A recent Labour Party newsletter circulating in the Lewisham
Deptford constituency alleges that Vicky Foxcroft, their prospective
parliamentary candidate, was ‘instrumental’ in the hospital campaign. As a
founder member of the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign, and as a proposer and
central organiser of the two major demonstrations, I would like to ask Vicky to
substantiate that claim.
The newsletter of course fails to mention that the Labour
governments from 1997 to 2010 played a notorious role in opening up our NHS to
privatisation. Lewisham hospital was threatened because of the unpayable debts
of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital incurred under their Private Finance contract,
a system of robbing the public sector promoted by Gordon Brown – the Labour
Chancellor. It is also a system which has been promoted by the local Labour
Council which has used Private Finance Initiatives across schools, leisure
facilities, housing and most recently street lighting. To pose as a saviour of
Lewisham hospital when her party laid down the conditions its destruction at
the hands of financiers is an act of gross hypocrisy.
Helen Mercer
Lewisham People Before Profit Parliamentary candidate for
Deptford Lewisham
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