It would make more sense though that the way the AMERICAN announcers present the show for the AMERICAN audience on the AMERICAN network might try to spin it that way.
On a less political note, I think it is a bit shocking to find that, of the 5 or 6 things that the British think are their most important achievements in all of history, the NHS is one of them. Also that the NHS is so underworked or overstaffed that they could afford to send thousands of their professionals off to get trained to dance in the Olympics.
We are told that there are months-long waiting lists for treatment because of shortages, so it seemed a bit surprising.
‘On a less political note, I think it is a bit shocking to find that, of the 5 or 6 things that the British think are their most important achievements in all of history, the NHS is one of them. ‘
In the era covered (not the whole of British history), the NHS IS, for ill or good, one of the most important parts of modern British history. A part of British life used by everyone at some point.
‘Also that the NHS is so underworked or overstaffed that they could afford to send thousands of their professionals off to get trained to dance in the Olympics.’
I assume you are joking.