Unfit To Govern

Ex Conservative minister, Michael Portillo, said “I do think it’s all a leap in the dark” when asked about the NHS restucturing by Andrew Neil on Thursday night’s This Week politics show (BBC1).  He further went on to say that he thought the Government would have left health alone because there’s been enough restructuring over recent years and doesn’t know why GP commissioning should be better than the current system?

Andrew Neil pointed out that there was no mention of this in the Tory election manifesto.  Since then we have found out that the Government have set aside £1.7 billion for restucturing costs. Some estimates put these costs at between £2 & £3 billion without any real benefit to the patient. There is an interesting article from the Press Association here.

Many Tory voters must be wondering just what is going on.  Please also see my other post on this subject here where I suggest that the motive is privatisation by the back door.