Voice of The Mirror: The Tories are taking us for fools as they fiddle with A&E targets
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For the Tories to abolish A&E waiting time targets that are regularly missed is crass ­dishonesty on a dangerous scale.
The dilution, sidelining and abolition of National Health Service goals is the political equivalent of chopping down the mast in the hope nobody spots the white flag.
Because the Tories are surrendering in the battle to improve the NHS.
Instead they starve hospitals and doctors of precious funds while privatising chunks of the service to line the pockets of fatcats.
A&E units, at times, resemble war zones due to chronic underfunding and staff shortages – years of Tory neglect coming home to roost.
Axing targets does not improve care but the Tories know its harder to pin on them when they are going so badly wrong.
Fiddling figures is an old Conservative trick, Margaret Thatcher doing it to unemployment statistics and now Theresa May with the NHS.
Patients know the truth. Tories are fools to try and pull the wool over people’s eyes.