Irresponsible attitude to NHS

FOLLOWING our ongoing problems with our hospital here in Dewsbury, I see there is now a similar query over a reduction in services in Huddersfield and Calderdale. Without entering into administration or clinical issues, I do think it is time the great British public adopted a more responsible attitude to using hospitals.

A year or two ago I was in A&E and couldn’t help overhearing the patient next door. He was complaining of constipation!

Earlier, on another occasion, I had been admitted as an inpatient and was amazed to see a fellow patient wearing an oxygen mask going to the leisure area at the end of the ward for a smoke.

Further comments would be superfluous.

Euro madness from Lib Dems

From: Rodney Atkinson, Meadowfield Road, Stocksfield, Northumberland.

I UNDERSTAND that one of the Lib Dem slogans for the Euro elections is that “Europe means jobs”. There are 26m unemployed in the EU and 17m in the Eurozone, with youth unemployment in Greece and Spain between 55 and 60 per cent and the average overall unemployment rate is nearly twice as high as in the UK.

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks, Spaniards, Poles and French have fled from the continent to find jobs in the UK, thus disappearing from their own country’s unemployment statistics.

Surely when it comes to Euro madness, nothing can beat the ludicrously-named Liberal Democrat party?

Spaced out

From: John Rookes, Bramley, Rotherham.

NEVER in my lifetime have I witnessed a government so out of touch with the public and reality as this one. In a Newsnight interview, Education Secretary Michael Gove said that parents with youngsters wanting a job should not totally dismiss pay of £2.98 per hour. This man should be sectioned, or fired – into space that is.