If you put your head above the parapet, Dr MacGregor...
03.06.07
at 23:33
at 23:33
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...I'm going to take a shot at it. I see Tia MacGregor, one of the pair of new Tory councillors on Oxford City Council has been a media-whoring, trying to get another opportunity in the local rag to justify the unjustifiable. I notice in her latest self-defense New Tory Councillor Defends Her Move (from thisisoxfordshire) she no longer mentions her earlier suggestion that she was seduced by Tory policy on the NHS.
Could it be that they do not actually have any policy on the NHS yet? For it seems it must be up in the air in one of those interminable policy review groups, for her new colleagues in Cornerstone are trying to influence the outcome...
I wonder if Dr MacGregor agrees with their approach:
Tory right-wingers step up pressure on Cameron over NHS
By Colin Brown
Published: 04 June 2007
David Cameron's authority as leader of the Conservative Party faces a fresh challenge by Tory right wingers after the row over grammar schools - with some MPs now calling for the NHS to be abolished as a tax-funded system.
Mr Cameron flew back from his holiday in Crete with a defiant message to his party that he will not be forced to drop his opposition to a new generation of grammar schools, except in areas that already have selection.
However, his leadership is facing a new test by the 40-strong Cornerstone group of right wing Tory MPs with a radical plan for all patients to be required to take out compulsory private health insurance.
The group, which is led by senior Tory backbencher Edward Leigh and has the support of a number of front bench spokesmen, said in a report that scrapping the NHS as a tax-based system could enable the Tories to offer "massive" tax cuts at the next election.
This is the party you have joined, Tia. How are you going to look your patients and voters in the face and explain this to them?
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voters beware
As elections grow nearer, I am deeply concerned that the voters in Oxford have already turned a blind eye towards Cllr Tia MacGregor's lack of sincerity to her constituents; in fact there are signs that the very people who she left disillusioned and disenfranchised will soon be ready to eat out of her charming lap! That's not very surprising since she has a history of using her faculties to doop common folk where they are singing her hymns even while they drown! Please! Please! Voters beware!