Tynemouth Lodge Hotel

URGENT PRIORITY

Looking after the day to day interests of the poorest and most vulnerable members of the population to be the top priority.

Scrapping of all NHS hospital parking charges throughout the UK.    The last thing distraught relatives need is to have to queue at ticket machines in our hospital car parks on cold winter nights.

Harmonisation of English/Scottish/Welsh legislation in relation to student tuition fees, payment of residential home charges for the elderly, and any other financial anomalies, including prescription charges, as the devolved regions have no tax collecting powers, so it is blatantly unfair for English tax payers to be in receipt of lower handouts than their Scottish/Welsh residing neighbours or to be forced to subsidise them in any way whatsoever. A level playing field for all citizens of the UK is of paramount importance.

Withdraw all troops immediately from Iraq and Afganistan and cease any further foreign military adventures.    It is simply not acceptable to put the lives of our young service personnel at risk unnecessarily. We are an island nation and our best option is to protect the integrity of our coastline.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal, unnecessary and irrational and in monetary terms very expensive.  There was no firm evidence of weapons of mass destruction and ‘regime change’ is against international law.

Tony Blair asserted recently that he thinks about the invasion on a daily basis but that he is convinced that ‘getting rid of Saddam Hussain was a good thing’, so he is presumably of the opinion that regime change should be legalised.

This cruel invasion opened up the gates of Hell in Iraq and has cost the lives of over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians. As an British woman married to an Iraqi man asserted on the media a few weeks after this invasion :  ‘I could walk safely through the streets of Baghdad at any time of the day or night, but now I can not go anywhere’.   This invasion was all about George Bush Junior finishing off a job that Daddy had started, aided and abetted by his toy poodle and arch patter-merchant  Anthony Blair, who is now making a fortune on the American lecture circuit, whilst the Iraqi nation with is broken infrastructure has been returned to the Stone Age.

No foreign invader has had any success in Afghanistan, including the Soviets who lost over 30,000 troops not that long ago.

Acceptance of the fact that the UK is now a financially-impoverished, over-populated country and can no longer act as if it were a rich super-power. We simply can not afford financially to wage war abroad anywhere, period.

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