Shocking A&E stats in North Bristol show the NHS is struggling under the Tories
David Cameron promised us the NHS would be safe on his watch but instead his Government has haemorrhaged thousands of nurses and A&E services across North Bristol are struggling in a way not seen since the bad old days of the 1990s. Almost 4,500 nursing jobs have been lost since David Cameron entered Downing Street in May 2010 and those losses are putting patients’ lives at risk. Recently released figures show that major A&E services across Bristol are seriously struggling under the Tories and have consistently missed their waiting times targets over the last six months. Staffing shortages across the NHS have left A&E departments over-stretched and under severe …
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The rise in foodbanks isn’t just wrong, it’s offensive.
Being unable to afford to eat is a form of poverty that most of us would expect to be disappearing in a country like Britain. But figures show that far from getting better, it’s getting worse. The news in yesterday’s Post that over 2,000 people in Bristol North West, and vastly more across the city, have had to resort to using food banks to feed themselves and their families is shocking. It exposes the real, and too often hidden human cost of the government’s austerity programme. As the prospective Labour MP for the area, it frustrates me to have to stand by while senseless damage is being done to families across the …
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Budget 2013: Comment from Darren Jones
Darren Jones, Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol North West, has called on his competitor, the Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie, to come clean on her support for her Governments attack on hard working family budgets. Following the budget, Mr Jones commented: “My priority as the Labour prospective MP is to stand up for hard working families across Bristol North West. Much of this Tory budget fails to help families today whilst giving an immediate tax cut of £42,500 to millionaires. This is yet another example of Charlotte Leslie and her Tory-led Government failing to stand up for ordinary people in Bristol North West.” “Charlotte Leslie and her Government might …
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PRESS RELEASE: Darren Jones launches petition to demand public statement from Charlotte Leslie MP on Bedroom Tax vote
Darren Jones, Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol North West, has launched a petition demanding a public statement from Charlotte Leslie MP on why she voted for the Bedroom Tax at the same time as a £40,000 tax cut for millionaire’s. Mr Jones, who has just completed a campaign where he lived on £18 for the week (being the amount some families will be left with after the Bedroom Tax), has invited Ms Leslie to do the same. At the time of writing, Ms Leslie has failed to respond. Mr Jones commented: The Bedroom Tax is an unfair and unjust attack on our poorest families. This is at the same …
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