The NHS does best with Conservative style reforms

We live in a society which has a short memory.

When Labour came into power in 1997 it was on the back of the smear that you had 24hrs to save the NHS ( who can forget that sickening blackmailing PPB with the taxi driver and a father and ill daughter ? ).

Blair and Brown laid into market reforms in the NHS.

They got into power promising to dismantle evil Tory reforms.

And they did - but then Blair noticed something. All the tax payers funded cash being hossed into the NHS ( mostly on salary increases, and as we now know finaced by a debt bubble ) wasn't producing anything. So he started to set up the same structures he'd been denoucing earlier. The NHS went in a very tight, and very expensive circle. ( Much like when Labour destroyed Conservative School reforms only to do the same thing with a different name with Academies ).

However thanks to devolution, which dismantled the NHS into 4 NHS's ( A Scottish, Welsh, Irish and ... well Labour can never manage the word English .. ones ), the celts got off to their own devolved wonderlands before some of the reforms had been re-implemented.

So now we can compare the performance of bloody minded socialist provision against the few reforms Gordon Brown didn't block on his "anything to make me prime minister" sulk over the first ten years of New Labour.

And its not pretty. In short the English NHS wins hands down. There's a lot of socialist and celtic spluttering going on to try and hide this in the media today, but just like the fact that overall NHS productivity has decreased under Labour, the facts can't be hidden.

Just because the budget for the English NHS is ring fenced - doesn't mean that the Conservatives shouldn't get better results for tax payers money with more reform and save and improve many more lives into the bargain.

Thats why if your intrested in the health of the people of England and the English NHS you should vote Conservative. And if your in one of the devolved unreformed socialist luddite parts of the country you might like to think about it also.

Its the only moral choice.

Update: See Alan Cochrane on the performance of the Scottish NHS vs its English equivalents.

Only ever "Scotland and Britain" never England

It is noticeable from Gordon Brown's speech in Aviemore to the Scottish Labour conference that he uses the phrase "Scotland and Britain" on a few occasions - see report by the Press Association. ( The BBC of course realising this puts their man in a bad light managed to avoid reporting that phrase in its version here saying "we'll stand up the SNP" - which is of course bollocks as all they have done so far is cave in with English tax payers money. The examples are the avoiding cutting the Scottish NHS budget in proportion to the cut he made to the English one last year, not clawing back the money the last Labour administration in Scotland had been unable to spend ( over a billion pounds I believe - no wonder Alex Salmond smiles) , and the absurd sight of the Barnett tribute formulae being used to send yet more dollops of cash north of the border when London finally got the OK for crossrail.

With Labour its either Scotland, Scotland and Britain ( doesn't that count Scotland twice ? Not very good with figures is he for a academic economic historian ), or the British Nations and Regions ( I'll give you a clue, for Gordon England is not in the British Nations part ).

The truth is that England is very inconvenient for the Labour party - except as a source of cash to taken elsewhere. Come on Gordon say England !

Labour has become the enemy of England and the English. Remeber this is you find yourself near a ballot box in the future.