Inferences in Labour leaflet
Editor News editor In a recent Labour party leaflet delivered to the voters of Shepway South, their candidate ridicules and makes unsustainable assumptions about both Eddie Powell and Bob Hinder, the Ukip and Conservative candidates.
Because they live on the boundaries of the ward she assumes they would not be seen in the ward if elected.
Funny that, because Malcolm McKay, the recent leader of the Labour group on MBC and a councillor for Shepway South, lives outside the ward. Is she saying he does not do a good job as councillor?
She calls Eddie a wandering Ukip man, whatever that means and, by implication, a lazy man as she states elsewhere in the leaflet he would not be seen in the ward if elected. In the last few months Eddie has met many folk from the ward and been into a number of their homes. One of the signatories on his application to stand as a councillor lives in the Senacre Housing Co-operative of which she is chair.
Finally, I have stated in the local press that Ukip candidates will not personally attack our opponents but do reserve the right to question any party’s policies we don’t agree with. I stand by that statement but feel it is right to draw attention to the negative inferences contained in this leaflet. Dave Sargeant, Councillor Shepway South (Leader of the Ukip group on MBC) treatment I had received, on both occasions, was exceptional.
How can it be costing the NHS (or us taxpayers) money as surely overall somewhere it must be beneficial.
Me being in a private hospital doesn’t take up an NHS bed or staff, or drugs or anything, all for a simple cash payment.
I decided to try and do some research as I’m not getting around too much at the moment. It’s really hard to find out if the “Find and Choose” service for hip replacements are cost effective or not and I have given up trying.
What I have found is since this has been introduced both waiting times and costs have decreased so that, surely, is a good thing.
What I have however found is that the amount of bureaucracy involved in the NHS and the government control of it is mind blowing.
I just hope we have some stability in the NHS structure for a while as it must cost a fortune just changing the letterheads and hospital signs every few years. I quite expected to find a department called the “what can we restructure and rename next week?” but I suspect there’s a ministry for that already.
I was born less than four months after the birth of the NHS, I don’t want to see it die. Steve Bunney 27 Mote Avenue, Maidstone, ME15 7SU 01622 753906