"7000 signatures to save our NHS" – Open Letter to Sarah Newton, Truro and Falmouth MP

A couple of weeks ago, you might have seen two men being

attacked on Lemon Quay, Truro.  Surrounded

by almost a dozen assailants and bundled to the floor, a growing crowd gathered

to watch Nick Clegg and David Cameron be assaulted – but no one came to their

aid.  Fortunately for the reputation of

our town, the PM and Deputy PM were not really embattled just outside HMV –

this was a role play, part of a wider protest against the NHS cuts that are

affecting Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske.

 

From Chris McArthur –

Open Letter

The protest was about two things. 400 jobs are being cut at Treliske

Hospital, half of them front line medical posts.   Medical operations are being rationed and

patients given much longer waiting times, like cataracts, gallstones, joint

operations etc.  Morale is very low at

the Hospital and the Rally outside the hospital was to show staff we care about

what is happening to them.   The

Coalition promised there would be no cuts in NHS services but the cuts are

huge.  

From Treliske to

Lemon Quay

Also Cornwall Anti Cuts Alliance has been campaigning with

Save Our NHS Cornwall against the government's plans to privatise Primary Care

Trusts.   Over 7,000 signatures have been

collected and the national groundswell has forced the Coalition to halt in its

tracks.  60 people marched from Treliske

to Lemon Quay , not a lot you might say, but the resistance to the Coalition

has started.  We were treated to some

street theatre when we got to Leon Quay, it makes a break for too many

speeches,  although the two speeches we

got were great from Howard Newlove and Em Middlemiss.

Camerona & Clegg 'Attacked'

in Truro

The crowd was delighted to see actors playing  Cameron and Clegg get some of their own

medicine when they were rounded up and put in shackles by Unison and other

public sector workers.  There is no

compelling financial reason to be having cuts at all.  It's just the Tories want a smaller state

with the poor going under to boost profits for the rich.  There is so much tax evasion, it would easily

reduce the defecit if the Tories collected it from their rich friends.   Next we are presenting a huge petition with

270,000 people from all across the country to all Cornwall's MPs.  Sarah Newton gets her visit on Saturday May

28 gathering outside Wetherspoons at midday.

Since this letter was received,

Sarah Newton has stated that she does not intend to meet with the

protestors.  Read her press release here

and the response of the Cornwall Anti Cuts Alliance here.  Which do you agree with?