UK: NHS breast scan error may have shortened hundreds of lives - Sensationalist Headlines

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43973652

Fuck Jeremy Hunt and fuck the Tories for what they've done to the NHS

Shoulda used node

good thing we've done a brexit so we can spend all the EU money on this tory-crippled NHS like the brexit campaign said right? r... right?

The error was created in 2009 but not caught until 2018 so both parties fucked this one up

i'm still entirely sure the error would've been found quicker if the NHS wasn't on life support

don't just blame the government, bad management at NHS trusts and bad administration has put the organisation to shit too. you cannot blame one or two people for an organisation built of thousands of workers.

Apologies

New Labour and Tories are basically the same thing tbf

This false equivalency is an issue in America, arguably being part of the reason for Trump's victory. Please don't do it in the UK too. Yes, Labour has issues, but to imply that they're basically just as bad as each other is one of the reasons that many people don't vote and become disengaged from politics.

So pre- and post-austerity Britain are the same?

But they are ideologically so similar that the differences don't even matter if someone wants sincere change. I'm not saying this as someone who is disengaged or is trying to disengage others - Politics is my degree - I'm saying this as someone who genuinely believes that New Labour are just Tories-lite. They're not as bad as the Tories, but they're no better in most respects. The introduction of tuition fees, PFIs, the continuation of the Thatcherite shift to governance. I sincerely believe that New Labour and the Tories are both dreadful options and I would probably support Class War if New Labour came back.

Labour aren't perfect by any stretch, but they're pretty distinct from the Tories ideologically in my opinion.

I make a distinction between New Labour, Millibanian, and Corbynite Labour. The latter two are obvious (Millibandian Labour claimed to be abandoning New Labour but it clung onto a lot of the centrist baggage) whilst New Labour is that of Blair and Brown.

What about the minimum wage, LGBT rights (end of Section 28, gay adoption and civil partnerships), the fox hunting ban, the Human Rights Act, and the Climate Change Act to name a few of the things we now take for granted? All of them almost certainly wouldn't have happened under a contemporary Conservative government.

Don't get me wrong new Labour sucked, but you must be fucking joshing like a right cunt if you think they are anywhere near the level of the Tories.

I'm pretty sure a lot of those are things that are advancing under the Conservatives which is why traditionalists feel alienated ( legalisation of gay marriage, pushing for moderate climate change policy). Sure, no one is deluded enough to actually think they give a fuck about about any of this (Cameron wasn't a stanch traditionalist so he pretended to be socially liberal for those sweet Blairite spin PR points), and like I said, New Labour isn't as bad as the Tories, but they're hardly a great leap ahead. New Labour has more in common with today's Tory's than it does with Corbynite or Bennite Labour.

This may be true, but I'd argue today's Conservative Party is a response to New Labour. It was only after they got thrashed in three consecutive elections that the Tories elected Cameron and started modernising their bullshit in an attempt to turn things around. Virtually every progressive policy that New Labour introduced was opposed by the Conservatives at the time

People tend to forget how authoritarian New Labour were, to the point where the Conservatives were overall less authoritarian. They introduced a law that allowed them to hold people for 90 days without charge. They were hardly a progressive bastion.