FOR once some good news regarding the NHS and Warrington Hospital, I thought, on hearing The Borough was receiving £1 million to ease winter pressures next year.

Except hospital casualty departments share in such windfalls annually, virtually without fail in modern times, a fiscal sticking plaster to mask another year of failing to meet waiting time targets.

You certainly got to hear this announcement from Whitehall fairly early doors in 2017 because we’re trapped in a full-on vote-scrounging until June 8.

Jeremy Corbyn may have been roundly (and rightly) vilified by the Tories for failing to resile from his oft-publicised IRA alliances, when he came to town last week.

David Mowat and his Conservative pals should be forthcoming regarding which parts of the health service they want to privatise first.

Which non-executive directorships within the industry have they trained their sights on when being a Parliamentarian stops being profitable, I mean practical.

Like ex-ministers of all stripes over the past half-dozen administrations, to be clear.

Oh and for all of my leftie mates who insist on sharing horror stories about what havoc the Tories will wreak on the NHS, remember on who’s watch the burgeoning internal market and PFI deals really thrived. Or was socialism and all the comrades on an extended holiday from ‘97 to 2010?