THERE has been a lot of reporting in the media on the so-called failure of the NHS and the crisis in A&E.

Well if there has been any failure of the NHS then the people to blame are the governments, both left wings and right, but perhaps the MP with his head on the block has to be Gordon Brown.

In the few years prior to his stint as PM, the NHS were gearing up to change 167 small hospitals into PCT.

Northwich Infirmary being one earmarked for £15 to £20 million spent to make sure that a growing town would have an A&E department to cope with its citizens and facilities for routine operations that clog up the main operating theatres.

But move forward, and the banking problems of 2009, instead of continuing with this redevelopment that would employ thousands of architects, engineers, construction workers plus many ancillary workers and then a benefit to the country, no, Gordon Brown cancelled the PCT development and bailed out RBS.

The construction and the NHS were basically kicked in the backside and have suffered ever since.

Then to add to the NHS troubles they have an ever-increasing patients’ list which is totally unfunded with the various migrants, immigrants, refugees and illegals who have never paid a penny into the system.

The Liberal left are quick to blame ‘old people’ as the drain on the NHS, well perhaps as an older person, who has paid 45 years’ NI yet not (thankfully) used the NHS that much, then it is ours and the previous generations that have paid our NI without complaint.

Anyone coming to the UK must have their own private healthcare and also pay NI for at least 10 years before they are eligible.

R Cawley Northwich