Comments by "Stephen Walker" (@stephenwalker2924) on "Health service in Northern Ireland under immense strain" video.

  1. You're right. Carers' Allowence is pitiful. Tories would rather keep throwing good money after bad at the NHS than give people a decent living wage.
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  2. 73% of my brain knew this fact already. the other 387% of my brain did not know this and was mildly surprised.
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  3. no staff to staff them
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  4.  @tjmarx  Why do Labour want to be in power? They can't possibly effect any real change with the situation this bad? Don't all political parties want to create real change?
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  5.  @tjmarx  Thank you. Very informative and interesting. Slightly depressing, but thought-provoking. Makes a nice change on here to read a contributor who doesn't just want to score cheap political points against one particular party or the other. Seems to me we need a redistribution of wealth and/or a Franklin D. Roosevelt-style New Deal in the UK, but we are not going to get either. Just endless cycles of growth and recession and depression and growth again, in which the poor increasingly suffer and pay more whilst the rich and power-blessed increasingly increase their stock options and pay less, as always.
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  6. Many folks don't want to go to a care/nursing home, even temporarily. Many people want to go home but can't because they can't look after themselves properly. Some people could live at home but can't access the proper social care which would allow them to do so. a few may be long-term homeless. It's a complex problem with no easy answers sometimes.
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