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If 6 hospitals will be offered money to upgrade their facilities, and 34 more will share a small pot of cash to begin *planning* their own (as yet unfunded) upgrades, how many NEW hospitals will be built?
Question 2: if you manage to retain 18,500 nurses who are already working for the NHS right now this minute, and recruit 31,500 new nurses as well, how many MORE nurses do you end up with compared to the situation now?
Final question: since the answers to both the previous questions are so clear, simple and obvious, why do the Tories keep repeating lies involving higher numbers than the real ones?
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Let's get real: an outright Labour majority is impossible at this point.

That means the best potential result from a Labour supporter's perspective must logically now be a hung Parliament in which Labour get to form a government (either minority, or coalition).
To achieve that, they're going to need a good showing from the Libdems, SNP etc. Labour alone, by definition, cannot stop the Tories now.

But that means Labour voters will have to vote tactically in unprecedented numbers for the LibDems in seats the latter are in contention for.
Fail to do so, and that dream of a (coalition/minority) Labour government is dead, and every one of its promises with it.

So what will it be?

The Tories, hard Brexit, and five more years of savage cuts?

Or something better?

The choice is yours. Choose wisely!
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Simple question: have you seen how high the tax burden is in Sweden?

It's absolutely fine to want world-class services like the Swedes enjoy, but the corollary must be that we should be prepared to pay for them just as much as the Swedes do.

Can't have one without the other.
This is an old article, but I am linking to it because it explains the difference so well. Back then the overall tax burden in the UK was 36.6% of GDP, vs 48.2% in Sweden. That difference if replicated today would mean raising £236 billion a year more tax!
amp.theguardian.com/money/2008/nov…
£236 billion *more* tax per year, every year. That's the price of paying for Sweden-level public services.

So to look to Scandinavia or Austria or other high-tax jurisdictions as examples of what the state can do, without looking at the tax implications, is only half the story!
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Facts, unlike opinions, only have one side. You don't get to make up your own just because you don't like reality.

Something is either true or it's false. If it's true, end of story. If it's a lie, call it out.

The media shouldn't offer the right of rebuttal to truths or facts.
If you've invited two politicians on to discuss e.g. child poverty, and one says that it has risen under the Tories and the other that it has fallen, that's only half the story.

The other half is turning to the camera and telling viewers which of your two guests just lied.
It cannot be partisan to do so, because you're not taking sides.

Remember: there aren't two sides to facts, or to the truth. There's only one.

It should be the duty of the media to seek out the truth, to sift the facts from the lies, and to anchor all coverage around them.
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