For me the saddest story of the week concerned David Hill & his 6 year old daughter Chantelle.
Mr Hill, from Darlington, is suffering from lung cancer and needs a drug called Tarceva to help prolong his life. However, this drug is not available on the NHS in England, where it is deemed not to be 'an effective use of NHS resources', although it IS available in Scotland, home obviously of the Prime Minister.
Determined to help her father, little Chantelle has been fundraising in her hometown and has so far raised £4000 to pay for her father's treatment for two months.
Cases like this, and that of the Velcaid Three, and even Jane Tomlinson (who was denied a life-prolonging drug shortly before her death because she lived in the wrong area) demonstrate again and again that the Labour government has lost the moral authority to rule over us.
I wonder how people like Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling & Alan Johnson sleep at night.
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This little girl was obviously determined to help her father live longer, but it is neither right nor fair that it is left up to a child, who does not understand what her father is going through, to help keep him alive. We all pay into the NHS for all our lives, and expect that they will be there when we need them most, yet they are letting so many people down. Every NHS Trust must be made the same, and must provide the same, as much the trusts in Scotland and Wales, if we must stay as a United Kingdom. Just one more thing that Labour has created (fair dos 52 years ago) but that they are sending down the drain.
Thanks for your thoughts; I couldn't agree more with you. Our society is becoming more and more unfair and cases like this only serve to highlight this inequality.
It seems that Mrs. Thatcher's protegé feels strongly about this. One interesting thing she brought up is that we need to maintain the same level of provisions within the NHS in Scotland, Wales, England and N. Ireland if we are to remain the United Kingdom.
Interesting then, that a couple of weeks ago the Tories were proposing a move to introduce a wholy-English body to decide on entirely English Parliamentary measures, much as they have the Scottish Parliament or the Welsh Assembly. In fact, we are, at the minute, the only quarter of the Union that allows English-only decisions to be made by the entire Union.
With this in mind, I was moved to point out to my flatmates (most of whom thought this move would be unconstitutional)that this system alread exists in the other three corners of this Union.
It seems, therefore, that this is yet another example of the Houses bowing down to the whims of all those who happen to be something other than English, and stopping dead anything that might be useful for those who are solely English
When the Conservative's first announced these proposals, one Labour front bencher said that if we do create an English Parliament, a move I support strongly, we will lose the union we have. Hold on a moment, didn't that happen when we devolved power to Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland, and the Greater London assembly? The sooner we stop having a rediculas excuse for a union and let the English make a decision for themselves, the better. Also, just to point out, if we were not a United Kingdom, we wouldn't be under the control of Brown, or before him, Blair.
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