Tory: Health service concerns? You are deluded
A TORY candidate in an area where the nearby hospital is being downgraded says Labour are “deluded” for warning about the future of the NHS.
Joy Morrissey said people should stop calling it “our NHS” and “treating it like a religion”.
She wrote in a blog: “The institution remains remarkably unchanged – the promised armageddon again failing to materialise. The credibility of these increasingly hysterical forecasts of doom can surely be no more than that of the deluded old soul wandering Oxford Street with his ‘The End Is Nigh’ placard.”
Her Labour rival in the Ealing Central and Acton constituency at the general election, Rupa Huq, said Ms Morrissey “looks at our NHS with derision”. As part of planned cuts, Ealing Hospital in North West London is being downgraded from a district to a local hospital. Beds would be reduced from 288 to 50.
The plans were formally published after the blog post last year but locals said fears for the hospital were well known. Ms Morrissey did not respond for comment yesterday.