Let’s be frank, all the polls are showing Boris Johnson is going to win an outright majority on Thursday 12th December. If this is the case, the question facing us is, how big do we want his majority to be?
Consecutive Conservative governments have continuously failed us. They have left our NHS at crisis point.
My wife, who is severely disabled and suffers from advanced secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, has recently been discharged by her MS Nurse. Not because she doesn’t need him, she needs an MS Nurse now more than ever as her condition deteriorates, but because the funding isn’t there.
Originally we had an MS specialist nurse visit us at home and monitor my wife’s condition offering advice on how to manage it and putting us in touch with the various agencies that could help. He also prescribed any medication she required.
This was stopped and we were told that to have access to the service we would need to attend the Butterwick care day, which we did, this service has now been withdrawn leaving us without any specialist care.
This isn’t just a problem faced by my wife. It is a problem facing many people who rely on the NHS.
People aren’t receiving the medical care they desperately need because the Tory government simply hasn’t invested in the NHS. In fact the opposite is true with over a decade of cuts to funding and it is people like us that have borne the brunt. The question people need to ask themselves is can you really trust a Boris Johnson led right wing Tory government to do right by the NHS?
My fear is a right-wing Tory majority government will continue to decimate the vital services we rely on. If we think the NHS is on its knees now, I truly fear where it will be in 5 years time if the Tories have a landslide victory on December 12th.
Whatever happens nationally, we could still have a Labour MP in Sedgefield, and a Labour MP in Sedgefield could make the Tories victory a little smaller, stopping them having free rein to pillage our NHS and sell it to the highest bidder in return for a trade agreement.
Allan Siddle
