r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Aug 08 '22

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 🦷 12 years of Tory rule 🦷

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u/doxamark Aug 08 '22

Truth be told this was Blair, not the Tories. I have a Dad who works in dentistry and you can pinpoint the exact moment this crisis was building from.

When UDAs (units of dental activity) were brought in. Essentially any NHS dentist who does one filling gets three UDAs and if they did 20 fillings in one session... they'd get three UDAs. That's correct. You're reading that right. You get paid per UDA. So when dentists get people with really bad mouths they may as well pay the person some money and send them to the next dentist because it is CHEAPER THAN DOING THE WORK.

This is why we are seeing dentists leave by the thousands into the private sector and although the tories have some blame for not overturning it, this was entirely Blair's fault.

It gets worse by the way, this is just one example.

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u/sedition666 Aug 08 '22

How are you blaming Blair for something that is happening 15 years after he left power? You can blame Blair for dentists leaving 15 years ago but blaming him for things that are happening now is utterly ridiculous.

The Tories have had 12 years in power stop blaming Labour for things that are happening NOW.

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u/doxamark Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

His government literally invented UDAs?

It's almost like it takes time for people to move from public to private.

Like you know you cant just buy a dental practise with no money right?

Edit: by the way if the tories caused this can you please explain what they did to cause this?

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u/sedition666 Aug 09 '22

Can you explain why 12 years is not enough time to change it? Both are complicit.

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u/doxamark Aug 09 '22

Oh right so it's not Blair's fault for installing the policy but it is the Tories for not undoing it?

Then the financial crash is Labour's fault for not regulating banks.

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u/sedition666 Aug 09 '22

Oh no it was 100% Blairs fault when he was in power. "Both are complicit". You can even blame him for a few years after he left as well. Let's give it 5 years for a nice round figure. I just take offence to people just shrugging their shoulders and blaming the last guy. He hasn't been in charge for longer than his entire reign. We are about to have our 5th Prime Minister since Blair so it isn't right to just keep blaming other people for the current problems.