{"id":239079,"date":"2023-01-08T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=239079"},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:48:05","slug":"death-by-a-thousand-cuts","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/death-by-a-thousand-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by a thousand cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only recently nurses were being hailed as heroes. Now they are so financially desperate that more than half of NHS trusts and health boards are either providing or planning food banks for their workers. The trusts are also considering meal voucher programmes, subsidised canteen menus and free-breakfast initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>NHS Charities Together call it \u2018heartbreaking\u2019 that healthcare staff working under such pressures are having to use food banks. \u2019This is unprecedented\u2019 (bit.ly\/3X1Bikk).<\/p>\n<p>Unprecedented, no, disgrace, yes. The ugly truth is, Britain&#8217;s tax-paying rich don&#8217;t want to pay to keep workers healthy, and would love to abolish the NHS. But governments know that would be political suicide, so they condemn it to death by a thousand cuts instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-239079","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/239079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}