[Continuation] General UK Politics IV - Rishi reprise

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Originally Posted by The Don (Post 14073791) The Conservatives in general, and Boris Johnson in particular, proudly boasted of building "40 new hospitals". It turned out that there were nothing of the sort, in effect installing a new vending machine in an existing hospital was counted as a "new hospital" for counting purposes *. Now it turns out that no actual building work has been done on 33 of 40 hospitals: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65607962 They lie as easily as they breathe. :mad: The big problem for most of them is that there simply isn't any actual build money (despite the government saying that it was). Of course no-one living in the right wing media bubble will hear anything of this. * - Not actually true but building a new wing, or refurbishing an existing wing on an existing hospital did count.

I thought that the "forty new hospitals" thing was four actual new hospitals, about ten hospital enlargements and about 26 remedial works to existing hospitals to stop them falling down. And the second and third categories were already approved

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