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2:00pm Wednesday 17th March 2010 in
ANTI-fluoride campaigners have been demonstrating against the controversial plans ahead of a council vote that could call for the public to be given a final say on the scheme.
Demonstrators waving banners and placards gathered outside Southampton Civic Centre this afternoon before the full council was due to hold its monthly meeting.
Councillors are due to vote on a motion calling on South Central Strategic Health Authority to stage a referendum on the scheme, which it has backed because it believes adding fluoride to tap water will improve city kids' teeth.
Southampton councillors will debate whether the decision to back the plans should actually lie with the almost 200,000 residents who will have to drink fluoridated water.
The Daily Echo is among those who have called for a referendum on the scheme, because of complaints public opinion was ignored when the SHA made its decision.
The proposed scheme will affect two-thirds of Southampton, as well as parts of Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams.
Around 20 members of Hampshire Against Fluoridation used today's meeting as a chance to show their opposition to the plans.
Among the banners they paraded was a copy of the open letter they delivered to the SHA last month to mark the anniversary of the board giving fluoridation the green light.
The letter, signed by scientists, politicians and campaigners, details the developments of the last year, including a 15,300-name petition that was handed in to Downing Street, and the launch of a judicial review of the decision.
Comments(9)
Lone Ranger
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2:39pm Wed 17 Mar 10
james47
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2:56pm Wed 17 Mar 10
jwillie6
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3:34pm Wed 17 Mar 10
southy
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3:40pm Wed 17 Mar 10
james47 wrote:james you got to be mad to vote tory cons, to many of us remember the last time they was in office, on the itchen the best person to vote for would be tim cutter of the TUSC , but on the test and southampton north you got to go for the lesser of the evils libs or lab.
Its very simple people:
Vote Conservative at the next General Election.
Only be voting Conservative can we remove our Labour MP's (John Denham and Alan Whitehead) whom have supported fluoride and the SHA from the beginning.
Only a new Conservative government nationally can stop the SHA from adding this poison to our water supply.
http://www.hampshire
againstfluoridation.
org/
Lone Ranger
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3:44pm Wed 17 Mar 10
southy wrote:Southy:- he posts under a couple of different names. Thats the only thing that changes
james47 wrote:james you got to be mad to vote tory cons, to many of us remember the last time they was in office, on the itchen the best person to vote for would be tim cutter of the TUSC , but on the test and southampton north you got to go for the lesser of the evils libs or lab.
Its very simple people:
Vote Conservative at the next General Election.
Only be voting Conservative can we remove our Labour MP's (John Denham and Alan Whitehead) whom have supported fluoride and the SHA from the beginning.
Only a new Conservative government nationally can stop the SHA from adding this poison to our water supply.
http://www.hampshire
againstfluoridation.
org/
oh by the way moulton and smith both voted for the fluoration of our water in the first place, then change there minds and now are sitting on the fence to
DCM
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3:46pm Wed 17 Mar 10
james47 wrote:Since when has the Conservative party committed to not introducing fluoride? I see no mention of their support on the website you linked to, only that of the Green Party. Why do you have to use every story to try and convince people to vote Conservative regardless of the facts?
Its very simple people: Vote Conservative at the next General Election. Only be voting Conservative can we remove our Labour MP's (John Denham and Alan Whitehead) whom have supported fluoride and the SHA from the beginning. Only a new Conservative government nationally can stop the SHA from adding this poison to our water supply. http://www.hampshire againstfluoridation. org/
moschops
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10:48pm Wed 17 Mar 10
JimSchultz
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2:07am Tue 23 Mar 10
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St.DaveH says...
2:07pm Wed 17 Mar 10
depends what type I suppose.