Following the massive
demonstration last November in defence of Lewisham Hospital
a
further demonstration is taking place next Saturday, 26 January.
As a one time patient at the hospital,
and the father of a child born in the threatened maternity unit, I
have a personal as well as a political motivation to ask readers to
support the demonstration and sign
the online petition.
Caught between the Scylla of Coalition
cutbacks and the Charybdis of the financial legacy of the disastrous
Private Finance Initiative, our health service faces potential
devastation, of which the threats to Lewisham Hospital represent a
crucial moment. If the Government can be prevented from closing
Lewisham Hospital that could be a turning point, and the next step
must be to support Saturday’s demonstration. Assemble at Lewisham
Roundabout (by the station) at 12 noon on Saturday 26th January.
2 comments:
i take it you will join us Under the Unison banner, your very welcome to jon. Our Parish Our Fight,,,, LAS Unison Member,,,,,
Thanks to delays on the trains, my son and I joined the demo as it passed the shopping centre and made it to the quagmire that had been Mountsfield Park long after the UNISON banners had arrived (though well before many of the thousands who were following).
It was a very impressive demonstration, and I was pleased it marched along the boundaries of the former Hither Green Ward of which I was Labour Party Branch Secretary for many years in the 1990s.
I think the fight to defend the NHS is for all of us, in every parish.
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