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
When hundreds are missing medical appointments or receiving fines for late payment due to postal delivery failures you know things cannot carry on like this.
Helston and the Lizard area has been highlighted by Royal Mail itself as one of the worst in the UK. That’s no slight on the posties, who are run off their feet.
The Universal Service Obligation should count for something. Royal Mail has been fined over £37 million in the last few years by OFCOM for service failure, but senior managers don’t seem to be bothered.
Here’s my letter to Royal Mail Chief, Alistair Cochrane.
We eat far fewer fresh vegetables that we did 50 years ago. "We're not eating enough of the good stuff" says Jamie Oliver. Meanwhile consumption of ultra processed food (which is contributing to ballooning ill health and obesity) has rocketed.
I visited one of west Cornwall's success stories, Riviera Produce this week; pictured here with David Simmons, head of this sixth-generation family business, which farms over 7,500 (mostly rented) acres, and employs over 500 people. They supply 5 major supermarkets and other supply chains with caulis, broccoli, spring greens, cabbage, courgettes, squash; support many local food charities; and are keenly developing lower carbon, more sustainable and lower input production systems.
The sector has changed so much since the days of my parents' 3-acre market garden in Mullion which I was brought up on. My father produced over 40 varieties of fruit, vegetables and salad produce and - apart from pittosporum which we sent by train to Covent Garden in winter - sold everything within a couple of miles of home; plastic-free into reusable containers or paper bags. Though understandably, many want us to return to those more sustainable, lower food miles' systems, Riviera Produce has responded well to and is the inevitable product of the inescapable realities of the modern market. There were many small market gardens like my family’s in the 60s and 70s. Hardly any can now survive commercially in the present climate.
Henry Dimbleby, author of the UK’s national food strategy, succinctly sums up the challenge we face in attempting to reverse the growth in ultra-processed food: “Our food system makes the bad stuff easy and cheap to eat and the good stuff expensive and hard.” However, producers like Riviera are doing the hard work to produce good quality, accessible and affordable fresh veg, if only we can encourage more people to prepare and consume them.
My Health Select Committee’s Inquiry into Healthy-eating and Weight-management should take heed.
Riviera Produce
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People's Parliament - Happening this Friday!
From 7pm at The Old Cattle Market Community Hall and Hub
#helston
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🗓️ Friday, 20th February – 7pm
📌 The Old Cattle Market, Helston
The next public meeting is coming soon.
There’s so much going on, so I’ll concentrate this next meeting on:
🔸Storm Goretti response
🔸Meeting housing need
🔸Restoring our NHS
🔸The international scene
There will also be plenty of time for your questions.
To be sure of a space, please book (FREE) tickets in advance via the link below.
andrew-george-events.eventcube.io/events/93308/people-s-parliament-in-conversation-for-andrew-geo...
Please email or phone in advance with any questions you’d like to raise.
andrew.george.mp@parliament.uk
01736 339526
I look forward to seeing you there.
Instead of appealing, the Government should ACCEPT this ruling and:
Make clear to the far-right Netanyahu regime that the UK opposes it's ongoing genocide in Gaza (even after the so-called "ceasefire");
Ban all trade with Israel's illegal "settlements";
Stop arming Israel;
Stop Netanyahu's curb on international aid, medicine, independent media reporting;
Promote the use of international peacekeepers to secure the peace and get the IDF out;
Work with all parties to secure a two-state solution which protects both Israel and Palestine to co-exist in peace and mutual respect.
And they should STOP wasting taxpayers' money to:
Curb our right to free speech,
Stop those campaigning against genocide and for peace, and
Prevent our right to protest.
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Petition For Peace - Send UN Peacekeepers To Palestine
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Another campaign success today. A small but important step towards fair pay.
I've been pressing Health Secretary, Wes Streeting to ensure fair treatment for Registered Nurses in the NHS. Most start and end their 40+ year career on Band 5 (currently starting at £31,000 and ending at £37,700).
Nurses have become powerless while having to endure the “normalisation of unsafe and inappropriate care” through unsafe Registered Nurse staffing levels (as confirmed by the Royal College of Nursing). It’s not just unsafe staffing on hospital wards. It’s the 45% reduction in District Nurses and 32% fall in Health Visitors under the Conservatives. Nurse and midwife retention is one of the biggest challenges the NHS faces.
After all, they are highly trained graduate clinicians. Nursing is a highly skilled, safety-critical clinical profession, central to the NHS and all it does.
Today the Health Secretary announced that all Band 5 Nurses will have their role reviewed and to ensure they're paid more appropriately. I hope he'll also ensure the funding is there to deliver fair pay.
He also agreed to increase graduate nurse pay, and improve the nursing preceptorship.
I'll follow this through.
NEWS UPDATE: 12th Feb (ie the following day):
Health Sec. Wes Streeting announces a below inflation pay award for nurses, at 3.3%. RCN describes it as "an insult".
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