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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[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

2003-present? Labour began to concentrate almost exclusively on lists and league tables. So Hospitals concentrated on paying more attention to those lists and league tables. The numbers came down because ways were found to reduce them. Whether that improved quality of service is almost completely irrelevant to this set of statistics

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what happened in the education system.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

It's what happened in most public sector establishments. Most damage, by far, has been caused to the Police who now have to spend so much time doing paperwork carving out their Achievements that they have very little time left to do actual Policing. The terrible reputation our Police service now endures is almost entirely because of this policy.