The NHS – Saved by a booze tax

20th May 2017 Myles Harris Articles 0

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We each pay £1500 a year for the NHS

We spend £1000 per head a year on alcohol

Alcohol poisoning is the commonest disease seen in A & E.

Funny, I thought Jeremy worried about the health of the working classes, £5 a week on the booze bill in taxes would go a some way to curing the NHS. Maybe he is more concerned about bankers’ livers?

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Myles Harris is the editor of The Salisbury Review. Well struck in years, he remembers when hangings were announced in received English by a man wearing a bow tie on the BBC Home Service, midwives rode bicycles, Lady Almoners looked after the deserving poor in hospitals and children were separated by the 11 plus into sheep and goats.

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Jane Kelly worked for the Daily Mail for 15 years as a leading celebrity interviewer. Among her interviewees were Hillary Clinton, Jack Nicholson, Russell Crowe, George Clooney, Michael Portillo, Tony Benn, Jeffrey Archer, Edwina Curry, Scarlett Johansson, Arthur Scargill, Vanessa Redgrave and Elizabeth Taylor. She has written two books; a biography of Colin Farrell, and Inside – an account of working as a teacher in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London.

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