I am becoming increasingly worried about the state of our healthcare system. I have recently returned from a weekend away and now sit reading how far cuts are progressing. I am now left with an apprehensive disposition and a fear of things to come. I understand that our debt was always extremely severe; the worst out of the G7 countries by far but cuts seems to be going too far. Gary Young summed it up better than I ever could, “the country has a broken leg, and the coalition don't want to heal it but amputate it.” I am going on holiday later this summer, I fear my departure because I know upon my return England shall just be a thorny stalk, remnants of the glorious rose she once was.

So why does it proceed? I would argue not as a result of its content but because of a lack of opposition. The Lib-Dems are compromised and have somewhat sold out to get their voices heard by way of a coalition. The Labour party remains pre-occupied by the internal power struggle for leadership. Conservatives remain un-moderated, un-opposed and at the forefront of my attention.

The much discussed white bill has “tarted up”  our healthcare system, now ripe for devouring by private companies. With companies such as Humana, a US private medical company circling in our seas, waiting for the smell of privatization, it is inevitable that the NHS is going to get carved up.

I was asked this morning, “What do you think the reasoning behind the NHS shakeup is?”

To which I replied, “An attempt, misguided but valiant all the same, by the Conservatives to streamline the NHS and improve our health service.”

My inquisitor chuckled, “Lets see if you are still as naïve in a few months time.”