Firstly, you called me shallow here: “I don’t care how you label

Comment on Why I’ll Never Vote Conservative at a General Election by Terry E.

Firstly, you called me shallow here: “I don’t care how you label me, if that’s the best argument you have against my arguments, well that’s a bit shallow!” extract from comment (April 21st, 2010 at 15:10)

Secondly you state: That is clearly asking the question what would have happened if the last 13 years had been under the Conservatives, not what they would they do IF they get in power on May 6th. How else would it be possible to ‘speculate’ on what the The Conservatives would have done without looking at their CURRENT policies? I think their current policies are more valid than 20+ year historic performance where technology proved an obstacle within the NHS.

The reason I am hugely sceptical of the so called significant steps in the right direction is that although front line services have undoubted been improved this is merely counteracted by nonsense bureaucracy; my grandfather, 2 years ago, needed heart surgery following a minor stroke. The then body within the NHS set a date for this operation, we which subsequently not put back once, not even twice, but three times; within this period my grandfather had a major stoke followed two days after by a heart attack and passed away.

I believe this could have been prevented by the front line services if only backroom bureaucracy was not completely mismanaged.

Notwithstanding my experience above, which i accept is my own isolated experience, when my grandfather was in hospital (Southampton’s Saint Anne Hospital) he fell out of bed whilst staying over night; he was left their for 2 hours before a nurse ‘found’ him….i wouldn’t exactly call this a great front line service…would you?!

Despite all the above, many hospitals have been self certifying their audits under the labour government; so how really can we be sure that ALL, because I do accept there have been some, the improvements are legitimate.