"There’s been a lot of fearmongering around the NHS over the past 10 years or so. People coming out of the woodwork, talking about how if we voted Tory or allowed Brexit to go through then we’d all find ourselves waiting months for routine operations that we’d ultimately end up having to pay for.
Politicians like Jeremy Corbyn banging on about secret Tory documents, filled with insidious plans about privatisation. Scary buzz phrases like managed decline” and US-style healthcare” and letting working class people suffer to pop a stock price” being bandied around by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Unhinged scare tactics at their finest at a time when the health service is in crisis.
Anyway, Rod Stewart has started paying for people’s medical scans.
No, I’m serious; the situation with the NHS has now deteriorated to such an extent that the guy who wrote Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?” decided he couldn’t just stand on the sidelines anymore, and has stepped in.
The 78-year-old rock legend phoned into Sky News yesterday, bemoaning the state of the country’s healthcare system and crying out for us to change the bloody government.” Stewart, who said that he had been a Tory for a long time now”, argued the situation with the public health system is ridiculous” when he is able to take advantage of private healthcare at clinics that are virtually empty”.
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