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”
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Bah Humbug Tory MPs voting to bring back the spirit of Scrooge in time for Christmas.
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All heart these Tories. 🙄 Cowardly bullies picking on the most vulnerable in society.
Please pop along to the West Cornwall Hospital information event on Thursday 30th Nov, anytime between 1-5.30pm.
The £9.1million+ new build will provide improved facilities compared to the outdated outpatients department at the back of the hospital.
Good news that they no longer plan to close Bellair and cram those services into this building. Though disappointing there's nothing for the UTC, for expansion of diagnostics and other facilities and growth the hospital needs.
I asked health chiefs weeks ago if this will result in ANY increase in outpatient services. But I've not yet received a reply.
Cynics may argue that this is an expensive sticking plaster compromise rushed through to engender a pre-election 'feel-good' factor in this very marginal Tory constituency. But it's a gift horse we should accept with grace.
Though the important work is still to be done. The hospital desperately needs to upgrade its diagnostic capacity and safe staffing levels and reliable ambulance back-up to ensure it can receive a wider range of urgent and unplanned patients on a 24/7 basis.
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Sunak's shamefully petulant behaviour has done more to advance the case for the return of the Parthenon sculptures than my campaigning.
Good to see links to those efforts acknowledged in some of today's reporting.
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Nice also to see recognition of my metaphor 10 years ago that the removal of half of the sculptures from the Parthenon is like "tearing the Mona Lisa in half..."
I truly don't understand the belief that we should keep the marbles here. They belong in Greece, their acquisition was shady, they do not belong to us or our culture, and Greece wants them back. I am ashamed of my country's record of purloining anything it fancied from any culture in the world (where it was colonising, but I won't go into that whole can of worms now). The Elgin Marbles should be given back to their owners, without question, and it would be nice if we would do it voluntarily, with an apology, do it with good grace, as if we were decent human beings after all.
Almost ad much damage as Brexit! One would almost think they are 5th columnists.
Of course they must be returned, we pinched them. Shame upon shame on Rishi Sunak for his infantile, playground politics.
And while we're at it, give back the Benin bronzes, and all the other cultural artefacts from around the globe, lifted while we were telling the world that the indigenous people we were lifting them from were uncultured savages.
Expected Sunak would admire another PM who seeks to "take back control" - in this case of the Parthenon sculptures; stolen from Greece and brought to London by Lord Elgin 200 years ago.
Sunak's petulance heaps more shame on our country.
If the Greeks held half of Stonehenge in Athens I expect he'd begin to understand? Parthenon #parthenon Elginism #acropolismuseum
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The Benin bronzes are actually more egregious, and a lot of stuff taken from further afield - I suspect the marbles get more mileage because they came from other Europeans. "We bought them from your colonial occupiers, it's legit" has never been a convincing moral argument to me, partly because there's also a bunch of our stuff in those store rooms taken when the British were our colonial occupiers. Museums around the world are often willing to engage in this, it's the governments getting in the way.
Give them back.
Time we gave those back.
More important things going on in the world and they are still going on about these, it was done over 200 years ago.
I think there are much more important matters Ritchie in this world! Get a grip man!
The Elgin Marbles weren't stolen. They were bought from the Ottoman Turks who were running Greece at the time. If Elgin hadn't purchased them they would be rubble by now. Personally I'm not greatly impressed by the marbles and suggest that we propose swapping them for something else.......preferably Crete.
But…
Hang on…
Wasn’t this what they wanted to “Take Back Control” for…?
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The UK is at 1.56 births per woman, and under four working age people per pensioner, and falling. A few hundred thousand mostly young adults is frankly peanuts in redressing that, and politicians and economists know it. But this lot say they will reduce it and instead raise horrible plans to take benefits away from largely incapacitated long term unemployed people unless they ceaselessly engage in a search for work they may not be capable of doing. The whole topic is toxic and never discussed in rational terms.
Bought and paid for, only helped the vastly wealthy. Amazing what a chunk of change thrown at Cambridge Analytica and troll farms gets you these days.
And don’t forget This is legal migration
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