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LABOUR CONDEMNS TORY TOLL INCREASE

Last week, the Dartford Labour Party submitted its views to the Department for Transport on the government’s unacceptable plan to massively increase the tolls at the Dartford Crossing. You can see our full submission by following the link below:

http://www.dartfordlabourparty.org.uk/blog/consultation

Naturally, Labour opposes this unfair increase and believes that – in the current tough economic conditions – businesses and hard working families shouldn’t be paying anymore at all to use the crossing. We’re also outraged at the inactivity of Tory MP Gareth Johnson who has sat by while his own government has pushed through a hefty hike in the tolls. Yet in his maiden speech to the House of Commons in June 2010, he promised to “never stop campaigning for the tolls on

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September 29th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments

The threat to our NHS – Howard Stoate speaks on health reforms

It was a great pleasure to see Dartford’s former Labour MP, Dr Howard Stoate, on Friday 23 September where he addressed a packed meeting of the Dartford Labour Party on the subject of the government’s NHS reforms. Given his role as chair of Bexley’s Clinical Cabinet, which has given him a leading role in the reform process, his analysis of the government’s plans was impressively knowledgeable.

Dr Stoate was clear that a core principle behind the reforms – that clinical services should be commissioned at the GP-patient level – had considerable merit. Indeed, he pointed out that this basic concept had first been pursued by the last Labour government but that GPs in most parts of the country had not,

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September 29th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments