Next time someone tells you that Labour and the Conservatives are identical

[andrewducker]

Notice the trend up throughout the 90s as things got worse and worse, and then the trend down shortly after Labour took office?

They may have done a lot of things wrong, but the NHS is a lot better off than it was.

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[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

To play devils davocate: the number of people in the longest-wait categories went down fairly steadily throughout the Conservative era. It looks like the trend over 87-97 was people moving from long waiting lists to short ones.