MRSA is a thing that exists. However due to the lack of funding for the NHS it picked up in the early 2000s. This isn't a "reading too much of the papers" (your way of trying to dismiss what someone says). The facts prove this.
Labour did do something about it. That's why MRSA dropped by five times in the space of five years. But it takes TIME. You can't just walk into a healthcare system which hasn't had enough funding for two decades, you can't throw loads of money at it because you don't have that money.
Deaths where Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was mentioned on the death certificate by sex, age group and whether the death occured in hospital or elsewhere.
www.ons.gov.uk
51 deaths in 1993 from MRSA, building up to 1,652 in 2007 and then dropping down to 292 in 2012.
Yeah, "the media".... not.
After last week’s Spring Statement made no immediate tax and spend promises, John Appleby looks at the history of NHS spending and the recent trend of it falling as a share of GDP, while suggesting we might be seeing the first signs of a welcome change of direction.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
Spending on the NHS. From 1990 to 1997 it went up from 4% to 4.6% of GDP (this isn't really an increase) from 1997 to 2010 it went up from 4.6% to 7.59% of GDP (this is an increase).
But you have to increase taxes, and people don't like it being done in one big go, it has to be done over time.
Yep, Blair messed up with privatising parts of the NHS. Blair was hated by most of Labour and any good he seemed to do was always offset by the Tory in him.
Yes, I think it's down to the Tories. Sure, Labour and the Unions are linked, but why then didn't they strike when Corbyn was in charge? He was the closest to the Unions, or Milliband? It's happening now with a LAWYER in charge of Labour.
No, not a Labourite, you don't know what I think about thing when it comes to Labour, you simply have no had enough of a conversation with me about it to even get close to forming an opinion. I don't support any political party, I support getting Proportional Representation in place to changing politics in the US, in the UK, in other places that don't have PR.
I'm not going to defend Blair, like I said, he did some good things, and he did some awful things, privatising parts of the NHS, the Iraq War, mass immigration to name a few. However the Tories want to destroy the NHS, they want to reduce funding for education, every time they get in power things go wrong.
And one of the reasons I want PR is because I see that people have only two viable choices in the UK (ridiculous) and they're both tainted. With PR you'd get much better parties that stand for something and live and die by what they stand for. Labour and the Tories, like Reps and Dems in the US, are fighting a negative battle "look, they're worse than our shit".