‘Cuts leave scars’: thousands join protest over NHS funding
Why do people protesting in such a passionate way remain far more sanguine about the challenges of adult social care? A very recent survey organised by the RSN and responded to by 12 major rural councils, revealed that they spend around 40% of their whole council budget on less than 5% of their population in terms of adult social care.
We have some very important public policy issues such as the NHS and Income Tax, which it is very dangerous to discuss in radical terms. I think our approach to them restricts our collective capacity to better organise our national finances and our individual lives. This article tells us:
Tens of thousands of people have marched through London to mark the NHS’s 70th anniversary and demand an end to government cuts and further privatisation of the health service.
Bearing placards reading “Cuts leave scars”, “For people not profit” and “Democracy or corporate power” demonstrators moved down Whitehall on Saturday afternoon to the chant of “Whose NHS? Our NHS”.
They stopped outside Downing Street to demand Theresa May’s resignation en route to the stage where they were greeted by a choir singing “the NHS needs saving, don’t let them break it”.