CAROLINE Lucas, like most politicians, likes throwing fuel at a fire, their arrogant “I’m always right they are always wrong’ attitude can be looked on smugly only by their ardent followers.

“Caroline walks on water” you hear them mutter.

Those of us that have long memories, know better, for whenever has any political party managed to get everything right? Never.

For it has been one chaotic financial mess after another.

The looney left giving money away as if it is water, leaving the country in debt.

Then the Eton Tory toffs come in and get us out of the mess, only to lose to the looney left who again gives away all the country’s wealth, for the Eton Tory toffs to once again put the country’s finances back on track.

This has never affected the rich, only the poor.

But when it comes to the NHS Caroline Lucas must be careful.

The NHS has never been organised by any political party to run properly.

When can we ever forecast what epidemic, bet it flu or a virus, is going to happen, or how many people it will affect?

How many beds will be required? Medicine and staff?

Each winter brings a different scenario, with different challenges, but all ending in the same situation.

Lack of space, shortage of beds, more pressure on the nursing staff.

We knew about the plight of the elderly getting older, but did we know how many immigrants we would have to look after when freedom of movement was arrogantly signed by politicians not looking at the problems we were already suffering from at that time, a chronic lack of hospitals and housing.

Like our trains trying to get a thousand passengers into a carriage that only holds a hundred.

It’s much like filling a super turbo-charged jet car with fuel, while the engine is running at full throttle.

The building of new hospitals is more important then ever before.

Now we hear a four-day working week proposed for everyone, but not for hospital staff. So it is not for everyone.

Doctors don’t want to work overtime because of the tax they have to pay.

So putting up taxes to hit the rich is going to exacerbate the shortage of doctors.

In the building industry when firms struggle to meet deadlines, they employ sub-contractors to assist them.

The NHS should bring in the Nutfield Private hospitals to do the same. Used wisely it helps the NHS.

Let’s have common sense not socialist rhetoric.

Spencer Carvil, Egginton Road, Moulsecoomb