IT seems every week in the Guardian we are subjected to our two Labour MPs, not to mention some Labour councillors, carrying out Milliband’s edict of ‘weaponise the NHS’ at every possible chance.

Nick Bent in last week’s edition is asserting we ‘face a rapid decline in the service unless we back Labour’.

He goes on to say: “the economic climate will threaten the financial future of the NHS unless drastic measures are put in place”.

This from the party that brought about the main source of the financial problems which beset our NHS in the first place.

They don’t point out that it was the infamous PFI deals that were introduced into the NHS by the Blair/Brown governments that have become the noose around the NHS’ neck.

Currently the department of health is locked into 118 PFIs, with a capital value of £11.6billion. The sum total of the repayments will be a massive £79.1billion.

The current Government has had to lay aside a colossal £1.6billion per year also to help with these payments. The drastic measures that are needed to pay back these massive debts that Labour got the NHS into can only be funded by a strong vibrant economy; which was something else Labour didn’t hand over in 2010.

And you want the electorate to back further Labour plans for another go at the NHS Mr Bent? Got any more plans like PFIs, and Andy Burnham’s plans to give Foundation Trust status to the Mid Staffs Hospital at the same time as 1,300 unnecessary deaths were happening there Mr Bent?

You also make no mention of how well our own Warrington Hospital has done with £50million having been spent and invested in it since the Coalition came in, on all the major improvements.

Don’t you think it is time you ignored your leader and stopped ‘weaponising’ the NHS every week in the Guardian, because in truth, you do not have a strong case on performance last time Labour were in charge.

A EDWARDS
Fearnhead