That’s the interpretation put on the survey by the article authors, based on their guesstimate about the deeper motivations of the surveyed.
They may be right. Or not.
Also replying to @LDoBe. £4 million a year will get you about 10 psychiatric beds (for observation) at most, never mind treatment. Mental health care always seems to take the worst of the cuts and at this point we need billions put into it, especially as we have been repeatedly hearing that there are no psychiatric beds in the UK (Private or NHS). Also, we need a promise that the vast majority of that money will go into the NHS and not private hospitals.
From the survey
Labour supporters’ levels of satisfaction with the NHS also jumped 11 percentage points, those for Conservative supporters remained roughly the same and Liberal Democrat satisfaction levels increased by 5 percentage points.
Taking into account party loyalties, that is the opposite result to what would be expected if the Conservatives were doing a good job.
There is a lot of fear around criticising the NHS, that if people say things are bad then there will be more cuts and privatisation than is already happening (previous governments have shown themselves happy to do that).
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Since no one’s mentioned it yet: hilarious accompanying graphic.
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