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by ablation 2712 days ago
No, agreed. The NHS is very popular amongst the majority:

- Seventy-seven per cent of the public believe the NHS should be maintained in its current form. This level of support has remained consistent over almost two decades despite widespread social, economic and political change. - Around 90 per cent of people support the founding principles of the NHS, indicating that these principles are just as relevant today as when the NHS was established. - A clear majority (66 per cent) of adults are willing to pay more of their own taxes to fund the NHS, underlining growing support among the public for tax rises to increase NHS funding.[1]

[1]: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/what-does-public-t...
2 comments
nailer 2712 days ago
The OP was talking about how forbidden it is to speak of changing the NHS in any way.

You are saying the NHS is popular.

Those are orthogonal: you can like the NHS and want to change it.

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ablation 2711 days ago
That's a good point. I didn't consider that. It was my mistake to simply take that as criticism/negativity of the NHS.
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dagw 2712 days ago
NHS is very popular amongst the majority:

Absolutely, but at least when I lived in England everybody was also very opinionated about how CurrentGovernment ruining it, how it used to be so much better and how you need to to X right now to fix it.

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