13 years.

Yup they did.

Full fact.


The most recent significant increase we’ve seen was between 2013 and 2014 when it increased by around 50%, from 209,000 to 313,000.

In 2009 the satisfaction rate of the NHS was at a record high, and now look at it

Before anyone uses the Covid excuse, the NHS was already deteriorating fast before anyone had ever heard of Covid. Ambulance response times are a disgrace, people have died.

Where I live, the police are so thinly stretched that they wait until all the bars and pubs are closed at night time before going to arrest anyone, usually about 3 in the morning. The nearest custody suite is 20 miles away, and police vans meet half way, so as to not leave areas dangerously undermaned.

People are marooned in their villages at night time because all the public transport has been cut, and some villages now have no Sunday services any more.

Where once you got a GP appointment in two to three days, now its two or three weeks

There are no NHS dentists

Mental health services for children and young adults is almost non existent

EVeryone knows that everything is now much worse than 13 years ago, whether it be your bus services, the NHS, every public service, trying to see your GP, trying to get help for children with learning difficulties, autism or mental health issues.

We are turning into a third rate country with third rate public services, and I believe a lot of people who voted Tory last time, are giving there votes else where simply because of the idea that "It cant be any worse than this".

Over the past 25 years the population of this country has increased from 58 million to 69 million. Never in our history has the population increased so much over such a short period of time. No one was asked, mass immigration was imposed. And to say the overall birth rate is falling is not exactly accurate. The birth rate among British mothers is in decline, some would say serious decline. However the birth rate for immigrant mothers is increasing, indeed immigrant mothers now account for nearly 60% of all births in London, 50% in Manchester and 43% in Birmingham. If this trend continues British people will be a minority within two generations. We do not need more immigration, we need less, a lot less. This level of immigration is doing more damage to this country than the Luftwaffe ever did. I suspect you're thrilled. 

Looks like Labour throwing open the door to mass immigration didnt work out to well?...

In 2009 it was on tick.

Now it's payback time.

Public Finance Initiatives ( PFI's ) were not ever used by Tony Blair or Gordon Brown to decrease waiting lists, decrease waiting times, hire thousands of extra doctors, hire thousand of extra nurses, increase NHS funding, or to invest in new equipment or to refurbish crumbling hospitals.

PFI contracts were used in SOME instances to build new hospitals, from 1997 to 2010 a total of 50 hospitals over a 13 year period.

The question is not about whether Tony Blair or Gordon Brown should have used PFI to build much needed new hospitals.

The question is WHY have the Conservatives starved ALL public services of investment and funding for 13 years, so much so that they are now in a terrible state. ?

sandypine >>  So to be clear you are saying that the increase in population of some 15% in as many years, mostly down to immigration, has absolutely nothing to do with anything else and will not affect health care, education, housing, transport, social services, jobs etc. Freedom of movement was signed by a Tory government where all member states were of a similar economic level, it was NewLabour who saw an opportunity to boost the economy by allowing in cheaper foreign labour en masse whilst messing all over those who were supposed to be their core support. Everything has a price.
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The current population of the UK is 68 million, an increase of approximately 5 million since the previous census in 2011, an increase of less than 10%.

The UK population also went up sharply between 2001 and 2011, by approximately 4 million

Both of these rises can MOSTLY be attributed to the EU10 joining the European Union, plus Bulgaria and Romania joining in 2007.

The population of the UK has always gone up between census's, mostly between 1 and 4 million

The average Eastern European who arrived in the UK through Freedom Of Movement, are young, healthy, they work, and they pay both direct and indirect taxes.

I repeat that the appaling state of our NHS and other public services has got nothing to do with immigrants, but has everything to do with cuts to public services ( which you seem to be in denial about ) and underfunding.