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We’re delighted to announce that one of our founding members, Dr Louise Irvine, will be standing for us in the euro elections in May.
Louise, who led the successful campaign against Jeremy Hunt to save Lewisham Hospital, will be a candidate in the London region.
She explains here why she she’s decided to be a candidate:
“I am standing because I care passionately about defending the NHS. I've been a London GP for 20 years and I have seen the damage done by this government's policies of top down reorganisation, cuts and privatisation. I helped lead the successful Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign but I know that defending NHS services cannot stop at the local level - it has to be tackled at the national and European level.
“I want to use this election to raise awareness of the imminent danger posed to the NHS by the EU/US Free Trade agreement which will allow American companies to carve up the NHS and make the privatisation process irreversible. I also want to alert the public to the gravity of the threat to the NHS from this government with its programme of cuts, hospital closures and privatisation and to send a powerful message to politicians in Westminster and Brussels that people will not stand by and let their NHS be destroyed.
“If elected, I will strive to ensure that EU regulations don’t adversely affect the NHS and are always in the best interests of the health of British people. The health of the nation spans all areas of policy from the environment to the economy“.
Our co-leader, Dr Clive Peedell says it’s an important step for the party:
GET CONNECTED"The National Health Action Party was formed because the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats outrageously broke their pre-election pledges that there would be no top down re-organisation of the NHS and no NHS privatisation. Yet this is precisely what their legislation and reforms are doing.
“As the NHS is under so much threat from commercialisation and privatisation, in which the Labour Party was also complicit, it’s crucial that the people of London support Louise and the National Health Action Party in these elections. A strong electoral result will put pressure on the Government to reverse its damaging reforms and exempt the NHS from the EU/US Free Trade Agreement. Based on a 33% turnout, as in 2009, of a London voting population of five million, we would need to win around 200,000 votes to get one euro MP elected. This is definitely achievable. The very survival of the NHS is at stake.”
