No in their wallet. Nissan are saying they have received "support and assurances" though at least we now know why there is no money of the NHS.

So that would also apply to the UK, which is 4 different countries. We're a member state (rightly or wrongly) through legal democratic means and engagement with the EU. You could go down to county level, or regions.

The problems of the EU have always been its 'quasi-federation' approach - but in reality it has made virtually no laws that the UK parliament hasn't then ratified before the electorate, to which UK parliament answers.

Granted as a partner in an organisation, you submit to accepting that other members may have divergent views, and resolve those democratically (in the EU). This whole us vs Europe is a odd perception, because the views of those other 27 countries aren't anti-UK, their own self interest, the same as ours (except we have a veto).

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British Leyland was one gigantic sinkhole into which billions were poured in order to maintain the production of vehicles hardly anyone wanted to buy. Who knows what sweeteners and guarantees Nissan were offered to set up shop in the North East in the first place? At least people actually buy their cars.

Yep I agree.

This is about the closest you get to nationalism.

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We've known for years why the NHS has no money and it's nowt to do with this government.

Criminal waste and incompetence on the NHS part.

Each trust buying medical equipment separately with huge differences between prices paid rather than buying stuff in bulk collectively to drive down cost.

Some Trusts not bothering to collect what they are owed by treating overseas patients and billing the countries responsible, others not chasing up outstanding demands for payment. Very few are any good at this... because it is not their money - you wouldn't run a commercial organisation this way, giving away freebies!

Drunken oafs turning up to A&E at the weekend with alcohol related injuries expecting to be treated for nothing when they have brought injuries upon themselves. People not turning up for appointments or not bothering to do physio to aid recovery.

The elderly blocking beds when they could go home, but no one is there to care for them.

Allowing young kids to get obese and them getting type 2 Diabetes and needing Insulin/Metformin for the rest of their lives.

Allowing Scotland and Wales to have free prescriptions.

Not training up enough nurses to cover shifts and then paying more than twice the normal going rate for agency staff to cover.

Paying CEO's and senior staff ridiculous salaries and benefits packages and then compound this with even more generous redundancy packages when they try to get rid of them for incompetence.

This list could go on.........

Most of things you describe are undoubtedly true to some extent but are at the margins of what it takes to fund the NHS. In terms of waste and incompetence it would be foolish to argue that no such waste exists but it is over decades governments of both hues have talked about savings in back office functions and at some point you exhaust most of the ways that they can be achieved.

Regarding Scotland and Wales I think you will find they are paying for free prescriptions out of the grant they get for services devolved to them. If you believe in devolving services then you also need to devolve the funds to carry out these services and that involves differing choices. Free prescriptions is one such choice. The alternative is abolishing the separate parliaments.