"The stupidest thing to come out of the 1960s – and that is saying a lot – was the crazy decision by Enoch Powell, then Minister of Health, to shut down and sell off dozens of mental hospitals....The results of this unhinged, greedy and ill-informed action have been catastrophic.
Last week it was officially admitted (though experts have known it for years) that police are having to ignore more and more crimes to look after mentally ill people cast adrift by our broken mental health system.
Scotland Yard, for example, gets a call seeking help with a mentally ill person every four minutes..."
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