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by xvector
634 days ago
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> It's been a major talking point [...] doesn't have to be objectively true for people to feel like it is true. Just like everyone always thinks crime is up even when it's down. I'm sorry, but no. It's not just a talking point. As someone with family in both countries, as well as having parents that have worked in both medical systems: The NHS waiting lists are genuinely bad and this isn't all in peoples' heads. It's not even a "left vs right" issue; no one thinks the system is working right now. |
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That's true but as always the difference between left vs right (populism) is not what is being said but what the proposed solution is. This goes for many things: healthcare, immigration, poverty, etc. The issues are hot button topics but the proposed or implied solutions vary drastically. Alas of course the left in countries like the UK and Germany have become very centrist and instead of proposing different solutions from the right often join the moderate conservatives in suggesting what the right says "but less". This results in aimless reformism, means testing and bureaucracy which further feeds into far right populism by demonstrating "the left" as incompetent.