Labour predicted to win Stafford in May 2015 General Election by .03% Majority

Who are you planning to Vote for?

  • Conservative - Jeremy Lefroy

    Votes: 13 18.3%

  • Labour - Kate Godfrey

    Votes: 32 45.1%

  • UKIP - Edward Whitfield

    Votes: 12 16.9%

  • Green - Mike Shone

    Votes: 7 9.9%

  • National Health Action - Karen Howell

    Votes: 7 9.9%
  • Total voters
    71
United57

United57

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Laurie61 said:
For every 100 people who could vote here in the 2010 election, how many did? - I guessed 62 with actual being 71, country avg 65. A good result for local political engagement :stafford: Pity we are not rewarded. :hmm:
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Reward or penalty

How about if your unemployed and you don't attend the polling station then your benefit is stopped!

Or every time you vote you get an extra vote at the next general election ?

Or if you are a land owner or have a business you can have an extra or another 6 votes. Sorry we tried that previously.
 
Laurie61

Laurie61

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Gramaisc said:
It's OK, it's not a 'bribe', it's a 'pledge'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32485649

As Mary Jane Clegg explained today, only those pledges that are on the front page of a manifesto need be pursued after the election.
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I was half expecting promises regarding hospital services but thought it might take the shape of an inquiry to see if 'new factors' had changed things and services might be better kept in Stafford. The new factors in fact being the old factors like troops arriving and other hospitals being unable to cope Ect. Although there's still a week left.
 
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tek-monkey

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Its not a bribe, its a well timed pledge. They are saying to us look, we may have took your hospital off you but if you are really lucky we might give it back. Maybe.
 
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gilesjuk

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We have a Tory led coalition and a Tory MP, you'd think that would mean Stafford hospital would have been safe. They can say all they like about restoring services, they should never have been scrapped in the first place.

The administrators helped themselves to millions of pounds while they were doing their cuts and restructuring.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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gilesjuk said:
We have a Tory led coalition and a Tory MP, you'd think that would mean Stafford hospital would have been safe. They can say all they like about restoring services, they should never have been scrapped in the first place.

The administrators helped themselves to millions of pounds while they were doing their cuts and restructuring.
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If people are prepared to believe this 'pledge', then they deserve to suffer the consequences of it.

I have just received a newsletter from the person that claims to represent me in parliament. -

"Jeremy Hunt announced last week that a future Conservative Government would be committed to returning A&E services through the night at Stafford as soon as it is clinically safe.

The opening hours were reduced, initially on a temporary basis, from December 2011 due to safety concerns arising from difficulties in recruiting staff. The Trust Special Administrators’ Report in 2013 confirmed that they would stay at 14 hours, despite the community campaign to restore 24/7 opening.

Recently, we have seen the pressure which other A&E’s, such as the Royal Stoke, are operating under. Stafford’s County Hospital A&E has, by contrast, regularly met and exceeded the target of seeing 95% attendees at A&E within 4 hours.

Recruitment at the County Hospital has also improved recently with the number of vacancies falling sharply, including in A&E.

As a result, it makes complete sense from a regional perspective to use Stafford’s A&E capacity to the full and therefore to reduce the pressure elsewhere, including on the West Midlands Ambulance Service.

It would also ensure that local people, particularly the elderly and vulnerable, do not have to travel so far at night for emergency medical treatment (emergency surgery is no longer carried out at the County Hospital).

Having fought for 24/7 re-opening since it closed, I welcome Mr Hunt’s announcement. Clearly it is essential that the proper staffing level is achieved before it re-opens to ensure clinical safety."


If there was any likelihood of this actually being true, then we might have heard of it rather more than a fortnight before the point at which we are allowed to make a cross on a bit of paper for the first time in five years.

The entire thing is a gravy train for pompous scam-artists.
 
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PPPPPP

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Obviously, what we really need is privatised A&Es. Waiting times could then be reduced to a few seconds because anyone not in possession of a Virgin Mega Health card wouldn't be able to access the premises. Providing they're not bleeding too much, the lucky few who do qualify will be airlifted to a suitable outsourced medical facility in Asia or Eastern Europe.
 
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