If MP Claire Perry wants to lighten the burden on the NHS, she should avoid encouraging Gazette & Herald readers to choke on their Thursday morning cornflakes (her column, November 27).  

For a member of the Tory Party to say: “sadly, there are those who want to play political football with the NHS” is the epitome of bare-faced cheek.

After four and a half years of this government, the only thing that’s grown faster than waiting times and the queues at A&E is the share price of the American corporations they have invited in to cream off the taxpayers’ money.  

She then goes on to describe the genuine anger and opposition of all of the medical and clinical professions and the vast majority of ordinary people as a “made-up kerfuffle”. 

Even senior members of her own party are now saying that the Lansley Health and Social Care Act was a dreadful mistake.  

The extra £1.3 billion recently promised by George Osborne does not even cover half the cost of the reorganisation. The day of reckoning is approaching, when voters can finally have their say on the totally un-mandated cynical butchery of Britain’s most valued institution.

David Wearn,
Great Cheverell.