NHS Constitution

Read this then read the letter I just sent to my turncoat Liebour MP.

Dear David,

Your Prime Minister has somehow, against all the odds, managed to make me
even more annoyed today than he has since he was appointed as your
leader.

I was pretty incensed when he announced that his priorities as Prime
Minister would be the English education system, the English health system and
the English housing system even though he has no mandate over any of them.
Today I see that in return for the health system that we are paying for through
our taxes, your Prime Minister has decided that we must have
“responsibilities”. But only in England.

The medical treatment which the English will be entitled to will still
be inferior to the medical treatment his own Scottish constituents are entitled
to and they will continue to receive their superior service without the
“responsibilities” that the English must have.

David, YOU have a responsibility. Your responsibility is to your
constituents, NOT your party. Gordon Brown was not given a mandate by his
Scottish constituents to tell English people what they must do to receive
medical treatment. I assume you do understand that none of your Prime
Minister’s proclamations on health, education, housing, etc. affect his own
constituents - he has no more right to tell your constituents what medical
treatment they can and can’t receive than you have to tell his constituents what
medical treatment they can and can’t receive.

I cannot adequately express in polite terms how disappointed I am that you
condone this unconstitutional, undemocratic and immoral system of
apartheid. How can you continue to support your party when it is doing
everything it can to maintain the system that allows the Scottish ruling
elite to make decisions in your constituency when neither they, nor you, can
make the same decisions in their constituency?

If you play a part in breaking our health, education
and housing systems I can - and will - vote for someone else who won’t
do the same. Gordon Brown’s constituents won’t care what he does to the
English NHS or schools - they’re more likely to vote for him if they can see
that he’s screwing the English over!

Poll after poll has shown that English people are fed up with your Scottish
MPs interfering in English-only legislation. Poll after poll has shown
that English people want their own government like the one your party gave to
Scotland. It’s time you started doing your job David - represent your
constituents, not your party.

Stuart

Lembit Opik given English housing portfolio

Lembit Opik, the Lib Dem MP for neighbouring Montgomeryshire, has been given the housing portfolio in the Lib Dems new shadow cabinet.

Housing is, of course, a devolved matter and Mr Opik therefore has no say over housing in his own constituency.

Why have the Lib Dems given a Welsh MP responsibility for English housing?