Without the NHS, I would probably be dead of broken, murderous brain. Today, I wish the NHS a happy 63rd year, and think with pride and gratitude about all of the lives it has saved, all of the people it has mended and all of the highly-trained professionals it has taught to save lives and mend people. It is a beautiful, special thing, the one thing that makes this country great.
To quote Aneurin Bevan, a great person from the days when politicians cared about the people:
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith left to fight for it.
I think it is apparent that there are. I certainly am.
Our precious NHS is under attack from the Tories. Nye saw this coming over sixty years ago:
That is why no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation. Now the Tories are pouring out money in propaganda of all sorts and are hoping by this organised sustained mass suggestion to eradicate from our minds all memory of what we went through. But, I warn you young men and women, do not listen to what they are saying now. Do not listen to the seductions of Lord Woolton. He is a very good salesman. If you are selling shoddy stuff you have to be a good salesman. But I warn you they have not changed, or if they have they are slightly worse than they were.
As a present to the NHS, talk about it to everyone. Express your pride and vow to protect it. It needs our help.
Another angry woman 
A lovely post, thanks. ( Unfortunately, my stupid WordPress account won’t let me ‘like’ it. )