The fact is Labour poured billions into the NHS, lots of it was used for wages, not a problem so long as it went for the people paid less, it did not.

Money was wasted, you know my NHS decided to hire a art critic, a car park manager, yep the same bloke two wages, sadly they had sold off the car park to NCP, all this hit the local papers and guess what they did, yep went to Spain for a long long golfing trip to bond.

I was in Hospital when the minister came to ask about food, she said to me what was the hospital food like and we said well OK a little cold, fine fine was the reply. A nurse then tells us the NHS had hired a special chef for the day at £17,000 to cook her meals.

Need i say more well yes but I cannot be bothered anymore

Benefits and pensions will be cut to pay for the NHS. Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Why don't they simply make those rich bastards who dodge paying taxes fork out instead?

Robert, you clearly haven't spoken to many people in the NHS hence your anecdotal tales, but a very high percentage of the lower paid workers did receive pay rises as a consequence of Agenda for Change, and that is why the pay bill rose so significantly.

I was stunned to see this . Nick Coen reports that a cabinet Minister is running around saying ..'When they find out how much money we�ve wasted , we're toast' Who would that be I wonder ?And since the Conservatives have promised ,' no more destabilising shake ups'. Are we literally going to pour money on the mess that is the National Slush Fund.Curiouser and curiouser

We know the demographics are working against us and continued immigration provides an ever increasing burden often from health tourists . Public money has flushed into the Public sector with the to redistribute wealth rather than give the tax payer value for money . So now we have a bizarre cadre of managers paid so much for doing nothing they might vote Conservative .Thats called irony. It is this Public Sector Professionals that the Cons are fluttering there eyelashes at. It has always been the Labour problem that if they succeeded in providing a majority with a good standard of living why would they then vote Labour .*( Hence the creation if mass dependency)
I am nonetheless utterly bemused at the political implications of promising to out-spend Labour ? I plagued John Redwood about it and he replied

( Following his post on MP`s pay)
...I was hoping to find the freshly sliced and diced corpse of Andrew Lansley on these pages .The silence is deafening ..
John Redwood Replied
Reply: The BBC/Labour stunt re a big increase to 11% of GNP on health was simply not true, so there was no need to blog about it.

Wot ? How not true ?

PS
Incidentally I have just read about who was responsible for taking offence on behalf of the Jewish people about the supposed Auschwitz gaff. A Labour put up job from start to finish. I have to admit that press machine is still awesomely quick and cynical .( Mathew Parris Spectator ).

It is sad to be told this but not surprised, in my area of Wales we have been Labour well since 1945, last year we had the Assembly elections and Labour was knocked into second place, Plaid won by a landslide election, I left Labour after 38 years, because like you nobody listened to us.

I spent eighteen month in hospital without going home, I've seen a nurse sit next to my bed all night, I've seen a doctor give me as much morphine as i wanted, because I was expected to die, I had caught MRSA for the 3rd time, and my weight had dropped to five stone, I had tubes coming out on me, feeding me and taking waste away.

My wife and sister in law use to come in and clean the ward I was in, the other days other wives and sons and daughters would clean the wards, because a private company had taken over the cleaning.

I watched my MRI scan being sent to Spain to be looked at, and the wrong one come back. I was asked to pay for scans so they could be read in this country and paid £560 for an MRI scan so the specialist could read it and we know it was mine. I was rushed to London to the spinal injuries hospital because after four years somebody said my god he has a broken back.

I watched a doctor working under Labour put his head on my bed and sleep. his other hand had the injection stuck in my leg, a nurse gave me the injection and put a blanket over the doctor.

I watched cleaning staff go from four people to one person, going from cleaning two wards to cleaning four departments.

I watched wives sisters mothers talking mops and cleaning out wards empty bed pans and remove urine bottles.

I watched nurses working double shifts as staff went off sick depressions flu colds. I saw Nurses so fed up because of the hours, money does make a difference so do working conditions.

Since coming out of hospital I spend half my life going back and forth into hospital, I have been fighting with others to stop the privatization of our NHS, like our New walk in center for which you pay £35 to see a doctor at any time, you can have botox injections your finger nails painted.

Sorry I'll not take anything from Labour on what is or is not true, the 3 MRSA I had left me with no bloody legs. The hospital took the wrong kidney out of one person, took the wrong leg off another, and a doctor who could not read or write English gave a patient 300 times his morphine dose, she had just seen me, went to him he died.

I saw a patient lay dead in bed for two hours before a nurse noticed because they were working round the clock.

Sorry I'll take advice from nobody within New Labour.

Labour have used the media to make us disabled people look like villains over the past few years, Professor Mansell Alyward, who is the builder of the new Welfare reforms, this blokes department is sponsored by Unam Provident, the professor is now the representative for this company, I doubt I have to tell you about Unam provident or the two face Professor. Last month BBC Wales and the Welsh Assembly brought over an American Doctor from Texas, Dr Merrill Mathews Jr google this clown, he spoke to me at home for BBC Wales, stated Robert is obviously severely disabled but is that a reason not to work. Dr Merrill Mathews worked for a company called IPI'S who are looking for work from the Welsh Assembly guess doing what mate, getting us back to work.

He left my house and on TV found me a job just like that, working in a local café, sadly he did not show the three steps into the café, it looked good.

Nobody not you or New Labour will tell me what the NHS is like, I've lived it mate.

I nearly died it.

yes doctors and nurses work hard I've nothing but praise for them sadly New Labour has returned to the old ways of offering shit pay rise again.

But heck thats Labour for you, they employ cowboys from America.

Robert, 90,000 extra nurses, 20,000 more doctors. Not anecdotes... but fact. Your statistics, in contrast, are reminiscent of your statement that you are disabled, with a wife as a carer and two dependent children, but you only get 85 pounds a week. Not very reliable, I'm afraid.

And in case you have missed it, I'm not New Labour, I never joined.