Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Sturgeon: Sinn Fein success highlights ‘big questions’ about UK future" video.

  1. The Tories have reduced Council funding across the board since 2010 by 40% this has been partly made up with council tax rises the overall shortfall is 27% and the average population rose by over 8% If you deliberately reduce funding then standards will drop no matter who is in power and that applies to the NHS we have one of the lowest spends per capita in the G& and the highest share of publicly funded healthcare The NHS isn't poorly managed no matter how many times some Tory squawk box says it is in fact one of the highest value systems out there if you want to reduce wait times put more money into it As a comparison of what good value your getting the UK spends below 9% of its gdp on healthcare the nearest comparable system is Canada which spends 11% of its GDP if you applied 11% to the NHS it would receive an extra 16 billion in funding My figures are all collated from government sources
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  2. You'd loose all the prime fishing grounds most of the Offshore wind power all the oil and gas field revenue
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  3.  @ryanclaridge8395  those are official figures from government sources a Big number trotted out by a Tory Squak machine is no indication of what needs to be spent per capita And Just because it busts a load of unfabricated preconceptions you really really want to belive isn't my problem its yours
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  4.  @williamwallace6508  a large chunk of money comes from Westminster that chunk has shrunk over the last decade. Your trying to fund more with less
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  5.  @benlawrence309  Having worked in IT all my life and part in the public sector it doesn't surprise me. They'll have been developed at different times its central governments job to fund a compatibility project to link the 2 knowing the Cons they'll have skimped on it.
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  6.  @williamwallace6508  And the Tories can? Cameron had the worst economic numbers in 150 years and Johnson is about to beat them by a mile. At the same time the Cons have hollowed out services with never ending rounds of funding cuts.
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