Andrew George
Promoting the
Politics of Courage
I’m running a positive campaign to restore decency and honesty to our politics. To build a brighter future. To combat those who want us to become more inward-looking, backward-looking, more self-absorbed. I’ll build a campaign for an outward-looking, forward-looking and compassionate country.
We’ve been misled by a privileged clique who’ve irresponsibly played on fears to stoke prejudice. We must get beyond the Brexit chaos they’ve dragged our country into. We must restore the things that matter for the sake of our children’s future – our NHS, our schools and the very sustainability of our planet.
Come and join a growing campaign team. We’re determined to win this seat back this time, to make the difference, to build a brighter future.
Many people say “you politicians are all the same”. That statement has never been more untrue. The choice here is stark:
Andrew George - Standing up for Cornwall
National campaigner, local campaigner, former MP.
Andrew describes his role - "Seeking out the silent voices. Standing up to bullies. Fighting for justice”
Liberal Democrats - Building a brighter future
I’ll speak at the West Cornwall Healthwatch Annual Meeting on Friday 11th October - at 7pm in St John’s Hall, Penzance – along with the widely respected now retired consultant physician, Dr David Levine. We jointly drafted, along with others, a prospectus for the restoration of West Cornwall Hospital a couple of years ago.
It’ll be a good opportunity to look forward. Can we help the new Government rebuild and restore our NHS and care services? The last Conservative government left the NHS facing its worst crisis in history. Does the Darzi Review really offer a route to save our NHS? Though his analysis is helpful, without the resources to address the mess they’ve been left, it’s hard to see our NHS will be able to mend itself, ...with motivational lectures and pep-talks.
This is a public meeting, so please come along if you want to hear more or support efforts to rebuild and restore our NHS and care services.
#cornwallhealthcrisis #NHS #health #cornwall
#hospital West Cornwall Healthwatch Save Kernow NHS Save Our Nhs
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I had really excellent and quick treatment at WCH the other night, by the way! Can't recommend it enough. We are very lucky in Pz to have such a facility and grateful for your work with David and others to get it restored.
I would be there if I could help sadly will be in London having an NHS procedure.
On your flyer you say, 'All supporters welcome'. What is a 'non-supporter' and would they not be welcome? 🤔
This week's Cornishman article #treliske #womenshospital #childrenshospital #nhs #israel #gaza #lebanon
• News that the long-awaited Women and Children’s ‘Hospital’ promised for the Treliske site may never be built is both shocking and disappointing. Ministers need to know why this is vital.
• Our PM and the US President have declared they 'stand with Israel'. I 'Stand with peace'. If our military can intervene to protect innocent life in Israel (something I support) the UK can also act to prevent innocent death and destruction on a far larger scale in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank. As the situation continues to escalate, I repeat my call for a ceasefire, and an immediate end to UK arms exports to Israel.
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I stand with Peace as well, too many innocent children are suffering…I can’t understand why we are sending arms to support these atrocities If the countries can not agree on a ceasefire we should pull out! The Lebanese had agreed to a ceasefire just before they were bombed 😢
Agree totally Jude x
This is what our political system is all about. You can't keep on blaming the last Government for everything that goes wrong. You've all had the last 14 years to work out your own game plan 😖
They stand with Israel
I stand with peace
Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese all deserve protection.
Pleased UK can contribute to protecting Israel from attack. Should be prepared to do the same to protect innocent people being killed by Israel’s military action in Gaza and Lebanon.
It’s gone too far, for two long.
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The fact Starmer, as a human rights lawyer can stand there and defend Israel is appalling. Thank for being one of few politicians willing to speak up.
One interesting side of the way the Gaza/Middle East crisis is covered, commented on and Foreign Policy conducted that I find hard to rationalize is this: We're into the second year of the war in Ukraine. Putin's Russia is rightly condemned for aggression and brutality: but yet, the civilian death toll and the level of urban destruction suffered by Ukraine is not nearly at the same level as that inflicted on Gaza and recently, Beirut and other areas of Lebanon. The Russian war effort has been largely military with some despicable attacks on Kiev and other cities- but the death and destruction visited on Gaza has been much more severe. But the attitude of "The West" towards Israel is markedly different from the attitude to Putin and the Russian state aggression. I have a major problem trying to understand what standards are being applied to devastating loss of life and infrastructure in both places.
Bizarre isn't it? The UK is on a suicidal path of domestic destruction over 'Net Zero', yet has no qualms about sponsoring these overseas conflicts over oil. The vast majority of us have had enough of all this nonsense, and would rather leave the fighting factions to just get on with it. But we can't, can we? Not only is it the oil, but we also need the conflicts to be able to supply arms and make money; peace is just a pipe dream 😖
I’ve always seen the Isles of Scilly as a separate constituency within the constituency. Almost everything is different and has to be treated differently.
Looking forward to catching up with good friends and associates there.
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We look forward to catching up with you too, and getting the necessary funding in place so our islands children aren’t at risk of becoming NEET, and also to ensure, people in rural areas should not be worse off financially because they may need to travel further to access education and training provision that their peers in urban areas. It isn’t rocket science and surely should be achievable quickly.
Please can you find out why the Five Islands Academy has put most of their teaching staff on redundancy notice? This is yet another round of cuts to our ONLY school on the islands. Why??? Please pick up the phone today and ask headteacher Gibb and the academy trust and the governors what the hell is going on. We need to retain staff, see what happened to Park House when you lose on-island staff, they don't grow back in an ageing population. Irate parent, Scilly
Laura Beattie
News that the long-awaited Women and Children’s Hospital promised for Cornwall may never be built is shocking and disappointing.
The £291m project – part of the previous government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP) – aims to combine maternity, neonatal, paediatric and obstetric and gynaecology services in one building at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Treliske in Truro.
It was scheduled for completion by 2028 – but Health Secretary Wes Streeting claims that NHP has become undeliverable and unaffordable, because the Conservatives never identified or budgeted for the finance necessary to deliver it!
In a letter to MPs, Wes Streeting told us that the estimated costs had risen by billions, and he has requested an urgent review of NHP, with the aim of recalibrating the programme onto “a realistic, deliverable, and affordable footing”.
I immediately replied to Wes Streeting to protest.
All of Cornwall’s MPs recently met health minister Karin Smyth, when they made the delivery of the Women and Children’s Hospital their number one priority for healthcare in Cornwall.
I said in my letter, "As well as being extremely unwelcome, your letter will cause dismay not only amongst our NHS colleagues, but also the wider community, whose hopes had been cruelly raised by the promises of the previous government. The news is both shocking and disappointing.
“Shocking, in that local ICB and acute Trust executives, though anxious, gave the six of us the impression that confirmation of the delivery of this project would be a formality.
“Disappointing though unsurprising, in that the previous Conservative government should promise these ‘new hospitals’ when they knew full-well they never budgeted the money to deliver them. We will, of course, make sure the local population is made aware of this.”
Wes Streeting has already implied that he is willing to meet Cornwall’s MPs. I've lodged a request for a meeting as soon as possible “to ensure your department and you are aware just how critical this project is for our population.
“Those parents at my (western) end of Cornwall can’t seek alternative services to the west, south or north. The geographic case alone should be sufficient to persuade the review team and you to support this vitally important project.
“The current Princess Alexandra (maternity) Suite should also be viewed by the review team in the same way as it views seven projects with Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC), as that building has similar substantive safety risks.”
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And still more houses being built in every town in Cornwall with no increase in health services
What a surprise, women's healthcare being sidelined again. Keep fighting Andrew, we can't afford to let this one go.
Infrastructure in Cornwall is a joke, only investment in the last few decades by the Tories is the chivvy tourism super highway
Common Platform for Cornwall
