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2010-04-11 Britain
Labour Sends Death Threats To Cancer Patients, Warning They Will Die If They Elect Tories
LABOUR has become embroiled in a row about the use of personal data after sending cancer patients alarmist mailshots saying their lives could be at risk under a Conservative government.

Cards addressed to sufferers by name warn that a Labour guarantee to see a cancer specialist within two weeks would be scrapped by the Tories. Labour claims the Conservatives would also do away with the right to be treated within 18 weeks.
And how are those "rights" working out under Labour? I've been reading lots of stories about potential patients dying while waiting for that first appointment.
Cancer patients who received the personalised cards, sent with a message from a breast cancer survivor praising her treatment under Labour, said they were "disgusted and shocked", and feared that the party may have had access to confidential health data.
Vote Tory, guys, it's the only way to stop such behaviour.
Labour sources deny that the party has used any confidential information. However, the sources admit that, in line with other political parties, it uses socio-demographic research that is commercially and publicly available.
Demographic research is not generally ever issued with individual names and mailing addresses attached to the data points.
Many of those receiving the cards have undergone cancer scans or treatment within the past five years.

- In the Labour constituency of Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, two of a group of eight women friends received the breast cancer card. They are the only two to have undergone cancer treatment. One of them, Phyllis Delik, 80, described it as "callous" and "despicable". The second woman, Shirley Foreman, 58, who received the card a fortnight after undergoing surgery, said: "It is bad taste after what I have been through."
Too right, ladies. Vote Tory.
- In the marginal east London constituency of Poplar and Limehouse, the card was sent to a 44-year-old television producer who had a potentially cancerous lump that turned out to be a cyst. She appeared to be the only person who received the mailshot among 50 neighbours. She said: "It's crude and insensitive."
Indeed. Vote Tory.
- A card was sent to a woman who has died of breast cancer. Her 33-year-old husband was so upset that he sent a message to the Facebook page of Diane Dwelly, the woman whose case is featured in the mailshot, accusing her of being a pawn for the Labour party.
Or an innocent bystander whose name and story were somehow extrapolated from a demographic research report without her permission.
This weekend Dwelly, 48, from Rugby, admitted she had "probably been used by Labour". She believed her photograph had been taken for use in a magazine for the National Health Service, not as part of Labour's election campaign.
Your identity was stolen, Ms Dwelly. Vote Tory.
The cancer cards are part of a wider postal campaign targeting various groups. Others are aimed at parents whose children attend Sure Start centres, pensioners and the owners of small businesses.

Labour has so far sent out 600,000 cards. It plans to distribute 4.5m during the election campaign.
Figure about three million will be disgusted. To them we say, vote Tory!
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 Disgusting.

She believed her photograph had been taken for use in a magazine for the National Health Service, not as part of Labour's election campaign.

Left-wing political activists abusing taxpayers' trust and taxpayer-funded resources to advance their party's interests. Sound familiar?
Posted by Bulldog 2010-04-11 02:20||   2010-04-11 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 So much for data protection in Britain / EU.
Posted by Mullah Lodabullah 2010-04-11 09:09||   2010-04-11 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Tory=RINO. We can be socialist better than Labour.
UKIP=TEA Party. We don't like what Labour is doing.

or at least that's my impression.

So Vote UKIP.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-11 09:22||   2010-04-11 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Judging from NHS cancer survival rates, I'd say that the threat has long since passed into reality.
Posted by ed 2010-04-11 10:00||   2010-04-11 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Has Labour been channeling Rep. Grayson from Florida?
Posted by WolfDog 2010-04-11 11:12||   2010-04-11 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 All socialists are slime.
Posted by DarthVader 2010-04-11 11:40||   2010-04-11 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Only if there's a valid UKIP candidate in your district, I hope, Nimble Spemble. No point in voting in the greater of two evils by default. "Most electable conservative", not "most conservative". Same reason why I'm not paying a bit of attention to the various "more Republican than thou" opponents of Pat Toomey here in Pennsylvania - not only is it "his turn", but he's an actual Club for Growth original. That's conservative enough for the Commonwealth.
Posted by Mitch H.  2010-04-11 12:19|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2010-04-11 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 My concern there is that its too conservative for PA.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-11 12:24||   2010-04-11 12:24|| Front Page Top

#9 The largest employer in all of Europe is the UK's NHS. Buildings and buildings and buildings full of bureaucrats as far as the eye can see.

The budgetary process in Parliment is full time about trying to pay for this behemoth leviathan of a system that no one really likes.

Mark my words, the Democrat's will use the same exact language when election time comes and those numb in the brain will believe it.

People should watch Parlimentary debates in the UK and other countries sometimes. It may be enlightening to what the US may have to face in the future. It's splendid "paradise".
Posted by newc  2010-04-11 20:42||   2010-04-11 20:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Versus

PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > UK: MUSLIM STAFF SLIDE/ESCAPE NHS HYGIENE RULES [Healthcare-Medical Sharia in Britain]???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-11 22:05||   2010-04-11 22:05|| Front Page Top

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