Labour's ambitious plan to revive the NHS after nearly a decade of Tory abuse is a potentially life-saving boost for our most precious public service.
The £26billion emergency package proposed by Jeremy Corbyn beats anything the Conservatives are capable of dangling to divert attention from the huge damage they have inflicted.
Waiting times have increased and queues have lengthened under the Tories because of the worst financial squeeze in NHS history.
The Conservatives are responsible for the intolerable strains on the health service, not to mention the creeping privatisation and ever-more bureaucratic mayhem.
It’s no wonder so many of our overworked nurses and doctors are demoralised.
Everything is to play for in this election, and Boris Johnson doesn’t look as smug as he did a fortnight ago. Vital issues such as the NHS mean this contest is about more than Brexit.
The NHS is Corbyn’s trump card.
The health service is in Labour’s DNA. So, if you value the NHS, vote Labour.
Hunger shame
Poverty inflicted by the Tories is behind the soaring demand for foodbank parcels.
The 23% surge – meaning a total of
7.4 million meals distributed in just six months by the Trussell Trust charity – is a damning indictment of this woeful government.
Low benefits and delayed benefit payments are among the main reasons for people being hungry and having to rely on the food parcels.
It is a political choice by the Conservatives that so many people – 14 million – are living below the poverty line in the UK.
We have the world’s sixth largest economy, and the wealth exists to end this foodbank scandal if there was the political will.
I am railing...
There’s nothing miniature about Sir Rod Stewart’s 100ft model railway.
Let’s hope his trains don’t run as late as the real things on our national network which is regularly off track.
