Better with Labour –the facts speak for themselves but now we have a website to prove it!

The Labour Party has upped the game in online campaigning by launching http://www.betterwithlabour.co.uk yesterday. A simple to use, yet sophisticated, website sets out the Government’s health successes - where and how improvements are affects our lives. You can see additional spending and fallen waiting lists by Primary Care Trust. The website gives the opportunity to ask Labour’s Health Ministerial Team questions on health policy and do your personal health prescription.

The information presented pictorially with Google Maps shows a reformed NHS system, with unprecedented government support and more nurses, doctors, midwives and consultants than any point in our history. Despite headlines of NHS decline – the NHS is still on good form and the Labour Party are being rightly unashamedly making it clear that Labour’s NHS is: saving lives, treating more patients, quicker than ever before.

The website shares the history of the NHS as an integral part of the Labour Party's history that was blighted by 18 years of Tory misrule. This website should be supported, promoted and distributed as far and wide.

It is good news to see the Labour Party continuing to lead on the agenda of online campaigning and more importantly giving party members and community leaders the facts to be equally confident in telling the success story that is the heavily invested in NHS that we can all be proud of. Well done Labour Party HQ!!!

Comments

[Dr George M.P. Bailey]

I will look at it. However, from my experience, even after writing to the current Secretary of State for Health, they still refuse to look at evidence that suggests all is not as it seems in the garden.

How can we expect anything different now, just because we get Brown; as of yesterday, MPs want to be exempt from the freedom of Information act; I wonder why? Change of head, no change in body or mindset?

We can all give examples of how well things are, but unless we have honesty and integrity from both government Ministers etc, and those who are paid to put policy into practice, no amount of websites will make a difference!

However, from a psychological perspective; it seems that if you tell people a story for long enough, they will believe it! Is that free on the NHS, conditioning?

It is shameful I might add that people are going about in Tetbury asking for money to keep their hospital open! Is this what the so-called prosperous Britain is really about?

I will come back once I have read this website; deeds not words will tell how well such platforms work.

My challenge is this: Why not keep hospitals open and not sell them off empty for a £1 as suggested by Ruth Kelly: Oh I forgot, if it is anything like our hospital down here, it is more likely to be closed and sold off to developers than let us the mere peasant have our way!

In anticipation

GB