I agree. My wife works for the NHS and I work with schools, colleges etc as a consultant on their buildings and maintenance. I can see in both cases how bad it has got - the NHS are struggling like mad to get enough staff to cover the amount of patients, budget cuts causing all sorts of issues. These doctors and especially nurses, in my opinion, are criminally underpaid - and these days they're now having to pay for their degree to get into a profession that is not worth it financially. These latest pay rises that nurses received are just beyond a joke. If they grafted like they do in any other profession, building relationships with clients etc as they do patients, some of these people would be highly successful. The NHS is honestly teetering on the edge, the stories I hear are frightening and I think if the general public knew exactly how bad it was, there would be more urgency to stand up to the government and do something about it. Once it has gone then we are all screwed, because I couldn't imagine trying to fund private healthcare for my family, on top of what we are already dealing with.
It's the same with schools. Budget cuts have left schools in such a bad state. We are often working on shoestring budgets with schools, trying to keep them going. Give it 5 or 10 more years and they'll be left with schools that are no longer feasible to maintain and will simply need replacing. It's clear that they want to push academies as they have much more money and tend to waste it like it grows on trees. The whole system is fecked.
With regards to inflation though, could somebody explain how we have come to where we are? I read that interest rates were at 0.1% only a few years ago, and now we're at 5%. Mortgage payments are sky rocketing, in some cases they are doubling. Where does this end? It feels like half the nation will be living on the streets if they don't sort this out.
