ONE day soon, I’m afraid to say, the great British public will awake to find the NHS as we know it will have vanished.

Before long if you fall to illness or need medical attention, your belief of that health care coming free at the point of need, will be lost. You could say that long held belief and cornerstone of the NHS will be dead and buried.

Over the coming years you will be required to pay for that treatment. These changes are being painstakingly and cunningly installed. Market forces will be God in the NHS, care and consideration of patients needs will be way down the pecking order.

What bothers me most is that neither of the coalition partners’ manifestos mentioned the true extent of the NHS changes that they are now putting into practice. I feel strongly that we, the electorate, were deceived by David Cameron and his party.

Imagine if Cameron had the courage of his convictions and told us back then he intended to butcher the NHS, our NHS, to radically change it to a profit making organisation. He wouldn’t have been elected and he blatantly knows that to be true, hence his deception, his pretence.

I’m sure in the live TV debates with all the leaders taking part, Cameron told us he valued the NHS, with his family using it frequently. Also that he and his party had learned lessons from their past and the NHS would be safe in their hands.

Furthermore recently the House of Lords endorsed Cameron’s plans for the NHS unreservedly, but when you consider that the majority of the Tory Lords who voted have clear and undeniable links, shares and directorships in health oriented companies the length and breadth of this country, who all would benefit greatly from these changes, no wonder they quickly passed this legislation.

Once the great British public realise the full extent of all the changes to befall the NHS in the very near future, and the truth will out, we may see opposition akin to the poll tax debacle, with an upsurge of public dismay and anger boiling over.

But the one thing that is certain, Mr Cameron and his party and their lap dogs the Lib-Dems will then never be able to remove the public stigma that will be attached to them, as the politicians who duped the public and stole the NHS for their own class to make money from.

P J LITTLEFIELD, Victoria Avenue, Winton, Bournemouth