Hundreds of households across West Dorset will take a collective stand against the irreversible sell-off of their health services to America by raising Cameron & Hunt estate agency boards with the clear message to ‘stop the sale’ and to veto the NHS from the EU US trade deal called TTIP.
Rows of houses in streets across West Dorset will have estate agency style signs outside calling on Cameron & Hunt to stop the sale. The collective action is the beginning of a nationwide movement across hundreds of neighbourhoods in England, Scotland and Wales.
The UK’s entire health system is now up for sale because of the coalition government’s Health and Social Care Act. Since 2012 almost 70 per cent of NHS contracts put up for sale have gone to the private sector. The Tories won’t stop there; they want to make the sell-off irreversible through a trade deal called TTIP. But neither Oliver Letwin nor David Cameron told us they were planning this sell-off when they were out campaigning during the 2010 general election campaign.
The action is a strong message to Oliver Letwin MP for Dorset West that his constituents oppose the Tory agenda to hand our NHS to the profit driven companies.
Local campaigner, Seán Graysaid: “Hundreds of households across Dorset are delivering a clear message by raising our ‘Stop the Sale’ signs’ in protest over the sell-off of their health services and David Camerons’ refusal to remove the NHS from the dangerous trade deal called TTIP.
“Not only is the government selling off the NHS they are putting it at risk of irreversible privatisation because of TTIP. We expect our local MP to call on Cameron to ensure he uses his veto in Europe to protect the NHS.
Oliver Letwin never told us in 2010 that his party was going to privatize large parts of the NHS – despite the fact that this has been Mr.Letwins’ personal goal for very many years. This government had no democratic mandate to embark on the mass privatisation of the NHS. This is a clear message to our MP and to the government that it’s time to take their ‘for sale’ signs down from our hospitals and GP services and put our cherished NHS back into public hands.”
The actions will take place across Chickerell, Dorchester and Sherborne streets including Chickerell: Marshallsay Road, Drakes Avenue and Cobham Drive. Dorchester: Monmouth Road. Sherborne: St Pauls Green.
Seán Gray
