Since 2010 quality of care has decreased, so whilst it was messed up in 2010, it had got better than the years preceding (thanks to Labour), it's got worse and worse every year under Tory rule, and waiting lists have grown and grown every year.
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If you're writing the headline "The NHS is ****ed" in 2010, then it's probably true for standards which we were used too.
The headlines we get every year since, saying the "The NHS is ****ed", still applies as it's got worse, and doesn't excuse how "less ****ed" it was in 2010 etc.
Tories can blame Covid for maybe slightly accelerating their **** up, but the've been cocking it up for a long time. Covid's added maybe 500k on to the waiting list, but Tories have added 2.5m onto that, off their own back.