UK General Election.Tory pledge 40 new hospitals but now only 6 really new or refurbished in the pipeline.Did they or me make it up?

they are gonna "pledge" loads of things - but they are gonna have to wait until they can borrow the money to pay for them

(they pledged an increase of 20bill on NHS spending - what they didnt say is that they would have to borrow every penny of that 20bill

the key with EVERYTHING the tories say is - where is the money coming from to to pay for it?

(there is a large road improvement planned in my area (cornwall) - The "planners" (in london of course) have spent millions in "planning" and "consultations" (all in london of course)

The fly in the ointment is that part of the funding is supposed to be coming from the EU. Over the past couple of years I have sent several e-mails to the planning department (in london) asking what will happen when we leave the EU and the EU funds dry up - Is the government gonna fund the EU shorfall or not?

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yet the government is happy to stump up to fund the HUGE overspend on crossrail where the ONLY people who will benefit will be those wanting to get from east and west london to heathrow

more important at the moment, look how many people, especially women are not standing again, experience and length of stay seemingly irrelevant. mainly tories?

All the Tory spending pledges are predicated on a post-Brexit boost to the economy relative to remaining in the EU. Sajid Javid has refused (why??) to recalculate Treasury assessments of the impact of Brexit to take account of the Johnson's deal but all independent assessments suggest economic growth will be slower, the latest forecast being that the UK would be £70 billion poorer in ten years than if it remained in the EU.

Even 40 new hospitals is a far cry from the dishonest impression Vote Leave deliberately intended to give (promised in some of its social media posts) that leaving the EU would free up £350 million per week, enough to build a new fully-staffed NHS hospital a week.

This is a much more complicated issue than the headlines suggest. How quickly people forget Patricia Hewitt and Tony Blair closing down hospitals (and then going down the cripplingly expensive PFI route). Part of the argument is that patients need to spend less time in hospital with improvements in procedures and some are getting rid of beds to do day cases. There is actually no shortage of hospitals: they can be (and are) rented on a need basis from the private sector for far less than the cost of building them.

40 new hospitals - WHEN????? And what about renovating or extending the CURRENT ones???? Nah. Sorry, I can't believel that - any more than ALL the promises Labour are going to make!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone who even contemplates trusting politicians or believing their rhetoric deserves to be forced to wear a dunce hat for at least five years.

It was a Boris Johnson promise. Just like:

“We leave the EU on 31st October - do or die”

“I won’t ask for an extension. I’d rather be found dead in a ditch.”

“Forsaking all others.”

During the Tory years, local to me, a new hospital is now being built, when it's finished it will replace the old one and then that will be knocked down. The only trouble is the new one has far less beds in it.

Boris made it up, his health minister then humbled his way through the *wheres the money coming from* question saying that the wealth created by brexit would mean that there would be billions to spend on the new hospitals, no facts, just fantasies...

I refuse to trust them. They closed our local hospital and expect us to do a 60 mile round trip to get to the big one which is now too crowded to be able to park. They decimated our local buses too. Not getting my vote.