Confidential email shows Tories secretly holding off hospital closures until after election

Tom Pride here presents the email from Peter Bone, in which the Tory MP attempts to prevent news of the closure of police and fire stations in Wellingborough, and the relocation of some services from Isebrook Hospital, from leaking out until after the election. Clearly, he doesn’t want the news of the closures getting out to make him lose his seat.

And you can be sure that if Bone’s doing it in Wellingborough, then other Tory MPs are doing much the same thing elsewhere in the country. After all, it was a Tory MP, who said that the NHS wouldn’t exist in five years’ time if the Tories got in again. And Andrew Lansley, the current health secretary, has made it very clear he wants the NHS to be privatised.

This all makes a nonsense of the Tory claim that they’re going to increase NHS funding by £8bn. It’s another empty promise, like all the others. The reality is more closures, and more privatisation by the backdoor.

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the Tories!)

A confidential email from a Tory MP shows how local hospital closures are being kept secret from the public until after the election in order to avoid ‘sensitive’ issues arising during the election campaign.

The leaked email from Wellingborough Tory MP Peter Bone to a member of the Board of Directors of the local NHS Clinical Commissioning Group shows how police and fire station closures are also being secretly delayed until after the election:

From: Bone, Peter <peter.bone.mp@parliament.uk>
Date: Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:16 PM
Subject: Proposed relocation of services consultation
To: “Rees, Stuart”

Dear Stuart,

Thank you very much for your telephone call earlier today regarding the proposed consultation with regards to the possible relocation of services from the Isebrook Hospital site. Whilst a huge supporter of the Isebrook site during my time as MP, I appreciate that the CCG has difficult decisions to make in…

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