NHS protest needs more help

NHS protest needs more help NHS protest needs more help

CAMPAIGNERS fearing the privatisation of the NHS are urging Southampton residents to join forces and fight to save the health service.

The group is still collecting signatures for its petition, which already has more than 1,500 names, calling on local health leaders to keep services public.

They will be presenting this petition to a full council meeting on March 20.

It comes just weeks before GPs take control of Southampton’s health budget as part of the biggest shake up in the history of the NHS.

The changes will allow doctors in Clinical Commissioning Croups (CCGs) to offer more choice to patients, which will include opting for private services rather than NHS.

But campaigners fear this could mean vital health services run for profit rather than with patients’ best interests at heart.

Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS, said: “People of Southampton are worried about losing the universal, free health service – that’s why hundreds of us signed petitions and wrote to representatives of the Houses of Commons and Lords to make sure that these new rules were changed.

“We believe that the NHS in Southampton already has the biggest proportion of services subcontracted to the private sector and we urge anyone worried about this to join us.”

Comments(15)

southy says...
11:41am Sat 16 Mar 13

Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.

Shoong says...
12:26pm Sat 16 Mar 13

southy wrote:
Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.
I doubt she's going to do something to harm her cause.

southy says...
1:40pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.
I doubt she's going to do something to harm her cause.
the only that could be done is being some thing like you Shoong not willing to do any thing, mind you did you not say once to privatise the NHS.

freefinker says...
2:38pm Sat 16 Mar 13

southy wrote:
Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.
I doubt she's going to do something to harm her cause.
the only that could be done is being some thing like you Shoong not willing to do any thing, mind you did you not say once to privatise the NHS.
.. the fact is southy, your SP mob have now tried twice in influence and infiltrate this new non-political organisation. On both occasions they were politely told to sling their hook. The SP solution was to fight for a general strike. Yea, sure. That will save the NHS, won't it? If you could ever get it together, that is, this side of 2050.

The SP and its Trotskyist fellow travellers were yet again employing their entryist tactics. Most campaigners are now fully aware that letting SP/SWP have any influence is effectively the kiss of death for the campaign.

cantthinkofone says...
3:05pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Can we not let the comment of this one be southy'd please? It's too important an issue for that.
.
The petition is here:
.
http://you.38degrees
.org.uk/petitions/de
fend-the-nhs-petitio
n
.
Please sign.

bazzeroz says...
4:00pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Join the campaign to stop this evil 'Bedroom Tax' and we could all work together. There's a protest on the same day for this cause. Join forces.

Pikey-Biker says...
4:27pm Sat 16 Mar 13

bazzeroz wrote:
Join the campaign to stop this evil 'Bedroom Tax' and we could all work together. There's a protest on the same day for this cause. Join forces.
No thanks, I am all for the Bedroom Tax

cantthinkofone says...
4:28pm Sat 16 Mar 13

bazzeroz wrote:
Join the campaign to stop this evil 'Bedroom Tax' and we could all work together. There's a protest on the same day for this cause. Join forces.
I'd happily sign against that too. Townbee had it right for once when she described it as 'heartless' and 'pointless'.
.
Post up a 38 degrees link if there is one.

Shoong says...
8:50pm Sat 16 Mar 13

southy wrote:
Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.
I doubt she's going to do something to harm her cause.
the only that could be done is being some thing like you Shoong not willing to do any thing, mind you did you not say once to privatise the NHS.
Nope.

Besides,I could never reach the standards you set for making stuff up and then denying all knowledge of it later on.

southy says...
12:12pm Sun 17 Mar 13

freefinker wrote:
southy wrote:
Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.
I doubt she's going to do something to harm her cause.
the only that could be done is being some thing like you Shoong not willing to do any thing, mind you did you not say once to privatise the NHS.
.. the fact is southy, your SP mob have now tried twice in influence and infiltrate this new non-political organisation. On both occasions they were politely told to sling their hook. The SP solution was to fight for a general strike. Yea, sure. That will save the NHS, won't it? If you could ever get it together, that is, this side of 2050.

The SP and its Trotskyist fellow travellers were yet again employing their entryist tactics. Most campaigners are now fully aware that letting SP/SWP have any influence is effectively the kiss of death for the campaign.
Your wrong again Free, being a non-political organisation makes them a protest vote, which they have writen to the TUSC and said that they are just a protest vote, they also agreed that a General Strike would help to bring down this Government and will get people to start thinking in a differt direction, but they want to try and avoid if it can be, They also a knowledge that the NHS would be safer in true Socialist hands.
Mind you they would say that if you cross reference with NHA members to a old SWP memebership there are a number of ex-SWP members in the NHA, if you knew what was going on with in the SWP then you would understand why it as so many ex-SWP members.
A kiss of death you think then explane to me why the SP as had loads of seccess in campaigns, like keeping Crowling house open, and other NHS wards open though out the country, theres been other seccessful campaigns also, the truth is the SP is more likely to make a campaign more successfull when they are involved they have the organation behind them to make it successful.

southy says...
12:19pm Sun 17 Mar 13

cantthinkofone wrote:
Can we not let the comment of this one be southy'd please? It's too important an issue for that.
.
The petition is here:
.
http://you.38degrees

.org.uk/petitions/de

fend-the-nhs-petitio

n
.
Please sign.
Cat the SP been onto this right from the start, 38% is only a subjection of the SP,
38% is the lower middle class of the SP and SWP.
Alot of people agrees with a lot of what the SP are doing and saying, but we got to form subsections because of all this false anti socialist propaganda the ide is to get people thinking diffently.

southy says...
12:23pm Sun 17 Mar 13

Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.
I doubt she's going to do something to harm her cause.
the only that could be done is being some thing like you Shoong not willing to do any thing, mind you did you not say once to privatise the NHS.
Nope.

Besides,I could never reach the standards you set for making stuff up and then denying all knowledge of it later on.
You did Shoong you was one of those that called for the NHS to be sold off to private hands to run the NHS.
You also like to put words into people mouths that do not agree with you, is that not right lineman

Shoong says...
12:37pm Sun 17 Mar 13

southy wrote:
Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.
I doubt she's going to do something to harm her cause.
the only that could be done is being some thing like you Shoong not willing to do any thing, mind you did you not say once to privatise the NHS.
Nope.

Besides,I could never reach the standards you set for making stuff up and then denying all knowledge of it later on.
You did Shoong you was one of those that called for the NHS to be sold off to private hands to run the NHS.
You also like to put words into people mouths that do not agree with you, is that not right lineman
No i didn't Peter.

As for 'putting words into peoples mouths', again there would be no point as you would outshine me at every turn in that respect. I simply couldn't compete.

Ahhh, you feel you need to bring someone else in to help you out, how sweetly desperate.

You're very much alone I'm afraid.

freefinker says...
3:01pm Sun 17 Mar 13

southy wrote:
freefinker wrote:
southy wrote:
Shoong wrote:
southy wrote:
Jane Freeland, one of the founding members of Southampton Defend NHS.

You need to team up with the Socialist Party Southampton Branch, the SP have been fighting this for years and have had some success in doing so.
I doubt she's going to do something to harm her cause.
the only that could be done is being some thing like you Shoong not willing to do any thing, mind you did you not say once to privatise the NHS.
.. the fact is southy, your SP mob have now tried twice in influence and infiltrate this new non-political organisation. On both occasions they were politely told to sling their hook. The SP solution was to fight for a general strike. Yea, sure. That will save the NHS, won't it? If you could ever get it together, that is, this side of 2050.

The SP and its Trotskyist fellow travellers were yet again employing their entryist tactics. Most campaigners are now fully aware that letting SP/SWP have any influence is effectively the kiss of death for the campaign.
Your wrong again Free, being a non-political organisation makes them a protest vote, which they have writen to the TUSC and said that they are just a protest vote, they also agreed that a General Strike would help to bring down this Government and will get people to start thinking in a differt direction, but they want to try and avoid if it can be, They also a knowledge that the NHS would be safer in true Socialist hands.
Mind you they would say that if you cross reference with NHA members to a old SWP memebership there are a number of ex-SWP members in the NHA, if you knew what was going on with in the SWP then you would understand why it as so many ex-SWP members.
A kiss of death you think then explane to me why the SP as had loads of seccess in campaigns, like keeping Crowling house open, and other NHS wards open though out the country, theres been other seccessful campaigns also, the truth is the SP is more likely to make a campaign more successfull when they are involved they have the organation behind them to make it successful.
.. total and utter rubbish. I was there at both meetings and you weren't.

Your Trotskyist colleagues, however, were given short shaft for their stupid ideas. We won’t see them back again, fortunately.

cantthinkofone says...
7:28pm Sun 17 Mar 13

Bickering aside...

Sign the petition. When your loved ones are dying because they can't afford privatised treatment, it will be too late.

http://you.38degrees
.org.uk/petitions/de
fend-the-nhs-petitio
n

click2find

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