Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "No One is being Truthful about the State of UK Economy" video.
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I think you need to look at the trade-offs section. Remember that the vacancies for NHS and Social Care are still in their tens of thousands. A nurse takes 3 years to train. A Doctor takes 7. What do we do in the meantime? Where are the British people willing to spend 3 years training as a nurse with 12 hour shifts, and low pay. What do we do in the meantime? Let's be honest here. All those wonderful tax cuts we had to be paid for by cutting back public spending, which includes the NHS. The UK workforce is shrinking because it is ageing, and the birth rate has been below replacement rate for decades. It is actually too late to be particular where your health and social care staff come from, as they are needed now. Not in 3 years and not in 7, but now. That's why private sector contractors are waiting for the NHS and social care to collapse, whilst they are bleeding it dry. They want it broken enough so people will pay health insurance. You can cut immigration all you like, but it's too late to stop the rot. It's gone on too long. You see, all the problems we have have been created to make wealthy people even more money. That means they want a weaker state, with little or no public services, and to pay little or no tax. And we fell for that. We shortsighted lay agreed to tax cuts, not thinking it would literally come back to bite us. It has. Child poverty has returned with a vengeance. Young people are finding it impossible to start a family in a home of there own without the Bank of Mum and Dad. And intergenerational wealth is shrinking too. So, we need immigration just to clean up the mess left behind by the direction our society took over 4 decades ago. And it will take decades to repair it if we have the luck to do so. And we will need it. And it might mean that we will have to look at our priorities as a society, because our problems in the present come from those priorities we set in the past. And if we don't like dealing with these current problems, we need to take an honest and realistic look at the priorities that created them. The problems were created by immigration. Immigration needs are a symptom, not the cause. The cause is that we believed stuff that wasn't true. Tax cuts were free money. No, they weren't. Every tax cut meant a cut in public services each and every time. And Austerity just accelerated that decline. Now there's a quiet crisis going on because we're being gaslighted each and every day. It's saddening to see how much it's hurting us. We gone backwards in life expectancy. Diseases of deprivation have returned, and medicine and treatment is being rationed. People are having trouble getting their prescriptions filled. And the elderly... With undetmanned social care, there suffering too. We've messed up, by allowing it to happen. And really, we need to decide who we are and what kind of country we want to be. We've got to be honest about it, because there is no perfect solution, and we can't have everything at the same time.
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