NHS v RBS

NHS at breaking point - national demo and health workers' strike needed photo Paul Mattsson, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)

Under the Tory government's misnamed 'sustainability and transformation plans', a massive Ł22 billion of "efficiency savings" - i.e. cuts - will be rammed through the NHS in England by 2020.

The Tories clearly aren't prepared to tolerate 'loss-making' public institutions, unless the publicly owned body is the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

RBS has reported losses of Ł7 billion last year, taking its total losses since the Blairites' 2008 government bailout to more than Ł58 billion.

Simon Carter

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