The UK 2010 Election Thread- Who will/would get your vote?

[Kasz216]

FootballFan said:

SciFiBoy said:

FootballFan said:
The NHS is excellent. but, under stupid government imposed rules it is now a laughing stock in some regions.

For example, in my region a friend of mine needed a drug to restore some sort of deficiency he has. However, in my regional zone the NHS has decided this drug is too expensive to provide him with. Consequently, forcing him to go private.

Heres the catch. If he lived in Lincolnshire or Lancashire he would have been given this drug on the NHS because they elected to include it in their funding. Talk about a ridiculous scheme!

ideally the government should increase NHS funding and also redirect funds from things like the riddiculous over payment of managers (many of which may not even be needed anyway)

If I was in charge I would hit the millionaire bankers a lot harder with taxes. In addition, transfer the pay increases from the higest earning managers in the NHS to the lowest paid nurses. The NHS needs much much more funding but I don't quite know where the source of that could come from.....

Ideally the government would legalise many drugs. Charging obscence prices and profiting massivly from taxation. Only the rich would be able to consume these goods and the NHS would be placed under less strain as they wouldn't be as popular as they are know! 

Well the problem with massivly taxing drugs is that if they end up more expensive then street value by a significant amount... you won't get rid of the black market and most people will buy from the black market.

Functionally, all you end up doing is making it so it is harder to catch people with illegal drugs since they can just claim they purchased them legally.