PaulRogan

STATEMENT REGARDING BRIGHOUSE AND RASTRICK HEALTH CENTRES

Calderdale Primary Care Trust will be writing to all patients of the GP practices at Church Lane, Rydings Hall and Rastrick Health Centre asking their views about the planned new health centre in Brighouse.

Patients in Rastrick will also be asked if they wish to keep their GP practice in Rastrick.

Rob Webster, Chief Executive of Calderdale Primary Care Trust said: "The PCT has been working with all three GP practices to develop a new health centre in Brighouse. The centre could provide space for up to three general practices. It would also allow us to provide services normally based at the hospital, such as thousands of outpatient procedures and tests. "We would hope to include Local Authority services to deliver joined up services from one central location, and we are currently in discussion with them about this.."However, the final plans for the centre will not be produced until we have listened to the views of patients.

"All three practices had felt a move to a single site would provide improvements for patients. Following recent developments, the doctors at the Rastrick Health Centre have now suggested they would like to withdraw their request to move to a new centre. We have taken account of this in the questions we are asking in the letter. There is clearly now an option to retain a general practice within Rastrick with additional services in Brighouse. "We want to make sure that all patients in both Rastrick and Brighouse have an opportunity to comment on the proposals and so we are writing to people individually."  Patients should receive a letter in the next few days.

The English Democrats are pleased to announce that Joanne Robinson has been nominated for the forthcoming by-election in Haltemprice and Howden, under the slogan "Putting England First!".

Joanne was born on 2^nd February 1957 in Hull. She has been married since 1977 to the same man!  She has 6 ‘O' Levels and 1 CSE.  She has a HNC in Canine Behaviour and Training at Bishop Burton in 2004.  After a variety of jobs, including Civil Servant, Joanne went into book-keeping specializing in petrol stations and was a sole proprietor from 1992 to 1998 at the Forth Service Station on Spring Bank.  Since then Joanne has worked as a legal cashier, service station manager and for the last 3 years part-time Office Manager for an Event Management Company. 

Politically Joanne had been a Conservative voter but she became active in the Referendum Party. Joanne was the UKIP Parliamentary candidate in the General Election in 2001, when she got 945 votes. In 2003 Joanne was a UKIP local candidate but she became increasingly disappointed by UKIP's leadership failure to capitalize on their momentum.  Joanne now thinks that UKIP is "dead but not yet buried", and that it is also insufficiently concerned about England, so she joined the English Democrats.  Joanne stood for the English Democrats in 2007 in Tranby Ward in the local elections within this constituency and got 544 votes (18.82%) easily beating Labour and close to the Conservatives.  Also this year, although there were no local elections within the constituency, the English Democrats stood in 4 adjoining wards, in Hull, and beat the Conservative candidates 3 out of 4 times.

Joanne says: "The English Democrats are offering a fresh start and reject the cliché ridden and spin politics of the past.  We offer the politics of a common national identity and common values.  Our politics are riddled with spin and political correctness, a vote for the English Democrats is a vote for honest and plain speaking".

Joanne says: "There should be an immediate referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty.  It is wholly wrong for Labour to try to impose this Treaty on us, contrary to their own specific manifesto commitment that there should be a referendum.  The people of the Republic of Ireland have said NO - WE WANT OUR SAY".

Joanne says: "There should be free residential car for the elderly, as is available in Scotland.  It is wrong that pensioners' homes in England are being seized to pay for this".

Joanne says: "We also demand access to all NHS drugs - not a "postcode lottery", which means that English patients cannot receive some expensive drugs which are freely available in Scotland."

Joanne says: "There should be an end to the unjustified subsidies to other parts of the UK - We want a fair system for all."

Joanne says: "England can no longer sustain uncontrolled mass immigration.  It should be stopped. It places an unacceptable strain on all our services.  All previous governments have allowed this situation to get out of control".

Joanne says: "The Government should seek to protect society and not the criminals".

Joanne says: "There should be an English Parliament, with an English Prime Minister and Government with at least the same powers as the Scottish ones".

Joanne also says: "The voters of Haltemprice and Howden have the chance to send a clear message to the government and the rest of the stale political Establishment that the people of England are no longer prepared to be treated as second class citizens within the UK.  Let us put England's interests first".

Robin Tilbrook, Chairman of the English Democrats, said: "I am delighted to welcome Joanne's nomination.  It is a clear sign of the speed with which the English Democrats are growing.  Even Labour's Derek Wyatt MP a few days ago said, at Westminster, (on the 18^th June) "..I am convinced that standing still is not an option.  The present arrangements are producing growing resentment all over the United Kingdom, particularly in England..".

Robin Tilbrook also said that: "A vote for Joanne and the English Democrats is a positive vote for the people of Haltemprice and Howden.  It is a vote for ENGLAND and for an English Parliament, First Minister and Government for England".

For further information, or a photograph of Joanne, contact Robin Tilbrook, Chairman, English Democrats, Quires Green, Willingale, Ongar, Essex, CM5 0QP. Tel: 01277 896000. Fax: 01277 896050. Mobile: 07778 553395. http://www.englishdemocrats.org.uk/

This week the English should applaud another nation and just one Westminster MP for standing up for freedom and democracy.

The Irish, having given a resounding NO to the Lisbon Treaty and not allowing themselves to be bullied by the full force of the 'Establishment', are that nation.

David Davies, the lone Member of Parliament who has resigned his seat to highlight his view that English freedoms are being eroded by the Government, under the guise of anti-terrorism measures.

Both issues are the thin end of wedges.

Today the Lisbon Treaty... Tomorrow the rule of the Socialist States of Europe.

Today 42 days..... Tomorrow ID cards and the rule of Big Brother.

Thank you Ireland.... Thank you Mr Davies.

Will Government plans, outlined recently by Ruth Kelly for Manchester, equally apply to Brighouse? A modern 21^st Centaury traffic system at a cost of 3 Billion Quid sounds wonderful. BUT there's a sting. Unless congestion charges are introduced, none of Gordon's (sorry mean Government) money will be available. Waxing about how this will give a transport system the envy of the western world, side stepping the issue that, "doesn't every English city deserve a 21^st Centaury transport system?".... We are already 8 years into the 21^st Centaury.... It sounds like at least a way forward for Manchester.

Oh, there won't be a referendum of those concerned... heard that before... but there will be consultation!

A few weeks ago, I wrote somewhat tongue in cheek about how the Government was adding to the prices of basic foods by forcing supermarkets to charge for shopping bags. This policy encouraging shoppers to bring their own bags into stores and therefore facilitating those so inclined to ‘nick' more. Well, a small drop in the ocean compared with the revelations this week on how consumer prices are set to soar. The Downing Street is quick to blame oil prices, financial slumps, world markets in decline than the extra problems inflicted upon England by the Prime Minister when he was Chancellor ..... Unfair and unequal taxation. ..... too bloody much taxation, much of it by stealth.