When I returned to live in the UK in 1984 after some years in Greece, people warned me not to get ill. Margaret Thatcher’s public spending cuts had shredded the National Health Service. I looked into it. Government spending on the NHS appeared to have gone up. When I told people this, they said I was wrong. The official statistics were lies. Everyone who worked in the NHS could tell you that services had been cut to the bone.
1984年,當我在希臘居住多年後回到英國時,人們警告我千萬別生病。瑪格麗特•撒切爾(Margaret Thatcher)削減公共支出,撕裂了國家醫療服務體系(NHS)。我調查了一下。政府在NHS方面的支出似乎增加了。當我把這一發現告訴別人時,他們說我搞錯了。官方數據是騙人的。在NHS工作的每個人都可以告訴你,NHS已經被削減得只剩骨架了。
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