The Who’s Roger Daltrey blames “my generation” for NHS crisis

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Roger Daltrey has blamed his generation for the ongoing NHS crisis, and called on the service to cut the salaries of its top executives.The Who frontman shared his thoughts on the ongoing healthcare crisis in a new interview with The Times, and revealed that he partly blames his generation for putting strain on the service and reducing the service offered to young people.“I’m in the way,” the 79-year-old told the outlet. “All us old farts, we really are just in the way of the young now, aren’t we?”The rock singer, who famously sang the line “I hope I die before I get old”, also learned of a young cancer patient who was forced to get a private scan to be diagnosed with stage four Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of blood cancer.“For fuck’s sake… Let’s just die!” he said. “Get me and my lot out the way.

It’s crazy.”As highlighted by The Independent, Daltrey previously lost his sister to breast cancer when she was 32, hence wanting to prioritise the treatment of young people over his own health.Elsewhere in the interview, Daltrey also criticised the hefty salaries of NHS executives and suggested that this be reduced to help support nurses and improve hospital wards.“More than 50 per cent of the NHS budget isn’t spent here on wards,” he said, questioning why those higher up needed “£400,000 or £500,000 a year of public money”.“I’ll tell you how to pay the nurses more: cut down on executive pay,” he added. “That’s my opinion.

I’ll get slaughtered for saying it, but you’ve got to be tough. They [the political parties] make the NHS this political football in elections.

They’re using us and it needs to stop.”Clarifying that he is not unwell currently, the singer did say he would consider assisted dying if he became a “burden”.“My.