Well if you can't be demagogic in a blog, then where can you be?
To defend the point though, I don't think it's the contention that NHS Direct will be solely responsible for the halving of ambulances in 2012. But the philosophy of spending on pretty (and sometimes useful) baubles such as NHS Direct has led to overspending on a scale that will require significant cutbacks at some future point. Without wishing to go all Thatcherish here, on a domestic level, it's the equivalent of going round the supermarket buying nice food that is good for you but which isn't an essential. The following week you can't buy cornflakes and potatoes. It's not rhetoric, it's hyperbole.
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Date: 2010-09-01 08:08 am (UTC)To defend the point though, I don't think it's the contention that NHS Direct will be solely responsible for the halving of ambulances in 2012. But the philosophy of spending on pretty (and sometimes useful) baubles such as NHS Direct has led to overspending on a scale that will require significant cutbacks at some future point. Without wishing to go all Thatcherish here, on a domestic level, it's the equivalent of going round the supermarket buying nice food that is good for you but which isn't an essential. The following week you can't buy cornflakes and potatoes. It's not rhetoric, it's hyperbole.