Hello Lucille,I agree with you. The red tape and bureaucracy is, as you say, beyond the pale.My audiologist also told me some years ago (2014/15?) that the conservatives were letting the NHS hospitals go to ruin as they believed in the insurance-based NHS. I believe it was Ian Duncan-Smith, leader of the Conservatives at the time, produced a report supporting a healthcare system funded through social insurance—where employer and employee pay towards a compulsory health insurance plan—rather than a system funded through general taxation.Grandparents create it and grandchildren destroy it? Adding VAT to private school fees is ridiculous beyond words. In all, I so wish they would leave the NHS, education and trade alone! They have destroyed most of it. And yes, I include Cruella Braverman who studied in Cambridge, enjoyed a year abroad under the Erasmus programme and obtained her Masters at the Sorbonne in Paris under the Entente Cordial programme. She then voted to discontinue the Erasmus programme!!!!!!!! GrrrrrI do not know what will happen in future. I think it all will be revealed when we know how much is in the coffers - and I expect not a lot.
Ivonne Holliday ● 390d