SOLDIERS
SIGN UP TO MILITARY HOSPITAL REVOLT
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[Daily Mail-Monday ,August 27,2007]
SOLDIERS and their FAMILIES are staging an unprecedented
revolt to demand the reinstatement of
A
DEDICATED MILITARY HOSPITAL.
Hundreds of serving personnel along with 30,000 friends
and relatives have signed an on-line petition submitted to
DOWNING STREET
They argue that wounded troops have particular needs and
should not be surrounded by civilians who have no understanding of the
aftermath of war. THE LAST
DEDICATED MILITARY HOSPITAL
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL
IN GOSPORT
HAMPSHIRE
was decommissioned in March,2007 after more than 250 years' service.
This month it emerged that the only NHS ward set aside
for soldiers, at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, is under intolerable
pressure through rising casualty rates.
It has only 14 beds, but in a recent four-week period 145
personnel were flown back from Iraq and Afghanistan for treatment.
Families, soldiers and veterans are becoming increasingly
angry at the lack of specialist care.
But a Ministry of Defence spokesman insisted:
'It is no longer clinically viable to maintain even a
single military hospital. It is not just military hospitals being phased
out, but small civilian hospitals too
'Today a modern hospital needs a minimum population of
250,000 to make it viable. If you add the specialities that we need for
war, such as neuro-surgury, we would need a forces population of a
million. But the whole of the UK Armed Forces only number some 200,000,
most of them fit and healthy. *
[THE MOD STILL CANNOT SEE THE WOOD FOR THE TREES
FOR THEY
HAVE EXCUSES RATHER THAN UNDERSTAND
THE REALITY OF MILITARY
AND EVEN
CIVILIAN NEEDS
1) Cost should not be a factor
(After all the GOVERNMENT spent £167 billion last year
alone on over 800 QUANGOS and the waste elsewhere in the economy is
enormous as the National Audit Office can support.)
2) Hospitals - Military or Local are a necessary part
of the needs of the Armed Forces and the civilian population.
(Apart from the comments already made by the Army Chief
Sir Richard Dannatt and others,the GOVERNMENT needs to understand that
patients prefer and need to be treated in the main
IN THEIR LOCAL HOSPITALS
No-one knows what the future holds and in the event of a
major epidemic or other catastrophe it is vital that there are local
hospitals
TO DEAL WITH LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEEDS.
As we have suggested it is time for a
DEDICATED MILITARY HOSPITAL
supported by
PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION
As with so many other ISSUES needing a U-TURN -Gordon
Brown appears NOT-FOR- TURNING
UNLESS IT
HAPPENS TO BE A
PROMISE
OF A
REFERENDUM. *
We have a GAMBLING GOVERNMENT as there is no end to their
relentless pursuit OF CHANGE and CLOSING DOWN over the past TEN YEARS
much of our INFRASTRUCTURE (Police Stations-Post Offices-Local
Hospitals-Military Hospitals or other necessary and vital needs of THE
COMMUNITY to CASH IN to pay for AN ILLEGAL WAR in IRAQ and MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE in AFGHANISTAN and keep their growing PUBLIC SERVANT
adherents happy with their special PENSIONS and job security -with
QUANGOS swallowing over £167 Billion
a year while the DEFENCE BUDGET is at derisory £35 Billion which has
meant that many of our SERVICEMEN and WOMEN through lack of vital and
necessary equipment on land and in the air as to rely on American
aircraft for close support which left 3 of our soldiers dead and a
number of wounded only a few days ago as have others have died because
the past and present Chancellor were too MISERY
TO CARE A DAMN.
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THE PEOPLE HAVE
SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING?
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Ditch the EU TREATY after IRISH
REJECTION
SAY VOTERS
by
Daniel
Martin
Political
Reporter
[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June
18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should
drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its
rejection in last week's
IRISH REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch
bid in the
HOUSE of LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION OF
THE TREATY.
And
10,000 people
have signed a
PETITION
on the
DOWNING STREET-
WEBSITE
within the past few days
JUNE16-2008
, calling on the
GOVERNMENT
NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL
[WHY DON'T YOU?]
Downing Street
website is
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/
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JUNE 18-2008
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IF YOU CAN SAY
'WE WANT OUT-WITHOUT
A DOUBT'
THEN
[Only an ultimatum by millions of
subjects that the new EU TREATY can never be accepted such as signing
the
RENUNCIATION of EU CITIZENSHIP
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Optout
Details from petition creator
With the signing of the Maastricht
Treaty the people of Britain were given
DUAL CITIZENSHIP
-both
EUROPEAN and BRITISH
The extra tier of citizenship was
thrust upon the people without their consent -and in many cases
knowledge.
The PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN should be
allowed the option of opting out of the EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP if they so
wish. The GOVERNMENT will then be able to provide those who have opted
out with
BRITISH DOCUMENTATION
-only such as British (not EU)
passports, driving licences and other national documents.
EU laws will also NOT APPLY to those who
HAVE OPTED OUT OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
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Let the people speak!
www.makeitanissue.org.uk
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www.noliberties.com
[Latest Addition - June07]
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www.eutruth.org.uk
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www.thewestminsternews.co.uk
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www.speakout.co.uk
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Daniel Hannan - Forming an OPPOSITION
to the EU
www.telegraph.co.uk.blogs
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GORDON BROWN WANTS TRUST-BUT WHY WON'T
HE TRUST YOU?
HELL ON EARTH IN IRAQ
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67% want powers back from
EU-ICM poll-June 21-2007-95%
of British people want a
REFERENDUM
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PETITION
FOR A
REFERENDUM
SIGN TODAY ON LINE
telegraph.co.uk/eureferendum
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July 18-2007
ALSO
JOIN THE 10 DOWNING
STREET PROTEST
Readers can add
their support to the growing clamour for a
REFERENDUM on the '"REFORM TREATY" by signing up to
a 10 Downing Street 0n-line petition
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EU-treaty-NON/
The Petition
reads as follows:
"We the
undersigned petition the Prime Minister to guarantee
that the British people will be permitted a binding
REFERENDUM on any and all attempts to resurrect the
EU " CONSTITUTION" (and any or all of its content)
regardless of nomenclature."
Deadline for the
PETITION is 31st January,2008
Eurofacts 27th
July 2007.
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'The Spirit of England'
by
Winston Churchill
In London on
St.George's Day -1953
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VOTE
-2007
TO
LEAVE
THE
EUROPEAN
UNION
WITH THE ONLY PARTY WITH A MANDATE
TO SET YOU
FREE
THE
UK
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
www.ukip.org
THE QUESTION THAT THE
VOTER MUST ANSWER
‘DO
YOU WISH TO BE GOVERNED BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE, LAW AND CUSTOM OR BY THE
CORRUPT ,EXPENSIVE UNACCOUNTABLE AND CORRUPT ALIEN BUSYBODY BRUSSELS’
-SIMPLE IS IT NOT?
TO RECLAIM YOUR DEMOCRACY DON'T VOTE
FOR THE TRIPARTITE PARTIES IN WESTMINSTER
BUT
SMALL PARTIES THAT SPEAK THEIR MINDS
WITHOUT SPIN AND LIES.
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ONLY
PRO-PORTIONAL
REPRESENTATION
WILL
BRING
DEMOCRACY
BACK
TO
THE
ENGLISH
PEOPLE
*
SCOTLAND
-ITS PARLIAMENT -WALES-ITS
ASSEMBLY-ENGLAND-STILL
AWAITS ITS PARLIAMENT-WHY?
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Home
Rule
for
Scotland
WHY
NOT
HOME
RULE
for
ENGLAND
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[All underlined words have a
separate bulletin]
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