Nationalise the necessities of society

We've all done it, Sat in the pub,face,works canteen and numerous other places, complaining and discussing the state of the country. 

How many times have you heard common sense coming out of the mouths of friends family and colleagues. 

How many times have you sat in company and just heard the words like 'Christ these idiots couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery'. 

How many times a day do you watch the news or read a newspaper and think with incredulity how inept and moronic our elected and un-elected leaders are. 

When I say elected I off course I mean the local cllrs right up to MPs. Un-elected are the army of civil servants . Many of whom have gotten there by nepotism or kissing the right arse.

Collectively the IQ is not as high as it should be. Okay I may be being unfair there to call them all thick. I bet there is some talent out there but it gets snuffed out by the mass incompetence of their peers.

Mad as a bucket of frogs comes to mind.

...If you have a bucket of frogs and one attempts to get out [or go its own way] the rest of the frogs reach up and drag it back down. The British political and social system in a nutshell...

Lets look at the big one. The one that we Brits are most obsessed with-the NHS.

To criticise the NHS in the 21^st century anything else but wonderful is akin to saying there is no god in the 15^th. Christ-sake do you get attacked for it. ..So here I go. Bring on the hate.

The NHS is not fit for purpose. We live in a country that allows, in fact encourages, its residents to drink too much eat to much-and the wrong stuff-and drive everywhere. We are a nation of fat unhealthy and lazy people. THEN,when the damage is done the NHS is expected to jump in and treat you. All paid by the next generation of tax payers. 

The poor sods who are desperately trying to find a job and buy a house, and also pay for the people who came before them and abused there bodies.

I bet that if we lived in a country that was full of self aware people who actually cared about what they are doing to there bodies we would need an NHS a fraction of the size. 

An NHS that could concentrate of people who need treatment because of accidents or conditions that are not of their own making.

Imagine all the kids who have not yet had a chance to screw their bodies up who are or may become seriously ill. The poor souls with hereditary diseases or genetic abnormalities. Imagine how much funding and help would be there to help them. But instead millions of fat lazy drunk people soak the NHS dry.

Then there's the NHS itself. The way its ran. Incompetence on a monumental scale. The waste must be incredible. But again why worry, the tax payer will pick up the bill!

Why do we waste so much money on people who genuinely don't want to help themselves.

The NHS isn't there to cure. Its there to prescribe drugs . Its there to allow business to become millionaires and millionaires to become billionaires.

A population with diabetes, taking statins and god knows what else is a nice little earner for the politicians friends.

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that our governments -labour,Tory,liberal -are not interested in saving our tax money. They are not interested in spending it wisely. They don't care that they have their hands in our pockets. 

We should live in a country that trusts our leaders. We should trust that they are fiscally responsible. We should know that every penny they take of us is being used to make our society better. But its not. They don't care about that. They just care about keeping the money going around. Our collective pockets are deep. Their greed is incalculable. Their dishonesty criminal.

Of course the NHS could be ran better. Privatisation isn't the answer though. Healthcare should not be for profit.

But we need it ran by people who are fiscally competent. People who do know how to run an organisation. And if they fail they get sacked. I mean sacked. Not sacked with a million pounds severance. Sacked,escorted to the door and slung out. It happens to the rest of us plebs so why should these people get away with it. The problem is we have people in charge who appear to answer to drug companies before the taxpayer.

I don't buy into this 'bring back the matrons ' BS. Matrons were good at caring for people. They shouldn't be running the business end.

And yes the NHS is a business. They buy drugs and equipment from the private sector. So it should be ran like a business. Not a private business but a state ran business. Nationalisation. Ah quick stone him. Infidel for even suggesting such a thing. But a nationalised industry is totally different to nationalism.

The NHS needs nationalised. I mean properly nationalised. Not like the old days of nationalization that did not work.

I've seen it first hand. I worked for British gas just as it was coming out of nationalisation. 

Christ it was bad...22 levels of management form the actual workers to the chairman And every level of management was top heavy with the most useless people I hAve ever come across. There was no accountability for cost. The taxpayers hole 'again' was deep. 

And the unions didn't help. They had so much power that even if any decent manager wanted to get rid of someone useless they couldn't. The unions were so strong.

I couldn't believe the waste and incompetence I seen there. I left school and worked on farms then building sites. I knew what work was. Then I joined British Gas.

Start work a 8 am-but actually leave the yard about 9. Them umpteen coffees wont drink themselves you know.

Travel to the job. That could be anything for a couple of miles to 20 or thirty. Another cuppa.

Dinner was 12 , so depending how far you were from the yard you would set of accordingly to get there for 12- oh and leave enough time to grab the chippy or pie shop. an hour for dinner would take you to 1 pm then travel back to the job. Finishing time would be 4.15 so again you had to leave the job with plenty of time to get back to the yard. 

...And we were the ones that worked!...

All the levels of management did somewhere in between sod all and fuck all... and their was hundreds of them.

But that doesn't mean nationalization doesn't work. The nationalization of the past didn't work.

And lets be honest very few things have actually been really privatised. They are all subsided to the hilt by tax payers cash. 

Wouldn't it be better to just take them back under government control.