Faced with the imminent installation of either Johnson or Hunt as Tory leader & Prime Minister it is worth thinking about the fact that the more brexity Tory party members are more than prepared to see the sale & destruction of the NHS
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But let's talk about the NHS.
We know (because he wrote a book about it) that Hunt wants to privatise the NHS. We know (because he finally admitted he deliberately lied) that Johnson will NOT be giving £350 million a week to fund the NHS.
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Let's consider something else. Mine (I am in my 60s) may be the first generation where it is *not* the norm for parents to lose one or more of their children to what we now regard as preventable child diseases.
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And yet for much of the world this is not true. For much of history it was not true for us either.
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Think about the phrase "no parent should have to bury their child" and what that means.
No parent should have to bury their child.
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It's free at point of use but of course it's not actually free. We pay for it throughout our working lives through National Insurance contributions.
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Think about that too and what it might mean to you or someone you love.
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I hope we never have to find out the hard way what we had if they get their way and we wake up too late to find our NHS is gone.
#SaveOurNHS
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