We owe a massive debt of gratitude to campaigners
Michael Eisner, former Disney CEO, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, explorer, Sir Vivian Richards, former cricketer Bryan Cranston, actor,
Ivan Lendl, former tennis player Mary Beth Evans, actress, Rachel Weisz, actress, Bel Powley, actress, WELL done to the campaigners and Kirklees MPs for getting support to keep our hospital from Jeremy Corbyn and getting a promise of investigation from Andrea Leadsom, Leader of the House.
The campaigners braved atrocious conditions and were treated appallingly by staff at the House of Commons. Do these officials not know that we live in a democracy? Good on Barry Sheerman for taking the issue further!
Jeremy Hunt’s recent humanitarian award for services to NHS is rubbing salt in the wounds of battling campaigners. It is also nauseating to the people of this town who have endured much heartache from Hunt’s proposals.
He seems almost infallible obscenely rich with a power base so strong that he can defy a Prime Minister by refusing to move to another post and increasing his portfolio to boot!
Would Margaret Thatcher have let him get away with such a refusal?
I think two things need constantly reinforcing.
The fact we are a university town twice the size of Halifax and that two into one does not go.
Moreover - as a writer to letters observed last week - are the people of Halifax really aware of their own position when a town twice its size could descend on them?
We never have any reports from TV or newspapers on the reverse side of the coin. Halifax only has a weekly newspaper and when I visited a food bank and cafe last year I spoke to quite a few people and they were taken aback when l informed them of the real possibility of overcrowding at their hospital.
The Prime Minister has remained in office longer than many thought possible - but that is only because of Brexit ( does anybody know what they are talking about?) and the unsuitability of her replacements.
I think we are in deadlock and the only solution is a General Election and even a second referendum! AFTER a while, people such as JLH of Salendine Nook (Examiner, Tuesday 6th) start to become much laboured and extremely condescending with their repeat arguments of a referendum re-run.
Why do such people think that those who voted to “Leave” the EU were not made aware of the issues they were voting for? But superior “remain” people such as JLH did!
At the last General Election the candidate I voted for failed to secure the vacant seat.
My question to you JLH is: Can I/we have a re-vote? My feelings are that the elected person will not represent my views. Well, can we? How about a “Best of three” voting system? And if that fails we could adopt the EU voting system of rerunning a vote until it is the one which they want or completely ignore the “wrong” result.