[baobob]

Folk talking about austerity as a tory thing are going to be in for a monster shock if energy prices persist through the next elections, and when they realize the size of the Covid bill vs the GFC bill. It may very well be Labour sitting as the final nails are driven into the NHS, just by sheer luck of timing

[squidbeak]

Much of the Covid expense was paid for with newly created money through Quantitative Easing.

Even the unlikeliest of Conservatives seem to be waking up to Modern Monetary Theory [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1554361779857362945

[ben_w]

The end of the NHS is unlikely to be caused by money or lack thereof, given the NHS was founded while the UK was still suffering the economic consequences of the pyrrhic victory of WW2 — food rationing was still a thing, and was only completely ended six years after the NHS was founded, just in time for the Suez crisis to bring it back for a few more months.