State of health service really matters to voters

“We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds. It is time to explore other solar systems. Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth” “The military was the university of life. Afghanistan was the experience of your life. I’ve never met anyone now who can’t speak positively of their time in the military. Of course we had bad days but the good days far outweigh that” NICK Martinek seems philosophical about the fact that his party were wiped out at the election (“Democracy won ... while the main parties lost out,” Letters, June 19).

As usual he moans about the UK being ruled from Brussels, something that was never the case.

Let me set him straight about one thing.

The result except for the unholy alliance between the Tories and the DUP went exactly as we wanted it to.

That is to say we have a hung parliament.

Along with an army of committed anti-Brexit fighters we launched an online campaign to try and get as few people to vote Tory as possible.

We knew that voters in the industrial areas needed little motivation to return to voting Labour as their families always have.

Policies were secondary except, of course, for the Tories dismantling the NHS which was very important round here.

I laughed when I saw the TV analysis that said Halifax might go to the Tories. So thank you ‘Save our A&E’ campaigners.

This also accounts for the change in Colne Valley – it was nothing at all to do with students.

Our slogan was ‘Whatever you do don’t vote Tory.’ Others concentrated on getting the young people, who Nick so blithely ignores, out to vote.

By and large it worked well,