almighty is going to come out the sky and gift them a parliamentary seat under FPTP.
I understand this . We see it in every aspect of our society. The situation is evil. . It is recognised. Why do we think we give so much to Charities ? We do it out of guilt about others plight. .It has always been the poor who give to those worse off…But the rich are right to look after themselves first. .So, what’s the problem.?.
The problem, put simply, is us.
Most of us cannot tell if someone is lying, We cannot tell if they are cheating, falsifying,, stealing, harming.or anything
Most of us cannot .tell if something is unreasonableor not, or indeed true or false. nor can we follow logic. or virtually anything… Never ming disinformation or anything…
AS Blair said, …Education Etc. …..Unfortunately he was a charlaton. What he meant was Education is stopping your power: Destroy It , destroy, destroy and make me powerful …!!! And together with Gordon brought the world to its knees by prostituteing the worlds banks.. by [ I’ll print money , you lend it to me , We’ll share the profits and Fame ] [ Of couse it works! For a while ]
Answer : Purge the teaching proffesion and its unions, Teach reality not ideology.
There is no short cut to truth.. .Make lying a capital offence. Or at least baptism in a vat of green dye. Theft, blue. Harm, orange
Out Islam the Islamists.
Am I serious ? I don’t know.
The reason I wandered off subject like this is because It is not just the NHS. It is Everything is now false and/or unnecessary and/or foolish.
A timely article, in as much as I am recently back from an out patient appointment at my local NHS hospital. The appointment was for 09:10 on a SUNDAY, and everything worked according to plan with friendly, helpful, competent staff. The parting message was that if I didn’t hear the results of the examination within a couple of weeks I should contact my GP surgery; which gave a contrasting example of efficiency. Other hospital visits have also provided examples of good people working inefficiently.
My personal experiences and as reported in the MSM provide an overview of the NHS: at its best it is brilliant, at its worst it is diabolical, and mostly it is somewhere in between. Perhaps this is unsurprising. It is an enormous, bureaucratic organisation run by Government as, in effect, a monopoly. Thus decisions are influenced by external politics, and business decisions are not constrained by, at least, breaking even.
Further, the word “Service” has lost much of its intended meaning: thus hospital reorganisation is done to benefit the providers rather than the customers – e.g. the closure of local facilities and car parking charges.
And always customers want more. Quite natural, for who would not want more and better medical services. But the problem is finding the money to pay for it. So, as in all walks of life, there has to be a trade off between what the population wants and what it can afford.
Better treatment for the things that in the past would have killed us mean more people are living longer. But living longer does not mean that, as a proportion of the population, more people will need care. Indeed, given the choice, I would expect the vast majority would not want to be in a position to have to rely on care: fit and healthy today, dead tomorrow – but not just yet, of course.
What will dramatically increase the need for care is to get much better at curing this things that kill us while making minor progress in curing the things that debilitate us. In my opinion we are well past the time when there needs to be more research emphasis into the things that debilitate us and less into the things that kill us. Else, we end up with one part of the population needing care and the other part of the population providing it – and no time for anything else.
We have the NHS and we should keep it. But there needs to be a major improvement from the top as to how it is run: the service will improve and those providing it will have improved job satisfaction.
Alan
I admire your analysis……They’re getting better at curing what kills us whilest keeping us as customers in pain and subserviant.
Fabulous
I had an appointment for a CT scan a couple of months ago also on a Sunday at 9.50 am. I arrived at 9.15 in a half empty car park entering the hospital at 9.20. I was seen at 9.30 had the scan and was back at my car at 9.50 the time of my booked appointment! As you say Alan at its best the NHS is brilliant, fortunately where I live this is more the norm, we have a good medical practice and the doctors work well with General Hospital if you need treatment there.
The problem as you say is that the NHS is an enormous beurocratic organisation run by the government and that is where most of the problems lie. The other side of the coin where I live is our community hospitals have all been stripped of beds which means there is bed blocking at the General Hospital. This has happened all over country and whose fault is that, not the Hospital trust but the government. The government should have no place running anything in the NHS it cannot even run the country properly. What we need is something like the Australian model where there is a Medicare levy on all taxpayers, Medicare is the public health service in Australia. You still have to pay to visit the doctor but again it depends on income.
The advantage of the Medicare type of funding in my view is that the government collects money from taxpayers but are not involved in running the system. Keeping politicians snouts out of the trough has to be a good thing.
In Wales, where hospital parking is free, it is impossible to find a parking space anywhere near even the hospital never mind the hospital car park itself. It’s a nightmare if you have an appointment to keep.
When I visited a friend in hospital every day for a week I discovered that the nurses spend most of their time at the nursing station, chatting or on their phones and like you, Alan, I found all our community hospitals, or places where patients can go for interim care before they are fit to go home have all been closed, resulting in bed blocking which is, in fact, completely unnecessary.
I also saw an elderly lady treated shockingly when she was afraid of having a catheter inserted.
I dread having to go to hospital.
Good point about the nurses; many are far from the image of angelic beings that they like to promote.
Not forgetting in 2003 the ECB stated when we join the Euro the NHS may have to be scrapped, and free health care would only apply to emergency services.
If it is possible to improve healthcare in this country with a different model to the NHS then why not? The Germans, Danes, Swiss and French manage this so why can’t we? The founding principles of the NHS may have been right and proper in its day (although highly political too and continues to be) but the model may not be entirely suitable for this century. The aforementioned countries populace have to pay more for their healthcare and why not? I am prepared to pay a proper price for my healthcare if I can have access to a good service as I think most people would.
there is no free healthcare in france nor in spain–emergency or elective
“when we join the Euro”! Heaven forbid, surely that was a significant reason for our exit, although government kept quiet about the likelihood of it coming to pass.