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@malacandran wrote:

As long as people keep voting for these politicians, nothing will change. 

 

We should stop voting for them.  Just stay at home, and refuse to vote.  

 

Suppose we all did this, and none of us voted in the General Election.  What would this cause?  Two things:

 

1. It would deprive politicians of any claim that they have a "mandate from the people".

 

2. It might lead to changes in the politcal system.

 

But there won't be any changes if people keep "voting" . Isn't that obvious?

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Political ''pledges'' go out of the window the day after the election.

On current trends, it will take up to 30 years to deliver key election pledges from Labour and the Conservatives to recruit thousands more GPs, the body which represents family doctors has warned.  

The British Medical Association (BMA), the doctors' union, warned last month that stress, long hours and bureaucracy could result in up to one in three GPs leaving their posts in the next few years.

There's the problem, and it wont be solved by cash incentives or throttling hospital doctor places. Reduce the stress, hours & bureaucracy and many GPs currently thinking of leaving will change their minds.

There should be MORE Doctors and Nurses in the NHS ... NOT less of them working ''more efficiently''.

I loathe the politicians who state that there are ''efficiency savings'' to be made in the NHS and that this will fix all the problems.  Agency Nurses are likely to show less care and warmth IMO.  And cost an absolute fortune.