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Originally Posted by Cherie

creating resentment

Yes. There you go. This is exactly what it's about; not the actual money.

especially when we are constantly told NHS funding is in CRISES if they want raise Ni they need to show that the tax paying public that they are making changes that save money in the right areas not denying drugs to patients because they are too expensive, it might be a drop in the ocean but savings have to start somewhere, and starting by maybe having enough cleaning staff to do a decent job would have an impact on levels of MRSA and so on..

Funding is in crisis because the Conservatives have deliberately and systematically slashed funding in order to destabilise the NHS, erode public confidence, and sell it all off to private organisations. Until people start understanding this, there's very little point in discussing what could or couldn't be done with the (YES ****ING TINY IN NATIONWIDE TERMS no matter how sarcastic people want to be about that) amount of £23,000,000 that is spent on interpreters for non English speaking patients.

A saving of 23 million would make absolutely zero difference to the wider NHS. None. Zip. People want translation services cut out of PURE SPITE because they personally don't believe non English speakers should be using the NHS or accommodated in doing so. Simple as that.