US has been doing this same
shit since Reagan. It's what happened when they promised community services would replace mental institutions. Then blocked funding after the closing of the institutions was finalized.
A favorite is "We're not cutting [hospital service], we're moving it to the new hospital/hospital wing under construction." Then the construction contractor announces they can't meet the deadline and needs millions more to finish the project. City says they won't approve it.
We all knew he just said things! He never really meant any of them! That's how he got to become Prime Minister, the most important office in the land. He would be in so much trouble if he actually had to do anything! Blimey I thought we all knew that, derrrr
Will qualify this by saying BJ is an awful liar, and we wouldn't have had 40 hospitals anyway. But I think any promises in 2019 would have been hard to stick to after COVID and Ukraine being invaded/energy crisis. There's a fiscal reality that exists, see Kier's 2019 promises.
When was the last Govt project that DIDN'T run massively over original cost estimates? We need to know why & where the money is going, particularly what profits are being made. You can guarantee some ppl will be getting very rich at our expense.
The promised 40 new hospitals never were new hospitals at all, they were a bunch of unfunded projects. Now it's Labours Fault obvs. that this messy series of unfunded projects are being delayed. Nowt to do with the Tories overpromising, under delivering & not setting aside cash to pay for it.
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but some of his supporters were stupid enough to actually believe him despite the constant lies
shit since Reagan. It's what happened when they promised community services would replace mental institutions. Then blocked funding after the closing of the institutions was finalized.
Hospital service = cut
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-nhs-campaign-lies-cabinet-meeting-ministers-hospitals-a9250011.html